Recent reporting
AEX Founder Huang Tianwei Was Arrested in Thailand. His Old Users Are Still Waiting for Their Money.
Huang Tianwei, founder of Bit Times and AEX, was once known in Chinese crypto circles as “South Huang” and as a founder who had previously covered user losses after a 2014 XRP incident. In 2022, AEX froze withdrawals and disclosed a roughly $1.28B asset book with limited near-term liquidity, while later offering AUSD and future equity-style repayment plans. In 2025, Thai police arrested Huang at Bangkok’s Don Mueang airport over an alleged BTC investment fraud involving two Chinese victims and 200 million baht.
TrustedVolumes $6.7M Exploit: 1inch Resolver Hit Again
On May 7, 2026, DeFi market maker and 1inch Fusion Resolver TrustedVolumes reported an exploit of about $6.7 million. Security firms linked the attacker to the March 2025 1inch Fusion V1 resolver exploit, in which TrustedVolumes was also the main victim. The new incident reportedly involved TrustedVolumes' custom RFQ swap proxy contract, old ERC-20 approvals, and an improperly exposed Allowed Order Signer mechanism.
$LAB: A $1B Market Cap, $3.88M in Liquidity, and a Dubai Founder Posting Philosophy While Wallets Move
On-chain investigators ZachXBT and SpecterAnalyst publicly accused $LAB, the token linked to LABtrade and founder Vova Sadkov, of coordinated market manipulation involving centralized exchanges including Bitget. The allegations focus on large LAB deposits to Bitget before the pump, pre-funded gas distributions to new wallets, a low-float token structure, and the lack of a detailed public rebuttal from LABtrade as of May 7, 2026.