Silvergate’s Fraher breaks silence on settlement with Gensler’s SEC
Former Silvergate executive Kate Fraher said the rule that prevented her from sharing her side of the story was unconstitutional. It was finally lifted by the SEC this week. The…
Tax evaders are trying ‘novel digital assets’ to dodge authorities: Chainalysis
Italian authorities uncovered a tax evasion scheme in which an individual allegedly used Bitcoin Ordinals and the BRC-20 token standard to generate and conceal $1.1 million. Tax dodgers have started…
Syndicate Labs winds down after 5 years, citing shrinking rollup market
The Ethereum rollup market is dominated by Arbitrum and Base, which have a combined 68% market share, according to L2Beat. Syndicate Labs announced it is winding down after five years…
ZEC Hits $686 Amid $28M Liquidations as Analyst Warn of Coordinated Squeeze
The privacy coin Zcash jumped over 17% in six hours, hitting a new year-to-date high on May 20. The rally pushed its monthly gains past 90% and its market capitalization…
Community Is King: Why Wadoozie Is Ditching Online Hype for Real-World Participation
Wadoozie is a narrative-driven, on-chain attention network built on Ethereum, pairing a native ERC-20 token ($WADZ) with a real-world 48-state U.S. tour, 576 Signal Fragments redeemable for tokens (336 hidden…
Soluna Buys out Dorothy 1B as Bitcoin-to-AI Campus Conversion Advances
Soluna (NASDAQ: SLNH) Holdings has acquired full ownership of another portion of its flagship Texas campus, continuing a broader effort to transform a bitcoin mining complex into an AI and…
Ontop Uses Opentrade APIs to Turn Idle Payroll Cash Into 3% APR Rewards
Fintech payroll platform Ontop has partnered with stablecoin yield infrastructure provider Opentrade to launch a platform-wide ~3% APR rewards program for its remote workforce users. Mitigating Risk for Cross-Border Workers…
SEC seeks public comment as it weighs prediction market ETFs
Bitwise, Roundhill Investments and GraniteShares had their prediction market ETF applications put on hold by the SEC earlier this month. The US securities regulator is delaying the launch of a…
Hyperliquid ETFs surprise with 50% volume jump after slow launch
ETF analyst Eric Balchunas says crypto and traditional assets are trading down while Hyperliquid is up, leading to a boon for ETFs tied to the token. US-based exchange-traded funds tied…
Map Protocol token plummets 96% after a quadrillion token mint exploit
The attacker tricked the Butter Network cross-chain bridge into minting millions more tokens than the legitimate supply of MAPO. MAPO, the native token of the Map Protocol, fell 96% on…
Bitcoin treasury Nakamoto plans reverse stock split to save ailing share price
Shares in Nakamoto closed Wednesday at 16 cents. They are down more than 99% from May last year, when the stock traded above $25. Bitcoin treasury company Nakamoto is moving…
SpaceX reveals larger-than-expected Bitcoin holdings in IPO filing
SpaceX is expected to go public next month, which would make its 18,712 Bitcoin holdings rank seventh among public companies. Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX reported holding 18,712 Bitcoin worth…
Kalshi Quietly Stages Leveraged Crypto Push as Hidden API Surfaces Margin Demo
Kalshi has launched a demo environment for leveraged trading via a margin trading API that appears to be hidden from public navigation, as first reported by Ingame, but the demo…
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce to Join Regent Law Faculty
Regent University School of Law named SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce to a faculty role, adding a prominent crypto regulation voice to its academic ranks. Peirce will join the Virginia…
Italy Traces €1 Million in Undeclared Bitcoin Ordinals Gains
Italian investigators traced €1 million in undeclared crypto gains through a Bitcoin Ordinals trading operation after analyzing activity tied to a seized Ledger wallet. Chainalysis detailed how blockchain records and…