The Daily: Crypto whale loses almost $50M in DeFi swap, BlackRock’s staked Ethereum ETF sees ‘very solid’ debut, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Six North Korean individuals and two entities were hit with U.S. sanctions over an alleged crypto-fueled fraud scheme targeting U.S. firms.
Surging to a near one-month high of $74,000, bitcoin reversed back to just above $71,000 as news of U.S. military movements in the Middle East rattled risk assets.
A dormant crypto whale just bet $7 million on the Trump memecoin after a new Mar-a-Lago gala was announced, sparking a 60% rally for the struggling token.
The feature allows users to verify and sign every transaction generated by an AI agent using a Ledger hardware device, ensuring private keys never leave the hardware signer.
The billionaire investor said stablecoins could become the whole payment system in 10-15 years, and reiterated that crypto might replace the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency.
Bitcoin bulls squeezed the market toward $74,000 again as promising US inflation data buoyed risk assets, but BTC price forecasts stayed mixed.
A pair of planned Dubai conferences, Token2049 and TON Connect, have been pulled from the calendar amid Middle East unrest.
Olivier Janssens’ Destiny project offered Nevis residents $100 a month if the government approves the development, triggering sharp local criticism, the Financial Times reported.
The Treasury Department said North Korea infiltrated IT workers into U.S. businesses and channeled their wages back to the country to fund weapons of mass destruction programs.
Law enforcement agencies seized 34 domains, 23 servers and froze $3.5 million in crypto linked to SocksEscort, a proxy service that hijacked 369,000 devices.
Yield-bearing stablecoins are growing faster than the broader market as US lawmakers remain divided over how crypto yield should be regulated.