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Singapore High Court has rejected the WazirX’s proposed restructuring plan following the $234.9 million hack in July 2024. On Wednesday, the court cited concerns over transparency from its parent company, Zettai Pte Ltd, which filed the petition. The latest setback from the Singapore High Court has left WazirX, serving 4.4 million Indian users, struggling to sustain operations in the country it had chosen for faster judicial resolution following the July 2024 hack. WazirX has now informed the Singapore Court that it plans to relocate its base to Panama under a new company named ‘Zensui’. According to multiple petitioners and sources who attended the online hearing, Judicial Commissioner Kristy Tan dismissed the restructuring petition filed by Zettai Pte Ltd, which sought approval to compensate creditors (users) for 85% of their frozen funds, as claimed by WazirX. While the judge’s decision was delivered orally, a full written order is expected within 3-4 days. WazirX to relocate to Panama under new name ‘Zensui’ amid legal setback According to Chartered Accountant Sonu Jain, one of the petitioners against WazirX, the Singapore High Court had scheduled June 4 to deliver its verdict on the exchange’s restructuring petition, given the approaching moratorium deadline of June 6. Jain noted that the decision came shortly after the Singapore government issued a new directive requiring companies offering crypto services to foreign clients to register themselves formally. Jain further reported that Judge Tan questioned WazirX’s counsel on whether Zettai had applied for a license to operate in Singapore. In response, the counsel stated that they had no intention of obtaining such a license and instead planned to relocate to Panama, where a company had already been registered on March 10. The judge expressed displeasure over the fact that WazirX had kept the court uninformed of this development for months, only disclosing it when directly questioned. According to Jain, Judge Tan also remarked that she doubted the management’s willingness to return users’ funds. Meanwhile, on June 5, WazirX emailed its users redacted court documents announcing its rebranding as Zensui and a change in its legal identity. Many WazirX users expressed satisfaction with the court’s verdict, criticizing the exchange management’s handling of the hack crisis over the past 10 months. Numerous users had petitioned India’s high courts and Supreme Court, demanding urgent intervention in restructuring, accusing the management of arbitrary decisions. However, these requests were denied as there was no regulatory framework for crypto in India. Victims hail verdict as a moral win, call for urgent crypto regulation in India This latest ruling of the Singapore Court is a legal victory and a moral reckoning, says Romy Johnson, WazirX hack victim and crusader for crypto justice and regulations in India. The victim described it as a monumental win for every Indian who was cheated, defrauded, and looted by these so-called crypto custodians. Johnson stressed that India has to take note—while courts in other countries deliver justice, the regulatory black hole in the country allows fraud to occur. The advocate added that if there is any test for regulation of cryptocurrency in India, it is not tomorrow but today, and justice should not be outsourced but delivered at home. WazirX issued an official statement on Wednesday evening in response to the Singapore Court’s verdict, asserting that its primary objective is initiating user fund distribution as soon as possible. WazirX said it respects but does not agree with the Singapore High Court’s denial of its proposed restructuring plan, calling the outcome surprising to the exchange. The company affirmed that it aims to meet all legal and regulatory obligations, adding that releasing user funds is the priority. WazirX has also mentioned that they are consulting with all the appropriate advisories about the legal options against the court’s decision and are planning to contest it further. KEY Difference Wire helps crypto brands break through and dominate headlines fast
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Summary Sol Strategies Inc. has shown operational progress and institutional traction, but remains entirely dependent on the volatile Solana ecosystem for revenue and growth. Despite revenue growth and improved validator economics, profitability is still driven by crypto price movements, not sustainable core operations. CYFRF stock valuation is extremely stretched, with high losses, ballooning expenses, and heavy reliance on external capital to fund ongoing operations. Thesis Sol Strategies Inc. (OTCPK: CYFRF ) is a publicly traded blockchain outfit that’s bet the farm on Solana. Since a late-2024 rebrand, the company has recast itself as a pure-play operator in the Solana ecosystem, running validators, offering staking services, and managing on-chain treasuries. CYFRF released its Q2 2025 earnings this week, and while it’s made some real operational progress, I argue that we’re looking at a company still lashed to a volatile ecosystem it doesn’t control. The validator growth, the crypto-native branding, those are real. But so is the fact that the business still can’t stand on its own. My report