Month: April 2025

The U.S. Justice Department has scrapped its Crypto Enforcement Team, redirecting prosecutorial efforts exclusively toward cases linked to cartels and terrorism. This comes after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched a new Global Financial Stability Report, in which an entire chapter was dedicated to the worldwide risks posed by crypto. Although...

Binance sets USDC as the default for Binance Pay as Trump pushes for deregulation. The stablecoin market cap soars to over $233 billion. Is tokenization the future? Crypto, like any other industry, thrives on collaboration. Recently, Binance—the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume and client count—announced that USDC,...

When most people think of crypto hackers, they picture shadowy figures stealing NFTs or phishing people out of Bitcoin. But for North Korea, it’s become far more serious and strategic. Over the past few years, Pyongyang has turned to crypto theft on an industrial scale, using stolen digital assets to...

The Paris Blockchain Week 2025 saw Ripple President Monica Long make acquisition announcements, comment on crypto regulation and legislation, and business acceleration in the US and Europe. On 8 April 2025, answering a question about the possibility of Ripple’s Initial Public Offering (IPO), Long said, “I think Ripple CEO...

Bitcoin open interest dropped nearly 20% as speculators exited amid a $10,000 price crash from the Trump tariff war. Concerns about rising inflation, stagflation, and a general slowdown in the global economy could lead to a risk-on environment, forcing more capital into bonds and cash. Even so, could this...

An Ethereum whale who held 10,000 ETH for nearly 900 days has sold their entire position, missing out on a potential peak profit of $27.6 million. The investor originally acquired the Ether in October and November 2022 across two transactions totaling $13 million, paying an average of $1,295 per...

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has issued a warning about malicious Microsoft Office extensions being used to spread malware that targets cryptocurrency users. The malware, hidden in fake software packages uploaded to SourceForge, is designed to steal funds by altering copied crypto wallet addresses. In its April 8 report, Kaspersky’s Anti-Malware...

As of Wednesday morning, the yield on the UK’s 30-year government bond soared to 5.5%—its highest level since 1998—mirroring a broader climb in U.S. sovereign yields and sparking fresh concerns about financial market stability. Surging global bond yields are exerting significant downward pressure on risk assets. Since the U.S....

21Shares, one of the largest issuers of crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs), has officially launched the 21Shares Dogecoin ETP, the first Dogecoin-backed product endorsed by the Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) Foundation. What Happened: The product went live today, with listing on Swiss exchanges under the ticker DOGE. The Dogecoin ETP offers...

10X Research has identified a historically consistent warning sign of a Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) bear market now flashing red: the widening of U.S. corporate credit spreads. What Happened: According to the firm’s latest analysis, the year-on-year change in the ICE BofA BBB U.S. Corporate Index Option-Adjusted Spread has turned...