
Polymarket Staged $1.9M in Fake Bets. Now Senators Want a CFTC Probe
A WSJ investigation found Polymarket paid creators to stage fake bets on replica sites. Bipartisan senators Curtis and Schiff are now demanding a CFTC investigation.

A WSJ investigation found Polymarket paid creators to stage fake bets on replica sites. Bipartisan senators Curtis and Schiff are now demanding a CFTC investigation.

KYC for a crypto exchanger isn't a regulatory checkbox — it's what keeps your payment partners on board. Skip it and you risk losing processing access and aggregator listings. Here's the minimum viable setup.

From April to June 2026, Alibaba used 25,000 fake accounts to run 28.8 million exchanges against Claude — harvesting its reasoning to train Qwen. Anthropic calls it the largest distillation attack ever filed.

Hackers compromised a third-party vendor to inject malicious code into Polymarket's frontend, draining roughly $3M in PUSD from user wallets. The platform's second security breach in a month.

The Trump administration asked OpenAI to limit GPT 5.6 access to government-approved partners, citing cybersecurity risks comparable to Anthropic's Mythos model.

Manual rate monitoring in a crypto exchanger is slow, risky, and costly in hidden losses. We break down how stale rates eat into your margin, hurt your BestChange ranking, and what automation does to fix it.

In Operation Endgame's latest phase, Europol and Microsoft joined forces with agencies from six countries to seize 27 million stolen credentials, shut down 326 servers, and freeze EUR 41 million in crypto.

A multisig wallet requires multiple signatures for each transaction — and this fundamentally changes hot wallet security for exchangers. Here's how it works and when it's worth setting up.

Japan's biggest financial conglomerate agreed to fully acquire crypto exchange Bitbank for $289M, its second crypto deal in two months as Japan's market consolidates.

TRM Labs traced $3.84 billion in Iran-linked flows through CoinEx since 2019 — money from the Central Bank of Iran, the IRGC, and wallets tied to North Korea's Bybit hack.

Choosing between USDT and USDC for your exchange affects spreads, liquidity costs, and regulatory exposure. USDT leads on volume; USDC wins on reserve transparency. A practical breakdown for crypto exchange operators.

Maker of the Digit humanoid robot goes public via a $2.5B SPAC with Churchill Capital XI, raising $600M+. Amazon, Nvidia, and Foxconn back a company with $300M in signed orders already in hand.

The world's largest exchange pulled its MiCA application in Greece and is now looking at France. With seven days until the EU's July 1 deadline, Binance has no licensed EU base yet.

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, an inference accelerator costing half as much to run as typical AI GPUs, developed in a record nine months using OpenAI's own models.

An exchanger's margin is more than just the spread. Every trade carries hidden costs: network fees, rate risk, payment processing. We break down the real income formula, five hidden leaks, and how to protect your profit.

The DOJ seized Huione Group's cloud infrastructure — a $31 billion criminal marketplace 25 times larger than Silk Road and AlphaBay combined, built on Telegram and serving fraudsters worldwide.

Senate Democrats demanded public hearings after UAE-linked investors bought a 49% stake in Trump's World Liberty Financial for $500M — signed four days before his inauguration.

After Kentucky sued Kalshi and Polymarket, the CFTC filed its own suit against the state. Ninth in the federal prediction market war — and first with a Republican attorney general.

Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism have become part of the standard user flow in 2026. We break down which L2 networks make sense for a crypto exchanger right now — and which ones to wait on.

The Ethereum Foundation laid off 54 employees — 20% of its staff — and restructured into five clusters. Vitalik Buterin proposed cutting annual spending from 15% to 5% of reserves.