“The big proposition is access,” co-founder Bhau Kotecha told CoinDesk in an interview. Gold lending has historically required scale and relationships unavailable to many investors, he said. Kotecha sees demand from individuals, family offices and institutions, with borrowing against PAXGy a possible next step. Lending… Read More
Wallets linked to Bitget’s $387.5 million hack moved about $3.9 million in zcash (ZEC) into the cryptocurrency’s private payment system on Wednesday, making the stolen funds harder to follow as the exchange tries to recover them. CoinDesk’s review of transaction records found that 2,746 ZEC… Read More
“Whitehat operators” have moved 52.37 BTC to an address linked to a newly formed recovery trust, as part of the ongoing fallout from July’s Coldcard hardware wallet exploit, according to Galaxy Digital’s Head of Research Alex Thorn. The Coldcard crypto hardware wallet hack began on… Read More
Finance has spent centuries decoupling wealth from physical transport, but constantly erasing friction creates vectors for increasingly high-tech exploits.
One wallet bought heavily into a yield token, which pushed the price of its paired principal token down just enough to trigger liquidations across borrowers using it as collateral.
Coinbase, among others, filled that gap in May 2025. Under x402, a server that wants payment answers a request with a 402 and a price. The client signs a stablecoin transfer, usually USDC, resends the request with the payment attached, and gets the data. The… Read More
