Cronos validators rolled back nearly two hours of transactions after an attack on lending protocol Tectonic, halting the network for nine hours and restoring the chain to an earlier block to limit losses.

Malone Lam, 22, pleaded guilty in a U.S. crypto theft case involving more than $245 million in stolen and laundered digital assets, including a Washington victim who lost over $230 million in Bitcoin.

Citigroup plans to offer Japanese corporate clients cross-border remittance services using tokenized deposits as early as this year, enabling real-time foreign currency transfers during nights and holidays across several Citi jurisdictions.

Heavy withdrawal demand on Bitcoin sidechain Rootstock temporarily exhausted part of its bridge UTXO inventory, creating delays of up to 46 hours as the network works to rebuild smaller outputs for normal processing.

Osmosis said a Nomic chain exploit enabled fake receipts to be exchanged for nBTC, prompting an emergency freeze and validator upgrade that locked 22.65 BTC in the attacker’s address while a broader recovery plan moves to governance.

Alby said a critical vulnerability affects Alby Hub versions 1.7.0 through 1.18.5 when the management API is publicly exposed, potentially allowing unauthorized fund transfers. The company urged affected users to update to version 1.24.0 and change unlock passwords.

First Digital said it signed a memorandum with South Korea's ITCEN Group to connect FDUSD with gold-backed token KGLD, targeting cross-border RWA access, corporate settlement use cases, and future expansion into the Korean market.

Bernstein maintained an outperform rating on Robinhood Markets and said the company's newly launched Layer 2 network has rapidly become profitable, citing growth in total value locked, DEX volume, and fee revenue.

BitMart said it has appointed Alvarez & Marsal as an external financial advisor to review its financial condition, stakeholder issues and orderly withdrawal arrangements, with a user data verification and feedback portal due within five working days.

Qivalis, a consortium of 37 partner banks, plans to launch a euro stablecoin on Ethereum by year-end, with the project described as MiCA-regulated and positioned to target institutional use, liquidity and DeFi access.