About 180,000 solana tokens are suspected to have been siphoned from a large wallet believed to hold early distribution allocations, raising the possibility of a theft worth about 21 billion won. On-chain analysts said part of the funds appeared to have been bridged to the Ethereum network. Investigators are tracking the flow, citing staking withdrawals and bridging activity as key anomalies, while awaiting confirmation of the wallet’s owner and the destination of remaining tokens.

Bitcoin’s origins as an alternative to the 2008 global financial crisis and large-scale bank bailouts are drawing attention again, an analysis said. Bitcoin Magazine reviewed how monetary expansion policies during the crisis exposed limits of the existing currency system and helped spur Bitcoin’s emergence. It highlighted claims that such policies dilute purchasing power and act like an indirect tax. The report pointed to the genesis block message citing a Times headline on a second bank bailout.