looks at how far CYFRF’s come since January, and why, even now, the underlying risks haven’t gone anywhere. Sol Strategies' Q2 2025 Earnings Highlights Grassroots Trading Sell-Rating Performance (Seeking Alpha) When I first looked at CYFRF back in January, I was firmly in the “Sell” camp . The stock had climbed on the heels of Solana’s explosive Q4 2024 rally, but from my point of view, the fundamentals just didn’t match the hype. At the time, Sol Strategies had just rebranded and was leaning aggressively into a Solana-only thesis. The company had grown its staked SOL (SOL-USD) from 101,000 to 1.7 million in under four months, and while that sounds impressive on the surface, it seemed more like a land grab than carefully paced, sustainable scaling. Revenues from validator operations reportedly grew nearly 2,900%, but most of that appeared to be driven by token price appreciation and staking leverage, not necessarily operational excellence or efficiency. Despite holding $72 million in reserves and having secured a $30 million investment from ParaFi, the company wasn’t cash-flow positive. Worse, net income was padded with non-operating gains, namely from its holdings in Animoca Brands and crypto trading activity. These sources of income masked the fact that, structurally, Sol Strategies was still losing money on its actual core business. And with a price-to-book ratio approaching 25, the market was essentially pricing the company without the kind of moat, diversification, or cash-generating stability that would usually justify that kind of valuation. Since then, macro conditions around crypto and blockchain infrastructure have meaningfully improved. Most notably, Solana, the linchpin of Sol Strategies’ business model, is undergoing what looks to be a real transformation. Institutions like HSBC, Bank of America, and Euroclear are now working with the Solana Foundation through R3 to tokenize real-world assets and signal a level of institutional comfort with Solana that would’ve seemed unlikely even a year ago. There’s also genuine technical progress happening on the Solana network : the Firedancer validator client, once live, is expected to significantly boost performance and reduce downtime. Pair that with a planned consensus algorithm upgrade, and it’s reasonable to expect the network to become more efficient. These changes directly impact validator economics. Higher throughput and better uptime could increase rewards and reduce operational risk, and that's good news for Sol Strategies, whose revenues are tightly linked to network performance. In Q2 of fiscal 2025 , the company’s staked SOL doubled from 1.57 million to 3.39 million, a 113% quarter-over-quarter increase and a massive expansion that vaulted the company into the top 25 validator operators on the Solana network. The implications here are that it signals growing confidence from delegators and platforms, and it allows Sol Strategies to capitalize on economies of scale in validator operations. This growth translated into revenue too. Staking and validator income rose from $1.24 million in Q1 to $2.53 million in Q2, which is a 104% increase. Altogether, for the first half of fiscal 2025, Sol Strategies brought in $2.8 million in staking-related income. A year ago, that figure was zero. So while I was initially critical of their reliance on staking, I have to acknowledge that their infrastructure is starting to deliver measurable, recurring revenue. Institutional inroads are also becoming more pronounced. The integration with BitGo , for example, gives Sol Strategies access to a large pipeline of managed crypto assets. On top of that, the company secured a major institutional staking mandate in the Asia-Pacific region via a partnership with DigitalX, and it entered into another significant deal with Neptune Digital Assets, more validation points that suggest institutional players are comfortable staking through Sol Strategies. And on the capital markets front, the company filed a $1 billion base shelf prospectus, which gives it significant room to raise capital opportunistically. As of now, it has already secured $525 million in capital commitments, including that $30 million convertible debenture led by ParaFi. From a compliance and security standpoint, Sol Strategies completed both SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type 1 audits, renewed its ISO 27001 certification, and plans to complete SOC 2 Type 2 by year-end, and these are credentials that matter, particularly as institutions demand enterprise-grade security and operational transparency before onboarding with a validator platform. Financially, things have begun to look more stable, although it’s still early days as adjusted EBITDA came in at $714,000 in Q2, up from $243,000 in Q1. For the first half of fiscal 2025, adjusted EBITDA was $5.6 million, but we have to be cautious here because $4.4 million of that was a realized gain on crypto asset sales in Q1. So while profitability is improving, a good chunk of it is still tied to crypto market performance, not purely recurring operations. Stepping back, Sol Strategies now holds roughly CAD$100 million in SOL on its balance sheet (as of March 31), and is effectively operating as a kind of crypto-native corporate treasury. That aligns with a broader shift: more firms are embracing