Author: Kryptonews

About two-thirds of crypto incidents investigated by blockchain analytics company AMLBot in 2025 were driven by social engineering rather than technical exploits, according to a report based on the company’s internal casework.AMLBot said 65% of the incidents it reviewed last year involved access and response failures, such as compromised devices, weak verification and delayed detection, instead of vulnerabilities in blockchains or smart contracts. The company said its analysis draws on about 2,500 internal investigations and should not be read as an industrywide measure of crypto crime, according to a Wednesday report shared with Cointelegraph.Primary attack vectors included device compromises via…

Earlier this month, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá announced on Instagram that it had terminated its contract with longtime artistic director Eugenio Viola. Now, Viola is claiming that the board of directors did so after he raised concerns with working conditions at the museum. In a statement to the Art Newspaper, Viola, who began serving as artistic director in 2019, said, “The board of directors ended my contract early, not due to any artistic or leadership deficiencies. My departure followed my decision to raise concerns with the board in September 2025 regarding the progressive deterioration of working conditions—concerns…

On-chain social platform and decentralized protocol Zora is making a decisive shift beyond its non-fungible tokens (NFT) and creator roots with the launch of “attention markets” on Solana, a product that allows users to trade tokens tied to internet trends, memes and cultural moments.The feature, unveiled Feb. 17, lets anyone create a new market for 1 SOL. Once live, users can buy and sell positions on whether a topic will gain or lose traction across social media. Instead of wagering on elections or macro data, traders speculate on buzz itself — such as hashtags, viral narratives, even broad themes like…

Investment manager Brevan Howard’s cryptocurrency fund fell almost 30% last year as the bitcoin BTC$67,829.73 bull run faltered, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Wednesday.The BH Digital Asset fund lost 29.5% of its value, its worst performance in a calendar year since its inception in 2021, according to the report, which cited people familiar with the fund’s performance. The fund underperformed bitcoin, which lost 6% in the period.BH Digital Asset, which invests in crypto tokens and digital asset-related companies, enjoyed gains of 43% and 52% in 2023 and 2024, respectively, as the crypto market recovered from the lows of 2022…

Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has fully exited Ether treasury company ETHZilla, according to a Tuesday filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Entities linked to Thiel now report owning zero shares in the company in a 13G amendment filed on Tuesday, after disclosing a 7.5% stake on Aug. 4, 2025. At that time, the group beneficially owned 11,592,241 shares of what was then known as 180 Life Sciences Corp., representing 7.5% of the 154,032,084 shares outstanding and worth about $40 million based on trading at around $3.50 per share in early August. Founders Fund 13G Filing…

YZi Labs, a global investment firm and venture capital entity, has displayed the list of top 15 projects in terms of weekly investment volume. These projects are named Sui ($SUI), LayerZero ($ZRO), Aster ($ASTER), Axie Infinity ($AXS), Ethena ($ENA), Chiliz ($CHZ), Movement ($MOVE), Aptos ($APT), Initia ($INIT), Injective ($INJ), Arkham ($ARKM), Celestia ($TIA), zkPass ($ZKP), Curve DAO Token ($CRV), and Pendle ($PENDLE). In the given list, Sui ($SUI) is leading with the highest value of $3.7B in market cap, along with a weekly change in price of +3.4%, and having a weekly volume of $2.6B. LayerZero $ZRO is the runner-up…

Anne-Claire Legendre, a senior diplomat and one of French President Emmanuel Macron’s closest advisers on North Africa and the Middle East, has been chosen to lead the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, according to Le Monde, marking a turning point for the institution after weeks of turmoil. Legendre, 46, was selected by the institute’s board on Tuesday morning. Her appointment is expected to be ratified by the high council made up of representatives from the 22 member states of the Arab League. If confirmed, she will become the first woman to head the institute in its 40-year history. Related Articles She…

Bitcoin BTC$67,846.00 is back below $68,000, making the earlier bounce to above $70,000 look weaker.The largest cryptocurrency briefly tried to reclaim the level on Monday, only to be pushed down toward $67,000 as sellers emerged around the breakout zone. It was trading near $68,000 early Wednesday, roughly flat on the day but now sitting under what had been short-term support.That shift matters. The $68,000–$70,000 range had acted as a floor through the first half of February. Losing it increases the risk that rallies are sold rather than bought, and a clean break under $67,000 would put $65,000 and possibly $60,000…

Is Solana “moving” from Solana meme coins? Leaders from major Solana protocols argued at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 on Thursday that the network’s next phase will prioritise scaling global finance over speculative memes. The panel emphasized that the ecosystem has moved beyond survival mode following the 2022 FTX collapse, focusing on application-layer utility. Why change to a more “serious” approach? The network’s reputation was previously tied to volatile meme coin trading and its connection to Sam Bankman-Fried’s defunct exchange. While meme coins and Pump.Fun made the success of Solana in the past years, now it seems the focus is on…

The US state of Nevada has sued Kalshi after the prediction market company lost its court challenge to stop the state’s regulator from taking action over its sports prediction markets.The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday denied Kalshi’s bid to stop Nevada’s gaming regulator from taking action on its sports event contracts, removing a block on the regulator launching a civil suit against the company.After the decision, the Nevada Gaming Control Board promptly filed a civil enforcement action in state court against Kalshi, which it said sought to block the company “from offering unlicensed wagering in…