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Ripple is opening up its intelligence on North Korea-linked threat actors to the crypto industry.The recent $280 million Drift incident has demonstrated a shift toward more sophisticated social engineering tactics.

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded over $532 million in net inflows on Monday, extending their positive streak to a third consecutive trading day.BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC accounted for around $520 million of the total, with 10 of 13 funds posting zero flows and no outflows recorded.

Ark Invest’s new Big Ideas 2026 report projects Bitcoin’s market capitalization could grow at roughly a 63% compound annual rate, rising from about $1.5–$2 trillion today to $16 trillion by 2030.The firm expects the total crypto market to expand from around $2.8 trillion to $28 trillion over the same period, with Bitcoin capturing about 70% and the rest dominated by smart contract networks like Ethereum and Solana.Ark argues that Bitcoin is “maturing as a leader in a new class of institutional asset,” positioning it alongside gold and sovereign bonds as a core macro allocation for large investors.

On-chain intelligence platform Arkham reports that wallets its AI associates with Multicoin Capital have staked a combined $82.02 million worth of HYPE on HyperCore.One such address moved $28.45 million in HYPE to HyperCore for staking, while two other wallets executed similar transactions, bringing total staked HYPE from the trio to roughly 1.96 million tokens.The wallets still hold about 2.83 million HYPE in total, valued near $118 million, underscoring sustained, concentrated exposure to the Hyperliquid ecosystem’s native asset.

Bitcoin is firmly over $80k. The DTCC is about to tokenize everything. And World Liberty Fi countersues Justin Sun.

The move follows two nine-figure exploits of DeFi protocols Drift and KelpDAO in April, as DPRK hackers shift to social engineering tactics.

Uphold says the NYAG statement misrepresented key facts about its $5M CredEarn settlement.The NYAG said more than 6,000 Uphold customers lost over $34M after Cred collapsed.Uphold said it froze Cred’s platform access within hours after learning about liquidity issues.

Plaintiffs’ claims hinge on an unproven attribution tying the Kelp DAO exploit to North Korea.DeFi industry efforts have already mobilized over $300 million to plug the shortfall.

Upbit will be the Optimism Foundation’s first client on its “self-managed” enterprise tier, meaning the exchange will manage its own rollup sequencer while being able to rely on Optimism for tech support.“What we hear consistently from the largest exchanges and institutional operators is that they want to own the chain their users transact on, not rent it,” said Jing Wang, Optimism Foundation director.

Base, launched as an optimistic rollup, is hybridizing its tech stack with Succinct’s SP1 zero-knowledge virtual machine, helping move the network toward “1-day finality.”Paradigm-backed Succinct secures some $4 billion in digital assets for protocols like Polygon, Mantle, Celestia, and Lido.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation said it would facilitate “initial, limited production trades of real-world assets” in July, ahead of the service’s launch in October.Interest in tokenization has surged as financial firms explore bringing traditional assets on-chain, a shift that could enable 24/7 trading and faster settlement.

The Basel Committee’s 1,250% risk-weight on unbacked crypto makes direct Bitcoin balance-sheet exposure economically unviable for major banks under current rules.Morgan Stanley’s MSBT launched April 8 as the first US bank-affiliated Bitcoin ETP, hitting $100M in six days entirely through self-directed client demand with zero advisor involvement.The bank recommends a 2% to 4% Bitcoin allocation to certain clients and is pursuing an OCC digital trust charter for direct crypto custody and spot trading.

A federal case over frozen crypto could determine whether DeFi recovery funds can be seized to satisfy unrelated judgments.

Katie Haun’s venture firm closes a $1 billion fund to target crypto infrastructure and systems for AI agents to transact autonomously.

Coinglass data shows whale positions on Hyperliquid total $4.016 billion, with $2.024 billion in longs (50.39%) and $1.992 billion in shorts (49.61%), for a long-short ratio of 1.02.Aggregate PnL is tilted against bears: long positions sit on about $14.8423 million in profit, while shorts are nursing roughly $41.6691 million in losses.A single whale address, 0xa5b0..41, is running a 15x leveraged ETH long from $2,265.48 with unrealized profit of around $2.9404 million.

Kraken’s parent company, Payward, has filed a second amended complaint in Colorado federal court accusing former custody partner Etana Custody and its CEO of misappropriating more than $25 million in client funds.The suit alleges Etana ran a “Ponzi scheme” by commingling custodial assets with its own, funding expenses and risky bets, and papering over a growing hole with falsified account statements.Colorado regulators have already hit Etana with a cease-and-desist order; the firm entered liquidation in November 2025 and is now controlled by a court‑appointed receiver.