Singaporean 22-year old pleads guilty to being the ringleader in $245 million crypto fraud case
Malone Lam, a Miami resident charged with stealing 4,100 bitcoin, led a ring of fraudsters who stole crypto via online scams and home invasions.
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India’s financial intelligence unit flags 15 crypto platforms for AML lapses
The Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) issued non-compliance notices to what it calls virtual digital asset service providers.
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The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade, Coxon said on X, explaining his resignation.
Hunter Biden defends LAPTOP ahead of Wednesday launch, calls TRUMP a ‘grift’
Biden says the token is about “resilience, redemption and recovery” and will give coins to nearly one million wallets that lost money on TRUMP.
Moonshot’s Kimi rattled markets. U.S. agencies now say it was trained on American models
Moonshot, whose Kimi model rattled markets earlier this year, is among six Chinese AI firms accused of systematically extracting capabilities from U.S. models.
Bitcoin recovers toward $79,000 as Zcash records a $500 million ETF haul
Bitcoin fell to nearly $77,600 on Tuesday before clawing most of it back, leaving it little changed on the day while zcash gained roughly 43% on the week and Grayscale's new fund crossed half a billion dollars.
Copper CEO Amar Kuchinad departs as search for a buyer enters a fourth month
Kuchinad, the CEO of cryptocurrency custody firm Copper since 2024, has left the company, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Circle agrees to buy cross-border payments firm Tazapay for $400 million
The deal could grant Circle vital, regulated "last-mile" infrastructure, bridging the gap between stablecoins and traditional local banking systems.
Strive’s SATA nears $1 billion market cap as Strategy’s STRC continues to underperform
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Visa combines VisaNet data with onchain lending to power stablecoin card working capital
Visa's stablecoin settlement volume surpassed a $20 billion annualized run rate, up 15x year over year. Now it wants blockchain lenders to use that data to extend credit to the issuers driving the growth.
Ethereum makes quantum resistance a top priority with a 2029 deadline
The Foundation wants the network protected before a quantum computer capable of breaking today's cryptography could plausibly arrive, and says upcoming upgrades will be judged against that clock.
Bitcoin rally has more room as volatility shorts unwind, Two Prime CEO says
Alexander Blume said subdued funding rates and continued call selling suggest the rebound is not yet being driven by excessive speculation.
Bitmine purchased another $69 million of ETH, with Tom DeMark expecting price uptrend to soon resume
At the latest purchase pace, Tom Lee's Ethereum treasury firm could reach its crypto accumulation goal in another seven weeks.
Bitcoin’s complexity paradox: How layer-2 scalers became AI's main target
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Bitcoin ETFs are still $1 billion shy of breaking even in 2026
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How Curve's soft liquidation model lets borrowers survive market drawdowns
Data tracked by lending platform Curve data tracked 704 soft-liquidation instances lasting a median 14.5 days, showing how some DeFi loans can survive for weeks after entering the 'danger zone.'
Cronos executes controversial blockchain rollback to recover crypto worth $111 million
Validators rolled back nearly two hours of blockchain history to recover user assets. But the attackers still managed to get away with $9.19 million before Cronos halted the network.
Bitcoin slips to $78,800 as BNB and DeFi tokens buck the selloff
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Stablecoins could save South Korean merchants up to $3.8 billion a year, budget office says
South Korea’s budget office warned that stablecoin adoption could reduce banks' roles as credit intermediaries and potentially destabilize token pegs during mass redemptions.