SUI broke out of an inverse head-and-shoulders pattern, opening the door for a rally to $3.89. Key points: SUI broke above a bullish pattern, opening the gates for a potential rally to $3.89. Bitcoin (BTC) surged to a new all-time high on Thursday, and the bullish sentiment has rubbed off on select altcoins. One such altcoin is Sui (SUI), which rallied 11.3% to $3.41. Read more
Jonathan Gould will return to the OCC as Comptroller of the Currency to serve a five-year term following his nomination by US President Donald Trump. Jonathan Gould, who previously worked as the chief legal officer of blockchain infrastructure company Bitfury, has been confirmed as the head of the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) following a Senate vote. In a 50-45 vote in the US Senate on Thursday, a majority of lawmakers voted to confirm Gould to head the banking regulator. In addition to his work at Bitfury, Gould is a partner at the Cleveland-based law firm Jones Day and served as the OCC’s senior deputy comptroller and chief counsel from 2018 to 2021. Gould’s nomination was the latest from US President Donald Trump to be addressed by the Senate since the president took office in January. The chamber has previously voted to confirm Trump’s pick to head the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Paul Atkins, and is expected to take up a vote for Brian Quintenz to chair the Commodity Futur...
Nicholas Truglia was initially sentenced to 18 months behind bars for carrying out SIM-swapping attacks against crypto investors. Nicholas Truglia, a crypto scammer convicted in 2022 and initially sentenced to 18 months in prison, had his sentence extended to 12 years on Thursday for failure to pay back a victim he targeted in 2018. Truglia failed to pay over $20 million in restitution to crypto investor and CEO of the public relations company Transform Group, Michael Terpin, according to Bloomberg. “At sentencing, Mr. Truglia demonstrated a willingness to repay his victim the entire amount stolen,” Judge Alvin Hellerstein wrote in a July 2 order. The order also read: Read more
Ether price rallied to $3,000, but the key components needed to hold the level are still missing. Key takeaways: ETH futures and options markets show hesitation despite spot ETF inflows and rising TVL figures. Layer-2 growth and lower fees haven’t translated to increased demand for ETH or sustained price momentum. Read more
Ignoring the reduced customer acquisition costs made possible by AI places businesses at a significant disadvantage, O'Leary said. Artificial intelligence significantly reduces the cost of new customer acquisition, and any company neglecting AI is not a worthwhile investment, according to investor and television personality Kevin O’Leary. In an interview with Cointelegraph, O’Leary said that new-customer acquisition, which is primarily done through content creation and multimedia marketing, has been “the highest cost increase in the last 36 months.” “When you look at the cost of creation of that content, it has more than quadrupled. In some cases, it’s 10x,” he said before adding that AI has reduced content production costs by 60%. Read more
Bitcoin's market structure and the recent rally to new highs suggest an accelerated phase of price discovery has just begun. Key point: Bitcoin’s momentum continues to accelerate above $113,000, leading traders to predict a rally to $150,000. Bitcoin (BTC) made a new all-time high above $113,788 on Thursday, and several analysts expect the uptrend to continue. 10x Research head Markus Thielen told Cointelegraph that BTC has a 60% probability of rising more than 20% in the next two months. Read more
The Tornado Cash co-founder is scheduled to go to trial on Monday, but his defense attorneys are still waiting on rulings for motions over witnesses in the case. Attorneys representing Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm have suggested they may request a brief continuance for his criminal trial if a judge denies a motion to exclude a particular witness. In a Thursday filing in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Storm’s legal team moved to exclude testimony from an unnamed witness who is the “claimed perpetrator of an alleged hack who allegedly used Tornado Cash.” His attorneys argued that prosecutors disclosed the witness after a scheduled deadline, also claiming their testimony could be “highly prejudicial” to Storm. “[The testimony] would be unfairly prejudicial as it would likely confuse and mislead the jurors into believing that Mr. Storm was involved in the underlying purported hack or intended to facilitate it, which is not true,” said the Thursday filing. ...
Social engineering scams, from the Meeten campaign to fake crypto support scams, have become a troubling occurrence in crypto. Threat actors are using an elaborate social engineering scheme to target crypto users and drain their wallets, according to a Thursday report from cybersecurity company Darktrace. The company wrote that the techniques are similar to those used by “Traffer Groups,” which use malware to steal credentials and data. The social engineering scheme involves gaining the trust of users by posing as representatives from fake startup companies in the industries of AI, gaming, Web3 and social media. Compromised X accounts are often involved, and the threat actors supplement the fraud with Medium articles and GitHub entries. “Each campaign typically starts with a victim being contacted through X messages, Telegram or Discord,” the report reads. “A fake employee of the company will contact a victim asking to test out their software in exchange for a cryptocurrency payment.” Read more