Informed Crypto News

Strategy released its Q3 earnings yesterday, spending vast amounts of time on its newest, (and relatively small) preferred stock, STRC.

ZachXBT has identified a Donald Trump Polymarket whale as key Nigel Farage adviser and convicted fraudster, George Cottrell.

Former Evolve Bank and Trust CEO Robert Hartheimer has reportedly been arrested for possession of child pornography.

Garden was criticized for profiting from proceeds of other hacks, which investigators claim make up a quarter of the bridge’s volume.

Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko was extradited from Ireland to the US for allegedly using Conti to extort $500K from victims in Tennessee.

Strategy is reporting earnings today after the market close. Here are the top seven things investors expect to learn.

Warren referred to Changpeng Zhao as a “money launderer,” and branded the pardoning of financial criminals as “corruption.”

Onlookers say KitKat was killed by an autonomous Waymo taxi that made no attempt to stop and drove away from the scene of the crime.

Critics of DeFi yield farming projects claim they created a “daisy chain” by recursively lending funds between one another to inflate TVL.

Cryptocurrency firms have been rushing to IPO, but only some have been able to increase their value since listing publicly.

Investors have almost given up hope that the Solana-Western Union link-up will differ from every other failed crypto-TradFi partnership.

Changpeng Zhao also warned traders to steer clear of the CZSTATUE memecoin that was launched alongside the gaudy sculpture.

Anthony Shnayderman had 100 ETH moved out of his wallet following a test transaction, likely by the FBI or another government entity.

Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC have both grown under Trump, but USDC has seen a larger relative increase in its market capitalization.

Two crypto custodians involving Scott Purcell both collapsed after a disturbingly similar pattern of financial mismanagement.

Tether, along with corporate donors including Ripple and Coinbase, is helping to fund Donald Trump’s extravagant new White House ballroom.

Cross-layer protocol 402bridge claims the private key leak affected team wallets, but some are suspicious it might be a rug pull.

A proposed Bitcoin fork would commence an activation period for updating consensus rules to limit storage unrelated to the movement of BTC.

The stay in SEC v. Justin Sun has been extended due to the government shutdown resulting in lawyers being furloughed.

Convicted Bitfinex launderer Heather Morgan (aka Razzlekhan) thanked Donald Trump, while naked, for shortening her prison sentence.

Ledger fine print revealed that the “free” service would cost $10 per transaction or 0.05% of the amount transferred, on top of gas costs.

A 2011 BTC wallet moved over $400M after a supposed deadline of “constructive possession” relating to the Salomon Brothers brand elapsed.

The premium that investors are paying for BTC treasury companies continues to decline. In other words, mNAV compression is real.

Yet again, Bitcoin was the target of fake news about a non-existent quantum computer cracking SHA-256 cryptography.

A report from the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team claimed that North Korea stole at least $2.8B in crypto hacks since 2024.

Counter-Strike 2 skins collapsed overnight after Valve added a 5:1 conversion for rare knives and gloves from commonplace items.

Of the last 50 tokens launched by Jesse Pollack on Base, 40% have seen their market cap fall by at least 90%, and only three have increased.

Trump’s pardoning of CZ suggests that any billionaire can effectively lobby the president if they buy enough of his memecoin.

Melania Trump has seen her MELANIA memecoin lose an extraordinary 94% since its launch. It currently sits 97.8% off its all-time high.

According to a new report, crypto is earning North Korea billions in foreign currency every year and it’s helping Russia acquire weapons.

Strategy has been adding BTC to its treasury at its slowest rate in five years. Worse, its mNAV is also falling.

Donald Trump has embraced BTC, but despite that, it’s seen a much smaller relative appreciation under his leadership than it did under Biden.

Users on X have complained that some of Trezor’s explanations around its quantum-ready wallet “are extremely vague and high-level.”

Nakamoto has declined 98% since its May 22 peak. At such prices, what would it take to become the target of a hostile takeover?

Donald Trump’s memecoin, $TRUMP, has performed very poorly since launch, falling approximately 86% from its peak.

When Killer Whales premiered in May on Google Play and Apple TV, few, if any, media outlets were made aware.

As key dev Dankrad Feist leaves the Ethereum Foundation, the community is concerned about competitiveness and incentives for developers.

Coinbase says it acquired Cobie’s Echo “to create more accessible, efficient, and transparent capital markets.”

Not even Ripple, Kraken, SBI, Pantera, GSR, and Arrington Capital were able to break the XRP stocks losing streak this week.

Zhao has interacted with at least four sketchy crypto accounts on X, one of which faked how much they got in Binance’s $400M recovery plan.

Crypto experienced 1.7M forced liquidations and a $600B market-wide crash on October 10. Now, traders are considering lawsuits.

Code Is Law: Crypto’s Unstoppable Heists, out tomorrow, explores why very few crypto hackers ever appear in court.

Alpha Arena creator Jay Azhang believes that “financial markets are the best training environment for the next era of AI.”

Tether co-founder Reeve Collins launched his “next evolution of stablecoins” STBL last month, but its value has fallen 80% in four weeks.

The Pump Fun airdrop was announced alongside the the initial coin offering of the platform’s token, which is now down 39% since its launch.

Amid a historic rally in gold over the last 12 months, BTC investors are losing confidence in it becoming digital gold.

Cryptocurrency phishing emails are pretending to be Trezor in an attempt to gain access to users’ cryptocurrency.

The hacker linked to the theft of 400 BTC panic-sold their ETH during today’s crypto crash and lost $4.5M in the process.

The history of failed XRP DATs is long, and successes are almost non-existent. However, Ripple is excited about adding another to the list.

Garlinghouse says people who still refer to him as the CEO of XRP or believe that Ripple is in control of the asset need to be educated.