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📰 Introducing the CipherOwl Weekly Briefing 📰 If your a compliance team, exchange, DeFi protocol or anyone who can't afford to fall behind in compliance, this show is for you! Every week, our Head of Sales Zachary Martin and our Head of Crypto Intelligence break down the most critical developments in crypto security, exploits, and global compliance in just 20 mins so you can stay informed without spending hours reading everything yourself. Here's what we're covering: 🔓 The Week in Exploits - CrossCurve suffered a $2.9M bridge exploit 🔍 Deep Dive Into A $6M Bitcoin ransom demand 🌍 Compliance Corner hitting the U.S., UK, China, South Korea, Dubai, and Canada 📡 Week Ahead Watch for what you should have on your radar for the coming days

Everyone should read - in full - be safe!

Slowly ... and suddenly - let’s not be masked by the short-term noise.

@Etherealize_io We knew the stablecoin trx will be 100x by 2030 - are we ready?

Coinbase CEO: Stablecoins transactions will grow by more than 100x as AI agents outnumber human beings “The most interesting thing we see now is that AI agents are increasingly transacting using stablecoins. There’s this emerging area called ‘agentic commerce’, and if you believe as I do that eventually there will be more AI agents than human beings . . . and because stablecoin payments are so fast, cheap, and global, I think there will actually be several orders of magnitude more transactions every day — maybe smaller dollar values — as machine-to-machine payments really start to take off.” Source: @NorgesBank (Mar 2026)

@xiao_zcloak @DBCrypt0 It is a wrapper

@DBCrypt0 This is what happens when a centralized product is presented as if it were decentralized.

🚨BREAKING: Drift Protocol just got drained for over $200 million Solana's largest perps DEX. Gone in one transaction batch. The attacker didn't find a smart contract bug. They didn't exploit a flash loan. They walked in with the keys. On-chain data shows a single account initiating massive outbound transfers. SOL, JitoSOL, WETH, wrapped BTC, stablecoins in USD, EUR, and JPY. Even FARTCOIN. They took the FARTCOIN. A blockchain security researcher confirmed what everyone suspected: a private key compromise. The admin signer was either leaked or someone with access pulled the trigger themselves. And here's what makes it worse. The attacker funded the wallets a week before the exploit. Ran a test transaction. Then waited. This wasn't a hack. This was a heist with a rehearsal. Phantom Wallet already cut off access to the protocol. Drift posted about "unusual activity" and told users to stop depositing. $200 million gone and the official response is "unusual activity." Some estimates put the real number closer to $270 million. We won't know until the dust settles and the wallets stop moving. The funds are already being swapped to USDC and bridged to Ethereum. Classic exit playbook. This is potentially the largest Web3 exploit in three years. But who needs security when you have speed, right Kyle? 🚀

@jack Light-out Firm - x.com/leozc/status/2…

Are we in a bear market?

Shipped ghostwriter -- feedback welcome! github.com/leozc/ghostwri…

GenoBank (@genobank_io) is expanding on Story with its BioIP platform, bringing genomic data onchain and showing how personal data can become a user-owned, revenue-generating asset class within a programmable IP framework. ➤ GenoBank enables genomic data to be registered as programmable digital assets that individuals can own, license, and monetize. The platform supports 7,000+ genomic accounts, 150+ research partnerships, and $6.9M+ in tokenized BioIP value. ℹ️ GenoBank’s BioRouter system, deployed across six smart contracts, enables AI agents to discover, pay for, and access genomic files through micropayment-based licensing without permanent data exposure. Each access generates a time-limited download link, and consent can be revoked at any time. GenoBank is also integrated with Story’s IP Vault, allowing researchers and AI agents to access specific gene sequences (such as BRCA mutations) without receiving the full genome, with every access tracked through Story’s IP licensing.

Now, your agent has the tool to protect itself from interacting with illicit actors - github.com/cipherowl-ai/c…

@TrendingBitcoin Agree 👍 - your assets would be safe!

SEC Chair Paul Atkins: 🇺🇸“All U.S. markets will be on chain within two years.”

Onchain transactions will be 100x by 2030, but we have a hard time understanding all the details we should - luckily, we will have a very capable onchain investigator very soon!

Angry dev!

Two phones seized in a small Swedish town led to coordinated raids across four continents. 20 searches 13 arrests Five countries And the thread that connected them all was crypto tracing. 🎥 Full breakdown in this week's briefing

Attack on BRO Culture? Not quite. Someone turned 135 BRO into $560 million using a flaw so basic it should have been caught before it ever went live. We broke it all down in this week's CipherOwl briefing.

@krakenfx became the first crypto company in history to receive a Federal Reserve Master Account. What does this actually mean for compliance standards across the entire digital asset industry? We broke it down in this week's briefing.

`/co_pr_babysit` is one of the best core skills @CipherOwl eng has - fire and forget.

@claudeai @bcherny Digital investigator 🕵️!

Our developer conference Code with Claude returns this spring, this time in San Francisco, London, and Tokyo. Join us for a full day of workshops, demos, and 1:1 office hours with teams behind Claude. Register to watch from anywhere or apply to attend: claude.com/code-with-clau…

Just another week in crypto... 1. An FBI arrest on a Caribbean island 2. Prediction market insider trading 3. Kraken just got a key to the Fed Every week for 20mins. Watch the full episode now🎧

Crypto isn't a niche side issue only in financial crime. Last week on CipherOwl Weekly we broke down two major cross-border busts, seized wallets and what it all means for VASPs across Europe.