Estonian nationals Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, operators of the defunct cloud mining service HashFlare, pleaded guilty to a multi-faceted $577 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.HashFlare provided

Binance-linked BNB Chain leapfrogged Solana in daily fees to lead all blockchains, according to Nansen data.BNB Chain generated over $5.8 million in daily fees on Feb. 13, surpassing Solana’s $3.3 million and totaling more than five times the sum of

DeFi.app, a platform aiming to simplify decentralized finance (DeFi) trading, has raised an additional $4 million in a seed extension round at a flat $100 million token valuation, matching its initial seed round valuation.The extension round included

ZkLend, a money market and lending protocol on zero-knowledge rollup StarkNet, has publicly acknowledged it was hacked for over $9 million.It asked the hacker to keep 10% of the stolen funds as a “white hat” reward while asking for the return of the

Cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs) posted a fifth consecutive week of inflows, totaling $1.3 billion, with Ether-based ETPs seeing the largest inflows.Ether ETPs accumulated 95% more inflows than Bitcoin ETPs in the past trading week, r

Bitcoin treasury company Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) acquired an additional 7,633 BTC for approximately $742.4 million at an average price of $97,255 per bitcoin between Feb. 3 and Feb. 9, according to an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exch

Long a wild card in the crypto scene, Dogecoin (DOGE) has been riding the waves of excitement, community passion, and even Bitcoin’s price swings.Speculation on the potential price pinnacle of Dogecoin is growing given Bitcoin’s present price hoverin

James Howells, a resident of Newport, South Wales, reportedly now wants to buy the landfill where he believes his lost £620 million ($768 million) bitcoin fortune is still buried, despite a UK judge dismissing his case last month. Howells, a computer

By Katherine HamiltonMicroStrategy swung to a loss that was wider than Wall Street expected after operating expenses surged on its purchase of $20.5 billion of bitcoin.The software company, which describes itself as a bitcoin treasury, posted a fourt

By Janet H. ChoCryptocurrency enthusiasts were digesting MicroStrategy's fourth-quarter earnings results after the market close on Wednesday.Chief Financial Officer Andrew Kang said the company saw its largest-ever increase in quarterly Bitcoin holdi

Healthcare tech and software firm Semler Scientific said that it purchased more than $88 million worth of Bitcoin over the past few weeks and was holding a paper gain of over 150%.Semler said in a Feb. 4 press release that it purchased 871 Bitcoin b

A federal appeals court in Manhattan has upheld the conviction of a former partner at law firm Locke Lord who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a nearly $400 million fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of

Tezos Layer 1 saw a 30.4% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) rise in transaction fee revenue, reaching 11,100 XTZ in Q4 2024. Meanwhile, Etherlink, Tezos’ first EVM-compatible smart roll-up, grew even faster, with a 44% quarterly increase, hitting 6,669 XTZ.

The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.Happy Tuesday! Jim Cramer, the Mad Money host known for his bold (and often wrong) calls, says it's time to own bitcoin again. Should we be

The political changes in the US are a fact as Donald Trump officially took office on Monday, becoming the country’s 47th president.Following the uncertainty ahead of his inauguration, US investors have become bullish once again toward the two largest

Today in crypto, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong proposed rethinking the company’s asset listing process, Virtuals Protocol is set to expand into the Solana ecosystem, and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) reportedly explores using

Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, has proposed rethinking the company’s asset listing process in response to the surge in token creation. In a Jan. 24 X post, Armstrong noted the challenges po

Solana’s price dip of 6.34% has forced the total liquidation of the asset to hit $14.98 million in the last 24 hours. This follows a brief spell of soaring price as investors anticipated higher growth as the coin nudged toward $270 in earlier trading

Recent market data reports a significant amount of ETH caught up in large holder activity within the last 48 hours.According to Ali, a crypto analyst, whales have bought over 1.14 million ETH in the last 48 hours. This massive accumulation has sparke

Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX has won approval from the Singapore High Court to restructure after the $230 million hack last year.The High Court has allowed WazirX to convene a scheme meeting with users in a "significant step" towards distrib