Informed Crypto News

In a move likely linked to its cooperation with the FBI, Tether blacklisted an address after Heartland Bank’s CEO stole millions of dollars.

Through direct and delegated appointments, Trump could install thousands of pro-crypto workers throughout the US government.

Bitcoin Core developers are no longer using the bitcoin-dev mailing list hosted by the Linux Foundation. Their new home base is Google Groups.

Craig Wright’s claim apparently also includes 16 links to various articles cited as evidence that are broken or made up.

Prediction markets such as Polymarket, Kalshi, and PredictIt, have Donald Trump inching ahead as the race for the White House nears its end.

Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao described the SEC’s amended lawsuit as “moot” and “meritless” and seeks to avoid disgorgement costs.

The Bitcoin Policy Institute published a report endorsing a strategic reserve of bitcoin akin to US strategic reserves of gold or petroleum.

Champions Tactics came under fire after a bug meant that just two players won every matchmaked game before they could be played.

a16z says it will be “contributing over $23M in additional funds to Fairshake and its affiliated PACs” for the 2026 midterms.

Despite many celebrating the dawn of AI-led digital assets, many mundane tasks to be carried out by AI bots require human intervention.

Crypto execs have accused Coinbase and Binance of charging millions of dollars for listings despite their zero-fee claims.

Telegram’s CEO described Hamster Kombat as the world’s “fastest-growing digital service,” and said it would “bring blockchain to the masses.”

Heart’s lawyers asked the judge to dismiss the lawsuit against him entirely because, in Heart’s view, the SEC lacks jurisdiction over him.

Craig Wright claims that if he’s forced to sit in a courtroom as COPA demands, he “might have a meltdown” and may not be “cognitively able.”

Despite Tether’s previous promises that it would stop extending secured loans, the program has quietly continued.

Amid concerns of Russia-backed hacks from North Korea, the US and South Korea have said their treaty includes cyber threats.

M2 claims it resolved the hack, which ZachXBT reports involved the theft of $13.7 million, in just 16 minutes.

With one exception, the price of every top 10 crypto asset has held or gained ground since the start of the year. XRP is the sole loser.

Cash App powers donations for right-wing extremist group Turning Point USA and at least three white supremacist groups, Protos has found.

Primitive Ventures founder Dovey Wan warns that some crypto bros “embody the most predatory aspects of both tech and finance cultures.”

A London businessman accused of fraud was ‘revealed’ as Satoshi Nakamoto at a £500-a-ticket unveiling event in Central London today.

The MyTrade founder pleaded guilty after he was caught offering his wash trading services to the FBI and its specially-created crypto.

FTX’s former Director of Engineering received his criminal sentence today from Judge Lewis Kaplan in a New York courthouse.

The 16-year-old from London lost his Playstation online privileges after being accused of funding Al Qaeda and other terrorists with crypto.

A team of five researchers has put together an odd report claiming that MrBeast made a bunch of money promoting crypto projects.

Of Poloniex’s last 100 listings, 94 of them are so-called ‘memecoins,’ many of questionable quality or legality.

Former FTX exec Nishad Singh is scheduled to be sentenced today and has received a letter of support from FTX bankruptcy CEO John J. Ray III.

As bitcoin rallied on Tuesday toward all-time high prices, Gamestop traders started asking if a gamma squeeze was in play.

A partner at the Singapore-based crypto firm DWF Labs has been accused of spiking the drink of a potential employee at a meeting.

Fact-checkers say over 70% of Craig Wright’s claims in his latest UK lawsuit are “misunderstandings,” or “blatant misrepresentations.”

As the SEC’s lawsuit continues against Consensys’ alleged violations of US law, the company has laid off 1/5th of its staff.

The coins were moved in two separate transactions of $59.2 million and $7.3 million shortly after bitcoin crept above the $70,000 threshold.

On Monday, Donald Trump’s odds of US election victory were 66% on crypto-friendly Polymarket but just 48% on The Hill. What gives?

The crypto world is entranced by the dawn of supposed AI-managed hedge funds. Unfortunately, A16z and other humans are actually responsible.

Joe Rogan’s three-hour interview with Donald Trump avoided the topic of crypto, right as his recent crypto project flopped… Curious!

Phantom, a cryptocurrency wallet popular on Solana, is currently experiencing downtime due to a “major incident” with the backend.

Computer scientists used OpenAI’s GPT-4o model, in tandem with a number of other freely available tools, to carry out phone-based scams.

In a reported legal first for Japan, the man was sentenced for abusing generative AI to create code for crypto ransomware.

A timeline of Tether’s run-ins with US courts and law enforcement traces back over a decade, but its market cap has steadily grown.

Simplistic calculations of El Salvador’s bitcoin holdings assume that a rally to $100K would allow IMF loan repayment. It probably won’t.

The Golden State Warriors and its star player are being sued by investors of FTX, but that won’t stop a budding Coinbase romance.

Citizens can share comments on a proposed bill that will require crypto exchanges to share user data to all EU (and select non-EU) states.

Citizens can share comments on a proposed bill that will require crypto exchanges to share user data to all EU (and select non-EU) states.

Poloniex has withdrawn from Staked USDT (stUSDT) on Ethereum, vastly dropping the utilization of the protocol.

Sewell Setzer III had reportedly spent months using Character.AI to talk to an AI chatbot, becoming obsessed and isolated before his death.

Some news outlets have reported that Denmark has “made history” by introducing crypto tax on unrealized gains and losses. Not true!

An X account that utilizes AI tools convinced traders on X that it endorsed RUSSELL, a token themed around Brian Armstrong’s dog.

Five people were jailed in Austria for their part in a $16M scheme that conned 40,000 victims into investing in real estate and EXW token.

Official Gredo Limited has been convicted in a Nigerian court of illegally conducting USDT-Naira trades without a banking license.

Buterin was addressing recent comments by Michael Saylor on bitcoin custody and the role that banks should play in it.