Stephen Katte

Meta-1 Coin was sold and marketed from 2018 to 2023 as an investment backed by $44 billion in gold and $1 billion in artworks, which turned out to be fictional.

Grinex has been accused by US authorities of assisting Russia and other entities in evading sanctions and laundering funds for Russia-linked hackers.

Crypto users in the US are required to pay capital gains taxes on cryptocurrencies, stifling their usefulness as a currency, argued a Washington DC-based think tank.

Tat Thang, a partner at the prediction platform Polymarket, suggests X is building a Web3 equivalent of the Chinese WeChat Pay citing its recent moves to scrub crypto bots.

Bitwise's Matt Hougan previously estimated that if Bitcoin captures 17% of the store-of-value market over the next decade, it could be worth $1 million a coin.

OneCoin was launched by Ruja Ignatova and Karl Sebastian Greenwood in Bulgaria. Ignatova has been missing since 2017, and Greenwood was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Coinone is the second to face South Korea’s crackdown on exchanges in the last month, following a $24 million fine and a six-month partial suspension order against Bithumb.

Large holders are accumulating TRUMP ahead of a Mar-a-Lago event for top token holders, even as the memecoin trades down over 30% since March.

The vote passed with nearly 75% in favor. Other elements of the framework, including the growth and development grants, will have separate governance proposals.

Some industry insiders speculate the crypto sector may be just one market cycle away from full-scale mainstream adoption.

A listing on the NYSE requires a company to meet strict requirements covering financial health, share distribution and corporate governance.

Yuga Labs first filed a lawsuit in June 2022, accusing Ripps and Cahen of copying its Bored Ape Yacht Club cartoon ape images and selling lookalike NFTs.

Two macro catalysts — wealth transfer and payment disruption — could push stablecoin usage far beyond baseline growth forecasts, analysts say.

The approval puts Coinbase under Australia’s financial rules as the country formalizes oversight of crypto platforms.

Under SEC Chair Paul Atkins, the number of SEC enforcement actions against public companies has decreased by about 30%.

The 30-day simple moving average of the global network hashrate has also declined, though an analyst says the slump is due to Bitcoin prices hurting mining profitability rather than conflict.

New documents seen by The New York Times suggest the Argentine president had seven phone calls with the entrepreneur behind the Libra token.

In an experiment, a chatbot resorted to blackmail after it found an email about replacing it, while in another, it cheated to complete a task with a tight deadline.

Bitchat launched in July last year and has been used during protests in Madagascar, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia and Iran as authorities attempted to restrict usage of the internet.

January saw the largest attack against a DeFi protocol of the quarter, the $40 million private key compromise of portfolio management platform Step Finance.

Arkham also flagged a 500 Bitcoin outflow from Riot on Thursday, while MARA Holdings, Genius Group and Nakamoto Holdings sold a combined 15,501 Bitcoin in the last week.

Singh faced legal action from the SEC, CFTC and US Department of Justice after FTX collapsed in November 2022 but avoided significant prison time by cooperating with authorities.

Taiwanese lawmaker Ko Ju-Chun said last year that the country’s Ministry of Justice holds 210 Bitcoins, worth $14 million, confiscated during criminal investigations.

Block cut 4,000 of its staff in February as part of its AI-driven pivot. A new post by Block's Jack Dorsey has shed light on how the company and others might operate in the future.

The conflict in Iran has been escalating following US and Israeli strikes against Iran in February, which sent oil prices higher and crypto and broader markets tumbling.

Prediction markets are facing increasing scrutiny over allegations of insider trading, prompting Kalshi and Polymarket to plan guardrails to curb potential incidents.

Bitmine bought over 71,000 Ether over the past week, adding to the 238,244 Ether it acquired over the previous four weeks.

Prosecutors allege the stolen funds were used to purchase collectibles, including Pokémon cards, antique Roman coins and a piece of fabric from the Wright brothers' plane.

The Google Play Store page states that the app collects personal data, such as a phone number, while the App Store directs users to the White House’s privacy policy.

Monthly notional trading volume for prediction markets has reached roughly $23.7 billion so far in March, up sharply from $1.9 billion at the same time last year.