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Active XRP Ledger addresses down 80% since December

The number of XRP Ledger addresses transacting on-chain has dropped from 103,000 on December 3 to fewer than 21,000.

Jun 23, 20251 min

Nobitex hackers threaten to ‘destroy’ pro-Iran institutions

Pro-Israel hackers behind the theft of $90M from Iranian crypto exchange, Nobitex, have threatened to target more Iranian institutions.

Jun 23, 20253 min

From memes to biometrics: Reddit could soon require eye scans

Reddit would be the latest partnership for World since the eye-scanning firm dropped the crypto element from its name last year.

Jun 23, 20252 min

Circle execs and VCs misread the market — it cost them $2B

Circle VCs and executives sold $270M worth of stock that would have been worth an extra $1.9B had they waited a couple of weeks.

Jun 23, 20253 min

Five tricks to using investor funds to buy bitcoin

Michael Saylor has made no secret of his BTC accumulation strategy and wants his fans to believe he can accomplish accretive dilution.

Jun 20, 20256 min

Crypto casino Luckio under fire for shady code, $500K influencer deals

Luckio reportedly paid influencers huge sums for promotion, but has left many users skeptical about the funds.

Jun 20, 20252 min

‘Sherlock missed it’: Cork hacker slams audit firms in on-chain messages

Messages left on-chain from the hacker’s address appear to set the record straight about the root causes of the Cork Protocol incident.

Jun 20, 20254 min

Circle grows faster than Tether this year

Circle’s USDC has made substantial gains in 2025 across several metrics against its main stablecoin competitor, Tether’s USDT.

Jun 20, 20254 min

What happened to WBTC on TRON?

Wrapped Bitcoin began hiding details about WBTC on TRON after Sun’s involvement, and the product now seems nearly abandoned.

Jun 19, 20252 min

Pump Fun judge questions Burwick Law’s need for two lawsuits

The Pump Fun lawsuit judge says she “doesn’t understand” why there are two lawsuits and asked for Burwick Law to explain itself.

Jun 19, 20252 min

Bitcoin rally stalls despite corporations, funds buying billions

BTC was supposed to rally as institutions, governments, and fund managers adopted it at record levels this year. What happened?

Jun 18, 20253 min

Pump Fun taps high-profile lawyers to battle Burwick lawsuit

Pump Fun has bolstered its defense team as it prepares to take on Burwick Law, which calls the memecoin platform a “pump and dump” scheme.

Jun 18, 20253 min

Bitcoin can’t keep up with NASDAQ amid ongoing Iran-Israel conflict

Crypto investors often look to BTC as a safe haven asset, but its price performance during times of conflict is disappointing.

Jun 18, 20254 min

Czech gov’t no-confidence vote as PM denies bitcoin cover-up

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala has denied that his government is downplaying a $47M BTC donation from a convicted criminal.

Jun 17, 20252 min

MetaPlanet has outperformed MicroStrategy by 317% this year

A $1,000 investment at the start of the year would have resulted in a $5,300 MetaPlanet position versus $1,270 for MicroStrategy.

Jun 17, 20255 min

Your L2 transaction fees are higher because of MEV spam, report

A new report, titled MEV and the Limits of Scaling, explores the vast volume of MEV spam offsetting improvements in blockchain throughput.

Jun 17, 20255 min

Justin Sun’s new stock SRM rallied 67% before Tron merger news

Within one minute of a pre-market announcement, SRM rallied from $1.70 to $2.25 per share. Just an hour later, it hit $6.70.

Jun 16, 20253 min

Coinbase torched by crypto community for US army parade sponsorship

Apologists for Coinbase’s military parade sponsorship were called “tone-deaf” and “nation-state bootlickers” for excusing it as “apolitical.”

Jun 16, 20254 min

Wall Street loves selling crypto treasury stocks

It’s difficult to explain the valuations of many crypto treasury companies trading on stock markets across the globe.

Jun 16, 20254 min

Opinion: Coinbase is a ‘mission focused company’

It’s okay for Coinbase to sponsor an authoritarian birthday parade, but it’s not okay for a Coinbase employee to describe it as such.

Jun 16, 20252 min

US prosecutors say Tornado Cash witnesses will ‘waste jury time’

Roman Storm’s legal team requested extra time to counter the US government’s arguments and was boosted with $500K from the ETH Foundation.

Jun 16, 20253 min

Bitcoin dev proposes excommunication for OP_RETURN ‘garbageman’

A senior Bitcoin developer has proposed a counterattack against ‘garbageman’ data storage filters in an escalation of the OP_RETURN war.

Jun 16, 20255 min

Joe Lubin’s Sharplink crashes 91% in two weeks amid ETH treasury panic

Sharplink Gaming was supposed to be the leading example of an Ethereum treasury company. Its shares are 91% off all-time highs.

Jun 13, 20252 min

MicroStrategy director quietly dumps all his MSTR shares

MicroStrategy’s Carl Rickertsen sold over $10M this year, admitted zero ownership, and continued an uninterrupted series of insider sales.

Jun 13, 20252 min

World Liberty promised AAVE lending six months ago — so where is it?

Donald Trump-affiliated World Liberty Financial has yet to launch its AAVE instance six months after the governance vote approving it.

