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SEC Hits Crypto Executive With $16 M Fraud Charges Over Fake Insurance Claims
30+ min ago (979+ words) The SEC went after Donald Basile on Monday. Fraud charges. The crypto executive allegedly ran a $16 million scheme built on lies about Bitcoin Latinum, a token he promoted with bogus insurance guarantees that never existed. Bitcoin Latinum got marketed as…...
XRP Clings to Key Bitcoin Support as ETF Money Pours In
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (1016+ words) XRP isn't budging from a critical price floor against Bitcoin. The 200-week support level is holding, and it's holding while more than $1. 1 billion flows into crypto exchange-traded funds. Traders are watching two things at once: that technical line in the…...
Circle Launches USDC Bridge to Speed Cross-Chain Stablecoin Movement
3+ hour, 1+ min ago (793+ words) Circle rolled out the USDC Bridge. The new tool lets users move USDC natively between blockchains without third-party wrapping or complicated swaps. It's a big upgrade to Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol, which already pushes more than $500 million in USDC around…...
Strategy's Bitcoin Bet Turns Green After Brutal $11 Billion Wipeout
4+ hour, 35+ min ago (251+ words) Strategy's bitcoin stash is back in the black. Not by much, but it's there. The company's board stuck with the plan. They kept declaring preferred share dividends throughout the downturn, signaling confidence even as common stockholders watched their equity get…...
Wealthsimple Hits $1 Billion in Trading Volume Two Days After X Cashtags Launch
5+ hour, 31+ min ago (943+ words) Wealthsimple just did something big. The Canadian online brokerage integrated X's new Cashtags feature into its platform, and users didn't waste time. Trading volume hit $1 billion in 48 hours. That's fast, even by modern fintech standards, and it's raising questions about…...
Circle Gets Hit With Lawsuit Over $280 M Drift Hack as Experts Debate Freeze Powers
6+ hour, 10+ min ago (737+ words) Circle can't catch a break. The stablecoin giant now faces a class action suit tied to the massive Drift Protocol exploit that drained $280 million from the Solana-based trading platform. A California law firm, Gibbs Mura, filed the complaint and says…...
Polish PM Tusk Drops Bombshell Claim Linking Crypto Exchange to Russian Mafia
6+ hour, 21+ min ago (782+ words) Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk just threw a grenade into his country's crypto debate. He stood up in parliament Friday and accused Zondacrypto'a local exchange'of taking money from Russian organized crime. Specifically, the Bratva. And Russian intelligence services. The prime…...
Double Zero Launches Edge to Cut Solana Data Lag for Traders
3+ hour, 5+ min ago (547+ words) Double Zero Foundation just rolled out Edge. The platform's in public beta now, and it's pretty much built to get raw Solana block data to traders faster than anything else out there. Edge uses a private global fiber network instead…...
Rave DAO rockets 56. 30% to lead altcoin gains " Daily Movers Apr 18
8+ hour, 16+ min ago (702+ words) Rave DAO jumped 56. 30% to $26. 72, topping the 24-hour gainers list, according to Coin Gecko data. Meme Core rose 17. 64% to $4. 39 and De Xe added 13. 09% to $12. 68, while Ethena and Morpho posted double-digit and high single-digit advances. On the downside, Worldcoin slid 10. 91% to $0. 2829 to…...
SEC's Paul Atkins Launches Podcast to Demystify Agency Decisions
9+ hour, 21+ min ago (876+ words) The SEC just rolled out a podcast. Chairman Paul Atkins wants to talk directly to investors and anyone watching the markets, and he's doing it through "Material Matters with SEC Chairman Paul Atkins." The agency said the show will feature…...