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Crypto investors are often told that patience pays off. Hold through market cycles, trust the technology, and eventually the market will recognize value. For many Polkadot holders, however, t
Attackers have taken around $2 million from a deprecated Aztec payments product on June 17, coming just a few days after $2.19 million was lost in a separate exploit that targeted the project
On June 17, Aztec Labs was found itself in the middle of an exploit for the second time in a week. An attacker drained around $2.16 million from Aztec’s deprecated Private Rollup Bridge. In r
George Town, Cayman Islands, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Atlas, a blockchain oracle infrastructure provider backed by CoinMarketCap, has announced live integrations with two cornerstone protoc
Circle, the company behind USD Coin (USDC), has made Stellar one of its core blockchain deployments for the world's largest regulated stablecoin. The decision comes down to three concrete fac
Aster Chain is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain designed for on-chain derivatives trading. Its mainnet launched in March 2026, giving the Aster perpetual exchange its own independent infras
Dogecoin is the older, more liquid, and more widely recognized of the two, but Shiba Inu has built a significantly more complex technical ecosystem. As of June 4, 2026, DOGE trades at approxi
Shibarium is a Layer 2 (L2) blockchain built on top of Ethereum that processes transactions off-chain in batches before settling them on the Ethereum mainnet. Launched on August 16, 2023, it
Stellar (@StellarOrg) set a new record for its DeFi ecosystem, with total value locked (TVL) reaching roughly $242 million on May 30, 2026, the highest level the network has ever posted. That
Terra Classic has had a quietly eventful few weeks. LUNC defied a broader Bitcoin downtrend on June 14, surging 34% from a key support level with analysts eyeing a move toward $0.0001 — a mod
The price of AAVE has drawn a rare institutional valuation model that places it well above current market levels. Grayscale Research now estimates the DeFi lending token could climb to roughl
A legacy component of Aztec’s ecosystem suffered another security incident on June 18, with attackers draining approximately $2.2 million in crypto assets from the protocol’s Private Rollup B
