The biggest defy exploit of 2026 just wiped out $13 billion.

A $292 million attack on Kelp Dow's cross-chain bridge has wiped out more than $13 billion from defy in 48 hours.

Layer Zero is attributing the exploit to North Korea's Lazarus Group, blaming Kelp's

single verifier set up. Avey took the biggest hit, losing almost $8.5 billion in deposits.

Michael Saylor's strategy wants to pay STRC preferred shareholders twice a month instead of once.

The 11.5% annualized rate doesn't change, but the payouts would split into

roughly two-week intervals. The goal is to keep STRC's price closer to its $100 par value,

because when it drops below, strategy can't use its at-the-market program to fund Bitcoin purchases.

If shareholders approve the change in June, STRC would become the only semi-monthly preferred stock in the U.S. market.

And Tom Lee's Bitmine now holds 4.87 million ether worth $10.7 billion

after scooping up another 71,500 eath last week.

Lee is calling Ether the wartime store value,

pointing to each 17% gain since the Iran conflict began seven weeks ago.

Bitmine is 81% of the way to its goal of owning 5% of all ether.

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