We were promised a crypto task force and a Golden Era for digital assets. Instead, we got: No inauguration pump No Bitcoin strategic reserve Trump coin total pump and dump scam No Chinese New Year pump David Sacks’ – the Crypto Czar – press conference was a total nothing burger Oh, and China has imposed
The largest asset manager in the world is buying the Ethereum dip to custody funds for its ETH-based exchange-traded fund (ETF). According to BlackRock’s data, the firm picked up 100,535 ETH – worth about $276.2 million at time of writing – for its iShares ETHA product. BlackRock holds a total of 1,352,934 ETH worth roughly
Justin Sun and Li Lin’s years-long dispute has spilled onto X, with Sun claiming that HTX/Huobi had a $30 million hole when it was purchased. Source link
Evolution, ethnography, epidemics—this is the soup from which Dengue Boy, a brilliantly strange new novel by the Argentine author Michel Nieva, emerges. The eponymous Dengue Boy is a mosquito–human hybrid who might be an experiment, a genetic mutant, or the result of some terrible corporate crime. He might be all three at once. In any
Many Crypto influencers claimed that the WazirX crypto exchange is creating pressure on the WazirX creditors in advance to get support for their restructuring scheme. WazirX, once India’s top cryptocurrency exchange, has been struggling badly for the last year. In a hacking incident on 18 July 2024, the exchange lost nearly 45% of the customer’s
Robinhood Derivatives announced that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has requested it “not permit customers to access” sports event contracts. In response, Robinhood is suspending the rollout of its Pro Football Championship market, which had been introduced to approximately 1% of its users. CFTC Blocks Robinhood’s Sports Betting According to the official press release,
Dutch police arrested the 24-year-old man almost a year after crypto investors discovered his scheme had lost millions of their funds. Source link
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Wall Street Pepe (WEPE) is one of the hottest new projects of early 2025. The project’s presale is closing in on $70 million raised – and investors are hyped about its future. But with the presale ending in just 11 days, can Wall Street Pepe live up to all the early excitement? Beyond the Memes
Solana and XRP saw nearly double-digit declines in their prices on the weekly timeframe as U.S. President Donald Trump made key tariff announcements. Bitcoin’s decline dragged down most altcoins as crypto traders assessed developments in artificial intelligence and the ETF hype surrounding Solana and XRP. Two new voices offer their expertise on Solana’s meme coin