Informed Crypto News

Five Russians were accused of smuggling foreign currency across Georgia’s border as part of a crypto laundering service.

The tokens were burned 22 minutes later, but many were left worried by Paxos’ ability to create such an unfeasible quantity out of thin air.

GitHub is a centralized forum and code repository that gives Microsoft substantial control over time-sensitive Bitcoin matters.

ZachXBT has managed to deanonymise withdrawals from crypto mixer Railgun while identifying a suspect linked to the $28M Bittensor hack.

The CEO of Base-native prediction market Limitless claimed Binance wanted 8% of his token’s supply and $2.45M to list his token.

The April 2023 exploit allowed the brothers’ validator to drain “predatory” MEV bots who attempt to profit off transactions of regular users.

The US wants 127K BTC forfeited by a Cambodian conglomerate that allegedly ran a multi-billion-dollar crypto scam empire.

Traders tried to blame Wintermute for suspicious deposits during Friday’s crypto market crash, but its CEO would have none of it.

The scam centers have migrated to Starlink connections after electricity and internet were cut off earlier this year, AFP reports.

Binance Coin donations made to cancer and disaster relief charities seven years ago are now valued in the tens of millions.

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao and Hyperliquid co-founder Jeffrey Yan are arguing about which exchange better handled Friday’s sell-off.

Donald Trump threatened to renew a tariff war with China on Friday, and the news briefly spooked $600M out of crypto valuations.

During the chaos, Ethena’s “synthetic dollar” USDe briefly traded at just $0.65 on Binance. The exchange has reimbursed victims with $283M.

Binance Wallet is now incorrectly displaying user balances as $0 following this weekend’s chaotic $20B crypto crash.

Friend AI has sold around 1,000 units, which at $130 each would mean the startup has earned almost $150,000 on nearly $8M raised.

Trader @SmokezXBT bought up the memecoin Shanghai Composite Index 6900 (SCI6900) before shilling it with other crypto influencers.

The contentious release of Bitcoin Core v30 is a reminder about the power of spot ETFs to choose which BTC fork earns investment flows.

UK political mega-donor and DigFinex shareholder Christopher Harborne reportedly traveled with Boris Johnson to Ukraine in 2023.

Polymarket traders elevated the odds of María Corina Machado winning the Nobel Peace Prize hours before her award was announced.

According to Swan Bitcoin CEO Cory Klippsten, Howard Lutnick has been personally assisting Tether with a multi-billion dollar fundraise.

Traders followed every post and signal by Zhao to trade endless BNB Chain memecoins, yet he wants to back away from his influential role.

The contentious release of Bitcoin Core v30 is a reminder about the power of spot ETFs to choose which BTC fork earns investment flows.

Since May 12, David Bailey’s Nakamoto has plummeted from $28.50 per share to $0.96, a 96% loss for shareholders.

WBTC has relaunched its TRON product, but currently it’s seen zero adoption and the old version has a larger supply.

Zendesk, which works with several crypto exchanges, was hacked last month, leading to the leak of millions of Discord user IDs.

FC Barcelona’s official Instagram account was hacked to promote a phony crypto project that pulled in $3.5M in volume.

While leading BlockFi, Zac Prince advertised rates on Circle’s USD stablecoin of 7.5%. Now at Galaxy One, he’s advertising 8% APY on USD.

Kalshi and Polymarket are paying accounts with thousands of followers to promote them to their audiences and display their affiliate badge.

Brad Garlinghouse spoke with a senior validator on the XRP Ledger to explain why institutions are still dissatisfied with privacy tooling.

Michael Saylor has been particularly optimistic about expanding STRC domestically and abroad, yet his STRC ATM sales to date are $0.

Synnax Labs claims PeckShield overlooked an attack vector in its audit that was linked to the $1.7 million hack of Abracadabra.

Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-based exchange with alleged ties to Garantex looks to have moved billions since it was sanctioned in August.

Even though Sam Bankman-Fried is in prison, a BTC wallet controlled by Alameda Research deposited about $30M into Binance last week.

Venture capitalist Naval Ravikant has plenty of conflicts of interest in claiming that Zcash is somehow insurance against BTC.

Crypto bros tracking BTC’s price against re-releases of the McDonald’s McRib got a little too excited about a false report this week.

Lord Miles’ X account claims the YouTuber is in a Saudi jail but crypto sleuths suspect he may have rigged the bet to fail.

Liberland, nestled between Serbia and Croatia, holds an election every three months and announced the results of its latest vote today.

The IRS said that Strategy can disregard unrealized gains and losses on digital asset holdings when computing income subject to the 15% CAMT.

Exuberant traders who bought Plasma’s new XPL token at a $3B market cap last week are looking for someone to blame after a 40% retracement.

T.J. Miller’s Token2049 roast of Justin Sun also saw the comedian mock his height and poke fun at his touchy legal team.

Durov revealed the poisoning attempt on Tuesday, describing a “weird” neighbor leaving something at the door of the townhouse he was renting.

ZachXBT has traced suspicious transfers of funds linking the large SBI BTC mining pool to a possible attack by North Korean hackers.

Bitcoin Knots supporters have argued that a change to an upcoming release of Bitcoin Core could open node operators up to legal attacks.

Schwartz, who has worked on XRP Ledger since 2011, previously admitted to selling off a large part of his XRP portfolio for $0.10 per token.

The accommodation signaled a slight victory for Knots node operators who have protested Core’s easements of OP_RETURN’s datacarriersize.

Netanyahu was pictured with Rauch at a tech event with US investors to discuss how AI could bolster Israel’s economy.

Speaking about STRC, Saylor said, “Everybody in the world would love to have a high yield bank account that yielded 10%.”

Since Strategy removed a ban on ATM share sales between 1-2.5x mNAV six weeks ago, MSTR dilution has paid for 94% of its BTC purchases.

According to net worth estimates from Forbes and Bloomberg, Zhao’s net worth has increased by approximately $20B since leaving prison.

Jito Labs and two execs are set to be dropped from Burwick Law’s Pump Fun lawsuit “without prejudice” following the leak of 5,000 chat logs.