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No. 1207Exchange Watchhigh
FTX, nearly four years on: the ten-day collapse and the freeze that every failure repeats

The exchange froze customer withdrawals on Nov 8, 2022 and filed for Chapter 11 three days later. The same sequence recurs at every insolvent exchange — learn to read it early.

By Lena Vogt · MAY 10, 2026 · 4 min read
No. 1206Exchange breach · Singaporehigh
Phemex loses $69 million in the year's first big exchange breach

Hot wallets on Ethereum, Solana, XRP and Bitcoin were drained in minutes; analysts tied the theft to North Korea, while the exchange said its cold storage stayed safe.

By Jules Renner · JAN 23, 2025 · 4 min read
No. 1205Exchange breach · Japancritical
How a fake job test drained 4,502 bitcoin from DMM Bitcoin

In December 2024 the FBI, Japan's police and a Pentagon cyber unit traced the year's largest crypto theft — about $305 million — to North Korea's TraderTraitor crew.

By Jules Renner · MAY 31, 2024 · 5 min read
No. 1204Enforcement · Anti-money-launderinghigh
How Binance's $4.3 billion guilty plea became crypto's largest compliance reckoning

In November 2023 the exchange and its founder admitted to years of anti-money-laundering and sanctions failures. Two years later, a presidential pardon reopened questions the record was meant to settle.

By Mara Okafor · NOV 21, 2023 · 4 min read
No. 1203Archive · exchange breachcritical
Poloniex bled about $120M from its hot wallets in a single night

Justin Sun's veteran U.S. exchange was drained in November 2023; security firms pegged the loss between $114M and $130M, in a classic stolen-hot-wallet-key breach.

By Dev Patel · NOV 10, 2023 · 3 min read

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