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The DOJ arrested a U. S. Army soldier accused of using confidential information to place bets on the prediction market Polymarket.
Over 500 "fraudulent web domains used to perpetuate cryptocurrency investment fraud" were also seized, OFAC said.
Blockchain Capital could complete the fundraising in five to six months, Bloomberg reported, citing a source familiar with the matter.
The initiative seeks to attract investments, create new jobs, and promote the use of renewable energy resources in crypto mining.
Finlay highlighted the launch of Advanced Permissions, which allows dApps to execute multiple transactions on behalf of a MetaMask user.
Both Coinbase and Binance are offering users access to prediction markets as interest in wagering on the outcomes of different events swells.
Strategy Inc is looking to shift toward semi-monthly dividend payouts that could start as early as mid-July.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the AI agents are modeled after former executives Fred Ehrsam and Balaji Srinivasan.
Onchain investigator ZachXBT alleged a pump-and-dump scheme and has offered a $25, 000 bounty for whistleblowers.
A judge ruled that a memecoin launched by media personality Caitlyn Jenner is not a security despite claims in a class action lawsuit.
World’s latest World ID upgrade expands its “proof of human” technology to Tinder, a Zoom deepfake-protection feature, and ticketing tools.
A source told The Block that the latest text reflects previous language that bans rewards on idle stablecoin holdings.
Tron Founder Justin Sun issued harsh criticism of the new proposal, calling it one of the 'most absurd governance scams. '
The move is consistent with Tether's pattern of accumulating bitcoin and moving the asset to its reserve wallet periodically.
The legislation stipulates that unclaimed crypto assets in customer accounts will be transferred to state custody in-kind.
SIX Groups' two primary stock exchanges, SIX Swiss Exchange and BME Exchange, will now push their equities market data onchain.
Strategy’s STRC preferred stock saw record $1. 1 billion daily volume, becoming the firm's main engine for funding recent bitcoin buys.
DOJ opened a compensation process for OneCoin victims, offering more than $40 million from the $4 billion fraud.
Banks have been strongly pushing back against allowing crypto firms to pay rewards on idle stablecoin balances.
Upbit and Bithumb have since temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals of Polkadot's DOT, citing signs of a security incident.
The BOK called for stricter internal control regulations for local crypto exchanges, citing Bithumb's mistaken transfer of 620, 000 BTC.
The filing comes a day after Bitwise Europe listed a physically-backed Hyperliquid staking ETP on Deutsche Börse Xetra.
Negotiations over how to treat stablecoin rewards are intensifying as lawmakers return to Washington D. C. next week.
Benchmark’s base case notes that even 0. 01% of NYSE’s roughly $44 trillion market could exceed Securitize’s $4 billion asset base.
If passed during the current parliamentary session, the legislation would take effect as early as fiscal 2027, Nikkei reported.
Strategy's Michael Saylor said bitcoin has likely bottomed near $60, 000 and downplayed quantum computing risks.
Institutions appear to be taking profits from the bitcoin rally rather than joining the momentum, one analyst said.
The crypto ATM operator has suffered a security breach that resulted in 50. 9 BTC being drained from its company wallets.
Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust's first-day volume exceeded the $30 million estimate from Bloomberg Senior Analyst Eric Balchunas.
The crypto firm aims to sell "between $50 million and $100 million in equity" in the new stablecoin payments business.
One analyst noted that a full resolution is needed for the current upward momentum to be translated into a long-term bull cycle.
The FDIC proposed a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers and is seeking public input.
A proposed safe harbor framework to allow crypto projects to launch without needing to register right away is now in the White House's hands.
Chaos Labs is the latest major Aave contributor to walk away from the project following the departure of BGD Labs and ACI.
“We're upgrading the entire Polymarket exchange stack over the next 2-3 weeks. New contracts. New order book. New collateral token, ” Polymarket said.
A solo bitcoin miner using CKpool collected roughly $210, 000 for solving the 312th solo block cracked with the software since its 2014 launch.
With "medium-high" confidence, Drift and the SEAL 911 team assess the operation was run by the same North Korean actors behind the Radiant Capital hack.
The service will be unavailable in New York and Louisiana at launch, and fee structure and custody arrangements have not yet been disclosed.
HypurrFi alerted users against interacting with its website and lending platform while it investigates a potential domain hijacking.
Analysts said long-term conviction in bitcoin is still intact, noting that the decline is more cyclical than fundamental.
Michael Barr called for for regulatory and technological measures that ensure stablecoins will not be used for illicit activities.
The autonomous bots are trained on Chainalysis' massive, proprietary dataset built from over a decade in business.
Standard Chartered’s investment arm SC Ventures is leading Keyrock's Series C, which is expected to close in the coming months.
A Maryland man could face up to 30 years in prison after prosecutors say he conducted two hacks of crypto exchange Uranium Finance.
The nonprofit organization began staking portions of its ether treasury last month to earn additional yield on its holdings.
OKX Wallet users can supply assets, including USDT0, xBTC, and xETH, to earn yield that compounds automatically without giving up custody.
At current prices of ether and LDO, which are both in the slumps, the buyback could absorb around 8. 5% of LDO's circulating supply.
The Department of Homeland Security has probed whether Bitmain's popular mining machines could be exploited for espionage or endanger the U. S. grid.
WLD hit a new all-time low of about $0. 24 on Saturday, down roughly 97% from its March 2024 peak near $11. 82, though it rebounded on the news.
Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart called the pricing a "big move" and predicted that the fund may launch in early April.
