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A Maryland man, Jonathan Spalletta, has been charged with hacking decentralized exchange Uranium Finance in 2021, stealing over $50 million. He faces counts of computer fraud and money laundering, allegedly using proceeds for high-end collectibles.
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The proposal implements President Trump's order last year to expand 401(k) access to alternative assets.
Few retirement plans offer alternatives, and even fewer hold them, the Labor Department said.
The rule clears a legal path but leaves operational hurdles and unresolved
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SWIFT, the global messaging network connecting over 11,000 financial institutions across more than 200 countries, has confirmed that its blockchain-based shared ledger is progressing into a minimum viable product (MVP) phase, with real-world transactions planned for later in 2026.
American Bitcoin Corp (ABTC), the Bitcoin mining firm associated with the Trump family, has increased its total Bitcoin holdings to more than 7,000 BTC valued at approximately $471 million, nearly tripling its treasury since its Nasdaq debut in September 2025, while its stock has declined 94% from a post-IPO peak of $14.52.
Google’s Quantum AI team published research on March 30, 2026 indicating that breaking Bitcoin and Ethereum’s elliptic curve cryptography may require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits and approximately 1,200 to 1,450 high-quality logical qubits, significantly lower than previous estimates in the millions.
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Pieverse today announced Purr-Fect Claw, a pioneering full-stack infrastructure layer that transforms the OpenClaw framework into a fully autonomous, "on-chain" agent capable of trading and managing assets directly through Web2 social apps.
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More than 40 Democratic members of the US Senate and House of Representatives sent a letter on March 30, 2026 to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the US Office of Government Ethics requesting that the agencies issue guidance reminding federal employees that insider trading in prediction markets violates existing law.
US authorities unsealed an indictment on March 31, 2026 charging Jonathan Spalletta, a 36-year-old Maryland man also known as “Cthulhon” and “Jspalletta,” with computer fraud and money laundering in connection with two 2021 attacks on Uranium Finance, a decentralized exchange, that drained approximately $53.3 million from the platform and led to its collapse.
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U.S. authorities have charged Jonathan Spalletta with exploiting Uranium Finance, draining tens of millions of dollars from the company that led to its collapse.
Prosecutors say he allegedly abused smart contract flaws, later moving funds through mixers and buying high-value