David, the CTO of Ripple publicly said that he has not bought XRP token in a very long time. He added he is uncomfortable with the risk and has sold most of the digital assets which also includes BTC. David used to own 1500 BTC and has sold 1499 BTC. Coming to Ripple’s XRP, he used to own 26M. Now, he holds just 3M XRP.

Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange, Mercado Bitcoin has been reportedly hacked for whopping 46 million dollars. Authorities and stable coin issuers have already frozen 9 million dollars in stables but rest of the tokens can only be traced, not frozen.

CoinEx has made an important announcement that the crypto exchange will soon be ceasing operations very soon. Trading will continue as usual till 15th of September but all trading including spot will cease operations on 22nd. On 29th, all spot trading services will be ceased, and non-USDT assets will be processed.

GetBit has posted a notice on their application and website stating that they are soon going to discontinue their operations in India. In fact, INR deposits are no longer being accepted on the GetBit. 

Trust and Coinomi wallet users were facing issues in sending and receiving their Ethereum Classic (ETC) coins. The reason was the nodes being used by the wallets went offline. The chain is still active and miners are keeping it as secure as they can. 

There was an unauthorized mint of around 26-percent when the attacker moved 2.8-billion ONE token to the exchanges to dump them. Around 4 billion ONE tokens were minted by the attacker. The attacker market dumped all the tokens, so the total number of tokens have now expanded to 115 million ONE tokens. 

ByBit crypto currency exchange has got green flag to trace the stolen $1.5B funds by North Korean hackers. However, most the funds are already untraceable. 

Google is being held responsible for mass scale fraud by promoting phishing on real websites. Even though the phishing link is marked as a sponsored result, a person in distress may not even notice it and gives away their 24-word passphrase, that results in a complete loss of funds. 

ColdCard MK3 hardware wallets are no longer safe. If you have bitcoin residing under a single key that was generated on a Coldcard Mk3 between 2021-2023, and you did not incorporate dice rolls, passphrase or multi-signature, move funds immediately to a different crypto wallet.

The Council of the European Union has now adopted its 21st sanctions package against Russia on July 23rd 2026. This includes a big move that would ban all 14 non-EU crypto-related platforms and entities for all EU residents.