the Digital Asset Treasury model , using crypto as a strategic reserve rather than just speculative exposure. If that approach continues to gain legitimacy, and early signs suggest it might, given moves by companies like MicroStrategy ( MSTR ) and the inclusion of Coinbase in the S&P 500, Sol Strategies could be positioned ahead of the curve. Yet despite all this progress, the core risks remain largely unchanged. Sol Strategies is still a pure-play on Solana. There's no multichain exposure, no hedging strategy, and very little protection if Solana were to face technical, regulatory, or competitive shocks. Staking rewards are still tightly linked to SOL price and network transaction volume. While proposals like SIMD-0096 could improve validator economics by redistributing fees, none of that is guaranteed yet. Sol Strategies’ Valuation, Growth Potential & Headwinds Seeking Alpha The company’s trailing twelve-month enterprise value to sales ratio sits at 32.94, nearly ten times the sector median, a kind of multiple you might expect from a market-dominating company with global scale and sticky customers. But CYFRF isn’t that. It’s not even close. Seeking Alpha Its EV/EBITDA ratio of 66.58 and an EV/EBIT ratio add to the disconnect. These are valuations that only make sense if the company is in a phase of hypergrowth, yet also simultaneously highly profitable and on a clear glide path to scale. The thing is, none of that seems to be happening. After finally reporting net income in the prior year’s quarter, a modest $7.7 million, CYFRF flipped right back to a comprehensive loss of $32.5 million and for the first half of fiscal 2025, it reported a $24.7 million loss, a complete reversal from the $14.7 million profit reported in the same period in 2024. What’s driving that volatility? One of the more telling cracks is the company’s crypto exposure, namely, of course, Solana. In Q2 2025, CYFRF reported a $27.7 million unrealized loss thanks to a steep drop in SOL prices. It’s a complete reversal from the $7.9 million unrealized gain they booked on the same asset the year before. What this really highlights is how much of the company’s financial performance hinges on something they don’t operate, don’t manage, and can’t control. Operating expenses have exploded too: in Q2 2025, they hit $8.5 million, up from just $174,000 a year earlier. That’s nearly a 48x increase. And for the first half of the year, expenses reached $9.8 million, up from $465,000. A big part of that jump came from stock-based compensation. In Q2 alone, CYFRF handed out $3.2 million in options and RSUs, specifically 1.25 million options and 550,000 restricted stock units. The half-year total came to $3.8 million, again, compared to just $63,000 in the same period last year. Seeking Alpha Despite the company reporting gross margins of 100% and EBITDA margins approaching 50%, it still posted a levered free cash flow deficit of over $42 million. Operating cash flow was negative as well. So why is cash flying out the door? It suggests that either costs are being deferred, expenses are being capitalized, or non-cash metrics like stock-based comp are doing a lot of the heavy lifting. CYFRF also raised $30 million through a convertible debenture offering and drew $25 million from a credit facility, but these maneuvers come at a price, specifically, an interest expense that surged from $32,000 in Q2 2024 to $669,000 in Q2 2025. It's an inflection point revealing the company’s reliance on increasingly expensive capital to keep the lights on. Long-term liabilities now stand at $40.2 million, of which $14 million are convertible debentures, meaning even debt comes with eventual dilution. Add to that $4.3 million in share issuance obligations and short-term borrowings of $60.2 million against a paltry $1.7 million in cash. Yes, the company also reports $48.3 million in crypto assets, which on paper might suggest solvency. But these assets are pegged to the likes of Solana, whose price movements have already injected volatility into earnings. It’s worth emphasizing at this point, again, that such assets are very speculative, offering little assurance when liabilities come due. Seeking Alpha In response to this widening gap between obligations and operational self-sufficiency, CYFRF raised another $21.4 million through equity issuance and recorded $49.5 million in other financing activities . Taken together, these actions appear to form a lifeline. But this is a "lifeline" that merely extends the fall. The core issue remains unaddressed: CYFRF is not generating enough internal cash to fund its operations. Thus, while the company can continue cobbling together cash from a mix of instruments, debt, equity, and unstable digital assets, it does so while inching toward a point where the capital markets may simply say no. Final Takeaway I’m sticking with a Sell rating. CYFRF has made some operational strides and picked up some institutional interest since I last covered the stock, but none of that changes the underlying math. The company is still tethered to Solana like a raft in a storm. There’s no real cash flow, no earnings story, and no path to profitability that doesn’t involve a lot of ifs and outside money. Until that changes, this is still a leveraged wager on market sentiment and the kindness of capital.
