California Man Gets 78 Months in $250M Crypto Theft Ring
The 6.5-year sentence lands against a backdrop of record crypto-fraud losses — $11.3B last year per the FBI — and a wave of federal task-force arrests of the operators behind the schemes.
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The 6.5-year sentence lands against a backdrop of record crypto-fraud losses — $11.3B last year per the FBI — and a wave of federal task-force arrests of the operators behind the schemes.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has singled out the United States as the current front-runner in crypto policy…
Institutional trading volume jumped 800% in six months to $178B annualized — the funding is the easy story; the Wall Street shift toward event contracts is the harder one.
Two wallets linked to Metalpha and a separate whale moved over $95M in $ETH onto Binance in 60 minutes — a coordinated deposit pattern that usually precedes institutional selling pressure.
The Ethereum co-founder and loudest critic of toxic MEV just got hit by the very attack he has spent months campaigning to fix — the irony is the point, and the timing backs his encrypted-mempool…
The lending giant is folding cybersecurity, interoperability, and architecture into its listing criteria — and publishing a minimum-standards playbook the rest of DeFi will be measured against.
Each venue uses its own market maker and underlying structure, so a single equity is now trading at three meaningfully different marks on the same day.
Three rounds in seven months, with valuations roughly doubling each time — a growth pace that puts Kalshi in the same conversation as Polymarket and the broader prediction-market sector rushing to…
The price tag is eye-catching, but the harder signal is the institutional build-out — block trading, risk products, broker rails — and an 800% surge in institutional volume over six months.
The May 6 WHO confirmation of a Hantavirus cluster aboard MV Hondius has traders dusting off the March 2020 playbook.
New addresses on the XRP Ledger collapsed from 18k/day in December 2024 to 2.7k/day, and monthly active supply fell from 7.45B XRP to roughly 2B over the same window.
The handoff marks Bitwise's official entry into tokenized funds, with USCC's smart contracts and token address preserved — and Superstate pivoting to pure onchain infrastructure via FundOS.
Day 3 brings Trump Jr. and Zach Witkoff to the World Liberty Financial stage, Tom Lee's keynote, and a Senate Banking markup timeline that Patrick Witt pegged as achievable within four weeks.
Payward is now past $2.6B across three headline deals this cycle — and this one hands it a stablecoin payments foothold in Asia, the region co-CEO Arjun Sethi calls its fastest-growing outside Europe.
Thirteen of twenty constituents still trade higher, with ICP (+9.7%) and DOT (+1.7%) leading — a broad-market session where laggards, not leaders, set the index tone.
Abiodun used the Consensus 2026 stage to frame Sui as a future default payments rail — but the network is still working through recent validator stalls and a token 81% below its 2025 high.
Federal investigators at the DOJ and CFTC are examining a series of oil trades flagged as suspiciously timed ahead of…
It's Bitwise's first tokenized fund and Superstate's exit from running its own vehicles — a clean handoff that consolidates the $30B RWA rail around infrastructure-only plays.
Kraken's first infrastructure acquisition on the ground in Asia pairs its global exchange footprint with Reap's cross-border stablecoin settlement stack at a moment Payward is also telling investors…
A safe-haven bid in crude is pulling capital away from risk assets at the exact moment BTC is retesting a convergence breakout, leaving crypto in stall mode while geopolitics sets the macro tape.