Jun 12, 20251 min

Bitrue exploiter sends more ETH to Tornado Cash

PeckShieldAlert reports that the address tied to the exploit moved 5,111 ETH and 16 million DAI to a new address.

Jun 12, 20252 min

New browser extension lets you instantly price the web in bitcoin

Opportunity Cost uses CoinGecko data to detect and convert online prices to BTC, sats, or a combination of both.

Jun 12, 20253 min

French police arrest more suspects over crypto kidnapping

Police in France reportedly arrested a number of suspects this week over the kidnapping and mutilation of a crypto millionaire’s father.

Jun 11, 20252 min

We made a dictionary of MicroStrategy’s invented terminology

Just as meme stock investors invented their own terms on Reddit, MicroStrategy investors have made their own, sometimes confusing, lexicon.

Jun 11, 20254 min

Ethereum Foundation under scrutiny as Geth dev speaks out on firing

Developer Péter Szilágyi lashed out at ex-colleague Tomasz K. Stańczak over plans to push the development of Geth out of the organization.

Jun 11, 20253 min

Do Kwon court date postponed again, ‘productive’ talks continue

A judge accepted a request from Do Kwon and the US government to delay the next court hearing so they can avoid unwanted pretrial wrangling.

Jun 11, 20252 min

Saylor to Jim Chanos: Three ways your MSTR short is doomed

Jim Chanos believes that MicroStrategy’s multiple to its BTC holdings will erode over time. Michael Saylor disagrees.

Jun 10, 20255 min

OP_RETURN dissident plans to sell his bitcoin in protest

A resistance leader opposed to an OP_RETURN change to Bitcoin Core has expressed profound disappointment and will sell all of his BTC.

Jun 10, 20252 min

Andrew Tate went 25X long on Hyperliquid, got liquidated

Andrew Tate put a massively leveraged trade on HyperLiquid, lost it all, and then tried to delete the evidence.

Jun 10, 20251 min

Robinhood wants US newborns larping into crypto and stocks

Robinhood wants to build the infrastructure for a “Trump account” that would give every US newborn $1,000 to invest.

Jun 10, 20252 min

Exclusive: Coinbase’s Conor Grogan on how he’s reuniting users with lost crypto

Grogan says the goal of the project, which recovered $350K worth of ETH yesterday, is to get assets back to their rightful owner.

Jun 10, 20257 min

ICERAID calls Mayor Karen Bass a ‘suspect’ in LA protests

The illegal immigrant snitching crypto site also called Bass a “criminal” over the LA protests and called for the real ICE to raid her.

Jun 9, 20253 min

Bitcoin Core devs schedule OP_RETURN change for October

Critics, including Luke Dashjr and BitcoinMechanic, have called the change irresponsible and overrun with corporate interests.

Jun 9, 20253 min

Whales dominate Plasma launch

Plasma’s public sale launch resulted in a small number of whales dominating the initial allocation and a “gas war.”

Jun 9, 20252 min

BitcoinCore website hosts letter from one side of OP_RETURN debate

BitcoinCore.org, a usually neutral website used to download a reference software client for Bitcoin, is hosting an op-ed letter.

Jun 9, 20253 min

Elon Musk has lost $150B since his feud with Trump

Musk’s personal net worth has crashed in recent days, and his burned relationship with Donald Trump is to blame.

Jun 6, 20253 min

Bitcoin DeFi project ALEX exploited again, aBTC and sBTC depeg

The issue concerns failed transactions on Stacks, a DeFi-focused layer two scaling solution for the Bitcoin network.

Jun 6, 20252 min

Circle and Coinbase — a story of two public offerings

Circle’s rise after its IPO on its first day of trading is a contrast to Coinbase, which fell on its first day of trading.

Jun 6, 20252 min

Musk vs. Trump: No call, no chill, just market carnage

The reported Elon Musk and Donald Trump “peace call” that almost rebounded the price of BTC, is no longer happening.

Jun 6, 20253 min

Tesla reclaims 52 scam domains from Russian crypto grifter

Tesla was handed the domains after it successfully appealed to the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Jun 6, 20251 min

From STRF to STRD — is Michael Saylor just selling junk bonds?

Investors are criticizing Michael Saylor’s latest MicroStrategy preferred share, Stride (STRD), as essentially a high-risk “junk bond.”

Jun 6, 20253 min

Mallers says no bitcoin rehypothecation at Strike — but what about re-pledging?

Customers concerned about Strike rehypothecating the BTC backing their loans have received a response from Jack Mallers.

Jun 5, 20252 min

HTX withdraws $570M from Aave, briefly spikes lending rates

Justin Sun-advised HTX withdrew $570M from Aave, briefly spiking borrowing and lending yields, before depositing $600M back into the protocol.

Jun 5, 20253 min

Bitcoiners are loving Elon Musk’s debt fallout with Trump

Bitcoin maxis think Elon Musk is “orange-pilling himself” after he attacked Donald Trump’s new bill that would raise the US debt by trillions.

Jun 5, 20253 min

No, California didn’t pass a law to seize your idle bitcoin

Misinformation about a California State Assembly vote affecting digital assets like BTC spread across social media this week.

Jun 5, 20253 min