Market Manipulation

A U.S. federal court has allowed the Tether–Bitfinex dispute to proceed as a class action, raising fresh questions about USDT minting, alleged 2017 price manipulation, and systemic stablecoin risk. Compliance officers, treasury teams, and investors should reassess counterparty exposure and liquidity plans now.

ASTER’s collapse from $2.42 to $0.54 exposed extreme supply concentration and prompted a Strategic Reserve Buyback Fund. This analysis breaks down the evidence, buyback mechanics, regulatory risks, and practical scenarios for retail holders.

An alleged market-maker account compromise on Binance ignited a BROCCOLI rally that a trader converted into roughly $1M in profits. This article reconstructs the timeline, the technical weak points that enabled the exploit, and concrete controls exchanges, custodians, and counterparties should adopt.

An investigative post-mortem of the coordinated attack on Hyperliquid that paid ~$3M to force a multi-million-dollar perpetuals loss and the related POPCAT crash. We reconstruct plausible on-chain signals, explain perp-DEX mechanics that amplify contagion, and give practical mitigations for traders and protocol designers.