HashFlare founders given time served for $577M crypto Ponzi
HashFlare co-founders Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin were given time served for copping to their roles in a $577 million...
Month: August 2025
OpenEden taps BNY Mellon to manage tokenized US Treasury assets
BNY Mellon will manage and custody the assets backing OpenEden’s Moody’s “A”-rated tokenized US Treasury fund, expanding the bank’s presence...
Coinbase revives stablecoin bootstrap fund to boost USDC in DeFi
Coinbase has revived its fund to boost USDC liquidity in DeFi, starting with supporting the stablecoin on Aave, Morpho, Kamino,...
Tom Lee’s Bitmine Becomes Largest Ethereum Treasury With 1.15M ETH
TLDR Bitmine became the first Ethereum treasury to hold more than 1 million ETH worth $4.9 billion. The company increased...
20M RLUSD Burned on Ethereum: Why Ripple is Powering Up the XRP Ledger
TLDR Ripple burned 20 million RLUSD on Ethereum and minted the same amount on the XRP Ledger. The transactions were...
Bitcoin traders target $137K as US CPI print raises Fed rate cut odds to 94%
Bitcoin bulls lift their price target to $137,000 as odds of a Federal Reserve rate cut increase. Key takeaways:July US...
Crypto crime unit with $250M in seizures expands with Binance
Tron, Tether, and TRM Labs expand their crime-fighting unit with Binance as the first T3+ partner, as industry data shows...
Ethereum dev detained in Turkey donates to Roman Storm’s defense fund
Federico Carrone, an Ethereum core developer, pledged $500,000 to the Tornado Cash co-founder’s legal fund after being detained in Turkey...
Grayscale launches two trusts linked to Sui ecosystem protocols
DeepBook and Walrus’s “Winter Walrus” are ranked outside of the top 10 Sui ecosystem protocols, according to DefiLlama. Grayscale announced...
Ethereum ETFs Snap Up $1B in ETH as Price Edges Toward Record High
TLDR Ethereum ETFs purchased $1 billion worth of ETH in a single day. BlackRock led the inflows with a $640...
Ethereum Taps $4,600 as Bulls Set Sights on $6K
Ethereum’s ( ETH) price climbed past the $4,600 mark Tuesday, hitting an intraday peak of $4,629 per token on Deribit....
Trump Nominee Wants to Halt Monthly Jobs Reports
E.J. Antoni has been tapped to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) by U.S. President Donald Trump and now...
Google Veteran: Seed Phrase Math Protects Bitcoin From Quantum Attack
Despite Microsoft’s breakthrough million-qubit quantum computer design, a former Google Europe veteran asserts that Bitcoin’s cryptography remains fundamentally secure for...
Bitcoin Hashrate Cools After Record as Difficulty Bites
Four days ago, Bitcoin’s hashrate hit an all-time high of 976 exahash per second (EH/s), but it has since cooled,...
US prosecutors double down on 10-year sentence for HashFlare co-founders
The two men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in February and later received a letter directing them...
