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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 6h
LATEST: Farcaster’s original founders gave up. Its next owner lasted less than a year. Now early investor and former Coinbase CTO is taking over. Read the full story on The Coinformer in the reply below. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 14/10/2026
ICYMI: Sam Altman’s OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Trail of Bits, the firm that tested privacy claims about Worldcoin’s eyeball-scanning Orb. Read the full story on The Coinformer in the reply below #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 13/10/2026
ICYMI: Binance is shutting down its mining pool after six years, less than a year after promising to expand the business. Read the full story on The Coinformer in the reply below. #crypto #news #binance
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 10/10/2026
LATEST: Tangem says hackers accessed its customer support system, potentially exposing customer names and emails, just as a separate hardware wallet scandal unfolds. Read the full story with all links on The Coinformer in the reply below. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 08/10/2026
LATEST: Starknet is considering becoming its own Layer 1, just over a year after CEO Eli Ben-Sasson said “we’re not leaving Ethereum.” Read the full story on The Coinformer in the reply below. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: DAO governance attacks are on track to make 2026 the second-biggest year for losses after 2022. The Coinformer found nearly $40M has been drained through successful malicious DAO proposals this year. Read more on The Coinformer in the reply below. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 06/10/2026
LATEST: Two heavily backed Ethereum L2s have now decided within four days that running a standalone chain no longer makes economic sense. Read the full story on The Coinformer in the reply below. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 06/10/2026
ICYMI: Ethereum is finally fixing a decade-old blind spot that made some ETH transfers harder to detect. Glamsterdam’s EIP-7708 makes native ETH transfers emit the same kind of standardized logs ERC-20 tokens have long used, reducing the need for custom tracing. Read more in the reply below.
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 05/10/2026
LATEST: Polymarket is laying the groundwork to take its prediction markets beyond Polygon. Protocol V2 is being built to move positions, collateral and resolutions across new chains. Read more on The Coinformer in the reply below. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 05/10/2026
LATEST: Safe investor asks Swiss regulator to step in over Foundation governance Greenfield Capital says Safe’s Foundation Council ran below its own minimum size for months, while calls for independent oversight went nowhere. Read more on The Coinformer in the reply below. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 04/10/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Russia’s biggest banks are hiring for crypto roles tied to DeFi, cross-border payments and custody Job postings reviewed by The Coinformer show banks seeking expertise across Hyperliquid, Aave, Uniswap as well as L2 and L1 chains. Read more on The Coinformer in the reply below. #crypto
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 01/10/2026
ICYMI: MetaMask’s attacker appears to have stolen just 0.36 ETH, but the cleanup is pushing more than 565,000 ETH through Ethereum’s validator exit process Read the full story on The Coinformer in the reply below. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: Bitget warned that third-party systems needed “strict integration controls.” Seven months later, it says one helped enable its $388M hack, The Coinformer found. Read the full story on The Coinformer in the reply below. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 26/09/2026
ICYMI: Bitget users still couldn’t withdraw after its $380M hack when the exchange announced plans to delist four spot markets. The Sept. 25 notice covered DOG, FHE, DRIFT and RVV, with trading set to end Sept. 30. Read the full story in the reply below.
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 23/09/2026
ICYMI: Hack VC’s X post disputing allegations by ex-partner Hsin-Ju Chuang has disappeared from its profile following her death. Chuang was found dead a day after accusing the VC firm of workplace mistreatment and promising to release evidence. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 22/09/2026
LATEST: Circle once paid Binance about $60M to promote USDC. Now Binance has invested roughly $100M back into Circle itself. This comes just as U.S. prosecutors are probing whether Binance knowingly allowed trades that violated Iran sanctions. Read more on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 21/09/2026
ICYMI: Kalshi’s crypto perps are facing fake volume claims after a trader found repeated ~$5,500 ETH trades in the exchange’s public data Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news #kalshi
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 20/09/2026
ICYMI: SingularityNET bridge breach is spreading across three tokens. An attacker drained over $1.5 million in FET tokens using a valid bridge-authorizer signature. The same wallet later got more than 400 million newly minted NTX tokens. Read the full story with links on The Coinformer. #crypto
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 18/09/2026
ICYMI: STRK jumped more than 20% on Friday as StarkWare pushed OffMarket, its Polymarket privacy wrapper, live after a limited rollout. The tool lets users trade against Polymarket’s liquidity while making the wallet trail harder to follow. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 17/09/2026
LATEST: Hacked DEX Ostium lost nearly $24M in July. Then a lender seeking $15M sued and asked a New York court to restrict some of its funds. Now, the fight also exposed details of Ostium’s private restructuring plan. The DEX says it was protected by an NDA. More on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 15/09/2026
ICYMI: A Robinhood crypto engineer accused of trading ahead of token listings on Hyperliquid had previously helped scale the company’s crypto systems. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 15/09/2026
LATEST: CoinEx’s native CET token lost roughly 60% in the two weeks before users were told the exchange was shutting down. The drop came even as CoinEx was still buying back and burning CET and talking about its long-term development. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 15/09/2026
LATEST: Robinhood Chain finally landed on Etherscan 75 days after its public mainnet launch Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 13/09/2026
LATEST: Justin Sun-led Liberland is facing fresh backlash over a system where a token directly determines voting power. Community members say President Vít Jedlička holds more than 3 million Merits. That’s over 600 times the voting power of one citizen. Read the full story on The Coinformer.
