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1. Top News: Coinbase Faces Double Blow with 'SEC Investigation' and 'User Data Breach,' Stock Price Drops by 7.2% 2. Token Unlocking: $ARB, $AVAX, $PRIME, $ASTR, $1INCH

DOJ Will Still Pursue Roman Storm Case Despite Blanche Memo, Prosecutors Say

DOJ Targets $263 Million Theft Ring and Tornado Cash Co-Founder

Zunami Protocol Confirms Hack with Estimated Loss of $500,000

Ethereum Foundation launches Trillion-Dollar Security initiative

Share link:In this post: The Ethereum Foundation announced the Trillion Dollar security initiative. The Foundation prepares for mass adoption, where retail could hold trillions, and the chain should be reliable enough for this amount of value. Ethereum and its ecosystem have faced the biggest historical hacks despite its current security features.

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm's trial to proceed as DOJ drops part of one charge

Quick Take The U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said Thursday it would not move forward with a part of Storm’s charges ahead of a July 14 trial. Some crypto advocates criticized the DOJ for plans to still pursue part of the charge around unlicensed money transmitting.

Demand for Censorship-Resistant ‘Dark Stablecoins’ May Rise Amid Regulatory Crackdown

As global regulators tighten their grip on stablecoins, a new shadow economy of “dark stablecoins,” which are decentralized, algorithmic, and built to defy surveillance in an era of financial overreach may rise.

Mobius Token Smart Contract Hack on BNB Chain Drains $2.15 Million

The Mobius attacker used Tornado Cash to obscure the stolen fund flows, making recovery efforts difficult.

Voltage Finance Exploiter Resurfaces, Moves $182K in ETH to Tornado Cash After Months of Silence

After more than five months of inactivity, the hacker behind the 2022 Voltage Finance exploit has resurfaced—this time, moving a portion of the stolen Ether through Tornado Cash, a privacy-focused mixer.

Hacker moves $182K in ETH to Tornado Cash after Voltage exploit

KiloEx Hack: Binance Helped Recover $6.1 Million In Lost Funds

Binance announced it recovered $6.1M of stolen KiloEx funds after a price oracle exploit targeting the decentralized trading platform.

Texas Judge Rules Tornado Cash Can’t Be Sanctioned Again

Judge Robert Pitman cautioned that OFAC kept the door open to reimpose sanctions in the future, which was unacceptable.

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Tornado Cash freed from US sanctions after Texas court ruling

DeFi Advocacy Group Urges Trump to Halt Prosecution of Tornado Cash Developer

The DeFi Education Fund has called on former President Donald Trump to intervene in what it decries as a “lawless campaign” by the Department of Justice (DOJ) against open-source software developers, singling out the prosecution of Roman Storm, co-founder of the crypto privacy tool Tornado Cash.

DeFi Lobby Urges Trump Admin to Halt Prosecution of Tornado Cash Developer

The appeal centers on the ongoing case against Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash, a decentralized crypto mixer.

Crypto group urges Trump to end prosecution of Tornado Cash co-founder

Tornado Cash: Crucial Legal Battle as Crypto Firms Defend Roman Storm

DeFi Education Fund urges Trump to “discontinue” DOJ’s Tornado Cash case against Roman Storm

Crypto leaders urge Trump to end 'lawless campaign' criminalizing software developers, including Roman Storm

Quick Take In a letter led by the DeFi Education Fund to White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks, leaders urged the Trump administration to change course and end the Justice Department’s “overreach” in prosecuting software developers. Storm was charged in 2023 by the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York with conspiracy to commit money laundering and sanctions violations in operating crypto mixing service Tornado Cash.

Blacklisting in Crypto: A Necessary Evil or a Step Backward?

PeckShield: Truflation attacker address swapped approximately 4.5 WBTC for 230 ETH and transferred to Tornado Cash

Blockchain privacy is a right, not a criminal tool

KiloEx's ‘Sophisticated’ Hack Shows DeFi Risks — But This Time, Recovery Was Swift

kiloEx recovers $7.5M after promising attacker 10% bounty

Two wallets that had been silent for 949 days spent 12.37 million DAI to buy 7738 ETH 7 hours ago

A whale bought 3,659.83 ETH with 5.88 million DAI after sleeping for 2.8 years

KiloEx tells hacker to return 90% of the $7 million stolen from its perp vaults or face relentless legal pursuit

Quick Take KiloEx lost $7 million after an unknown attacker tricked the protocol’s oracle function with a wallet funded using Tornado Cash. The team halted trading following the multi-chain theft across Base, BNB Chain and Taiko. An update from the decentralized exchange asked the hacker to return most of the funds and keep 10% as a whitehat bounty — or brave a manhunt.

Vitalik Buterin Unveils Plan to Elevate Privacy on Ethereum

Vitalik Buterin Outlines Simplified Privacy Roadmap for Ethereum

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a new strategy to enhance user privacy on the Ethereum network without significant changes to its core infrastructure.