Digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and currency news.
Key Highlights: The XRP ledger has experienced shifting transaction activity, with payments volume attempting a recovery after plunging near zero on October 24. XRP price is hovering at $1.09, dangerously close to the critical $1 threshold as bear market pressure intensifies across the market. Elevated transfer volume suggests growing investor fear, pointing toward potential token ...
Key Highlights: Wallets holding between 1 and 100 BTC accumulated a total of 14,207 Bitcoin over a two-week period despite falling prices. Approximately 108,700 non-zero Bitcoin wallets have been emptied since October 16 as retail market sentiment deteriorated. Exchange reserves have dropped to around 1.28 million BTC, signaling potential supply-side pressure even as analysts watch ...
Key Highlights: Bitcoin slipped 1.4% to trade near $74,200 as crypto markets braced for upcoming U.S. inflation data and potential Federal Reserve policy tightening. Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller advocated for higher interest rates, noting a sharp inflation increase could justify a 50-basis-point hike. Crude oil prices slid 2% to multimonth lows after President Donald ...
Key Highlights Bitcoin traded around $74,200 after hitting an overnight low of $74,100 as traders awaited key U.S. CPI inflation figures. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs registered $201 million in net outflows, led by a $213.2 million drawdown from BlackRock’s IBIT, marking its seventh consecutive session of redemptions. Avalanche (AVAX) jumped 5% over 24 hours following ...
Key Highlights: An estimated $6.3 billion in digital assets was stolen during the October attack on Binance, marking what could be the largest cryptocurrency theft in history. Bitcoin fell only around 6% in the 10 hours following the incident, displaying significantly greater resilience than during past industry shocks. Credit rating agency Fitch Ratings noted that ...
Key Highlights: Walt, formerly known as Wallet in Telegram, has officially launched as an independent, standalone application. New users can now create accounts using Apple or Google credentials, removing the requirement to hold a Telegram account. The standalone platform offers crypto trading, perpetual futures, yield-generating products, and tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs. Walt Expands Beyond ...
Key Highlights: Major digital asset and trading firms—including Coinbase, Kalshi, Kraken parent Payward, DRW Holdings, Jump Trading, and Paradigm—have filed a letter backing the CFTC in federal court. The coalition supports the CFTC against a lawsuit filed by the Capital Markets Alliance (CMA), a group representing traditional finance heavyweights such as Citadel Securities and Cboe. ...
Key Highlights: MistTrack, a blockchain tracking service affiliated with SlowMist, analyzed transactions from an address recently frozen by Tether. On-chain data indicates the targeted address interacted with wallets tied to phishing campaigns and investment scams, specifically “pig-butchering” schemes. Specific law enforcement requests or internal assessments behind the freeze have not been made public, and not ...
Key Highlights Federal Reserve policymaker Thomas Barkin warned that businesses are seeking to pass accumulated cost pressures—spanning fuel, health insurance, chips, and tariffs—onto consumers. Despite declining consumer confidence, spending remains buoyed by a low 4.1 percent unemployment rate and the wealth effect among higher-income households. Barkin highlighted artificial intelligence as a dual-edged macroeconomic risk capable ...
Key Highlights: European Union institutions are moving to establish standardized rules to guarantee that securities issued across diverse distributed ledger technologies share common custody and settlement practices. Officials warn that fragmented architectures risk splitting market liquidity, causing pricing disparities for identical assets, and impeding cross-border transactions. The ongoing technical initiative supports Europe’s Appia initiative and ...
Key Highlights: Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic identified a novel money laundering scheme involving six custom-created memecoins used to disguise funds stolen from Binance. Attackers linked to North Korea laundered roughly 117,000 NEAR tokens, valued at approximately $430,000, through decentralized liquidity pools between November 5 and November 7. The illicit wash trading strategy involved buying and ...
Key Highlights An Ethereum whale avoided an address poisoning scam, successfully moving 2,154.94 ETH (roughly $4.6 million) to a secure wallet. Automated bots targeted the long-dormant 2015 wallet within minutes of an initial test transaction using lookalike addresses. Wall Street giant Citi previously warned that low-value address poisoning attacks are inflating Ethereum’s transaction volume metrics. ...