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 12/09/2026
LATEST: Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas says permissioned blockchains are basically “V2 of cloud.” That lands just days before Circle, Coinbase’s closest USDC partner, launches Arc with a permissioned validator set. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news #coinbase
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 11/09/2026
ICYMI: A Zcash user says nearly $600K has been stuck for 50+ days in a NEAR Intents compliance review even after support initially said the review was cleared and the funds would be released. Read the full story on The Coinformer #crypto #news #zcash
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 11/09/2026
LATEST: Blockstream says it “will not pay a ransom” and threatens law enforcement against Liquid’s self-described white hats after they returned 3,400 BTC but retained nearly 600 BTC. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news #bitcoin
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 10/09/2026
ICYMI: Two traditional stock exchange giants have now bought into Kraken’s parent before its IPO. Nasdaq is investing $100M in Payward at a $21B valuation, months after Deutsche Boerse bought a 1.5% stake for $200 million. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 09/09/2026
ICYMI: Strategy launched $250 BTC-themed Air Jordans. That price happens to exactly match the $250 the company pledged last month to contribute to Trump Accounts. The shoes also appear expensive compared with regular Air Jordan 1s sold by Nike. Read the story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 07/09/2026
ICYMI: SideSwap said Liquid withdrawals had “no size limitations.” Then one order pulled nearly all of its BTC. SideSwap says a customer sent in 4,000 L-BTC and the service “processed it like any other order.” Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 05/09/2026
ICYMI: Arbitrum claims Robinhood Chain didn’t go down and user transactions kept working normally It blamed the incident on unusual conditions on Ethereum that delayed Robinhood Chain from sending batches of data there. it didn’t explain exactly what triggered those conditions. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 04/09/2026
LATEST: Robinhood Chain has stopped producing new blocks #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 04/09/2026
NEW: Trezor said older customer data had already been deleted. Turns out ShipMonk kept it anyway. And the breach just grew by another 67,000 victims, nearly 6x the original count. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 04/09/2026
ICYMI: AMC’s CEO called Robinhood’s tokenized stock market “contemptible, outrageous, disgusting, detestable, inexcusable, vile.” The timing is brutal as AMC’s tokenized stock on Robinhood had just traded wildly off-peg while the real stock market was closed. Read more on The Coinformer. #crypto
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 02/09/2026
ICYMI: GoPro just had one of the weirdest weeks on Wall Street. Famous YouTuber Markiplier bought 8.5%, the stock ripped, a $285M merger landed and now GPRO is trading on Solana. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news #solana
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 01/09/2026
NEW: Poland’s biggest collapsed crypto exchange Zondacrypto may face more than €700M in creditor claims. Former customers now have just two months to file in Estonia or risk falling to the back of the repayment line. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news #poland
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 01/09/2026
LATEST: London Stock Exchange is considering listing xStocks on its planned 24/7 venue. The catch is the tokens don’t give holders shareholder rights and UK investors can’t buy them anyway. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news #stocks
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 31/08/2026
LATEST: Hyperliquid is trying to get into the U.S. through Kraken’s parent. But a new CoinDesk report on X says North Korea-linked wallets are once again moving tens of millions through the platform. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news #hyperliquid
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 31/08/2026
ICYMI: NYSE owner ICE is backing tZERO and licensing its patents. The thing is that Securitize, another NYSE tokenization design partner, is fighting tZERO over five patents in federal court, where tZERO is seeking damages and an injunction. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 31/08/2026
NEW: Solana backed the artist behind Sollo, a frog-like character previously described at Breakpoint as the “beloved Solana mascot.” Sure thing degens immediately started launching tokens around it. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news #solana
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 30/08/2026
ICYMI: Russia’s largest sanctioned bank Sber wants USDT as loan collateral. But Russia’s own central bank has already warned that foreign stablecoins can be frozen or seized over sanctions. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #russia #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 30/08/2026
LATEST: Uniswap launched over 11,000 tokens on Robinhood Chain in a single day, roughly 61% of everything launched there that day. But new data shows that only ~1% of the chain’s tokens born that week were still trading by Aug. 30. Read more on The Coinformer.
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 30/08/2026
LATEST: Cryptocom-linked Cronos halted the entire network after Tectonic, the chain’s seventh-largest protocol by TVL, appeared to be compromised, with early reports estimating losses in the tens of millions of dollars. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news #hack
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 28/08/2026
NEW: Russia’s digital ruble goes wider on Sept. 1. But iPhone users may be locked out as sanctioned banks struggle to get updated apps through Apple. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news #russia #apple
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 28/08/2026
LATEST: Hyperliquid’s return to USDC is starting to squeeze out the alternatives. HyENA is shutting down after $4B+ in volume and 12,000+ traders, saying the shift back toward USDC made its USDe-margin model no longer worth running. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 27/08/2026
NEW: A crypto trader lost more than $15M betting on Friendtech. Now he’s offering $1M to buy the abandoned project and relaunch it. FRIEND jumped more than 1,800% after the offer. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 26/08/2026
NEW: Coinbase temporarily restricted former Solana Foundation strategy lead Austin Federa after a routine Base transfer. And Coinbase itself admits its fraud controls have sometimes left users with “indefinite account inaccessibility.” Read more on The Coinformer. #crypto #news #coinbase
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 25/08/2026
NEW: A crypto wallet newly sanctioned over Iran-linked hacking directly received a ransomware payment, Chainalysis found. The same hacker also sent crypto to bulletproof hosting providers and received BTC from a Russian-speaking access broker. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 25/08/2026
NEW: Korean retail may not be buying the Bitcoin top after all. Analysts at 4Pillars found Korea’s mania peaked 23 days after BTC in 2017, while Upbit’s 11 biggest days ever all came after Bitcoin’s April 2021 peak. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news #korea #bitcoin #altcoins
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The Coinformer @thecoinformer.com · 24/08/2026
LATEST: On-chain analyst suggests the TAC exploit drained nearly 3 billion TAC and reused the same Cosmos EVM bug that hit MANTRA days earlier. Read the full story on The Coinformer. #crypto #news
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