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Cointelegraph.com - 10:13 Aug 22, 2025
Taiwanese prosecutors reportedly indicted 14 people accused of orchestrating the country’s biggest money laundering case involving cryptocurrency. Update, Aug. 22, 12:54 pm UTC: This article has been updated to include CoinW exchange’s response to the indictment. Taiwanese prosecutors reportedly indicted 14 people in what they say is the country’s biggest-ever cryptocurrency money laundering case, involving more than 1,500 victims and over $70 million in illicit funds. The Shilin District Prosecutor’s office indicted the 14 on charges related to fraud, money laundering and organized crime, requesting the confiscation of 1.275 billion New Taiwan dollars ($39.8 million), which was allegedly obtained from victims through fraud, according to a Friday report from local media outlet UDN. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:56 Aug 22, 2025
AUSTRAC has ordered Binance Australia to appoint an external auditor after identifying serious shortcomings in the exchange’s Anti-Money Laundering controls. The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) ordered the local unit of crypto exchange Binance to appoint an external auditor over concerns about its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF) systems. The regulator said Friday the decision was made “after identifying serious concerns” with Binance’s AML/CTF controls. Matt Poblocki, Binance Australia and New Zealand general manager, told Cointelegraph, “Binance Australia acknowledges AUSTRAC’s decision,” adding that the move was “one of their supervisory review measures and not an enforcement action.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:14 Aug 22, 2025
Spot Ether ETFs now hold 6.42 million ETH worth $27.66 billion, equal to 5.31% of the asset’s circulating supply. US spot Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) funds drew $287.6 million in net inflows on Thursday, snapping a four-day outflow streak, according to data from crypto ETF tracker SoSoValue. The rebound follows a period of sustained outflows, with funds shedding over $924 million between Aug. 15 and Wednesday. The largest withdrawal came on Tuesday, when spot Ether (ETH) ETFs saw $429 million exit, the second-largest daily net outflow seen this month, following the $465 million that left the market on Aug. 4. Asset manager BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA) led Thursday with $233.5 million in inflows, while the Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH) followed with $28.5 million. Other ETFs averaged around $6 million in net inflows for the day. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:36 Aug 22, 2025
ASIC Deputy Chair Sarah Court said the regulator has now beefed up its scam enforcement to include monitoring social media ads. Australia’s markets regulator is set to expand its crackdown on online scams after taking down 14,000 online scams since July 2023, with over 3,000 purporting to involve crypto. The online scams include investment scams, phishing websites and are found in online advertisements. ASIC Deputy Chair Sarah Court said in a statement that ASIC’s investment scam enforcement efforts will now be expanded to include social media ads. Worldwide losses from crypto hacks, scams, and exploits hit $2.47 billion in the first half of 2025, representing a nearly 3% increase compared to the $2.4 billion stolen in 2024. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:38 Aug 21, 2025
A Bitcoiner fell victim to a social engineering attack after being approached by impostors posing as hardware wallet support, losing 783 BTC worth $91 million. A Bitcoiner lost $91 million in a single transaction to a social engineering attack on Tuesday, with funds then sent to a privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet, according to blockchain investigator ZachXBT. The victim was deceived by impostors posing as crypto exchange and hardware wallet support, losing 783 Bitcoin (BTC) in a single transaction, ZachXBT said in an X post on Thursday. Blockchain data shows the theft occurred on Tuesday at 11:06 am UTC, and the exploiter started laundering the stolen funds a day later through the Bitcoin privacy-focused Wasabi Wallet to conceal the trail of the stolen funds, ZachXBT said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:00 Aug 21, 2025
Major Asian economies step on the stablecoin throttle, India’s reconsiders punitive crypto tax, and more. Major Asian economies are accelerating their stablecoin initiatives, with notable moves from Japan and China over the past week. Japans top financial regulator is reportedly preparing to approve the countrys first yen-pegged stablecoin within the year. The token, issued by fintech startup JPYC, will be backed by liquid assets such as government bonds. According to finance outlet Nikkei, JPYC is expected to register as a money-transfer business this month and aims to issue 1 trillion yen (about $6.81 billion) worth of stablecoins over the next three years. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:00 Aug 21, 2025
