Dogecoin has emerged as one of the top-performing assets amidst market recovery from significant volatility last weekend. Trading at $0.164, the eighth-largest crypto by market capitalization, has extended its monthly gains to nearly 96%. Coinciding with this surge, the number of transactions by DOGE whales has hit a new milestone. Dogecoin Whales Make a Splash...Read More
Phishing scams have wreaked havoc in the digital asset ecosystem and are making a comeback amidst market-wide recovery. These attacks have grown increasingly sophisticated, leading to high-profile crypto investors, whales, and prominent industry figures becoming victims, ultimately resulting in substantial financial losses. In its latest update on March 21st, CertiK identified a deposit of 3,700...Read More
On March 21, there was a net outflow of $94 million from the ten newly launched spot Bitcoin ETFs. Although the figure is lower than the previous three days, it represents another day when funds have been pulled out of the institutional investment products. Fund outflows for March 18th, 19th, and 20th totaled $154 million,...Read More
After a series of back-and-forths regarding Do Kwon’s extradition, it appears that the Terraform Labs co-founder and former CEO may finally be handed over to South Korean authorities after the Appellate Court of Montenegro confirmed a previous decision to extradite him to his native country. Terraform Labs’ Chief Executive Officer, who was arrested in March...Read More
The current CEO of FTX, John Ray, has disputed the former CEO Sam Bank Fried’s assertion that there was “zero” harm to customers during the platform’s collapse in 2022, labeling the claim as “reckless” and “false.” Ray’s criticism follows Bankman-Fried’s conviction in November for embezzling $8 billion from FTX customers. John Ray Challenges SBF’s Defense...Read More
The once-hot NFTs witnessed a significant downturn during the crypto winter. But this sector again appears to have bounced back following the widespread rebound of digital assets. One of nine Alien Punks was sold for 4,850 ETH – the second-largest CryptoPunks sale ever – just days after a similar recent transaction of Alien Punk #3100....Read More
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has likely already bottomed from a sharp pullback that followed new all-time highs last week, according to popular price analyst Willy Woo. The analyst provided a list of “good news” and ”bad news” surrounding Bitcoin’s fundamentals on Thursday, comparing the asset’s recent consolidation to that of past bull market cycles....Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange OKX has reportedly said that its services in India are being discontinued due to local regulations. In an email notification sent on March 21st, the platform urged users in the country to close their positions by the end of April. The latest development comes on the heels of a continued crackdown on global...Read More
Bitcoin’s setback below $61,000 triggered a market-wide correction. Despite the inflow of fresh capital, the leading crypto asset registered 15% in weekly losses at one point after hitting new all-time highs earlier this month. QCP Capital’s analysis suggests that the Bitcoin bull market is far from over while simultaneously highlighting a continued liquidity rotation, which...Read More
Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market have recovered, wiping out most of the losses incurred during the recent correction. Besides this latest recovery, the leading asset could see more positive returns in the near future, according to the latest data. Bitcoin Non-Zero Wallet Addresses Drop Santiment’s recent analysis of Bitcoin’s network activity revealed...Read More
United States spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have experienced three consecutive days of total net outflows, with $261.5 million exiting the funds on March 20. At the same time, the price of BTC has recovered, rising from under $61,000 to $67,000, indicating a 9% increase from the previous day. Bitcoin ETFs Outflows Hit $742 Million...Read More
Stacks (STX) prices have skyrocketed more than 30% over the past few hours, reaching an all-time high of $3.65 before cooling off a little. The token had climbed from an intraday low of $2.75 on March 20 but had retreated slightly to trade at $3.36 at the time of writing. Furthermore, the asset has made...Read More
After weeks of nonstop bullish momentum, Bitcoin (BTC) retraced below $61K, a correction many analysts deemed necessary before the halving. As CryptoPotato reported, over $220 billion were lost in just two days, with altcoins like Solana (SOL), Dogecoin (DOGE), and Ripple (XRP) suffering the most. However, the trend changed in the following hours, especially after...Read More
Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev has been accused of laundering $1.2 billion of illicit funds through the OFAC-sanctioned platform, as per the latest report. Since his arrest in August 2022, Pertsev has dismissed the allegations of breaching money laundering laws. The latest indictment from the Netherlands claims that Pertsev was involved in money laundering on...Read More
In its letter to District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday, the legal team behind the disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has contested the sentencing recommendation put forth by the Department of Justice last week. The US prosecutors had previously proposed a prison term of 40 to 50 years for the former FTX CEO, but the...Read More
