The AscendEX situation is getting worse, and ZachXBT is making sure the public knows exactly how bad it is. The on-chain investigator has now confirmed that the exchange’s hot wallet is effectively empty, ETH, USDT, and SOL nearly completely depleted, while deposits continue to flow in and the official team has gone more than nine […]

A crypto trader swapped 1,126.44 ETH worth $2.01 million for just 5,776 LIT valued at $14,208 on Sunday, wiping out nearly $2 million in a single onchain transaction. The blunder landed as Lighter’s token entered Coingecko’s top trending list on the back of a 53% weekly rally. Paying 140 Times the Market Price The transaction […]

Crypto exploits rose 59% quarter-on-quarter to $807.5 million in Q2, due partly to the KelpDAO and Drift Protocol exploits, which came at the hands of North Korean hackers.

France has recorded 77 cryptocurrency-related cases involving kidnappings, extortion, or attempted kidnappings since the beginning of the year. Speaking to the Association of Digital Asset Holders (ADAN) on June 30, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said the number had increased significantly from the 45 cases reported in 2025. France Unveils Tougher Security Plan While acknowledging the […]

XRP’s exchange scarcity hits a 2024 high, a dormant wallet takes in 114 billion SHIB, and Strategy’s CEO calls Bitcoin the US of money while selling BTC.

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Vitalik Buterin described “Lean Ethereum” as the network’s third major overhaul, comparable in scale to the Merge, spanning a three-to-four-year phased rebuild. A redesigned data-storage tier is the most disruptive element, one Buterin says could cut fees for some simple applications by more than tenfold without forcing legacy apps to rewrite code. Complex systems such […]

Bitcoin climbed to US$63,450 on Saturday before settling near US$62,700, the level of its closely watched 200-week moving average. A short squeeze drove the move, with about US$167 million in crypto positions liquidated over 24 hours as forced buying lifted the price. Traders flagged that the past seven Mondays have all delivered sell-offs, leaving the […]

Bitcoin’s chart has looked heavy, but the on-chain picture is not quite as one-sided as the price action suggests. Glassnode’s latest Week Onchain report points to a market where pain is obvious, but where accumulation is also starting to show up underneath the surface. That is a very Bitcoin kind of setup: sentiment weak enough […]

Americans lost a staggering $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, according to new data from the Federal Trade Commission. Of that total, people reported losing nearly $1 billion to business impersonators, with the highest reported losses tied to criminals pretending to work for banks. Scams often begin with fake security texts and calls claiming […]

TL;DR: Sberbank plans to launch a crypto wallet and a digital deposit before December, subject to the approval of new Russian legislation. The services will be integrated into Sberbank Online and SberInvestments after the law “On Digital Currency and Digital Rights” takes effect on September 1. Unqualified investors will be able to operate under limits […]

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage reportedly faces formal parliamentary standards complaints following a report alleging he failed to declare significant financial support from a convicted crypto gambling entrepreneur. Secret Funding Allegations Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage faces formal complaints to a parliamentary standards watchdog following media disclosures alleging he failed to declare extensive financial […]

The FCA’s vision for agentic AI points toward a financial system where programmable money and tokenized assets could play a much larger role.

BREAKING: Strategy has sold $219 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC).

SBI Holdings has announced plans to acquire Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitbank in a transaction valued at approximately $320 million, a.

July 6th, 2026 – Panama City, Panama Deribit by Coinbase, via its broker-dealer DRB Panama Inc., and SignalPlus, a leading provider of software and infrastructure solutions for crypto derivatives, today announced the launch of The Island, their fifth trading competition and biggest edition to date. Running for 35 days, the competition features up to $600,000 […]

The gradual price recovery that began in early July continued over the past 12 hours or so, as bitcoin jumped to $64,000 for the first time in almost two weeks. Although it was stopped there for now, analysts seem more confident that the overall market environment has improved and outlined the cryptocurrency’s next big resistance […]

The UK’s crypto rulebook is starting to look more real, and stablecoin issuers now have a clearer idea of what they are dealing with. The Financial Conduct Authority has finalised a major set of cryptoasset policy statements and cut a key proposed capital requirement for stablecoin issuance from 2% to 1%. That may sound like […]

The restriction proposed by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand would bar members of Congress, the US president and their spouses from “issuing or sponsoring their own digital assets.”

Coinbase came under fire after an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated alert told users Norway had beaten Brazil 3-2 in a World Cup knockout match that had not yet been played. A Major Goof up Coinbase declared that Norway had defeated Brazil 3-2 with striker Erling Haaland scoring twice. The problem was that the match, scheduled for […]

Residents in one part of Washington state have lost more than $673,000 to scams in just three days. The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office says an 84-year-old victim lost $420,000 after scammers impersonating Microsoft and the FTC convinced the person to buy gold and hand it over. Another person lost $50,000 via a phishing email that […]

Satoshi Nakamoto’s 16-year-old “incomparable” Bitcoin warning just proved true at $63,000.

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Wall Street’s Bitcoin expectations have taken another hit. Citi has cut its 12-month Bitcoin target to $82,000 from $112,000, pointing to weaker investor appetite, negative ETF flows, and a slower regulatory backdrop in the United States. The move is not just another forecast revision. It shows how much of the institutional Bitcoin thesis still depends […]

Tim Draper disputes Arkham’s Bitcoin wallet attribution, saying: “I haven’t touched it. Arkham has it wrong.”

Ripple’s cross-border token has gained over 9% in the past week and now sits near $1.15 after bottoming (for now, at least) at $1.01 a few weeks ago. Such a notable resurgence in a relatively short timeframe has given wings to the perma-XRP-bulls, as new predictions of bigger rallies and peaks emerged over the weekend. […]

Bitcoin holds above $60,000 as Bitwise CIO says Strategy-led leverage unwind may signal a market bottom ahead of a fall bull run. STRC and Late-Cycle Stress Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan explained in a July 1 analysis that STRC, Strategy’s perpetual preferred equity instrument designed to offer high yield while trading near a fixed […]

Legendary commodities trader Peter Brandt has revealed he is contemplating a major portfolio rotation.

According to a report by Chainalysis published on July 4, cryptocurrency addresses linked to sanctioned entities received over $100 billion ( …

Bitcoin reached its highest levels in nearly a fortnight over the weekend, but BTC price action faced an “absolutely terrible” Monday track record.

Bitcoin’s rebound has not removed the risk of another volatile move. CryptoQuant is warning that exchange deposit activity has picked up across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins, a pattern that often appears when traders are preparing to move risk around quickly. That does not automatically mean a crash is coming. It does mean the market is […]

Costco is accused of misleading customers by marketing its Kirkland Signature Nature’s Domain grain-free dog food as healthy and safe while allegedly concealing potential cardiac risks to pets. A proposed class action lawsuit filed in late June 2026 that points to scientific studies linking grain-free diets high in certain ingredients to dilated cardiomyopathy, a potentially […]