GCSA Insight: BlockBeats Poisoned by DarkSword Attack Chain, iPhone Wallets at Risk of Theft
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ZoeyThe University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Global Cybersecurity Alliance (GCSA) announced the joint establishment of the Centre for AI and Cybersecurity Research.
ZoeyGoogle software engineer Michele Spagnuolo had been charged with using non-public “Year in Search 2025” data accessible through Google's internal systems to trade related event contracts on the prediction market platform Polymarket.
GCSA InsightOn April 23, 2026, Tether announced that it had cooperated with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and law enforcement agencies to freeze two USDT addresses on the TRON network, with a total frozen amount of approximately 344 million USDT.
GCSA InsightThis document details Ethereum's future upgrade roadmap, named "Strawmap".
JinseFinanceWhat happened? Who was behind the Binance hack? How was the attack carried out? How much of the stolen assets have been frozen?
JinseFinanceZhang Ming believes that China's strategy of exporting RMB through financial account deficits and importing RMB through current account surpluses aligns with comparative advantage and avoids the Triffin dilemma, and the RMB is expected to surpass the British pound and Japanese yen by 2035.
JinseFinanceHackers stole billions from Binance, which froze about US$3 billion and halted withdrawals. The exchange estimates the impact at US$6.3 billion and says it will cover all losses.
AnaisThis week, 16 blockchain startups raised $1.1 billion. Kalshi raised $1 billion in its Series G funding round, the largest funding round of the week.
JinseFinanceSeveral industry insiders have pointed out that the theft may have been committed by North Korean hackers.
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A Canadian judge has ordered the return of a laptop containing a Bitcoin wallet to the family of William Sandeson, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for killing fellow Dalhousie University student Taylor Samson in 2015.
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Kraken has restricted accounts linked to a suspected cryptocurrency theft exceeding $133 million from an unidentified European Union entity, as exchanges and law enforcement attempt to contain the movement of stolen funds.
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Coinbase says it was not hit by the $6.34 billion Binance hack and that over 99% of customer assets sit in offline cold storage, with split keys, transfer limits and kill switches guarding the rest. Binance's attackers got in by targeting two engineers with a fake job interview and a tampered download, which shows that protecting keys alone does not stop unauthorised transfers.
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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Global Cybersecurity Alliance (GCSA) announced the joint establishment of the Centre for AI and Cybersecurity Research.
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Mercado Bitcoin suffered a loss of nearly $40 million. Beosin Trace tracking shows that approximately $30 million is scattered across Bitcoin, Solana, and Ethereum, with some USDC and USDT already frozen.
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Warren Buffett's quote, "Nobody wants to get rich slowly," enlightened the author: Instead of obsessively searching for 100x coins, it's better to find assets that you truly understand and can hold for the long term.
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The Hong Kong Legislative Council passed the CARF bill, which will begin collecting information on crypto transactions in 2027 and exchange it with partner jurisdictions in 2028; South Korea, on the other hand, postponed its crypto income tax for another two years to 2029.
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While Anthropic was developing drugs for rare diseases and cancer using Claude, it also burned through $3.17 billion in marketing expenses in six months and banned employees from wearing brand merchandise to prevent espionage.
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Huobi HTX reviews the performance of representative coins in ten major sectors over the past year: HYPE and ZEC rose against the trend, while most assets are looking for direction around the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level.
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General-purpose L2 is no longer a good business. Scroll plans to transform its public chain into a private AI network around Compass in about nine months, migrate SCR back to the Ethereum mainnet, and keep the token economics unchanged.
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Bitcoin has fallen about 10% from its September high and is now retesting the breakout level from August. The percentage of short-term holders with profits has dropped from 97.5% to 38%, indicating that long leverage has been cleared. The $73,000 to $76,000 range is the next area to watch.
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Hackers spent months penetrating Binance to gain internal signing privileges, resulting in the theft of $6.3 billion, making it the largest cryptocurrency theft in history; the private keys were not lost, but the defenses collapsed due to personnel and access issues.
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AI is driving the cost of software production to zero. Interfaces and code are no longer scarce. What is truly scarce are network states that accumulate over time, such as liquidity, identity, and reputation.
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Texas has welcomed its first Democratic governor in over 30 years, and Wolf Research has directly characterized Texas as a "model for the anti-AI construction movement." Goldman Sachs warns that this "blue tsunami" will lead to a halt in approximately 45% of planned data center expansions in the United States.
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Under the dual constraints of escalating political maneuvering and pressure on long-term debt supply, there is a lack of logical support for a significant decline in long-term US Treasury yields or for them to enter a downward trend.
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US Congress, SEC, CFTC, crypto market, policy regulation, both houses return to blue: Will the crypto market be better off if predictable strictness replaces vague easing? Jinse Finance, sniffing out the trend.
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The monetization of CPN, the integration with Tazapay, and Arc's shift to PoS will collectively drive Circle's revenue diversification.
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The actual differences between the Democratic and Republican parties in the US regarding the crypto industry may not be as significant as the market perceives.
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Even before Anthropic has gone public, discussions about arbitrage surrounding ANT have already heated up.
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The Democratic sweep of both houses of Congress has put considerable political pressure on Trump and has also brought new uncertainty to cryptocurrencies, which had previously benefited from Republican policy support.
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The Democratic Party won a landslide victory in the US midterm elections, sweeping both houses of Congress and unleashing a long-awaited blue wave. However, the fate of A-shares and US stocks is not the same.
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Arthur Hayes: Every major central bank, monetary and fiscal authority will print money to avert a crisis. That would be incredibly lucrative for Bitcoin and crypto hodler. But be patient.
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Anthropic, OpenAI, IPO, computing power, financing. Anthropic's IPO has not been withdrawn, but the shrinking trillion-dollar AI bubble has scared Wall Street. Golden Finance: The largest IPO in tech history, is the bubble about to burst?
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Bitcoin recovered above $80,000 following the Democrats' victory in the US midterm elections, but the political shift could complicate the cryptocurrency industry's efforts to secure clearer federal regulations.
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Regardless of who is in power, the US government will not stop printing money, which foreshadows a significant rise in the prices of various assets. Gold and Bitcoin are the most obvious examples, while money printing also benefits stocks and other major asset classes.
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Analysis of the Democratic Party's sweep of both houses of Congress in the 2026 US midterm elections and its global strategic impact.
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