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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tesla reclaims 52 scam domains from Russian crypto grifter
Tesla was handed the domains after it successfully appealed to the World Intellectual Property Organization.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.