Kyle Davies, the co-founder of the defunct cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), says he is not sorry that his company collapsed in 2022 and lost billions of investors’ funds in the process. Davies expressed his lack of remorse during an interview with Laura Shin on a March 19 episode of the Unchained Podcast,...Read More
On March 19, BlackRock revealed that it is preparing to offer a fund through a partnership with digital asset tokenization specialist Securitize. According to a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the Wall Street giant plans to launch the “BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund.” However, the total size of the fund was...Read More
The official X account of Trezor, a renowned hardware wallet manufacturer, fell victim to a devastating compromise, likely organized through a SIM swap attack. The breach resulted in fraudulent messages flooding the platform, promoting fake token sales and wallet scams. Trezor Account Breach The alarm was first raised by ZachXBT, an anonymous on-chain sleuth, who,...Read More
Bitcoin’s recent dip to $60.8K mounted concerns about the sustainability of the rally. It was the biggest single-day decline in a fortnight as a result of a decline in inflows of spot Bitcoin ETFs on the same day. The downturn was widespread, with several altcoins following Bitcoin’s suit. Despite this price correction, the bullish sentiment...Read More
On March 19, the US Securities and Exchange Commission delayed its decision on whether to approve spot Ethereum ETFs from Hashdex and Ark 21Shares. Both products have now been postponed until a final SEC decision is made in late May. The Ark 21Shares deadline is May 24, and Hashdex will get its application approved or...Read More
In a worrying trend, Bitcoin miners’ reserves hit a low not seen since April 2021. This coincides with lagging active addresses in the network while Bitcoin short-term holders sold off some of their holdings, dragging its value below $63,000. According to CryptoQuant’s latest analysis, there is a significant decline in the Bitcoin miners’ reserve, reaching...Read More
A Federal High Court in Nigeria has ordered the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, to release comprehensive data of all local users trading on its platform to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as the clampdown on the firm for its alleged role in the devaluation of the naira continues. According to a report...Read More
Asset management firm Fidelity wants traders of its proposed spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund (ETF) to be able to stake their assets upon the product’s approval. The financial giant included the request in an amendment of its November 17 application to launch a spot Ethereum ETF in the United States. Fidelity Includes Staking in ETF Proposal...Read More
Binance disclosed in its 16th proof-of-reserves (PoR) snapshot that its assets exceeded $100 billion as of March 18. The exchange views this milestone not merely as an “arbitrary number” but as evidence of continued trust in Binance and a strong indication of the crypto markets’ solid performance. Binance’s User Asset Holdings Surge In a blog...Read More
Following his departure from the crypto exchange Binance last November, the company’s founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao, also known as “CZ,” is looking to establish a non-revenue, free education project. The new venture targets underprivileged kids who have no access to education in developing countries. A Free, Online Education Platform for Children In an...Read More
Analysts at the Bitfinex crypto exchange say that alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins) have remained resilient amid Bitcoin’s (BTC) approximately 12.5% correction in the past week. According to the latest Bitfinex Alpha report, the altcoin market’s resilience is demonstrated in the Total3 index, which reached a new cycle-high market capitalization of $788 billion on March 14. Although...Read More
Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnhenshein has promised to lower the management fee of the company’s spot Bitcoin ETF, whose above-average cost has led to overwhelming outflows in recent months. In an interview with CNBC on Monday, the executive promised that the fee will drop over time as the crypto ETF market matures. “I’ll happily confirm that,...Read More
Ethereum staking could present challenges for crypto asset manager Grayscale if the SEC greenlights fund conversion for ETHE as it did for GBTC. These are the findings of BitMEX research, which added that if the SEC does not allow staking, then there will be large outflows from the firm’s ETHE fund, larger than those from...Read More
Crypto exchanges HTX (formerly Huobi), Bitget, and BingX have pledged to donate trading fees to support the Slerf community after the anonymous meme coin developer accidentally burned $10 million in presale funds. Despite this setback, market speculators aggressively pumped the token, increasing its value by over 5,000% and sending its price above the $1 mark....Read More
Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), managing a staggering $1.5 trillion, has initiated inquiries into diversifying its portfolio, eyeing assets like Bitcoin in addition to gold, forests, and farmland. The latest move is a call for information and doesn’t signify an immediate expansion of investment targets, including Bitcoin. World’s Largest Pension Fund Explores Bitcoin Founded...Read More
