Bitcoin liquidation cascade wipes out $646 million in 24 hours

Bitcoin’s drawdown to $115,300 punished the aggressive long leverage piled up in the market. BTC dropped from $117,786 at yesterday’s open to $115,353 in the early hours today, a 2.1 % slide that... Read more »

Bitcoin hits $1T realized cap as price aims to break resistance

Bitcoin has reached a new milestone with its realized capitalization crossing the $1 trillion mark for the first time, according to on-chain analytics firm Glassnode. The surge comes just a few days... Read more »

Memecoin platform PumpFun concludes one of the fastest ICOs, raising $600M in 12 minutes

Pump.fun, a platform that enables anyone to create and launch memecoins, concluded one of the largest and fastest initial coin offerings (ICOs) on Saturday. Within 12 minutes of the ICO going live,... Read more »

UAE debunks rumors of crypto-backed Golden Visa for TON investors

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have officially refuted claims that digital asset investors now qualify for the country’s long-term Golden Visa. The clarification comes after social media reports suggested a new... Read more »

DEXs capture almost 30% of CEX spot activity in June, setting new record

Decentralized exchanges (DEX) processed roughly $385 billion of spot trades in June, equal to almost 30% of the turnover recorded by centralized venues, according to DefiLlama and The Block data. The 30-day... Read more »

US academic institutions urge SEC to implement stringent crypto staking rules, oversight

Representatives from multiple universities met with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Crypto Task Force on June 23 to discuss a staking rulebook. The meeting included representatives from the University of... Read more »

North Korean dev hijacks dormant Waves repositories, slips credential-stealing code in wallet updates

A North Korean developer gained elevated privileges inside Waves Protocol’s Keeper-Wallet codebase, according to a June 18 report by Ketman. The report highlighted routine scans for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)... Read more »

Over $1.1B liquidated amid Middle East conflict with Bitcoin, Ethereum hit hardest

In the past 24 hours, over $1.14 billion in crypto market positions were liquidated, with long positions accounting for roughly 91 percent of the total, according to data from Coinglass. Crypto liquidations... Read more »

Song A Day creator recounts ‘tax nightmare’ after making millions from NFT sale

Singer-songwriter Jonathan Mann recently shared the story of how earning millions in Ethereum (ETH) during a one-hour sale of his NFTs eventually became a “tax nightmare.” Mann has published one song a... Read more »

Conor McGregor doubles down on an Irish strategic Bitcoin reserve, tags Nayib Bukele ‘let’s chat’

Former UFC champion and Irish presidential hopeful Conor McGregor is doubling down on his vision for an Irish strategic Bitcoin reserve. On May 30, he took to X to pledge a “decentralised... Read more »