Informed Crypto News

Polymarket trades about the next supreme leader of Iran illustrate the wild gambles that crypto traders are willing to make.

The advisory agreement between Davis and Milei was discovered on a suspect’s phone during the country’s ongoing LIBRA investigation.

TRON Inc. has essentially become a vehicle for Justin Sun to purchase hundreds of millions of TRX tokens to prop up his personal crypto.

Kalshi apparently allowed traders to bet on Ali Khamenei’s ousting, racked up $54M in trades, then voided the result when he was killed.

Iran’s largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, is experiencing issues with its Tether/Toman trading pair during a 700% surge in outflows.

Crypto markets have been penalized with downside volatility amid historic levels of US margin debt relative to income.

Chinese nationals are reporting that putting “Bitcoin,” “Dogecoin” or “USDT” in the memo field of a transfer causes the account to be frozen.

Tether has never been in a better place than it is right now, at least in the US. But in China, it’s a very different story.

Hackers took control of scrap-metal billionaire Adam Weitsman’s X account to post a forex trading scam and a fake NFT crypto project.

Crypto Capital Corp wound down after $850M was seized sometime between late 2018 and early 2019, but the ramifications continue to be felt.

New research from ETH Zurich and Anthropic has demonstrated the power of AI agents to deanonymize crypto wallets using social network posts.

Ploutos Money used the BTC/USD price for USDC, leading to $400K of ETH being lent against just $8 of collateral.

Crypto sleuth ZachXBT suggested that his Axiom investigation may lead to legal proceedings against the alleged insider trading group.

Shares of CEA Industries had already lost 98% of their 2018 peak by the time it pivoted into a BNB treasury stock. Then it got even worse.

The inquiry questions Binance’s commitment to a 2023 plea agreement and is demanding details related to Iranian sanctions.

The committee called for a ban on political crypto donations linked to crypto mixers, and for funds to be converted to fiat within 48 hours.

When BTC was above $84K, Strategy founder Michael Saylor said, “sell a kidney if you must, but keep the BTC.” Yesterday, BTC hit $63K.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Binance fired staff who had uncovered Binance accounts sending $1B worth of crypto to Iran.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies Chairman Tom Lee has lost more of his investors’ money buying ETH than FTX lost on behalf of its customers.

Justin Sun-founded AINFT which advertises itself as the “Biggest NFT Trading Platform on TRON” has only $6 in volume.

Terraform Labs says Jane Street used group chats and planted a former intern to extract insider information and profit from Terra’s collapse.

Strategy might be able to survive until BTC hits $8,000, but common shareholders will lose hope in treasury coverage in the $20,000s.

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes — known as El Mencho — led one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico before he was shot dead by police.

The attack on a lending pool belonging to YieldBlox pushed the price of USTRY to over $100 before using it to borrow XLM and USDC worth $10M.

Controversial cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun is a plaintiff and a defendant in a variety of important ongoing lawsuits.

BTC generates almost all of its returns over short bursts, cramming its rallies into brief sprints that leave many investors sidelined.

A fake Uniswap website promoted via Google Ads drained a six figure dollar amount worth of crypto savings from a Polymarket trader.

The latest in a string of Aave DAO disputes sees BGD Labs quit, citing Aave Labs’ behavior around v4 and centralization concerns.

A monkey called Punch has already been spun into a memecoin that’s pulled in $41 million in trading volume and market manipulation warnings.

Polymarket quietly sunsetted one of its two de facto subsidies for quants adding liquidity to lure retail ‘taker’ orders.

NFT artist Beeple is critiquing the collapse of Ethereum with a grim pigeon-infested depiction of this year’s ETH Denver conference.

Cambodia’s deputy prime minister warned that its police force is stretched thin as it continues to crack down on crypto scam centers.

Michael Saylor is using AI slop to liken Strategy’s STRC dividends to the interest payments of regulated money market funds.

Peter Thiel and Founders Fund lost tens of millions of dollars investing in ETHZilla, a struggling ETH treasury company.

Recently published accounts from FTX-backed Effective Ventures confirm that it sold the manor amid a rough market for stately homes.

Moonwell’s third oracle malfunction in six months saw the price of cbETH set at $1.12 instead of $2,200, leading to 1096 cbETH liquidated.

After a senior Bloomberg analyst called for bitcoin to crash to $10k and kept interrupting his counterargument, Lawrence Lepard ragequit.

Two crypto users lose a combined total of almost $1M to address poisoning. One even ignored their own test transaction.

Nathalie van Berkel would’ve overseen a controversial 36% Netherlands crypto tax before withdrawing from the role of Secretary of Finance.

Logan Paul says his token firm, which had promised to split the rights to his Pokémon card, went offline “for reasons outside of my control.”

An uptick in front-end attacks targeting DeFi users has affected the websites of OpenEden, Curvance and Maple Finance.

Polymarket renamed its “Artemis II explodes?” bet to “Artemis II booster rupture?” after intense backlash online.

Jake Paul’s business partner Geoffrey Woo claims that there’s “0% rug pull risk” of his AI-themed memecoin because he’s “already rich.”

The Binance France head avoided the three armed men who targeted another crypto entrepreneur that same day.

Aave Labs’ latest proposal looks to be a step in the right direction after two months of debate. But the sums requested are considerable.

Michael Saylor has so much debt that a CNBC analyst couldn’t think of one bank that would roll Strategy‘s bonds if BTC crashed 90%.

It’s thought that the reserve soldier may have made $150K betting via Polymarket on missile strikes against Iran.

A Roseville burial listing and alleged police scans have led some to believe that Jeffy Yu, the founder of Zerebro, has committed suicide.

Sam Bankman-Fried was brainstorming about media stunts that might get him out of prison. He’s performing some of those stunts today.

Cambodian police have reportedly dismantled another scam operation, this time operating from the Xinli Casino in southern Cambodia.