Astar Network’s efforts to curb inflation come days after its native token’s price reached a new all-time low.
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Altcoins may rally in Q2 2025 thanks to improved regulations: Sygnum Sygnum says better crypto regulation and user traction could drive altcoin growth in Q2 2025, despite Bitcoin dominance hitting a four-year high.
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North Korean hackers target crypto devs with fake recruitment tests Hacken's service project manager warned crypto developers to be wary of unsolicited gigs that are too good to be true.
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Babylon total value locked drops 32% as wallets unstake $1.2B in Bitcoin Babylon Labs retweeted a post from Lombard Finance stating it was unstaking BTC as part of a transition to a new set of finality providers.
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Trump-linked World Liberty Financial gets $25M investment from DWF Labs DWF Labs invested $25 million in the Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial and is opening a New York office to expand in the US market.
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Bitcoin could hit $1M if US buys 1M BTC — Bitcoin Policy Institute Bitcoin Policy Institute executive director Matthew Pines said that tariff earnings are “budget-neutral” and can be used by the US government to buy Bitcoin.
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Italy finance minister warns US stablecoins pose bigger threat than tariffs Italy’s Minister of Economy and Finance Giancarlo Giorgetti said US stablecoins’ appeal to Europeans should not be underestimated.
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DeFi platform KiloEx offers $750K bounty to hacker KiloEx said it would pursue legal action and expose the hacker’s identity if they didn’t accept the white hat bounty offer.
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Crypto ‘uninvestable’ if exchanges ignore manipulation: DeFiance CEO Defiance Capital founder Arthur Cheong claimed that centralized exchanges are turning a blind eye to market makers creating artificial crypto prices.
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Only 11% of El Salvador’s registered Bitcoin firms operational El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law requires maintaining an AML program, recording company assets and implementing a cybersecurity system.
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Bybit denies $1.4M listing fee, school promo accusations on X Bybit told Cointelegraph that it requires a $200,000–$300,000 security deposit to ensure that projects meet promotion requirements.
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Crypto investment products nearly wipe 2025 gains as outflows hit $7.2B Crypto ETPs saw $795 million in outflows last week, with CoinShares attributing the outflows to a “wave of negative sentiment” that started in February.
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Trump memecoins worth $321M to hit the market next week The value of US President Donald Trump’s official memecoin has declined by 89% since its peak in January.
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Ethical hacker intercepts $2.6M in Morpho Labs exploit A white hat MEV operator front-ran a malicious transaction involving $2.6 million in crypto assets from the Morpho Blue protocol.
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Grayscale and Osprey end 2-year legal fight over Bitcoin ETF promotion A filing in the Connecticut Appellate Court shows that the two parties must finish documenting the settlement and carry out the terms before withdrawing Osprey’s appeal.
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Top Bitcoin miners produced nearly $800M of BTC in Q1 2025 Hut8 had 91% growth in March, the biggest month-on-month production increase among the top miners.
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Nasdaq files to list VanEck spot Avalanche ETF Nasdaq has filed to list the VanEck Avalanche ETF, expanding spot crypto product offerings as VanEck eyes SEC approval for AVAX-based exposure.
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Synthetix USD stablecoin loses dollar peg, drops to 5-year low of $0.83 Cork Protocol co-founder Rob Schmitt said the stablecoin’s design shares similarities with Terra’s UST but has a “more manageable” debt governance system.
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Bitcoin DeFi booms as Core blockchain hits $260M in dual-staked assets Core’s Rich Rines told Cointelegraph that the success of its staking model shows there’s a way for Bitcoin to be more productive.
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Real estate not the best asset for RWA tokenization — Michael Sonnenshein Securitize chief operating officer Michael Sonnenshein said in a Paris Blockchain Week panel that the onchain economy demands more liquid assets.
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BitMEX CEO explains how perpetual swaps test altcoin value BitMEX CEO Stephan Lutz said observing how exchanges influence perpetual swap contracts can help traders avoid pump-and-dump schemes.
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Dubai gov’t agencies to link real estate registry with property tokenization Tokinvest co-founder Scott Thiel told Cointelegraph that the new development opens up Dubai’s real estate market to global investors.
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Web3 active developers drop nearly 40% in one year Optimism contributor Binji Pande said the industry needs to return to its basics and make the crypto space “feel futuristic” again.
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MEV bot loses $180K in ETH from access control exploit Threat researcher Vladimir Sobolev told Cointelegraph that there’s been a rise in fraudulent MEV bot tutorials, leading users to lose their funds.
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US federal agencies to report crypto holdings to Treasury by April 7 While federal agencies are required to report their holdings to the Treasury secretary, they are not required to disclose their holdings to the public.
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Solana whales begin offloading SOL amid $200M staking unlock Solana whales have sold nearly $50 million of recently unlocked tokens.
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Babylon users unstake $21M in Bitcoin following token airdrop Over $21 million in Bitcoin was unstaked from Babylon as early users claimed 600 million BABY tokens in the platform’s latest airdrop.
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7-Eleven South Korea to accept CBDC payments in national pilot program 7-Eleven is participating in the country’s CBDC test phase, which started on April 1 and will end on June 30.
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Hacker transfers $70M out of payment platform UPCX Open-source platform UPCX lost $70 million worth of tokens due to unauthorized access. The team suspended operations while they investigated the breach.
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Former Blade of God X exec claims game ‘abandoned’ Web3 A former executive accused Blade of God X’s Web2 team of claiming cash prizes supposedly allocated to players.