Informed Crypto News

Silicon Valley Bank focused on two risky industries, VC and crypto. Poor diversification, not Operation Chokepoint 2.0, caused its collapse.

Despite Donald Trump’s vocal support for bitcoin, it actually performed better during his first White House stint than this latest term.

The Ethereum Foundation has never been liquidated in DeFi, yet some people thought that it might suffer its first ETH liquidation today.

DeFi platform Compound is facing calls to onboard additional risk managers in response to a governance proposal by current manager Gauntlet.

When Trump made the claim, ETH’s price stood at around $2,877.32. However, it has since dipped to $1,908.57.

Hacking group Dark Storm has claimed responsibility for the attack on X. The group has warned it would target countries that support Israel.

Despite excellent political and banking conditions for stablecoins, PayPal’s PYUSD and Ripple’s RLUSD are still less than 1% of the market.

Despite the US introducing a strategic bitcoin reserve, the UK still deems the currency too volatile and will not follow suit.

Wealth management giant Blackrock has decided to introduce bitcoin allocation suggestions for the first time in certain model portfolios.

Ripple and Fairshake tried to convince the US government to buy XRP as part of a crypto reserve. They failed at the eleventh hour.

An associate of Ripple CEO Chris Larsen used the hacked password manager LastPass to store private keys protecting Larsen’s $150M in XRP.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive of bankrupt FTX, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show to “come out as republican.”

At the signing ceremony for the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, Donald Trump seemed as confused about its impact as the rest of the market.

Craig Wright has been ordered to pay $290,000 in legal costs for his AI-based appeal that “significantly” risked misleading court.

Qilin claims that the data stolen from Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs includes private correspondence and personal information.

Five minutes after Andrew Tate shilled his DADDY token, its volume rose over $320,000 while only pumping 17% in market cap.

Garantex was sanctioned by the EU in February as it stepped up its efforts to bring an end to “Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.”

Of its 60+ investigations, at least 11 have become individual and class action lawsuits, including those against Libra, Pump Fun, and STAKX.

Before El Salvador shuts down Chivo, the IMF wants the names, wallet addresses, and BTC holdings of all legal persons controlled by the state.

Despite Donald Trump’s pre-election promises, the price of eggs has continued to soar while ETH, BNB, BTC, and SOL have all dipped.

The court, siding with the US government, delayed the status conference by a month so Do Kwon’s defence can review the “voluminous discovery.”

Liberland has delayed an LLD bridge to the TRON blockchain due to “reasons” and the “dangers of deploying on Friday.”

Movements of XRP by Chris Larsen and Ripple insiders are drawing suspicion from skeptics of Donald Trump’s recent endorsement.

Tether has frequently promised to get an audit and has reiterated that promise again as it brings in a new CFO.

HEX founder Richard Heart scored a victory on Friday when a US judge dismissed the SEC’s suit against him, but he is still wanted in Finland.

Amouranth, who reportedly held over $20M worth of bitcoin in November, was told to give up her crypto in a violent, armed home invasion.

It is difficult to count the number of conflicts of interest in Donald Trump’s endorsement of Ripple, Solana, and Cardano.

Trump’s administration has made changes to the SEC, and it has dropped legal action against six major crypto firms this month.

As the price of bitcoin declined 25% from its January 20 high, Michael Saylor started talking about selling kidneys to HODL.

The DOGSHIT2 token appeared in Burwick Law’s lawsuit against Pump Fun in a series of screenshots detailing its launch.

On March 1, 11.2 million SOL will move from the FTX bankruptcy estate to claims buyers, including Galaxy Digital.

Many states in the US have considered bills that would enable them to create “crypto reserves,” but none have passed.

The legislation forbidding government officials from launching memecoins stands for Modern Emoluments and Malfeasance Enforcement Act.

There are at least three legal possibilities for the final outcome of crypto’s highest-profile lawsuit, SEC v. Ripple et al.

The International Monetary Fund approved the loan on the condition that El Salvador scale down its Bitcoin project.

According to the FBI, TraderTraitor has been rapidly converting stolen Bybit assets to bitcoin and other assets via multiple blockchains.

Mike Novogratz’s crypto conglomerate Galaxy Digital has hired ex-BlockFi founder Zac Prince as a managing director.

The United States Senate Subcommittee on Digital Assets is set to have a hearing to discuss legislative frameworks for digital assets.

The Pump Fun X account was hacked and used to launch a phony “governance token” that crashed 99.9% in minutes.

Demand for private security among crypto professionals has reportedly “grown considerably” following the kidnapping of Ledger’s CEO.

LockBit sent an open letter to FBI Director Kash Patel in which it claims to possess private information that could destroy the organization.

The altcoin market cap peaked at $1.9T on December 8, and has never regained that level despite the election of “crypto-friendly” Trump.

Investors dumped Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) stock following Michael Saylor’s four most recent bitcoin purchase announcements.

USDD, a Justin Sun-affiliated stablecoin, purports to be governed by the TRON DAO Reserve, but in actuality, no DAO exists.

Crypto influencer SolJakey says he received death and squatting threats and had to flee following the LIBRA fallout.

The dip to $88,780 represents a 19% slide from January’s $109,114 all-time high and is BTC’s lowest point since November.

Investors are willing to pay the worst premium in nine months for MSTR shares as a multiple of the company’s bitcoin holdings.

BadCoin promised anti-sniping technology that would differentiate its launch from Pump.fun degeneracy but the tactic failed spectacularly.

Fearing criminal repercussions for failing to prevent money laundering, ostensibly decentralized services are intervening in the Bybit hack.

The founder of the Su Zhu and Kyle Davies-run crypto exchange OXFUN tried to negotiate social media promo with the alleged “attacker.”