Ron Branstetter, creator of the viral meme coin Unicorn Fart Dust (UFD), announced that his Phantom wallet had been hacked, leading to the loss of $6.6 million worth of UFD tokens, Solana, and other crypto assets. Branstetter shared the news during an emergency livestream, expressing heartbreak while reassuring the community of his unwavering commitment to...Read More
Chris Dixon, founding partner at a16z Crypto, claims that misguided regulations fueled the meme coin explosion witnessed in 2024. The venture capitalist criticized the Biden administration’s approach to digital assets, arguing that its restrictive policies stifled real innovation and left the market with mostly speculative tokens. A Distorted Crypto Sector Speaking to prominent crypto journalist...Read More
The options and derivatives exchange CBOE has filed applications seeking the launch of Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for four leading asset managers in the United States. This development has once again restarted the race for the first SOL exchange-traded fund in the country. According to details on the CBOE rule filings site, the exchange has...Read More
The cryptocurrency world is buzzing as Solana whales turn their attention to FXGuys ($FXG), a project redefining DeFi and proprietary trading. With its innovative ecosystem, FXGuys has captured the interest of both institutional and retail investors. Its Stage 2 presale, priced at $0.04, has already raised over $3.6 million, marking it as one of the...Read More
[PRESS RELEASE – Zug, Switzerland, January 29th, 2025] Web3 agent developer Giza has announced the launch of ARMA on Base network, setting a new standard for autonomous DeFi agents. ARMA, Giza’s flagship stablecoin yield optimization agent, is designed to simplify DeFi interactions, delivering sophisticated financial outcomes through autonomous decision-making and execution. Traditional DeFi tools require...Read More
[PRESS RELEASE – Miami, Florida, January 29th, 2025] Floki has announced a strategic three-month marketing campaign in collaboration with CoinGecko, the world’s largest independent cryptocurrency data aggregator. Set to launch on Jan. 31, the campaign aims to showcase the Floki Trading Bot to millions of crypto users globally. CoinGecko’s extensive ecosystem will serve as the...Read More
The crypto market is recording a surge in bitcoin (BTC) inflows to whale wallets, indicating that this cohort of investors has begun to accumulate the digital asset again amid the recent downturn. Analysts at the market intelligence platform CryptoQuant see a substantial inflow of BTC into whale addresses as the act of storing BTC in...Read More
[PRESS RELEASE – Victoria, Seychelles, January 29th, 2025] Margex, a trading platform offering accessible and user-friendly copy trading, unveiled Ripple’s stablecoin (RLUSD) as collateral for trading crypto pairs. Margex now supports RLUSD alongside other stablecoin options, such as USDT, offering users access to reliable and efficient trading solutions. RLUSD is a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin maintained...Read More
[PRESS RELEASE – Wan Chai, Hong Kong, January 29th, 2025] Ice Open Network (ION), a high-performance, privacy-focused Layer-1 blockchain, today announced its official mainnet launch after reaching a 200 validator headcount. This milestone comes after a comprehensive development and testing phase, alongside ecosystem growth that has led to ION building a community of 40 million...Read More
Crypto markets are down a further 2.7% on the day, with total capitalization falling to $3.6 trillion, and altcoins are taking the brunt of the fall. “Capital is unlikely to rotate from BTC to alts because the majority of CT [crypto Twitter] is self-confessed to be mostly in altcoins,” observed trader ‘TXMC’ on Jan. 29....Read More
It is “another milestone for the Everything App,” said X CEO Linda Yaccarino on Jan 28. “Visa is our first partner for the X Money account, which will debut later this year,” she added. The social media company will use Visa Direct, Visa’s solution for real-time money transfers, to load money into X Money’s wallet....Read More
World Liberty Financial (WLF) – a venture linked to Donald Trump and his family – has been on an aggressive accumulation spree. In fact, the public wallet associated with WLF now holds $370.4 million in assets across 44 distinct cryptocurrencies. WLF Targets DeFi Leadership According to Santiment’s findings, these accumulation strategies signal its growing influence...Read More