Blockchain intelligence firm AMLBot has confirmed the Polymarket supply-chain attack total at approximately $3.1 million in PUSD across 11 user wallets, with funds bridged from Polygon to Ethereum and converted to ETH. Polymarket has pledged full refunds but has not named the compromised vendor.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team27 Jun
A hacker used a legacy royalties contract on the Polygon platform and made away with about $261,200 worth of cryptocurrency in recent times. The security firm TenArmorAlert identified the unusual transaction on June 23 and tracked down the exploit transaction. The blockchain shows that the hacker carried out the attack
TheNewsCrypto•Lakshya Baskar24 Jun
Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of the Polygon Foundation, stressed that the network managed over $300 million in stablecoins from emerging markets in May. He also highlighted that the growth of non-dollar stablecoins has reached 16x over the last 6 years, and that this was “just getting started.” Polygon Registers Around $309 Million In Latam Stablecoin Volumes […]
Bitcoin.com News•Sergio Goschenko22 JunCan Polygon's network activity help its price hit $0.095 in the short-term.?
AMBCrypto•Lennox Gitonga21 Jun
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TheNewsCrypto•Shafika Fathima19 Jun
Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) Wednesday, extending its payments network to autonomous AI agents with 30-plus crypto and fintech launch partners including Coinbase, RippleX, Solana Foundation, Polygon, Aave Labs and Stellar.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team10 Jun
Issuers and acquirers can now clear card transactions in regulated stablecoins on Arbitrum, Base, Canton, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Tempo and XRPL, with ARQ, CBW Bank, Cross River, Lead Bank and Nuvei lined up as the first adopters in the US and Latin America.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun
A version of this story appeared in The Decentralised newsletter on May 5. Sign up here. GM, Tim here. Decentralised finance is notorious for being home to some pretty wacky ideas with dubious commercial viability. Yet over the past year, developers have stumbled on one that not only works, but also happens to be quite profitable: letting users buy and sell virtual versions of trading cards. Onchain marketplaces that allow users to speculate on the prices of Pokémon, One Piece, and sports cards have soared over the past year. They generated a combined $11 million in revenue last month, according to data from DefiLlama, generated on its new Pro dashboard . Revenue on DeFi TCG marketplaces is up more than 9X year-over-year, with top marketplaces generating over $11M in April. Chart created with DefiLlama Pro pic.twitter.com/3pUpFnQMhM — DefiLlama.com (@DefiLlama) May 4, 2026 That’s no small sum for an idea that was basically unproven just over a year ago. The success comes as trading cards — particularly Pokémon — continue their popularity. Nostalgia, financial speculation, and a post-pandemic boom in collectibles have caused prices to soar in recent years. Pokémon cards, as measured through the Card Ladder Index, have produced a roughly 4,000% cumulative return since 2004, vastly outperforming the S&P 500, an index of the top 500 US stocks, which is up 513% over the same period. Pokémon card factories are operating at maximum capacity. Despite producing over 10 billion cards annually, they cannot keep up with demand, resulting in ongoing shortages. Packs of cards from popular sets now routinely resell for more than their recommended retail price, fuelling speculation from investors. Logistical issues For avid collectors, buying and selling trading cards comes with a host of logistical problems. Like most markets for collectables, illiquidity makes it difficult to buy and sell at scale, and often involves additional costs such as auction and postage fees. Those issues are exacerbated for those who want to invest larger amounts. It’s not uncommon for investors looking to play the trading card market to buy hundreds of the same card, or shipping pallets of unopened packs in the hope they will be worth more in the future. So, it makes sense for investors who want to trade the red hot market to gravitate to DeFi platforms that offer exposure without having to hold onto the cards themselves. Most platforms work similarly. Users send cards and boxes of sealed packs to the companies, who verify their authenticity, store them, and issue digital versions on blockchains like Solana and Polygon as non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. It’s reminiscent of how gold exchange-traded funds made buying and selling the yellow metal cheaper and more accessible, albeit on a much smaller scale. Many platforms also offer so-called gacha machines that mimic the experience of opening packs of cards. Users pay a set price and receive a random card in the machine, which could be of a higher value than the price paid, the platforms say. Redemption delays The question among both investors and those running onchain marketplaces is whether the trading card gravy train will continue. Pokémon card prices have gone up a lot already. Charizard cards from the first ever set of Pokémon cards produced in 1999 can sell for up to $550,000 in perfect condition. The same cards could be bought for between $1,500 and $2,000 around 10 years ago. If prices start to fall, the NFTs that represent the cards could see steeper declines than the rest of the market. Although platforms let users redeem their digital trading cards for real ones, there’s a delay in doing so — the cards have to be shipped to their owners, after all. If investors rush to exit the market, they will likely be willing to sell the NFT cards for less than the current market rate to account for the delay. Yet for now, the trading card mania shows little sign of slowing. Top DeFi stories of the week This week in DeFi governance VOTE: World Liberty Financial supporters vote to unlock tokens for founders, team, and early investors VOTE: Lido DAO votes on proposal to use first-loss mechanism to cover Kelp DAO-related losses VOTE: Arbitrum DAO votes to approve release of Ether frozen following Kelp DAO hack Post of the week Crypto Twitter reacts as Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong cuts 700 jobs and boasts that non-technical employees at his company are using AI to write and ship code. pic.twitter.com/wS9AkezYg2 — VKTR (@0xVKTR) May 5, 2026 Tim Craig is DL News’ Edinburgh-based DeFi Correspondent. Reach out with tips at tim@dlnews.com .
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Crypto majors are mostly flat ahead of today’s supreme court opinion on the trump tariffs; btc +1% at $90,300; eth 13% at $3,090, sol +3% at $138; xrp +1% to $2.10. Polygon (+11%), zec (+11%) and syrup (+7%) led top movers. Jpmorgan said the recent bitcoin and ethereum sell-off may be bottoming, pointing to improving positioning and easing downside pressure after early-year weakness. Bank of america analysts upgraded coinbase to buy, citing improved regulatory clarity, growing institutional adoption, and stronger long-term earnings visibility. Morgan stanley is planning to launch a digital wallet later this year that could support tokenized assets, including private company equity. Florida lawmakers renewed their push for a state-level bitcoin reserve. Ethereum’s validator exit queue fully cleared, easing delays that had impacted liquid staking protocols and validator withdrawals. Polygon labs unveiled the open money stack, an initiative designed to streamline stablecoin payments. Polygon is reportedly close to acquiring coinme, a major bitcoin atm operator. Trump said that he won’t pardon ftx founder sam bankman-fried.