Informed Crypto News

The number of staked ETH in the exit queue jumped 60% yesterday, from just over one million ($5.7B) to over two and a half million ($11.7B).

Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Barron Trump have all profited from the cryptocurrency industry during their father’s second term.

Crypto users were disgusted by the launch of Charlie Kirk-themed memecoins after the right-wing influencer’s death.

MSTR investors have grown accustomed to outperforming BTC, but they’ve actually underperformed it for 90% of the past year.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko called for financial punishment today for validators who delay block times to steal rewards.

Jack Dorsey’s decentralised messaging app Bitchat saw a large spike in downloads from Nepal amid protests and a social media crackdown.

LlamaRisk claims the bug bounties of multi-billion dollar stablecoin firms Circle and Tether are “inadequate,” and fail to exceed $10K.

Linea faced “degraded performance” of its mainnet sequencer, while Polygon reported “delays in block finality” due to a bug in node software.

MYX Finance rallied 10X this week thanks to an airdrop marketing campaign that lured sybil attackers seeking quick paydays.

Bitcoin Mechanic claims that a likely outcome of the Core v30 increase is a forced shutdown of hosted nodes and cloud infrastructure.

TRON founder Justin Sun has been quick to embrace Donald Trump, and TRON has far outperformed BTC since Trump’s election.

New website Ordinals Scrapyard is bidding $0.001 for any Bitcoin Inscription, including NFTs that once sold for over $1M apiece.

Despite compromising packages used across the industry, the attacker netted just $0.05, as well as an attention-seeking memecoin donation.

The attacker was seemingly given authority to withdraw $41 million from Kiln while unstaking $200,000 worth of SOL.

Certain Bitcoin Core developers were quick to celebrate fake news about a sybil attack responsible for up to 1,758 Knots nodes.

Strategy was selling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of MSTR ahead of the company’s disappointing S&P 500 Index news.

A $750K bridge loan wasn’t enough to save Kinto following a hack in July. Wildcat lenders will recover 76% of their deposit.

Nadsaq may tighten transparency rules to ensure that shareholders are aware of dilutive stock offerings to buy volatile crypto assets.

The renewal of Gauntlet’s $2.3M contract with crypto lending platform Compound Finance has been met with fierce pushback.

The lawsuit accused Bitmain of “fabricating” contract breaches in order to end a contract immediately with data center hosting partner.

World Liberty Financial has blacklisted an address associated with Justin Sun after he moved WLFI tokens to exchanges.

David Bailey was supposed to lead bitcoin treasury companies to new heights. Instead, his NAKA stock has crashed 90% in less than four months.

Hayden Davis finally has access to $58M worth of USDC, two weeks after a US judge dissolved a temporary restraining order.

During the first month of Coinbase’s Base on mainnet, FriendTech was its most popular app. Today, its fees are down from $1M per day to $60.

Justin Sun has taken to X to defend HTX’s reserves, however, a close review reveals HTX is lending 92% of its USDT on Aave.

Christopher Harborne, who has shares in Tether, was also outed as the biggest donor to the Brexit Party and gave £1.5M to the Tory Party.

Armstrong’s claim that AI code should be “reviewed and understood” didn’t allay fears that Coinbase is being held together by “vibe-coding.”

MSTR investors are hoping for good news from the US Index Committee on Friday about its potential S&P 500 inclusion.

Gainzy’s fumble cut gnzystrm’s market cap from $4.6M to $12K. On the plus side, the sale made him a quick $168K.

According to OpenSecrets, BitMEX paid nearly $800K between 2019 and 2021 to lobbying and consultancy firm Edelman.

Crypto.com was forced to delete a post featuring a crypto-themed Chinese checkers board after users began comparing it to the flag of Israel.

Since revoking his promise not to dilute MSTR to buy BTC between 1-2.5X mNAV, Michael Saylor has diluted by another $735.2M.

USD1 is issued on several blockchains, but Binance Smart Chain dominates, thanks in large part to the MGX-Binance deal.

Despite an 11X larger market capitalization, gold has rallied 32% versus BTC’s far more modest 16% so far this year.

Starknet’s incident reporting page shows a variety of issues, ranging from “block production halted” to a “reorg” that saw 192 blocks dropped.

The Venus Protocol user signed a malicious delegation transaction, granting the attacker’s contract control over their deposited funds.

Crypto prediction markets are already taking bets on Trump being “out as president” after a week of speculation on his death.

Opponents of data storage increases in Bitcoin Core version 30 are warning about the potential for relaying illegal content across nodes.

According to the Bunni website, the app “maximizes liquidity provider profits in all market conditions.” Today’s losses suggest otherwise.

The GREAT Trust Proposal would see land turned into a number of mega-projects, including AI-powered, smart cities and “Trump Riviera.”

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office earned skepticism and laughter with bitcoin (BTC) wallet movements to protect against quantum computing.

This surprising warning from Cøbra, one of Bitcoin’s most loyal supporters, highlights the escalating tension over arbitrary data storage.

Y Combinator-backed Axiom amassed a quarter of a billion in trading fees, then suddenly lost the ability to execute sell orders on Thursday.

A ransomware attack on Swedish IT provider Miljödata has led to a ransom demand of just 1.5 BTC in exchange for not leaking sensitive info.

Tether will terminate redemptions and freeze most USDT tokens using the Bitcoin ledger on September 1 as it terminates Omni support.

ZachXBT says he’s disinclined to help out scammed XRP holders who he believes “provide nothing of value to the industry.”

Somebody claiming to be former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is tweeting, replying, and occasionally trolling on X.

Alphabet’s Google Cloud team is launching a layer 1 blockchain, GCUL, that could compete with the XRP Ledger across many features.

An apparent bug rendered the term “microwave” unsearchable on X as the crypto community turned Bob Lax and his microwave review into a meme.

US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says the Department of Commerce is to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain. But why?