“Hackers without borders (and without remorse). April 2025 was a month of contrasts, highlighting both the acceleration of institutional adoption and the continued vulnerability of the crypto sector. On the one hand, the tokenization of real assets (RWA) has crossed important thresholds, anchoring blockchain technology in traditional finance. On the other hand, the proliferation of hacker attacks and sophisticated frauds has emphasized the urgency of security issues. We continue […]”, — write: businessua.com.ua
Hackers without borders (and without remorse). April 2025 was a month of contrasts, highlighting both the acceleration of institutional adoption and the continued vulnerability of the crypto sector. On the one hand, tokenization of real assets (RWA) has crossed important thresholds, anchoring blockchain technology in traditional finance. On the other hand, distribution hacker attacks and sophisticated frauds emphasized the urgency of security issues. We continue to summarize the news of this year, 2025, which is coming to an end.
Key points of this article:
- April 2025 demonstrated a month of contrasts with the rise of tokenization of real assets and the resurgence of sophisticated cyber attacks.
- The Trump administration has taken steps to regulate cryptocurrencies, highlighted by the appointment of Paul Atkins as SEC chairman and domestic initiatives for strategic bitcoin reserves.
Cryptocurrency Hacking and Theft: A Sector Under Constant Attack Results for the first half of 2025 sounded the alarm: the total amount of stolen cryptocurrencies crossed the mark of one billion dollars and the main factor that influenced these statistics remains evil Bybit in February
Given the various reports published from this question we find out that threat became more targeted and technical:
- Poisoning addresses: This new method of fraud, which is facilitated by malware such as ClipBanker became widespread. It consists of intercepting the copy-paste functionality to replace the legitimate recipient address with the fraudster’s address, turning a simple user action into death trap .
- State-sponsored cyber threats: Google warned the community about attempts related to North Korea organizations to infiltrate crypto projects and illegally finance their activities.
- Targeted attacks: Incidents continued to affect a variety of participants, ranging from the theft of 5 million unclaimed ZK tokens (ZKSync) to breaking of the X (Twitter) account of the Speaker of the British Parliament.
Meanwhile analysts pointed out that although the frequency of carpet pulling incidents decreased their individual financial impact has become more disruptive, confirming that cryptocurrency fraud remains a systemic risk.
Hackers rocked the entire crypto world with massive thefts in 2025
Tokenization of Real Assets (RWA): Missing Link to Traditional Markets Tokenization real assets (RWA) in April showed unprecedented growth, which was a decisive step in convergence traditional finance and blockchain. Giants Wall Street led the way: BlackRock an asset management company, has set new records with its tokenized BUIDL (BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquid Fund) and tokenized the fund treasury bonds on the amount of 150 billion dollars in partnership with BNY Mellon and Securitize.
In parallel JPMorgan expanded its blockchain- the platform Kinexys adding the British Pound (GBP), making it easier to exchange currency and collateral on the blockchain for interbank transactions. This trend also appeared on government levels when the French public investment bank Bpifrance invested in a fund backed by tokenized French treasury bonds (Spiko Euro).
This perfectly illustrates the implementation of this technologies national institutions for the protection of state assets. These initiatives, supported by the development of interbank networks, such as Taurus Network, confirm that the blockchain is integrated in the global financial infrastructure
The tokenization and RWA sector is booming all over the world, and all the giants of traditional finance are getting in on the act.
The Trump administration continues pro-cryptocurrency regulation After all, in United States the Trump administration continued to lay the groundwork for more favorable regulatory environment for digital assets.
IN SEC a major change took place: a new chairman was officially appointed Paul Atkins a former Republican commissioner who was seen as a supporter innovations in the field of blockchain. The appointment is seen as the end of a period of aggressive regulation (led by Gary Gensler) and the beginning of an era of greater clarity for companies in the cryptocurrency industry.
Institutional enthusiasm was particularly evident on Wall Street where spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded a historic week of activity, strengthening their own legitimacy among traditional investors.
After all, by initiatives regarding the national strategic reserve launched in March, were followed by specific ones local actions . The state of Arizona and the city of Roswell became the first local governments to publicly announce the creation of strategic plans reserves bitcoin ! These ads confirm that the introduction of bitcoin is a top-down, bipartisan movement from the federal to the municipal level.
April 2025 demonstrated that the crypto sector is developing at two speeds: financial integration, the driving force of which is institutions, and tokenization, which is experiencing a boom. However, technological threats and fraud attempts are multiplying and becoming more sophisticated. The appointment of a new SEC chairman and initiatives to reserve BTC in the United States suggest that the regulatory environment will continue to loosen. The need for massive investment in cybersecurity and user education has never been greater in light of these persistent threats. Stay tuned for the next edition of our 2025 Cryptocurrency Review, which will feature, among other things Ethereum, which continues its transformation with a new update.
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