Informed Crypto News

A debate over in-platform swaps has expanded into questions over who “owns” Aave, DeFi’s biggest app: Aave Labs or a DAO of tokenholders?

The UK Supreme Court said the appeal “does not raise an arguable point of law” as BSV holders argued they were owed after BSV’s delisting.

A heated, months-long feud between Mantra and OKX has escalated to the point of legal threats amid a 99% OM price collapse since February.

The BTC Yield of MSTR stock in Michael Saylor’s treasury company, Strategy, has turned negative this quarter for the first time in years.

Although both BTC ETFs and the price of BTC itself have declined since October, ETF outflows have far outpaced the asset’s decline.

Shares of the world’s largest publicly traded ETH treasury company, BitMine Immersion Technologies, have crashed by over 80% since June 3.

Proposal GIP-143 cites extensive community discussions about KPK’s performance, cost, risk exposure, and alignment with DAO objectives.

Chase says it closed Mallers’ accounts after detecting “concerning activity” that may violate the Bank Secrecy Act.

Roman Kireev resigned after Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson “supported criminal charges against the DAO hacker” and an FBI investigation.

The US Digital Asset Stockpile contains crypto assets that have been crashing in price since the fund came into existence on April 5.

The fallout from the collapse of Stream Finance has left users frustrated with the lack of progress from vault curators like Re7 Labs.

BTC’s price fell to $82K today during one of crypto’s worst months since the catastrophic crash of Terra/Luna in 2022.

Jim Chanos profited by shorting the premium of MSTR to its BTC, but he missed out on the final, exceptionally profitable leg of that trade.

The central bank of Norway has paid the price for investing in Michael Saylor’s BTC treasury company, Strategy.

The Swiss National Bank is reportedly increasing its “indirect” exposure to BTC through BTC-related stocks.

Core and Maple Finance are locked in a dispute over competing BTC yield products, with an injunction secured against the launch of syrupBTC.

Despite $127B in market cap, XRP burned as fees to transact on the blockchain rarely exceed a couple of thousand dollars a day.

The DeFi community has voiced concerns around who and what is covered by Aave’s million-dollar “Balance Protection” for app users.

Jane Manchun Wong added Coinbase to their list of tech firm leaks after exposing features from the likes of Tinder, Instagram, and Facebook.

A Chinese internet influencer who went by “Sister Orange” has been arrested and charged with human trafficking and fraud.

The Tesla Diner has lost its head chef, Eric Greenspan, while Elon Musk still imagines launching even more.

Nakamoto originally promised a 10x EBITDA multiple when it would acquire David Bailey’s private business, BTC Inc.

The fallout from Stream Finance’s meltdown is still being cleaned up. Have risk curators, lending platforms, or DeFi users learned anything?

Justin Sun has launched and endorsed a huge number of cryptocurrency projects, and many have since been abandoned.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor has made many dubious claims, but this week’s likening of MSTR to “digital treasuries” might take the cake.

Bybit’s Lazarus Security Lab report says 16 blockchains have fund freezing measures while raising concerns about decentralization claims.

Due to Return Of Capital (ROC) status, there is a looming tax bill for long-term holders of Strategy preferred shares.

The latest iteration of Uniswap’s long awaited fee-switch proposal looks set to pass. But the milestone is seen by some as a DAO failure.

Qian Zhimin wanted to be queen of the Justin Sun-led micronation Liberland but was instead sentenced to 11 years in a UK prison.

Members of the Bitcoin community have made lighthearted attempts to de-anonymize Dathon Ohm, the author of the BIP 444 soft fork proposal.

In a recent online poll, more than 80% of respondents said they don’t think that Lightning counts as “real” BTC.

The asset freeze facing Hayden Davis and two other crypto “intermediaries” is the latest in the Argentinian case probing the LIBRA scandal.

Jim Chanos doubled his money shorting MSTR from its exuberant peak in November 2024. He also profited from BTC’s rally.

A total of over $6M worth of ETH and BNB has been deposited into Tornado Cash from the Garden hacker’s Ethereum and BNB Chain addresses.

Álvaro Romillo Castillo reportedly confessed to funding a Spanish right-wing MEP and now faces court over his alleged crypto pyramid scheme.

Several people have cheered on the FCKD joke, encouraging Saylor to issue a preferred stock with the ticker symbol STRU.

Lava claimed to be a BTC-focused lender with competitive interest rates, but it’s facing a flurry of social media backlash.

Justin Sun-owned HTX and Poloniex have both used exchange wallets to withdraw hundreds of millions from AAVE.

The recent depeg of Stream Finance’s xUSD has led to concerns over the health of an interwoven ecosystem of similar high-yield vaults.

It’s alleged that wallets benefiting from the launch of Heart’s HEX, Pulsechain, and/or PulseX are mixing over $500M dollars worth of ETH.

Strategy has to pay $689M to not sell any of its BTC, and those costs have increased every quarter since 2021.

Four out of the six large language models in the Alpha Arena crypto trading competition finished in the red.

China has sentenced nearly 20 people, including members of prominent mafia families, to death over pig butchering scams in recent months.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor repeatedly promised a roll-out of STRC counterparts but instead he launched STRE.

Tenerife’s Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies bought the BTC in 2012 for €10K and plans to invest the profits in new projects.

DeFi platform Stream Finance has halted deposits and withdrawals in response to the loss of $93M of “Stream fund assets.”

Strategy diluted shareholders by $69.5M but bought $45.6M of BTC. These 183,501 extra shares accreted less than the proceeds to its treasury.

Trump claims he has a vague understanding of who CZ is but he doesn’t know, or even care, about the charges against him or his guilty plea.

While many Bitcoiners have gone to war over the use of node-level “spam” filters, those in BTC mining have stayed in their lanes, unbothered.

The exploit, which hit Balancer’s v2 liquidity pools on multiple blockchains, reportedly affected projects that “forked” the exchange’s code.