Major Asian economies step on the stablecoin throttle, India’s reconsiders punitive crypto tax, and more. Major Asian economies are accelerating their stablecoin initiatives, with notable moves from Japan and China over the past week. Japans top financial regulator is reportedly preparing to approve the countrys first yen-pegged stablecoin within the year. The token, issued by fintech startup JPYC, will be backed by liquid assets such as government bonds. According to finance outlet Nikkei, JPYC is expected to register as a money-transfer business this month and aims to issue 1 trillion yen (about $6.81 billion) worth of stablecoins over the next three years. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:19 Aug 21, 2025
Public companies continue to diversify into altcoins, but with mixed effects on share prices and mixed reception from investors. VERB Technology Company, a Toncoin (TON) acquisition company, said it has accumulated about $713 million in TON and $67 million in cash, totaling over $780 million in assets. The company completed a $558 million private placement in August, sending its share price soaring by more than 200%. A majority of these funds were used to purchase TON, according to Thursday’s announcement. VERB has set a target to capture 5% of the altcoin’s circulating supply, about 128 million tokens, through issuing corporate debt and equity and staking to earn more rewards. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:11 Aug 21, 2025
The bill pushed by the representative included a ban on lawmakers and their families from "launching, promoting, or trading in coins where they hold a personal financial interest.” Ben Waxman, a Democrat representing District 182 in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives, has introduced legislation “to prohibit elected officials from profiting off cryptocurrency while in office.” Waxman introduced HB1812 on Wednesday with eight Democratic co-sponsors in response to what he called “corruption” perpetuated at the federal level by US President Donald Trump. The Pennsylvania lawmaker accused Trump of financially benefiting from crypto projects like his memecoin, Official Trump (TRUMP), and pushing policies to “roll back federal oversight of crypto markets, shielding these schemes from scrutiny.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:02 Aug 21, 2025
While the overall stablecoin market is up 4% in August, some synthetic stablecoins, such as Sky Dollar and Falcon USD, have had even more substantial gains. Ethena Labs on Thursday said its Ethena protocol has generated more than $500 million in cumulative revenue. Growth in both revenue and the circulating supply of its synthetic stablecoin, Ethena USDe (USDe), has accelerated since July as synthetic stablecoins gain market share. Ethena Labs shared the news via a post on X, saying that in the past week, protocol revenue hit $13.4 million and USDe supply hit an all-time high of $11.7 billion. “Ethena’s revenue has been driven by strong inflows into USDe and favorable market conditions that have amplified returns from its delta-neutral hedging reserve model,” an Ethena Labs spokesperson told Cointelegraph. “The protocol’s momentum reflects growing demand for and confidence in USDe as a store of value.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:38 Aug 21, 2025
The financial regulator said the bank’s “compliance with laws and regulations does not require the continued existence of the order,” first issued in April 2022. The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said it had issued an order terminating a consent order made against cryptocurrency custody bank Anchorage Digital in 2022. In a Thursday notice, the OCC said it had dropped the order “to assure the safety and soundness” of Anchorage. The financial regulator’s April 2022 order was based on Anchorage’s “failure to adopt and implement a compliance program” in accordance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) standards. However, the OCC said the bank’s “compliance with laws and regulations does not require the continued existence of the order.” “[W]e received—and have now resolved—feedback from regulators as we set the standard for federally-chartered custody of digital assets,” said Anchorage co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley in a Thursday blog post, adding: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:28 Aug 21, 2025
Bitcoin’s options expiry and tech-sector pressures will determine if the bull run truly ended or just took a pause. Key takeaways: Bitcoin bears hold strong incentives below $114,000, likely intensifying pressure ahead of the options expiry. AI-sector spending concerns add turbulence and weigh on investors’ broader risk appetite. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:08 Aug 21, 2025
Though a Justice Department official did not mention the Tornado Cash developer by name, he made many general references to enforcement cases involving similar allegations. Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm, found guilty on one felony count in August, may be closer to avoiding a possible retrial on additional charges following a statement from a Justice Department official. Speaking at a Thursday summit in Wyoming organized by the cryptocurrency advocacy organization American Innovation Project, Matthew Galeotti, the acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s criminal division, suggested that the department would be changing its approach to certain enforcement cases involving crypto and blockchain. The DOJ official said his remarks were to offer clarity following an April memo from US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, titled “Ending Regulation by Prosecution.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:00 Aug 21, 2025
