December 5, 2025

Julia Parr

Coinbase

Stream Finance meltdown: winners and losers in DeFi ‘risk curator’ reckoning •

The recent depeg of Stream Finance’s xUSD has led to concerns over the health of an interwoven ecosystem of similar high-yield vaults. Source

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Justin Sun’s Poloniex and HTX withdraw huge amounts from AAVE

Justin Sun-owned HTX and Poloniex have both used exchange wallets to withdraw hundreds of millions from AAVE. Source link

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Who really controls Lava’s bitcoin collateral?

Lava claimed to be a BTC-focused lender with competitive interest rates, but it’s facing a flurry of social media backlash. Source link

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Strategy’s preferred shares spell out an unfortunate acronym: FCKD

Several people have cheered on the FCKD joke, encouraging Saylor to issue a preferred stock with the ticker symbol STRU. Source link

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Mastermind behind $300M crypto pyramid scheme arrested in Spain

Álvaro Romillo Castillo reportedly confessed to funding a Spanish right-wing MEP and now faces court over his alleged crypto pyramid scheme. Source link

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Garden hacker begins laundering $11M loot through Tornado Cash

A total of over $6M worth of ETH and BNB has been deposited into Tornado Cash from the Garden hacker’s Ethereum and BNB

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How Jim Chanos outplayed Michael Saylor: short MSTR, long BTC

Jim Chanos doubled his money shorting MSTR from its exuberant peak in November 2024. He also profited from BTC’s rally. Source link

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Coinbase taps Kalshi to develop prediction markets platform

Coinbase plans a prediction markets platform using Kalshi’s regulated system. Users can trade USDC or USD across sports, politics, and tech events. Move

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Hayden Davis hit with asset freeze as LIBRA investigation deepens in Argentina

The asset freeze facing Hayden Davis and two other crypto “intermediaries” is the latest in the Argentinian case probing the LIBRA scandal. Source

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Lightning Network gets ‘real bitcoin’ reality check

In a recent online poll, more than 80% of respondents said they don’t think that Lightning counts as “real” BTC. Source link

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