Informed Crypto News

Some experts have called January 2025 as the top of memecoin season, but that would end more than a decade of seasonal ebbs and flows.

Bybit was hacked today for over $1.4 billion in ether and staked ether, according to blockchain analysts and the firm’s CEO.

ZachXBT is turning off his X DMs for the next few weeks because users messaging him “lack basic financial literacy or common sense.”

Sam Bankman-Fried says he donated more money to Republican causes than previously reported as he attempts to curry favor with Donald Trump.

Kaito launched an airdrop to users of Coinbase’s Base layer 2, and crypto influencers voluntarily doxxed their wallets to participate.

Microsoft’s quantum chip engineers just discovered a brand new state of matter, and Bitcoin’s security could get lost in the flux.

Despite having 80,000 wallets holding the World Liberty Financial governance token, no one has participated in the forums in over a month.

Polymarket pulled the market on Elon Musk’s DOGE cutting $3 billion in DEI contracts because of the agency’s changing data.

A Maker community member raised concerns over a fast-tracked governance proposal that relaxes restrictions on borrowing against MKR.

A bug in relatively recent versions of Bitcoin Lightning node software LND could allow hackers to remotely drain bitcoin from victims.

Dave Portnoy runs a daily trading show sponsored by Kraken and is under fire for launching and promoting memecoins that crashed over 99%.

Hayden Davis says he can’t remember, and can’t find, reported texts that show him bragging about controlling Javier Milei.

Initial impeachment proceedings have started in Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies against Javier Milei for his promotion of the LIBRA memecoin.

A look into some of the key people involved in promoting or investigating Argentina’s failed memecoin, LIBRA.

Musk has decided to believe that Fort Knox hasn’t had its gold supply checked in decades, leading to speculation about a bitcoin reserve.

Crypto influencer Threadguy claims he had “zero insider information” after he shared “rumblings” and “whispers” of an Argentina coin.

A mystery programmer who also burned a further 600 ETH claims that bosses from a Chinese hedge fund “used brain-computer weapons”

Milei talked up LIBRA but it crashed 96%, triggering a weekend of chaos that caused embarrassment on an “international scale.”

According to Strategy founder Michael Saylor, buying bitcoin strengthens the network while selling weakens it.

As El Salvador submits to requests by the IMF, it has modified its laws to diminish bitcoin’s role in the economy.

Co-founder of g8keep Harrison Leggio says its account was “wrongfully” suspended and is still being charged for services it can’t cancel.

Max Burwick, Burwick Law’s managing partner, said he doesn’t understand why people want to know who launched Dogshit2.

A certain type of Bitcoiner celebrated the swearing-in of RFK Jr. to the Cabinet as US health secretary yesterday.

Changpeng Zhao has unleashed a wave of memecoins inspired by his dog “Broccoli,” but stressed he won’t be creating his own token.

OpenSea is airdropping a token, relaunching its website, cutting fees, and adding blockchains. Trading volumes, however, are still declining.

Liquity is a well-established DeFi protocol whose V1 has accrued over $300 million in total value locked since launching in 2021.

Four Solana trading bots made more than $530,000 in revenue over the past 24 hours while Ethereum managed just $528,000.

Changpeng Zhao wants to launch a dog-themed memecoin on BNB Chain. The news immediately pumped dozens of wannabes.

As Coinbase’s Base continues ceding market share to Solana, Kraken decided to simply list the Solana-based version of a popular Base token.

Brent Ray Fraser, who uses his penis as a brush, launched a memecoin that, like many others out there, failed to stay erect.

New CPI numbers have been released, indicating inflation of approximately 3%. Bitcoin fell on the release of this value.

Myanmar militias that once protected these scam centers are now demanding that the Chinese gangsters running them leave their regions.

Alex Mashinsky’s Celsius has emerged from bankruptcy as Ionic Digital. Seven directors and its auditor have already resigned.

Justin Sun’s memecoin launcher Sun Pump managed to launch just 38 tokens yesterday compared to 51,000 on Pump Fun.

Despite today’s rumors, Tesla didn’t suddenly disclose an extra 1,789 bitcoins in its latest quarterly filing.

Binance’s memecoin platform Four Meme suffered a malicious attack that led to the suspension of security token LP on PancakeSwap.

The Central African Republic memecoin crashed 90% within its first day, reminding the world about the country’s prior crypto failures.

In December, Binance listed billions of dollars in excess proof-of-reserves but much of that capital buffer has now vanished from view.

Despite Donald Trump’s promise to bring down grocery prices, the price of eggs has continued to balloon. Bitcoin, however, is struggling.

For the third year in a row, the Super Bowl was virtually crypto ad-free with this year’s event instead dubbed “the AI Super Bowl.”

Spanish police arrested three British men and uncovered 25kg of pink cocaine in the apartment where the crypto trader was being held.

Bitmain’s Antpool reigns over the Bitcoin mining sector, and distrust can cost the average user up to six days for transaction finality.

Strategy reported earnings this week with Michael Saylor focusing on financial abstraction across an hour-long webinar.

Kanye West raised the hopes of memecoin traders after asking if crypto tokens are “just a concept” during an unhinged posting spree.

Burwick Law told Protos that its lawyers have received violent threats and have been doxxed along with a number of plaintiffs.

Puerto Rican news outlets Metro PR and Notiséis WIPR claimed that Jeremy Cahen (Pauly0x) of PepeFork and PondCoin is wanted for assault.

After Donald Trump decided they weren’t a good idea, Ripple scrubbed years of its work on a US dollar CBDC.

Sun filed a lawsuit this week claiming that Geffen bought the $78M sculpture after it was stolen from him by his own art advisor.

World Liberty Financial, the Donald Trump-endorsed crypto project, appears to be using AI to generate responses in its governance forum.

Former Celsius CEO Mashinsky claims his current legal obligations have put him in an “untenable situation” that requires a sentencing delay.