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Alleged Bitcoin Kingpin Heads to Court: $245M Crypto Theft Case Reaches Critical Juncture
Malone Lam faces a pivotal moment in his legal battle this week. A plea agreement hearing is scheduled for Tuesday in Washington—nearly two years aft...
Bitcoin Bulls Hold Ground as Fed Rate Bets Replace Exit Trades
Bitcoin's inability to crack the $80,000 barrier isn't telling the story investors think it is. Rather than a mass exodus from crypto, we're seeing a...
French Crypto Firm Capital B Just Made Its Biggest Bitcoin Move in 12 Months—Here's Why It Matters
Capital B just dropped $29 million on 376 Bitcoin—their most aggressive accumulation play in nearly a year. The move vaults the French company into a...
Hunter Biden Launches LAPTOP Meme Coin on Base with Airdrop for TRUMP Traders
Hunter Biden is entering the meme coin arena with a new token called LAPTOP, set to launch September 9 on the Base blockchain. The move includes a ta...
Harmony's Pivot to Ethereum Signals End of Independent Blockchain Era
Harmony is officially shutting down its blockchain infrastructure and migrating ONE tokens to Ethereum, marking a dramatic strategic pivot that reflec...
Bitcoin Retreats in Holiday Lull While $80K Resistance Proves Elusive
Bitcoin's weekend momentum stalled hard as the crypto market digested the US Labor Day holiday, with BTC sliding 2% and failing once again to hold gro...
Chainlink Soars to Eight-Month Peak as Major SWIFT Provider Embraces Blockchain Settlement
LINK exploded higher this week following a massive institutional development: Bottomline, one of the three largest SWIFT services providers handling $...
New Ethereum Proposal Could Eliminate ETH Requirement for Transaction Fees
Ethereum's ongoing evolution just hit another significant inflection point. EIP-8141, languishing in draft status since January, proposes a fundament...
Bitcoin Treads Water at $80K as Inflation Data Takes Center Stage in Rate Hike Debate
Bitcoin's holding its ground near the $80,000 level as crypto traders grapple with rekindled Federal Reserve tightening concerns. After Friday's empl...
Major Banks Crack the 24/7 Crypto Settlement Code With Tokenized USD Transfers
DBS and Citi just pulled off something that's been a holy grail for institutional crypto infrastructure: settling USD cross-border payments on a weeke...
Irish Criminals Are Now Stashing Crypto Keys in Private Vaults—Here's What That Means for AML
Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau just dropped intel that's reshaping how we think about crypto security and crime. Turns out, organized gangs aren't ...
Privacy Coin Zcash Surges to 14-Year Peak as Institutional Crypto Flows Accelerate
Zcash (ZEC) is having a moment. The privacy-focused cryptocurrency hit its highest price since 2016 this week, with market cap breaking above the $20...
Federal Data Dumps and Rate Decisions Could Make or Break Bitcoin's $80K Floor This Week
This week's inflation data and the Fed's September 16 rate decision represent critical pivot points for Bitcoin's near-term trajectory. We're watchin...
Bitcoin Thief Liquidates Stolen Coldcard Haul: $7.7M Moved in Systematic Vault Drain
The hacker behind the Coldcard wallet breach is executing a methodical exit strategy. We're tracking a $7.
Citi and DBS Just Proved Tokenized Banking Works Around the Clock
Citi and DBS have demonstrated what crypto and blockchain infrastructure advocates have long argued: traditional banking doesn't need to wait for Mond...
Liquid Network Hacker Promises BTC Return Following Critical Software Patch
The individual behind the Liquid Network exploit has signaled they'll return the majority of approximately 4,000 BTC seized during the attack, conting...
Mystery Actors Move $320M Bitcoin From Liquid Network in Ongoing Cat-and-Mouse Game
The Liquid sidechain is in the spotlight again, and this time the drama involves alleged white-hat hackers, Blockstream officials, and $320 million in...
Philippines Central Bank Tightens Grip on Crypto Payment Operators
The Philippine central bank is pushing forward with a regulatory crackdown that would freeze new payment operator registrations and impose stricter ov...
Coldcard Breach Suspect Begins Moving Significant Portion of Stolen Bitcoin Holdings
The third-wave attacker linked to the Coldcard hardware wallet compromises is starting to move funds. According to Galaxy's latest tracking data, the...
Coldcard Exploiter Offloads 45% of 'Wave 3' Stolen Funds, Galaxy Research Confirms
The Coldcard vulnerability saga continues to unfold as the attacker behind the "Wave 3" hacks moves a significant portion of their ill-gotten gains. ...