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📉#Crypto Q2 2026 is shaping up to be the worst quarter for ICOs/IDOs in the past five years. Only $58M was raised during the quarter — an 85% drop QoQ. The number of token sales also collapsed by 65%, falling from 105 in Q1 to just 37 in Q2.

🟠#BTC BTC <60k

✉️#TON Pavel Durov announced that the native currency of TON will become Gram. TON will remain the name of the blockchain.

🇬🇪#USDT Tether announced plans to introduce GEL₮, a stablecoin pegged to the Georgian lari, in collaboration with the Georgian government. The stablecoin aims to reduce transaction fees, facilitate almost immediate settlements, support programmable payments, and improve digital value transfers. Georgia has also strengthened its regulatory framework for digital assets and stablecoins by addressing reserve management, redemption protections, issuer supervision, and anti-money laundering requirements, while aligning its approach with developing U.S. stablecoin regulations such as the GENIUS Act.

👍#POLY Polymarket was exploited on Polygon. According to on-chain investigator ZachXBT, the vulnerability was found in the UMA CTF Adapter contract. So far, the attacker has withdrawn more than $520,000.

👾#Crypto The hacker group “TeamPCP” claims it gained access to GitHub’s internal systems and stole data from 4,000 private/internal repositories, including company source code and files, attempting to sell the data for $50,000 on dark web forums. GitHub said it is conducting an investigation, during which it discovered a compromised employee device infected through a VS Code extension.

🇮🇷#Crypto Iran has unveiled Hormuz Safe, a government-backed digital maritime insurance platform for ships operating in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, with support for payments and settlements in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

🔹#ETH Ethereum has introduced a new “Clear Signing” open standard designed to reduce the risks associated with blind signing. According to the Ethereum Foundation, the standard allows transaction approvals to display human-readable information instead of complex hexadecimal code, helping users better understand exactly what they are signing before confirming a transaction.

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👾#Crypto Calendar of all crypto hacks that occurred in April 2026: incidents were observed on 22 out of 30 calendar days. Not a single week went by without an incident, and no market segment remained safe. Lending protocols, bridges, wallets, perpetual contracts, gaming — all were affected. Total losses exceeded $630 million!

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👾#LTC Litecoin rolled back a series of invalid MWEB transactions after a zero-day exploit was discovered. The issue stemmed from a vulnerability in the MimbleWimble Extension Block (MWEB) that caused nodes running outdated software to accept a faulty transaction. This flaw allowed attackers to withdraw funds improperly and launch a denial-of-service attack on mining pools. To fix the problem, the network carried out a 13-block reorganization that removed the invalid activity while leaving legitimate transactions intact. The bug has now been patched, and Litecoin is functioning as usual.

👍#POLY Polymarket’s Paris weather market was manipulated through direct physical interference, generating about $34,000 in profit. As reported by Le Monde, an individual took advantage of an unmonitored Météo France temperature sensor near the runway at Charles de Gaulle Airport. Using a portable heat source—believed to be a hair dryer—they temporarily increased the recorded temperature. The person had previously bought unlikely outcomes (like “22°C”) at very low prices on April 6 and April 15, then altered the sensor reading to force the market to resolve in their favor. In response, Météo France has filed a criminal complaint with French authorities.

👾#Crypto Over the past 10 years, more than $17 billion has been stolen in 518 hacking attacks on cryptocurrency platforms.

👾#Crypto Vercel has been hacked — Web3 frontends at risk Hosting provider Vercel confirmed a breach — attackers gained access to part of its internal systems via a third-party AI service. On a hacker forum where stolen data is sold, a supposed database has already been listed for $2 million — including keys, tokens, and source code. Its authenticity has not yet been confirmed. What matters: * a “limited portion” of customers was affected; * the attack began with the compromise of an employee account; * projects are already mass-rotating API keys and conducting audits. Vercel is one of the key frontend providers for Web3. In theory, interfaces of dApps, wallets, and DEXs could have been at risk.

🟠#BTC BTC >78k

👍#POLY Profitable wallets trading on Polymarket are 4.6 times fewer than unprofitable ones (17.7% vs 82.3%)

🇺🇸#Global The US national debt is about $39 trillion. Of this, $31.4 trillion is public debt (marketable securities), and another $7.6 trillion is intragovernmental debt. The main holders are domestic investors ($17.7 trillion): pension and mutual funds ($6.6 trillion), private investors ($3 trillion), and banks ($2.4 trillion). Separately, $4.4 trillion is held by the Federal Reserve. Foreign holders control about $9.3 trillion (around 24% of the public debt). The largest are Japan ($1.2 trillion), the United Kingdom ($0.9 trillion), and China ($0.7 trillion), with other countries holding $6.5 trillion. Within government entities, the debt is distributed among trust funds: the largest are the Social Security Fund ($2.6 trillion) and other funds ($5.1 trillion).

👾#DOT Hackers created 1 billion DOT tokens on the Ethereum mainnet and subsequently sold them. According to CertiK, the breach stemmed from a vulnerability in the Hyperbridge gateway, which enabled attackers to forge messages and gain control over the administrator role of a Polkadot token contract on Ethereum. The exploit generated an estimated profit of around $237,000. Because liquidity was limited, the overall damage remained relatively contained. South Korean exchanges Upbit and Bithumb have since suspended DOT deposits and withdrawals.

🟠#BTC Crypto folks have already calculated how much new BTC supply Iran could absorb if it starts accepting Bitcoin as payment for passage through the Strait of Hormuz A $1 fee per barrel of oil is about $20 million per day. At current rates, that’s around 281 BTC Bitcoin’s daily issuance is 450 BTC Thus, Iran could be absorbing about 62% of all newly issued supply At the same time, Bitcoin is more advantageous than stablecoins (because it can’t be frozen at the snap of a finger from Washington)