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The post Crypto hacks drained $955 million in H1 2026 – Finbold report appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. As the crypto community anticipates a market reversal driven by institutional capital and regulatory clarity as of July 8, Finbold research found that the cryptocurrency market is under intense pressure from major hacks. Between January 1, 2026, and June 2026, the Finbold report found that $955,864,608 was stolen from five Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols. The largest crypto hacks involved different tactics, which raises questions about the security designs of the web3 industry. Top 5 largest crypto hacks of H1 2026. Source: Finbold The largest crypto hack in the first half of 2026 involved a compromised supply chain on April 18 at a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dubbed Kelp DAO, a liquid restaking protocol built on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. This supply chain attack on Kelp DAO saw the hackers siphon 116,500 rsETH (Restaked Ether), valued at about $293 mi
Read full articleSolana's Alpenglow upgrade could revolutionize blockchain efficiency, enhancing competitiveness and capital efficiency in DeFi and trading. The post Solana set for 100x speed upgrade with Alpenglow in Q3 2026 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
The post The 5 Types of RWAs Being Tokenized Fastest appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Standard Chartered head of digital assets research Geoff Kendrick predicted in a recent research note that assets in DeFi could reach $2.7 trillion by 2030. He said that, currently, only 3% of stablecoins and 10% of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) are used in DeFi. However, he predicts this will rise to 30% by 2030. That would be a 37-fold increase from where they are now, but the growing tempo of tokenization gives Kendrick reason for an optimistic outlook. The market for tokenized real-world assets — which includes stocks, bonds, real estate, gold, and carbon credits — hit $32.22 billion in distributed on-chain value by the end of June. That’s almost three times the roughly $11.8 billion RWA market from a year earlier. Add stablecoins, which are just tokenized real world fiat, into the mix, and the broader tokenized market sits north of $328.8 billion. Total RWA asset holders have grown to 9
Newton's mainnet beta could enhance DeFi's appeal to institutional investors by integrating real-time risk enforcement, improving compliance. The post Newton mainnet beta goes live with RedStone price feeds powering on-chain risk enforcement appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
The post XRP addresses spikes by nearly 490,000 in H1 2026 appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. As the XRP community saw the token fall over 41% during the first half of 2026, Finbold research shows the XRP Ledger (XRPL) recorded a rise of nearly 490,000 addresses. The XRP addresses increased by 489,739 accounts, from 7,913,554 on January 1, 2026, to about 8,403,293 on June 30, 2026, as per Finbold’s H1 2026 Cryptocurrency Market Report. However, the number of XRP active unique addresses, which indicate XRPL utilization, declined by about 4,625 accounts during the same period. “XRP’s daily active addresses declined in the first half of 2026, falling by 4,625 between January 1 and June 30, from 19,927 to 15,302. Total addresses grew over the same period,” the Finbold report shows. The altcoin’s addresses increased by around 6.19% during the first half of 2026, thereby reaching an all-time high (ATH) of above 8.426 million on July 8, according to data from CryptoQuant. However, the XRPL
The integration enhances stablecoin trading efficiency, potentially shifting significant trading volumes from centralized exchanges to DeFi platforms. The post Stablecoin FX Layer integrates LitePSM into Uniswap routing, enabling zero-slippage swaps appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
The post What is liquidation in crypto? Health factors & more appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Liquidation is the moment crypto’s leverage machinery takes your collateral, and it happens two very different ways: exchanges force-closing leveraged trades, and DeFi lending protocols auctioning borrowers’ collateral to keeper bots. This guide explains both systems, the health factor math, the bonus liquidators earn, why liquidations cascade into crashes, and how to read the daily liquidation numbers everyone quotes and few understand. Summary Liquidation is crypto’s automated way of keeping leveraged systems solvent without identity, courts, or credit scores. Exchange liquidations force-close leveraged trades, while DeFi liquidations repay unhealthy loans by selling borrower collateral. In DeFi lending, the health factor is the core warning signal: above 1 is safe, below 1 is liquidatable. Liquidation cascades happen when forced selling pushes prices lower and triggers the next layer o
The post USDT for Payments, USDC for DeFi: Two Stablecoin Markets appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. You can feel it on-chain. Stablecoins aren’t one big pool anymore. They’re splitting into two clear jobs. USDT is becoming the everyday money rail for cross-border payments and P2P commerce, especially where banking is expensive or unreliable. USDC is increasingly the pipe that DeFi runs on across Ethereum and the newer L2s. Same dollar intent, different routes, different frictions. If you’re building, trading, or paying salaries, this split changes how you move money, where you source liquidity, and which risks you accept. Point Details USDT leads in payments Low fees and wide P2P access on Tron pull remittances and merchant flows into USDT. Tether’s transparency shows most USDT supply lives on Tron. USDC anchors DeFi Major DeFi pairs, collateral standards, and L2 ecosystems lean USDC first, especially on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base. Two l
Crypto liquidation explained: exchange margin calls, DeFi health factors, keeper bots, liquidation bonuses, cascades, and how to keep positions alive.
