Wrapped Bitcoin News

Bitcoin is the largest crypto asset by market value, yet almost all of it sits still. Spark’s research counted 91,332 BTC across Bitcoin layer-2 networks in May 2026, or about 0.46% of the circulating supply. Adding every wrapped token and all...

The plan would lift WBTC and cbBTC borrowing limits while shrinking the simplified maximum-leverage price cushion from 6.4% to 4.7%. The post Narrowing price cushions leave Bitcoin loans vulnerable to 4.7% price dips as Aave weighs higher leverage...

Starknet lending protocol Nostra paused its money market on Thursday after a manipulated price oracle let one account borrow roughly $3.5 million against NSTR collateral. Lending, borrowing, withdrawals, and liquidations remain unavailable while the...

The native bridge remains paused as a 20% bounty window closes Sep. 13 and final accounting continues. The post Hackers mint trillions in fake Bitcoin, but 15 BTC bridge recovery leaves liquidity providers unpaid appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A Philadelphia Fed event study found broad same-direction activity among non-whale BTC wallets, while ETH's clearest response was concentrated among larger sellers. The post Philadelphia Fed finds Bitcoin traders follow whale signals faster than...

Deposits on Aave stood at $18.1 billion as of this writing, which is approximately 31% below the $26.1 billion it held the day before April’s Kelp hack, according to DefiLlama. The lender’s own code never failed. What failed was the collateral...

Circle has launched Circle Wrapped Bitcoin (cirBTC), a 1:1 BTC-backed token on Ethereum that uses segregated custody and Chainlink Proof of Reserve.

The Ethereum layer 2 stopped deposits and warned that exit routes differ before its network and explorer shut down. The post Nearly $10 million must escape a dying Ethereum L2 network before New Year’s Eve or risk becoming unrecoverable appeared...

Circle's wrapped Bitcoin was overcollateralized at its Aug. 27 snapshot, yet WBTC and cbBTC remain thousands of times larger as Arc becomes the next distribution test. The post CEO Jeremy Allaire says Circle built “the platform for the internet...

Lending protocol Moonwell lost an estimated $8.7 million to an exploit on Thursday. No smart contract was broken. An attacker simply made MAMO, a small Base token, look far more valuable than it is. The inflated price let the attacker borrow real...