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Bitcoin Stuck at $77K as Yields and Hormuz Rattle Markets

Bitcoin has spent the week pinned in a narrow corridor, unable to break higher as two macro forces combine to limit buying interest: a surge in U.S. Treasury yields

2026/05/22

Polymarket Loses $520K in UMA Adapter Exploit on Polygon

On-chain investigator ZachXBT raised an alarm on May 22, 2026, flagging what appeared to be a targeted breach of Polymarket’s UMA CTF Adapter contract on Polygon

2026/05/22

Verus Cross-Chain Bridge Exploit Drains $11.58M in Single Attack

A forged cross-chain transfer drained $11.58 million from the Verus-Ethereum bridge on May 18, 2026, exposing a missing validation check that security researchers

2026/05/22

Echo Protocol Hit by $76.7M eBTC Mint on Monad Bridge

A compromised administrator key let an attacker mint 1,000 unauthorized synthetic Bitcoin tokens on the Echo Protocol bridge deployed on Monad on May 18, 2026,

2026/05/19

Strategy Buys 24,869 BTC for $2 Billion During Market Dip

Strategy Inc., the bitcoin treasury company led by executive chairman Michael Saylor, disclosed Monday that it acquired an additional 24,869 bitcoin for approximately

2026/05/19

Verus-Ethereum Bridge Hacked for $11.58M in Forged-Transfer Exploit

An attacker drained $11.58 million from the Verus-Ethereum cross-chain bridge on May 18, 2026, by submitting a forged transfer message that passed the bridge’s

2026/05/18

BlackRock Files Two Tokenized Funds, Pushing RWA Momentum

BlackRock filed two new tokenized fund applications with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 8, 2026, adding to its BUIDL flagship and signaling

2026/05/14

CLARITY Act Heads to Senate Vote as BlackRock Files Tokenized Funds

The U.S. Senate Banking Committee meets Wednesday for a long-awaited markup of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, the most sweeping crypto market structure bill

2026/05/13

Kelp DAO’s $71M Frozen ETH Nears Users After Court Fight

A federal court order and a cross-protocol rescue fund have collided over $71 million in frozen ether tied to the largest decentralized finance breach of 2026,

2026/05/13