Wait, what is Bitcoin again? Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency — this is, essentially, money that allows people to send and receive payments directly to each other without relying on banks or governments.  Created in 2009 by an unknown person or group using the name Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin introduced a new way to handle transactions online. It…

When Solana launched in 2020, co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko had the grand vision of becoming the Nasdaq on the blockchain — the home for onchain financial markets. Five years later, the memecoin trading activity we’re seeing on Solana is more akin to penny stocks than the tech giants that make up the Nasdaq index, like Apple…

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has suffered the largest hack in crypto history, losing more than $1.4 billion in liquid-staked Ether (stETH), Mantle Staked ETH (mETH) and other ERC-20 tokens. The attack highlights that even centralized exchanges with strong security measures remain vulnerable to sophisticated cyberattacks, analysts say. Blockchain security analysts, including Arkham Intelligence and onchain sleuth ZachXBT,…