A Hong Kong-based crypto exchange has suspended withdrawals for at least three days without warning. Hong Kong-based crypto exchange BitForex has halted withdrawals for at least three days without giving a reason. Before the halt, around $56 million in crypto had been withdrawn from the exchange’s wallets.  In a Feb. 23 X post, on-chain sleuth...Continue Reading

A wallet address linked to the KyberSwap exploiter was seen transferring $2.5 million from Arbitrum to Ethereum. The hacker behind the attack on the decentralized exchange (DEX) KyberSwap was seen moving millions in digital assets from one blockchain to another. On Feb. 26, blockchain analytics firm PeckShield posted movements from the KyberSwap attacker’s wallet address....Continue Reading

OANDA’s new crypto platform will offer 63 crypto trading pairs to begin with and will expand its services further. United States-based crypto brokerage firm OANDA is set to begin crypto trading services in the United Kingdom via its registered subsidiary, OANDA Crypto. The crypto subsidiary was established last year after the cryptocurrency brokerage firm acquired...Continue Reading

Bitcoin has slowed down into the end of February, and BTC price predictions have broadly lost their bullish slant. Bitcoin (BTC) is gearing up for the February monthly close with BTC price action at a crossroads — can the highs hold? Still above $50,000, the largest cryptocurrency has lost bullish momentum over the past two...Continue Reading

Shrapnel warned users against using “teaming” and “account sharing” strategies to rank higher on the Shrapnel STX leaderboard. Blockchain-based extraction shooter game Shrapnel identified numerous users trying “to gain an unfair advantage in matches” and warned of a permanent ban against all forms of manipulation. Shrapnel users were found using two illegal strategies — teaming...Continue Reading

As part of its annual report’s risk disclosures section, Riot Platforms said it expects to continue paying “higher than usual” costs for ASIC miners until the chip crisis is resolved. Bitcoin (BTC) miner Riot Platforms said that an ongoing chip shortage, the constant need to grow the hash rate and a deepening pro-climate agenda in the...Continue Reading

OTCPro user Kow Seng Chai reportedly hasn’t responded to emails, calls or appeared in court after the exchange mistakenly sent him hundreds of thousands of dollars. An Australian crypto exchange has reportedly been trying to claw back nearly $328,000 from one of its users after a huge fat-finger error when crediting the account.  According to...Continue Reading

BitBoy’s opponent ‘More Light’ told Cointelegraph after the fight he didn’t expect Armstrong to be so “amped up” during their match. An organized fight on the weekend between crypto influencer Ben ‘BitBoy’ Armstrong and a memecoin developer “More Light,” was seemingly more than just a wild flailing of arms and legs.  Their associated memecoins —...Continue Reading

The GambleFi platform raised 420 ETH for a presale token but those funds have now disappeared. The RiskOnBlast project, a gambling platform based on the Blast layer-2 ecosystem, is suspected of being the first rug pull on Blast following the disappearance of its funds, website, and social media presence. According to Arkham Intelligence, RiskOnBlast balances...Continue Reading

Attackers have taken over the official X account for MicroStrategy account, posting a series of malicious links to a fake airdrop for a nefarious $MSTR token. Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy’s X account has been hacked, posting several malicious links to claim a fake airdrop of a nefarious $MSTR token to its nearly 200,000 followers. Once...Continue Reading