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Lazarus Group Strikes Again: North Korean Hackers Steal $1.46 Billion in Bybit Crypto Heist In recent weeks, the cryptocurrency community has been rocked by a series of high-profile thefts, including a $1.46 billion suspicious outflow from Bybit, a $11.5 million Coinbase social engineering scam, and an XRP laundering attempt linked to North Korea. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has been actively tracking these incidents, mapping the stolen funds' movement across multiple chains.

On March 7, amid media focus on the first-ever White House Crypto Summit, the U.S.’s primary national bank regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), quietly issued an interpretive letter that could have significant implications for how national banks engage with digital assets.

The real-world asset tokenization market is projected to reach $200 billion by 2030, underscoring the enormous potential in this space. However, bringing digital assets to market presents non-trivial considerations and a need for infrastructure providers and software vendors to collectively fulfill functional and non-functional tokenization platform requirements.

Starting this year, financial institutions (FIs) and crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) in the EU are now required to ensure compliance with complex frameworks that protect digital infrastructure and financial services.

EIP-7702 is powerful because of all of the small boring things that make up a good technology and a good product.

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is the body that regulates Hong Kong’s securities and futures markets. In recent years, the SFC has been placing an increasing focus on regulatory requirements for digital assets, especially for crypto-native firms and already regulated capital market participants.

The future of digital assets is built on efficiency, scalability, and seamless operations. As businesses continue to bring more digital asset solutions to market and serve more customers, operational complexity—particularly around gas management—remains a critical challenge. Today, we’re excited to introduce new capabilities that Fireblocks has designed to reduce friction and enable businesses to scale on-chain transactions with confidence.

People talk about stablecoins all the time these days, and no wonder; their market cap just reached $200B, there is a new administration in the US discussing three(!) stablecoin bills, the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation was rolled out in the EU last year, making it one of the first major jurisdictions to put into effect a clear, unified crypto framework; and payments companies, banks, and fintechs are publicly expressing their interest in integrating crypto into their offerings (or as we say,

ByBit’s recent attack has exposed a critical flaw in how many exchanges approach security. The real-time transaction manipulation that took place wasn’t just an unfortunate event—it was a direct consequence of mispurposed security architectures that sophisticated attackers are all too ready to exploit.

Plugins are shared libraries that conform to a documented API, hooking into the core functionalities of Falco to allow things such as adding new event sources that can be evaluated using filtering expressions/Falco rules. Since Falco is open source, users can build plugins for just about any arbitrary 3rd party event source. In recent blog posts, we discussed how Falco can be extended to event stream sources such as Gitlab, Salesforce and Box via the Falco Plugin architecture.