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KuCoin

Cryptocurrency exchange offering spot and futures trading across a wide list of tokens, with a large retail user base outside the United States.

Known aliases

  • Kucoin
  • kucoin.com

Current stories

investConfirmed8 publishers

South Korea extends its crypto crackdown from app stores to 27 offshore exchange websites

South Korea's FIU is blocking the websites of 27 unregistered offshore crypto exchanges, on top of earlier payment and app-store limits. Platforms serving Korean users without registration lose web access too, and Crypto Briefing counts only 27 to 28 registered domestic platforms.

Perspective Coverage

8 publishers
Builder
Builder 17%
Operator
Operator 46%
Investor
Investor 37%

Reality

Evidence80
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives55
Confidence80
investConfirmed4 publishers

NEAR Intents recovers all $3.8 million lost to a bug in its deposit-and-withdrawal layer

NEAR Intents got back all $3.8 million drained through a bug between its Omni deposit-and-withdrawal layer and its contract, after encrypted talks. Whether that layer is safe now rests on the patch, since every user who lets the protocol choose a bridge depends on it.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 31%
Operator
Operator 45%
Investor
Investor 24%

Reality

Evidence74
Adoption55
Hype gap+15
Incentives60
Confidence72
investConfirmed5 publishers

Attacker drains $3.8 million from Near Intents via bug in Omni deposit and withdrawal layer

Near Intents halted its cross-chain swap service after a bug in its Omni deposit layer let an attacker take about $3.8 million. Crypto balances carry no deposit insurance, so affected users are relying on the operator's promise to repay them in full.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 23%
Operator
Operator 44%
Investor
Investor 33%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption55
Hype gap+15
Incentives60
Confidence65
investOne report1 publisher

BSP's draft would close the Philippine payment-licence window for twelve months

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has drafted a year-long stop on new payment system operator applications while it rebuilds licensing. The same circular pushes crypto and remittance merchants into direct-only bank relationships with caps.

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption10
Hype gap+20
Incentives60
Confidence35
investOne report1 publisher

LayerZero's ATLAS sells settlement plumbing to compliance teams, not traders

Citadel Securities and DTCC are named on a blockchain exchange no retail user will touch. The work described so far is exploratory, and the launch window is fall 2026.

Reality

Evidence24
Adoption14
Hype gap+58
Incentives74
Confidence44
investOne report1 publisher

Pump.fun's $12m week puts token issuance above every lending market in crypto

A Solana memecoin launchpad ranked third in seven-day protocol revenue behind Tether and Circle, according to DefiLlama data. The dollars are real; the durability is the open question.

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption68
Hype gap+22
Incentives62
Confidence40