Several technical indicators are flashing bullish for SOL price, and analysts believe a rally to $260 is the next step. Key takeaway: SOL technical chart setups converge on the $260 price target. After soaring to a six-month high of $209 last week, Solana (SOL) retraced as much as 16% to a low of $175 on Tuesday. The SOL price has since rebounded to the current level of $180, with multiple indicators suggesting that its uptrend toward $260 remains intact. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:55 Aug 21, 2025
State Street, one of the world’s top three asset managers, can now custody blockchain-based debt securities for institutional clients. State Street, an asset manager and custodian bank serving institutional clients, has joined financial services company JPMorgan’s tokenized debt platform as its first third-party custodian, allowing it to hold blockchain-based debt securities on behalf of investors. JP Morgan’s Digital Debt Service platform allows institutional clients to trade and settle tokenized debt instruments, which are securities issued on a blockchain that represent government or corporate bonds. The asset manager purchased $100 million in tokenized commercial debt from the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), one of the oldest banks in Southeast Asia, in the platform’s inaugural transaction, according to Thursday’s announcement. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:27 Aug 21, 2025
Aave enters a blockchain with few competitors, with only one top-five Aptos protocols having a TVL of $1 billion or more. Aave, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol with $70 billion in net deposits, has launched on Aptos, a layer-1 blockchain founded by former Meta employees. The move may deepen stablecoin and liquid staking token liquidity on the blockchain, two asset classes subject to regulation in 2025. According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Aave will support four coins native to the blockchain at launch: stablecoins USDC (USDC) and USDt (USDT), Aptos (APT), and Ethena Staked USDe (sUSDe). The Aptos Foundation will provide users with rewards and liquidity incentives to promote the use of Aave on the Aptos blockchain. The arrival of Aave could deepen stablecoin liquidity on the blockchain, as the fiat-pegged cryptocurrencies are experiencing a breakthrough and are one of the industry’s most-discussed use cases. On Aptos, the stablecoin market cap has surged in 2025, jumping to $1.27 bil... -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:54 Aug 21, 2025
An XRP chart fractal and whale flows hint at a short-term dip before a possible “moonshot” breakout to new all-time highs in Q4. Key takeaways: XRP closed below $3, but a fractal pattern suggests a bullish Q4 setup, with a potential rally toward $4.35 to $4.85. Whale flows remain negative, hinting at near-term downside before possible reaccumulation in the $2.65 to $2.33 range. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:54 Aug 21, 2025
High net worth investors in Asia are piling into crypto, adding to a market long dominated by retail users across India, Indonesia, Vietnam and beyond. Wealthy families and family offices across Asia are increasing their cryptocurrency allocations, with some planning to allocate around 5% of their portfolios to the asset class. Reuters first reported the trend, which noted a wave of demand from high-net-worth individuals across Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China. Wealth managers told Reuters they are receiving more enquiries from clients, while cryptocurrency exchanges have reported rising trading volumes and new crypto funds are drawing strong demand. Jason Huang, founder of NextGen Digital Venture, said his company raised over $100 million in just a few months for a new long-short crypto equity fund launched in Singapore in May. His previous fund, which wound down last year, returned 375% in less than two years. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:20 Aug 21, 2025
Bitcoin onchain data and the length of BTC’s previous market cycles suggest the current bull phase is coming to an end. Key takeaways: BTC’s 700% rally from $15,500 to $124,500 suggests a market top in two to three months, based on past cycles. Bitcoin supply in profit has been elevated for 273 days, signaling a potential cycle peak soon. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:21 Aug 21, 2025
Bitcoin joins US stocks in ignoring a trade deal with the EU as traders turn to the Fed's Jackson Hole event and key BTC price support and resistance levels. Key points: Bitcoin has a new make-or-break price point to monitor into the weekly close: $114,000. Bid liquidity lines up below local lows as BTC market structure risks looking “weak.” Read more
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