Frustrations are continuing to boil over in the crypto industry as it finds itself again at an impasse over the treatment of stablecoins.
Umbra has opened its private wallet to the public, enabling shielded transfers, encrypted swaps, and compliance tools for Solana users.
The address traces back to Ethereum's initial token sale, where the investor purchased ether at about $0. 31 per token, said Lookonchain.
Bitcoin has held up better than gold and silver during the Iran war, with signs of inflows and rising activity, JPMorgan analysts said.
Authorities said customers sent crypto to wallets controlled by the defendants, with funds later moved to overseas financial institutions.
Mizuho maintained its outperform rating and kept a price target of $666 following news of Mastercard's BVNK acquisition.
Its co-founder, Fernando Martinelli, said the protocol will continue to operate after restructuring to attain a 'lean' economic model.
Circle's response leans into interoperability, hinting that EU markets may need to accommodate non-euro stablecoins to stay competitive.
Fidelity said broker-dealers need more clarity to offer, custody and trade crypto assets, and facilitate crypto-security trading pairs.
Analysts traced the flaw to a privileged minting role controlled by a single externally owned account with no mint limits or oracle checks.
Difficulty is now nearly 10% below where it started the year, despite a sharp 14. 7% rebound in February after weather-related disruptions subsided.
The consultation was expected to address the tax treatment of crypto transactions following central bank regulations finalized last year.
According to the filing on Friday, the Grayscale HYPE ETF would trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol GHYP if approved.
Key negotiators in advancing sweeping crypto legislation have reached an "agreement in principle" around the treatment of stablecoin yield.
VanEck's latest report noted that the selling pressure among bitcoin miners remained steady despite a decline in profitability.
The amendment confirmed that the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust will list on the NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol MSBT.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned the public on Thursday not to trust tokens claiming to be affiliated with the agency. tron
Canton developers said supporting programming languages outside of its native Daml could open the network to a wider pool of developers.
Combined with earlier transfers reported by Arkham, Bhutan has moved more than $110 million in bitcoin so far this year.
RedotPay, which reached unicorn status last year, is in discussions to raise up to $150 million in fresh funding, Bloomberg reported.
The decision arrives days after the Kansas City Fed granted Kraken the first-ever crypto master account, a landmark for the crypto industry.
Traders involved in DeFi and have transactions and transfers between multiple wallets and exchanges will face more challenges.
Druckenmiller argued that stablecoins could meaningfully boost financial system productivity by making payments faster and cheaper.
Bloomberg Analyst James Seyffart noted that ETHB had a 'very solid' first day, where it launched with over $100 million in assets.
Ripple has launched a share buyback of up to $750 million at a $50 billion valuation, a source told The Block.
Binance has sued The Wall Street Journal over a February report alleging the exchange halted an internal probe into Iran-linked crypto flows.
The proof-of-concept demonstrates Layer 2 transactions settling through re-execution on Ethereum’s base layer.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The partnership is set to connect Nasdaq's European trading venues to Seturion's blockchain-based platform.
Strategy's holdings account for more than 3. 4% of the total 21 million bitcoin supply — worth around $49 billion.
Coinbase launched regulated crypto futures trading to Coinbase Advanced users across 26 European countries through its MiFID-regulated entity.
Why did NYSE parent ICE choose to invest in and partner with crypto exchange OKX? What exactly is ICE trying to achieve here?
The court found that while Binance was plausibly aware of its role in terrorist financing, the lawsuit failed to show firm connections to specific attacks.
Chicago-based BlockFills suspended client deposits and withdrawals last month citing "recent market and financial conditions. "
Dubai’s VARA ordered KuCoin to cease "unlicensed" virtual asset activities, citing a lack of authorization under local law.
Russia's central bank proposed allowing banks to obtain crypto exchange licenses based on their existing banking licenses, Interfax reported.
The crypto exchange said it will begin a phased rollout on March 6 to select users before broader availability.
Solana's record monthly stablecoin transaction volume follows growing appetite for retail payments infrastructure over memecoins.
The Cathie Wood-led firm bought around $4. 09 million worth of Coinbase shares and $12. 06 million in Robinhood shares.
Trump took a side on the ongoing debate over stablecoin yield that is holding up the passage of broad crypto market structure legislation.
Iran's cryptocurrency ecosystem has contracted sharply and shifted into risk containment mode in the wake of military strikes, said TRM Labs.
The company emphasized its colocation revenue jumped to $31. 3 million from $8. 5 million in 2024 due to an expansion of operations.
Even as crypto sentiment remains weak, JPMorgan analysts see the possible mid-year approval of U. S. market structure legislation as a positive catalyst.
The platform is reimbursing all fees, settling pre-death positions at the last-traded price, and fully refunding post-death positions.
BIP-110, formerly known as BIP-444, is a controversial proposal that would restrict certain ways of storing data on the Bitcoin blockchain.
One trader who made over $2 million in recent months betting against the strikes lost $6. 5 million in a single day after the U. S. and Israel attacked Iran.
The proposal acknowledges it would require a coordinated network upgrade and could risk a chain split if parts refuse to adopt the change.
The SEC is working to regain momentum on crypto after what Atkins described as a “big missed opportunity” under the prior administration.
SBI Holdings and Startale Group unveiled a yen-denominated stablecoin, JPYSC, with issuance managed by SBI Shinsei Trust Bank.
Some senators warned that stablecoin yields could blur the line between crypto products and traditional bank deposits.
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