Stephen Katte

Mashinsky pleaded guilty in December 2024 to commodities fraud and manipulating the price of CEL, earning $48 million by selling his holdings before Celsius collapsed.

The X accounts of Curve Finance and Tron DAO were recently taken over by scammers, adding to the growing list of high-profile account takeovers.

OKX said its upgrades to the re-launched DEX aggregator include measures to identify suspicious or fraudulent onchain activity from hackers and other bad actors.

Users’ hot wheel NFT collections and the Mattel Digital Collectibles Marketplace will continue operating as usual through 2025, while the company evaluates what to do next.

Dogecoin, in particular, has seen a notable spike in online discussions as various ETF applications are being considered in the US, says Santiment's Brian Quinlivan.

Sky proposed penalties on Maker tokenholders who are slow to upgrade to SKY tokens as the DeFi protocol pushes to finish its changeover.

A nearly $331 million Bitcoin phishing scam pushed crypto losses in April to $364 million, jumping up from under $29 million lost in March.

CoinGecko tracked 7 million tokens since 2021 and found that over half had failed, with 1.8 million tokens alone dying in the first quarter of 2025.

FTX has sued NFT Stars and Kurosemi, which operates as Delysium, in the collapsed crypto exchange’s latest bid to try to scrape together money for its creditors.

Australia’s financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC says it’s undertaking a blitz on dormant registered crypto exchanges to weed out scammers.

If it gets the nod from United Arab Emirates regulators, the dirham-pegged and central bank-regulated stablecoin will operate on the ADI blockchain.

The University of Zurich's Faculty of Arts and Sciences Ethics Commission said it had investigated the incident and promised to coordinate better with test subjects in the future.

Mastercard also partnered with OKX for a crypto-enabled bank card, which Mastercard product chief, Jorn Lambert, said creates a “360-degree approach” to stablecoins.

Coinbase legal boss Paul Grewal told SEC Chair Paul Atkins in a letter that his staff being unable to hold crypto is a roadblock for the agency's Crypto Task Force.

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen previously told Cointelegraph that the trades involved were between individual market participants and not the platform itself.

A proposed class lawsuit is asking Nike for $5 million in damages, claiming it broke consumer protection laws and various state unfair trade and competition laws.

Silent Push senior threat analyst Zach Edwards says the FBI has since shut down at least one of the companies.

Ethereum validators supported raising the network’s gas limit on Feb. 4, increasing the gas limit to 36 million.

Citi predicts the stablecoin supply will remain US dollar-denominated, with non-US countries likely using CBDCs instead.

Mango Markets has filed a victim impact statement asking the court that in light of Eisenberg’s conviction, to grant $47 million in restitution to the exchange.

Russia’s central bank announced a proposal in March to allow a limited number of Russian investors with a certain amount of assets to buy and sell cryptocurrencies under a three-year experimental regime.

Crypto traders are curious about artificial intelligence and are willing to give it a shot at managing a portion of their investments, according to a CoinGecko survey.

The Financial Times reports that Tether will fork out $1.5 billion, Softbank Group will add $900 million and Bitfinex will put in $600 million to a new crypto acquisition company, 21 Capital.

Australia’s financial regulator launched civil legal proceedings in November 2022, arguing Block Earner needed a financial services license to offer its crypto-linked fixed-yield earning products.

US District Judge Barbara Rothstein said she granted the motion because the two lawsuits were very similar and it would promote efficiency and avoid duplicative litigation.

Crypto exchange WazirX is waiting for a hearing to take place in mid-May that will allow it to restart operations and compensate affected users.

A Synthetix spokesperson told Cointelegraph on April 18 that sUSD’s volatility was driven by “structural shifts” after the SIP-420 launch.

The pseudonymous co-founder of Dead Bruv, said the initiative was about trying to “make NFTs fun again” and was sparked by a joke that turned into a “lightbulb moment.”

DappRadar analyst Sara Gherghelas says most rug pulls in 2025 so far have been tied to memecoins, while in 2024 the main culprits were DeFi protocols and NFT projects.

DeFi platforms account for a big chunk of Yemen’s crypto web traffic, over 63%, while global centralized exchanges account for 18%, blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs says.