Pro-Israel hackers destroy $90 million in Iran crypto exchange breach, analytics firm says

Dado Ruvic | Reuters Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Nobitex, was hacked for more than $90 million Wednesday, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. The funds were drained from platform wallets into addresses bearing anti-government messages explicitly referencing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, pointing to a politically motivated cyberattack, Elliptic said. Blockchain research firm…

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BitVault Raises $2M from GSR, Gemini, and Auros to Launch BTC-Backed Money

Berlin, Germany, June 18th, 2025, Chainwire BitVault, a DeFi protocol aiming to redefine Bitcoin’s role in stablecoin infrastructure, has announced the close of a $2 million pre-seed round. Strategic investors include GSR, Gemini, Auros, and Keyrock, among others—joining BitVault in building what it calls the “next era of BTC-backed money”: an institutionally-aligned alternative to fiat-pegged…

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Far-right Erdogan opponent slams opposition graft probes

ISTANBUL: A far-right political opponent of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday slammed ongoing graft probes into Turkey’s opposition as unfair, a day after being released from jail. Umit Ozdag, who heads the small anti-immigrant Victory party, was placed in pre-trial detention on charges of inciting public hatred on January 20. A court on Tuesday…

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