Traditional pig-butchering scams, rooted in China and amplified during the pandemic, involve criminals establishing false romantic relationships through dating apps or social media. These deceptive ...

Welcome to the Wild West of the financial world: decentralized finance. Known simply as "DeFi," this ecosystem leverages blockchain to provide financial services to users without banks, brokers or ...

A federal court’s dismissal of claims against a decentralized cryptocurrency platform and its investors for the actions of scam token issuers is a case of first impression with wider significance. On ...

The Solana blockchain is facing growing scrutiny over the security of its decentralized finance ecosystem, with new academic research cataloging patterns of rug pull scams that have drained funds from ...

When the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, was proposed in 2008, the goal was simple: to create a digital currency free from banks and governments. Over time, that idea evolved into something much bigger ...

Using the DFPI's live cryptocurrency scam tracker, an excellent due diligence resource for investors to monitor for ...

Cryptocurrency users lost nearly $2 billion to scams, rug pulls and hacks in 2023, roughly half last year's amount. While the reduction is largely attributed to improved security protocols, the ...

According to recent reports, the cryptocurrency custody arm of a major international bank has launched its institutional cryptocurrency custody services in Singapore, making it “the first entity that ...

The contagion from the Kelp exploit could have been contained, but at the cost of capital efficiency, according to the founder of Curve Finance. The exploit of the Kelp liquid restaking protocol shows ...

Even as the cryptoasset ecosystem grows, market capitalizations remain near all-time-highs, and TradFi institutions continue to deploy an array of products and services one subset of the crypto ...