President Donald Trump has ventured into the cryptocurrency space with the launch of his official meme coin, TRUMP, which launched on January 17. The coin has quickly gained attention across the crypto community. According to the project’s official page, TRUMP…
Lawmakers in North Dakota state have introduced a bill to restrict crypto ATM transactions and protect residents from fraud. The House Bill 1447 was submitted on January 15 to the state legislature, after 103 state residents reported $6.5 million in…
Caroline Pham, the acting chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has announced significant leadership changes at the agency, just days after being appointed by President Donald Trump. Pham outlined the new leadership structure in a January 22 statement,…
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis revealed that the majority of holdings for Donald Trump’s Official Trump (TRUMP) token and Melania Trump’s Melania Meme (MELANIA) token are concentrated in the hands of just 40 crypto whales. These whales, who each hold $10…
Bitwise, the largest crypto index fund manager, has reportedly filed for a Dogecoin (DOGE) exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Delaware. The company registered “Bitwise Dogecoin ETF” as a statutory trust on Wednesday through Delaware’s Department of State’s Division of Corporations. The…
A January 21 court filing revealed that the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas reversed sanctions against the crypto mixer Tornado Cash, which led to a sharp rise in the value of its token, TORN. The…
A Moscow bank staffer has been arrested on suspicion of stealing “about 180 million rubles [$1.8 million] from a client’s safe deposit box” and swapping the “stolen” banknotes for crypto. The banker was reportedly arrested “at one of the capital’s…
Upbit and Bithumb, South Korea’s two biggest crypto exchanges, have agreed to pay customers around $2.4 million worth of compensation for outages during the martial law chaos of December 3. Maeil Ilbo reported that the platforms have agreed to settle…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced on Wednesday plans to improve the platform’s support for Solana (SOL) following the resolution of recent transaction delays that affected users. We have the Solana backlog triaged, and transactions should generate quickly again. If your…
MicroStrategy, the American development company founded by Michael Saylor, expanded its Bitcoin holdings by 11,000 BTC, equivalent to $1.1 billion, as revealed in a January 21 post on X by the business intelligence executive. According to Saylor’s post on Tuesday,…