Informed Crypto News

Justin Sun and Li Lin’s years-long dispute has spilled onto X, with Sun claiming that HTX/Huobi had a $30 million hole when it was purchased.

A crypto trader has claimed that Pakistan authorities kidnapped him and forced him to give up $340,000 worth of crypto.

Inevitable West was caught shilling a Hindu-themed memecoin yesterday despite apologizing for a previous memecoin rugpull.

The Enron art project took millions of dollars from victims on Tuesday with a failed memecoin that dumped 64% barely an hour after launch.

Chinese abductions prompted Thailand’s government to cut off the electricity supply to crypto scam centers in Myanmar today.

“Crypto Czar” David Sacks hosted a press conference with Republican congressmen to signal the intention to pass crypto legislation.

“Crypto Czar” David Sacks is expected to announce the names of industry leaders who will join Donald Trump’s newly-formed advisory council.

With a current daily positive supply of just over 1,570, ether is projected to become net-inflationary in just over 24 hours.

On Monday, Eric Trump posted, “In my opinion, it’s a great time to add $ETH. You can thank me later.” ETH subsequently climbed 5.5%.

Hopes of a US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve took another knock after Donald Trump’s executive order about a non-bitcoin US Sovereign Wealth Fund.

As crypto prices fell over the past seven days and market caps shed billions of dollars, investors found the perfect scapegoat in Wintermute.

World Liberty Financial has reportedly been offering investors a quid pro quo deal that would see it invest in their projects in return.

Nine of the 10 largest memecoins by market cap have taken double-digit hits following Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China.

Buying any crypto project that Donald Trump has promoted from a regulated US exchange is officially a great way to lose money.

MicroStrategy reportedly raised $563.4M via its new Series A Perpetual Strike Preferred Stock after targeting just $250M for the raise.

Some X users suspected that the problem lay with the use of a deposit address created before deployment on Ethereum’s mainnet.

Crypto remittances to El Salvador as a proportion of total remittances have fallen to new lows, despite the country embracing digital assets.

The firm used Pump Fun to create “Dog Shit Going NoWhere” on October 31 as a demonstration of the token launching process.

On ThursdayAltcoin fans were fooled this week into thinking that President Donald Trump had signed an executive order that would kickstart alt season.

Ulbricht lost $12M to a Maximal Extractable Value bot operator, meaning he can’t claim that he was giving back to his supporters.

Hackers took over the UFC’s Instagram account, writing, “UFC fans have been waiting, and the moment is here. Get ready to own the legacy.”

Bill Zanker also founded massage service The Great American BackRub, claiming that he was trying to “create the ‘McRub’ in the year 2000.”

For a full decade, ether has struggled to rally past the psychologically-important 0.03 per bitcoin price level.

Lutnick, who’s a Tether associate and Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary, has said that he believes stablecoins should be audited.

Donald Trump’s public company has put a quarter of a billion dollars into a Schwab account to buy bitcoin and “similar cryptocurrencies.”

Former UK Economic Secretary to the Treasury Tulip Siddiq reportedly didn’t meet a single crypto company on behalf of the Labour government.

Richard Heart is now an international fugitive and listed among Europe’s Most Wanted. But the warning signs have been there for years.

James Howells told Protos that he’s submitted an appeal against the dismissal of his proposed bitcoin dig and that it has legal merit.

The Justin Sun-advised crypto exchange received $500M USDT from Tether that it distributed to a variety of other addresses.

French investigators reportedly launched a judicial probe against Binance over tax fraud, money laundering, and drug trafficking.

The billion-dollar bitcoin stash could help the UK out of a $25 billion black hole — if the government decides to sell.

MicroStrategy has filed a hybrid securities shelf registration, STRK, to dilute demand for MSTR and buy more bitcoin.

After Ripple scored a political victory that deprioritized BTC, critics say it’s derailing plans for a US National Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

DeepSeek has reportedly limited registrations from users with a mainland China phone number after it fell victim to a “large-scale attack.”

According to cookie.fun, the industry’s market cap, which stood at $10.37B at the beginning of the year, has shed more than $4.5B.

MicroStrategy rallied for an FASB change that it thought would help it properly value its bitcoin — but it could come with a nasty tax.

Ripple’s lobbying efforts scored decisive victories, eliminating the word “bitcoin” from all executive orders signed by Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that purports to “promote United States leadership in digital assets.”

Decentralized, cross-chain “liquidity protocol” THORChain paused its lending and saving services after concerns about solvency.

Former CoinDesk Chief Content Officer Michael Casey complained about Justin Sun’s role in removing an article from the crypto outlet.

Like Ethereum did in its early years, Solana developers are emphasizing an EVM-like standard: the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM).

Cynthia Lummis teased via X that “₿ig things are coming,” with the use of the Bitcoin symbol fuelling rumors of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

Vine founder Rus Yusupov launched his VINE memecoin after Elon Musk hinted that he may bring back the app eight years after it was shut down.

McAfee memecoin AIntivirus, an AI version of McAfee himself, calls itself “a string of defiance wrapped in cryptographic brilliance.”

David Balland, the Ledger co-founder who was reportedly held hostage for a large crypto ransom, was released by kidnappers on Wednesday.

An active investigation involving Ledger co-founder Éric Larchevêque is reportedly ongoing with some speculating about a kidnap situation.

World Liberty Financial has been diversifying its holdings, acquiring assets including Justin Sun-affiliated TRX and WBTC.

Crypto trading bot Trojan racked up a record $363 million in trading volume on January 20, the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Justin Sun, who has now invested $75 million into Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial, was removed from Liberland’s inauguration schedule.

OFAC has been ordered to remove addresses linked to Tornado Cash from its list of Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons.