Bonk.fun’s Website Hijacked: Users Who Clicked Lost Everything in Their Wallets
Bonk.fun, the Solana-based memecoin launchpad formerly known as LetsBonk.fun and backed by the BONK community and decentralized exchange Raydium, had its domain…
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Wells Fargo Files ‘WFUSD’ Trademark, Signaling a Push Beyond Internal Blockchain…
Wells Fargo & Company, one of the four largest banks in the United States by assets, filed a trademark application on March 9 for the name “WFUSD” with the…
Thailand Has Now Frozen Nearly 58,000 Crypto Mule Accounts Since 2025
Thailand’s crypto industry is freezing accounts at a meaningful pace. Licensed digital asset operators, the exchanges and brokers that operate under the oversight…
A Hacker Stole $21.5M in Bitcoin From South Korean Prosecutors. Then Gave It Back
The Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office in South Korea has completed the sale of 320.8 Bitcoin (BTC), worth approximately $21.5 million, that were originally…
Winklevoss Twins Move $130 Million in Bitcoin to Gemini as Post-IPO Lock-Up Expires
Wallets identified by Arkham Intelligence as belonging to Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, co-founders of crypto exchange Gemini, moved approximately 1,773 bitcoin to…
Congress Probes Trump-Linked Brokerage Over Chinese Ramp-and-Dump IPO Schemes
The House Select Committee on China, chaired by Representative John Moolenaar (R-MI) with Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) as ranking member, sent letters on Monday…
Bhutan Has Sold 58% of Its Bitcoin After Moving Another $11.8M in BTC
Bhutan has been selling Bitcoin quietly and consistently since late 2024, and Monday’s transfer was more of the same. Arkham Intelligence, the blockchain analytics…
Nigel Farage Invests $287K in Stack BTC, Becomes Largest Individual Shareholder
Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, current poll-topper, and, as of Monday, a Bitcoin company shareholder, has invested £215,000 in Stack BTC, a small London-listed…
Prosecutors Push for Tornado Cash Developer Retrial One Day After Treasury Said Mixers…
A Manhattan jury spent four weeks last summer hearing evidence in the case against Roman Storm, the Auburn, Washington-based developer who co-founded Tornado Cash,…
South Korea’s FIU Proposes Six-Month Partial Suspension for Bithumb Over AML…
Bithumb, founded in 2014 and currently South Korea’s second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, received a preliminary sanctions notice on Monday from the…
Coinbase Opens Crypto Futures Trading Across 26 European Countries for the First Time
European crypto traders have long had access to derivatives, just not through regulated exchanges. Platforms like Binance, Bybit, and BitMEX built much of their…
Sharplink Reports $734M Loss for 2025 as Ethereum Price Drop Hits Its ETH Treasury
Sharplink, Inc. the Minneapolis-based company that pivoted from sports betting affiliate marketing to Ethereum treasury management in June 2025, reported its first…
Treasury Tells Congress Crypto Mixers Have Legitimate Privacy Uses in Landmark Report
The US Treasury Department has not historically been sympathetic to the privacy case for crypto mixers. In 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC),…
21Shares Lists First US Spot Polkadot ETF on Nasdaq Under Ticker TDOT
The US crypto ETF market got its first Polkadot product on Thursday. 21Shares, the Zurich-based asset manager that has been one of the most aggressive issuers of…
Dubai Orders KuCoin to Halt All Crypto Services, Citing Unlicensed Operations
KuCoin, the Seychelles-based exchange founded in China in 2017 and currently ranked among the top ten platforms globally by trading volume, has been ordered by…
Russia Proposes Letting Banks Enter Crypto Markets Through Simple Notification Process
Russia’s relationship with crypto regulation has spent years oscillating between near-total ban and grudging tolerance. The Central Bank of Russia, or CBR,…
Pudgy Penguins Hit With Trademark Suit From Apparel Brand That’s Been Using Penguins…
Original Penguin has been putting penguins on shirts since 1955. Pudgy Penguins launched its NFT collection in 2021 and started selling plush toys and clothing…
Reform UK Leads UK Party Fundraising After Tether Shareholder’s £12M in Donations
Christopher Harborne already hold the record for the largest single political donation by a living individual in British history. Apparently that wasn’t enough.…
Morgan Stanley Extends $500M Credit Line to Core Scientific, With Option to Reach $1B
Core Scientific has been telling the market it is no longer really a Bitcoin miner since at least mid-2024, when it signed its first major AI colocation deal with…
Bitwise Donates $233K to Bitcoin Developers, Bringing Two-Year Total to $383K
Most Bitcoin ETF issuers compete on fees. Bitwise has been competing on something else.
Since launching BITB in January 2024, the San Francisco-based asset…