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Michael Gu

Michael Gu, Creator of Boxmining, stared in the Blockchain space as a Bitcoin miner in 2012. Something he immediately noticed was that accurate information is hard to come by in this space. He started Boxmining in 2017 mainly as a passion project, to educate people on digital assets and share his experiences. Being based in Asia, Michael also found a huge discrepancy between digital asset trends and knowledge gap in the West and China.

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CME BCH and UNI Futures Do Not Automatically Buy the Tokens

CME now offers BCH and UNI futures in standard and Micro sizes. The important detail is what the contracts can change without directly delivering either token.

JPM Coin on Ethereum Adds a Bank-Money Cash Leg, Not a Retail Stablecoin

JPMorgan is putting its deposit token beside tokenized funds on Ethereum. The important change is a same-ledger cash leg—not a new retail dollar coin.

Cysic Bridge Exploit Exposes the Off-Chain Control-Plane Gap

Cysic says its mainnet stayed intact while a bridge database and processing flaw enabled an unauthorized mint. That distinction reveals where bridge risk actually lived.

Qubic Wallet Drain: The Patch Cannot Fix an Old Seed

Qubic replaced Math.random() in its web wallet after 1,404 wallets were drained, but the fix only secures newly generated seeds—not old addresses.

Filecoin Solstice Rewrites Who Earns FIL Rewards

Filecoin’s Solstice upgrade does more than reduce miner rewards: it makes paid service volume the gate for redirecting issuance instead of burning it.

USDC Redemptions Are Free—But Speed Still Has a Price

Circle has removed the fee from its slower USDC redemption lane, but near-instant cash-out normally costs 5 basis points unless a business qualifies for an exemption or credit.

Ledger Atom: Price, Specs, and Do You Actually Need It?

Ledger Atom combines Android apps with hardware-isolated approvals for $899. Here are the confirmed specs, reservation terms and the case for keeping your phone and cold storage separate.

Lido L2 Direct Staking Is Really a Liquidity-Pool Swap

Lido has put L2 staking inside its main interface, but the instant transaction is a swap into pre-positioned wstETH. The staking and bridging happen later as the pool is replenished.

Why Starknet May Leave Ethereum for a Post-Quantum L1

Starknet’s quantum vote exposes a limit that every rollup inherits: it can upgrade its own cryptography, but not the settlement layer beneath it. Leaving Ethereum would trade inherited security for control.

Ledger Hardware Implant Attack: $100M-Plus Loss Estimates and Where the Devices Were Sold

A hidden cellular implant can steal recovery words from a genuine Ledger. Loss estimates now exceed $100 million, while sales suspensions extend across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and MediaMarkt Saturn.

How to Connect AI to Robinhood with MCP: A Safer Setup Guide

Robinhood now lets supported AI clients inspect account data and place trades through its official MCP server. Here is how to connect it without handing an agent unchecked control.

Cosmos EVM Hack Explained: How Shared Code Drained Multiple Chains

Attackers used a shared Cosmos EVM flaw to drain KiiChain and TAC and force emergency halts across several networks. The code failed, but so did the warning system around it.

Trump-Linked World Liberty Launches $4B USD1 on Canton

World Liberty Financial's USD1 is now natively issued on Canton, giving tokenized institutional markets another dollar settlement option.

What Is Canton Network? The Institutional Blockchain Explained

Canton is a public blockchain built for institutions that need atomic settlement and privacy. Here is how it works and what is actually live.

What Is HKDAP? Standard Chartered's Hong Kong Stablecoin Plan

HKDAP is Hong Kong's first licensed HKD stablecoin. Here is what Standard Chartered is building, why it matters and how far the plan could go.

Influencer Scam Coins Return as Kylie Jenner Posts Vanish

A Pump.fun token surged after Kylie Jenner's verified X account posted its address, then collapsed as the posts disappeared. The incident is part of a renewed wave that turns borrowed social-media trust into instant exit liquidity.

Why Crypto Pumped Today: Inside ETH’s 17% Short Squeeze

The August 19 crypto rally began in the bond market, accelerated through one of the largest short squeezes in years and then rotated violently into Ether. Here is the evidence, the timeline and the risk of a reversal.

x402 Explained: How AI Agents Pay for Content

x402 turns HTTP 402 Payment Required into a machine-readable checkout. It could let AI agents pay publishers per article, dataset or tool call—but payment is only one part of the creator-economy problem.

South Korea Orders Polymarket Block Over Gambling Concerns

South Korean internet providers are being directed to block Polymarket after a regulator classified its event contracts as gambling-related information. Here is what the order does—and what it does not do.

Telegram Applies for .gram: The Web3 Domain Shift That Actually Matters

Telegram has applied for the GRAM top-level domain. If approved, it could connect websites, accounts and TON—but username rights are unclear.

Hackers Are Using Fake Odyssey Movie Downloads to Steal Crypto

Hackers are using fake Odyssey movie downloads to spread Lumma Stealer, malware that targets passwords, browser sessions, wallet data and crypto recovery phrases.

Mac Screen Sharing Flaw Is Being Exploited: Patch CVE-2026-65400 Now

Attackers are exploiting a macOS Screen Sharing authentication flaw on internet-exposed Macs, gaining root access and installing Monero miners. Here is who is at risk, how to patch and what to do after suspected compromise.

CZ Donated About $955,000 to Giggle Academy. Here Is What Was Actually in His Wallet

CZ emptied two valuable assets from his public tutorial wallet into Giggle Academy. On-chain records show a roughly $955,000 donation, not his entire crypto fortune.

What Happened to HKDAP? Why Hong Kong's First Licensed Stablecoin Failed Its Security Review

HKDAP did not depeg or get hacked. Hong Kong's first live licensed stablecoin failed a public code review that found broken KYC controls and dangerously concentrated governance.