BitcoinWorld The Billion-Dollar Heist and What It Means for Crypto Security: Bybit’s Security Overhaul After Hack DUBAI , UAE , June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Bybit , the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has been writing a new page of central exchanges’ (CEX) security playbook in its battle against cyber attacks. Apart from the on-going fund recovery mission, Bybit has revealed a three-dimensional revamp of its safety guardrails: security audits, wallet fortifications, and infosec upgrade. In February, Bybit was subjected to a sophisticated multi-stage attack which turned out to be the largest hack known to crypto . While the hack, caused by a compromised external multi-signature service, did not breach Bybit’s infrastructure or core security parameters, the exchange has taken extra steps to enhance its security setup and platform integrity. Approaching the challenges from three key aspects, Bybit proactively elevated its safety standards in the weeks that followed. 1. Closing Gaps: Security Audits While still recovering from the hack, Bybit immediately sought to conduct evaluations of its systems and processes simultaneously. Within a month of the hack, Bybit concluded nine security audits conducted by in-house specialists and independent external experts, and implemented over 50 new security measures and recommendations. 2. Safer Cold Wallet Solutions At the time of the incident, Bybit followed industry best practices in wallet safety. However, the event demonstrated the severity of the cyber security arms race as more powerful hacking groups entered the scene. Bybit has since adopted more stringent cold wallet solutions to minimize the attack surface to enhance procedural , algorithmic , and hardware safety. The three-dimensional framework includes a revamped authorizations OSP (Operational Safety Procedure) mandating full-journey supervision by security experts, increased wallet protection using the MPC (Multi-Party Computation) model, and consolidating HSM (Hardware Security Modules) to achieve hardware-level safety. 3. All Encrypted: Bank-Grade InfoSec As a leading player in the cryptocurrency space, Bybit has built in encryption by default . Bybit is ISO/IEC 27001 certified for its information security risk management, the highest standard in the sector adopted by major financial institutions. All communications are end-to-end encrypted including non-customer facing exchanges, with file systems optimized for encrypting data at rest. “In security, we are only as strong as our weakest link. Bybit has doubled down on fortifying our platform and procedures in the past two months in response to an increasingly challenging security landscape,” said Ben Zhou , co-founder & CEO at Bybit . “We will continue to deliver secure, trust-worthy, and user-friendly trading solutions that live up to our customers’ expectations,” he said. The immediate aftermath of crypto’s most drastic hacking incident was brief, as Bybit was able to stay fully operational while fulfilling a record number of withdrawals in the first 12 hours. The exchange absorbed the damages and customer assets were ring-fenced from the incident. A hunt for the stolen funds is on-going on Bybit-led open platform for illicit fund tracing, Lazarus Bounty , where over $2.3 million in bounty rewards has been distributed to date. Bybit has also come forth with full transparency including fresh proof-of-reserves exercises, and regained its leading positions across benchmarks, achieving No. 1 in capital inflows among CEX in March . A recent report by Kaiko corroborated the 30-day recovery, demonstrating Bybit’s liquidity resilience. The long-term impact, however, will send ripples through the industry as CEX are compelled to think about their security and risk management and stay a step ahead of malicious actors. #Bybit / #TheCryptoArk About Bybit Bybit is the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, serving a global community of over 70 million users. Founded in 2018, Bybit is redefining openness in the decentralized world by creating a simpler, open and equal ecosystem for everyone. With a strong focus on Web3, Bybit partners strategically with leading blockchain protocols to provide robust infrastructure and drive on-chain innovation. Renowned for its secure custody, diverse marketplaces, intuitive user experience, and advanced blockchain tools, Bybit bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi, empowering builders, creators, and enthusiasts to unlock the full potential of Web3. Discover the future of decentralized finance at Bybit.com . For more details about Bybit, please visit Bybit Press For media inquiries, please contact: media@bybit.com For updates, please follow: Bybit’s Communities and Social Media Discord | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Reddit | Telegram | TikTok | X | Youtube This post The Billion-Dollar Heist and What It Means for Crypto Security: Bybit’s Security Overhaul After Hack first appeared on BitcoinWorld and is written by chainwire
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