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The official website for the Pepe (PEPE) memecoin has been compromised by attackers, who are redirecting users to a malicious link.“Blockaid’s system has identified a front-end attack on Pepe. The site contains a code of inferno drainer,” the cybersecurity company said on Thursday.Inferno Drainer is a suite of scam tools that is employed by threat actors, including phishing website templates, wallet drainers and social engineering tools. Source: BlockaidThe price of PEPE did not react immediately to the hack. The memecoin is up by about 4% over the last 24 hours, but still declining by more than 77% over the last 12…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade is now live on mainnet, marking a major structural change in how the network handles data and scaling. The upgrade was activated at epoch 411392 at 21:49:11 UTC, with the official Ethereum account first signalling “upgrade in progress . . . activating Fusaka @ epoch 411392 // 21:49:11 UTC” and then confirming that “Fusaka is live on Ethereum mainnet!” In its announcement, the account highlighted three core elements of Fusaka. PeerDAS “now unlocks 8x data throughput for rollups,” substantially expanding the amount of data…

Grayscale’s launch of the first US spot Chainlink exchange-traded fund (ETF) drew strong interest on its first day of trading, suggesting investors still have an appetite for regulated altcoin products despite a broader crypto market slump.Grayscale’s Chainlink (LINK) ETF debuted with $41 million in cumulative net inflows and $13 million worth of “solid” trading volume during the first day, said Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg’s senior ETF analyst, in a Wednesday X post. “$41m in first day flows. Another insta-hit from the crypto world, only dud so far was Doge, but it’s still early.”The debut adds to signs that institutional and professional…

Bitcoin (BTC) and US dollar–pegged stablecoins are emerging as a global alternative for moving value across borders without banks and card networks, as the Bitcoin network’s settlement volume begins to rival the world’s largest payment giants.Bitcoin settled $6.9 trillion worth of payments over the past 90 days, which is “on par with or above Visa and Mastercard,” according to blockchain data platform Glassnode’s digital asset research report for the fourth quarter of 2025, published on Wednesday.Over the same period, Visa processed $4.25 trillion in payment volume and Mastercard $2.63 trillion, for a combined $6.88 trillion, according to the report.“Activity is…

Solana is set to roll out the awaited native token tied to its latest mobile phone model, Seeker, at the start of 2026, with the coin set to be the governance token of the company’s mobile ecosystem.Solana Mobile announced in an X post on Wednesday that the “SKR” token will have a total supply of 10 billion tokens, with 30% allocated for airdrops and 25% reserved for growth and partnerships.An additional 10% of the token’s supply will be for liquidity, 10% for a community treasury, 15% for Solana Mobile and 10% for Solana Labs, the mobile arm’s parent company. Source:…

A chip widely used in smartphones, including the crypto-focused Solana Seeker, has an unfixable vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain complete control and steal private keys stored on the device, according to crypto wallet maker Ledger.Ledger said in a report on Wednesday that it tested an attack on the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 (MT6878), and bypassed its security measures to gain “full and absolute control over the smartphone, with no security barrier left standing.”Ledger security engineers Charles Christen and Léo Benito explained that they took control of the chip using electromagnetic pulses during the chip’s initial boot process.Crypto wallets often…

Shares in IREN recovered on Wednesday after the Bitcoin miner said it would raise $3.6 billion through a combination of share sales and a convertible debt offering as it races to deploy computers to meet artificial intelligence demand.IREN (IREN) jumped 7.6% to a peak of $44.25 during trading on Wednesday, and settled to $43.96 by the bell at a gain of 6.9%. It comes after IREN fell over 15% on Tuesday following its announcement that it was planning capital raising efforts. IREN said on Wednesday that it was launching a new $2 billion convertible note offering and simultaneously conducting a share…

Key takeawaysTether purchased 26 tons of gold in Q3 2025, a larger quarterly acquisition than any reporting central bank. Its total holdings reached 116 tons, placing it among the world’s top 30 gold holders.Stablecoin issuers, sovereign wealth funds, corporations and tech firms are increasingly active in gold markets. This trend marks a structural shift in global demand once dominated by central banks.Central banks added 220 tons of gold in Q3 2025, up 28% from Q2. Countries such as Kazakhstan, Brazil, Turkey and Guatemala made notable additions despite record prices.While central banks buy gold for national monetary policy, Tether’s purchases come…

Ethereum has officially implemented its Fusaka upgrade, designed to increase the network’s transaction processing capacity while maintaining security and decentralization standards, according to network documentation. ETH co-founder Vitalik Buterin tipped his hat to the developers behind the initiative. Summary Ethereum rolls out Fusaka upgrade to boost transaction processing while keeping security and decentralization intact. Key innovation is EIP-7594 (PeerDAS), allowing nodes to verify block data without downloading everything, improving efficiency. Upgrade supports scaling and DeFi growth, helping Ethereum handle millions of daily transactions and maintain its leading smart contract ecosystem. “Big congrats to the Ethereum researchers and core devs who…

Crypto merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in 2025 reached $8.6 billion as of November, with companies closing a record 133 deals, marking an all-time high in both deal count and total value.The total dollar amount of business deals exceeded the combined total of the previous four years, according to Bloomberg, citing Pitchbook data.Coinbase led the M&A activity, with six acquisition deals completed in 2025, including the $2.9 billion purchase of Deribit, one of the largest crypto derivatives marketplaces. Total amount of capital invested in crypto deals every year since 2020. Source: BloombergOther Coinbase deals included the purchase of blockchain-based advertising…