The US is looking to nab $7.1 million worth of crypto seized by Homeland Security in December tied to an allegedly fraudulent oil and gas investment scheme. The Seattle US Attorney’s Office said on Tuesday that it filed a civil action to seek the forfeiture of some of the $97 million taken in by the…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission approved and then immediately paused the conversion of Bitwise’s crypto index fund into an exchange-traded fund, leaving it in limbo pending a review. The SEC’s division of trading and markets granted an “accelerated approval” of the Bitwise 10 Crypto Index conversion into an ETF on Tuesday, which means Bitwise…
SpaceX has moved 1,308 Bitcoin, worth approximately $153 million, in its first onchain activity in three years. The movement was flagged by Arkham Intelligence, which tracks wallets tied to the company. The Bitcoin (BTC) was withdrawn from 16 Pay-to-Public-Key-Hash (P2PKH) addresses and consolidated into a single SegWit-compatible Pay-to-Witness-Public-Key-Hash (P2WPKH) address, where it remained at time of…
Key takeaways A crypto inheritance plan is vital because losing private keys or seed phrases can permanently make assets like Bitcoin, Ether and NFTs unrecoverable. A strong inheritance plan includes asset inventories, secure access instructions and a trusted executor, ensuring heirs can safely and legally access holdings. Privacy must be protected using encrypted files, sealed…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) plan to streamline securities tokenization may sound promising, but it is unlikely to benefit investors unless it delivers genuine innovation and efficiency, according to market maker Citadel Securities. “Tokenized securities must achieve success by delivering real innovation and efficiency to market participants, rather than through self-serving regulatory arbitrage,”…
Poseidon has secured $15 million in seed funding led by a16z Crypto to build a decentralized data layer designed for artificial intelligence training. The San Francisco-based full-stack AI data layer said it aims to tackle the scarcity of high-quality, IP-cleared training data in AI development, according to a Tuesday announcement shared with Cointelegraph. “LLMs and…
PancakeSwap Infinity, the fourth version of the PancakeSwap decentralized exchange (DEX), has made it to Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network, Base. According to a Tuesday announcement shared with Cointelegraph, PancakeSwap Infinity is now live on Base. The announcement follows the launch of PancakeSwap Infinity on BNB Chain at the end of April. The announcement comes as…
Telegram began rolling out its native cryptocurrency wallet to users in the US, marking a significant expansion of its blockchain-based services. Built on The Open Network (TON) blockchain, TON Wallet is the first self-custodial crypto wallet to be integrated into a major social platform available to US users, according to a Tuesday news release shared…
Private sale investors of the Pump.fun (PUMP) memecoin started offloading billions of tokens to exchanges, raising concerns of a sell-off as the token drops below its initial sale value. Blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain flagged that two early backers of the memecoin token, labeled in Solscan as “PUMP Top Fund 1” and “PUMP Top Fund 2,”…
Strategy, the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder, is launching a new kind of stock offering, aiming to raise more funds to invest in the world’s first cryptocurrency. Michael Saylor’s Strategy announced plans to conduct an initial public offering of 5 million shares of Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC). Strategy will…