Regulation Lead — MiCA, SEC, EU crypto policy
A year ago the first spot Solana, Litecoin, and Hedera ETFs started trading. Twelve months on, the SEC has turned altcoin ETF…
Mass wallet drainers faded, but crypto phishing did not retreat; it moved into Telegram and Discord. Fake bots, clone traders, and hijacked…
The FATF's October plenary wrapped in Paris with a deadline for crypto rules and a freshly adopted evaluation of the United States.…
Humanity Protocol sold palm-scan, zero-knowledge identity, then lost about $36 million because its multisig keys sat on one infected laptop. Halborn's autopsy…
The SEC's comment window on its crypto rulebook closed on October 20 with 171 letters filed. A two-member agency must now turn…
In September 2026, attackers drained $387 million from Bitget without stealing a key or breaking a contract. Halborn's post-mortem shows why the…
Flash-loan raiders drained X100 and Yapeswap in late October. But crypto's deepest governance failures played out in gaming, where millions of players…
Staking rewards are ordinary income the moment you can move them, not when you cash out. Here is how the IRS taxes…
Crypto games are built to take years, which makes abandonment the perfect cover for theft. Inside the GameFi rug pull, from Squid…
You cannot regulate a smart contract, so regulators squeeze the chokepoints every DeFi app depends on. Here is the 2026 map, from…
