X Ban Wipes Out Crypto Rewards, Kaito Pivots To New Model After 20% Slump
An X executive confirmed the platform is rejecting enterprise fees from reward apps, triggering a 20% crash in assets like KAITO as the ‘pay-to-post’ model breaks.
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An X executive confirmed the platform is rejecting enterprise fees from reward apps, triggering a 20% crash in assets like KAITO as the ‘pay-to-post’ model breaks.
Geopolitical analysis suggests Congress legalized a massive wealth transfer by barring retail users from the interest generated by stablecoin reserves.
Brian Armstrong’s rejection of the Clarity Act marks the end of the “begging for scraps” era as industry leaders refuse a surrender treaty to the banking elite.
A new report reveals that the industrialization of token issuance drove 11.6 million crypto assets to failure in 2025, accounting for 86% of all dead coins.
December CPI data suggest the central bank’s implicitly accepting a higher inflation floor to avoid a recession, creating a structural tailwind for digital assets.
Institutional dominance hits a 42-month high as the asset removes its long-standing regulatory risk discount.
The unilateral freezing of $182 million in Venezuelan assets proves that Tether offers Washington faster control over rogue capital than the SWIFT banking system.
The Ethereum co-founder called for a return to cypherpunk roots on Monday, urging developers to prioritize censorship resistance over institutional convenience.
Federal Reserve Chairman Powell publicly linked a Justice Department investigation to his refusal to cut rates, ending the era of central bank independence.
The sanctioned nation has effectively replaced SWIFT with USDT stablecoin, processing 80% of its crude revenue via blockchain rails to bypass U.S. financial blockades.
Bitcoin’s battle for the $90,000 floor defines a week where institutional infrastructure officially replaced retail speculation as the crypto market’s primary driver.
The President-elect confirmed his stance in a New York Times interview, ending Sam Bankman-Fried’s strategic attempt to align with populist political narratives.
The world’s largest asset manager executed a massive contrarian buy order between January 6 and 8, absorbing supply as retail investors exited positions during the market correction.
The President’s executive order targets Wall Street’s role in residential real estate, triggering a selloff and a search for alternative hard-asset hedges.
The bank applied for an Ethereum fund with staking rewards just 24 hours after its Bitcoin and Solana filings, fueling theories of a coordinated institutional entry.
While index provider MSCI halted delistings, a technical cap on share counts removes the automatic institutional demand for new equity, neutralizing the Bitcoin ‘flywheel’ strategy.
The bank breaks rank to capture fee revenue from its $8 trillion advisory network with its first proprietary spot crypto products.
New analysis shows physical theft outpaces hacking as criminals target the “soft” human holding the private key.
The e-commerce provider confirmed unauthorized access to personal contact information while clarifying that payment data and Ledger hardware remain secure.
The bank’s asset management arm pivots from private ledgers to public infrastructure, utilizing the Kinexys…
The implementation of the OECD’s reporting framework forces exchanges to act as automated border agents, sharing granular transaction data with tax authorities in real-time.
The legislative push to regulate stablecoins represents a “cosmetic illusion of freedom” designed to entrench…
The central bank’s record New Year’s Eve operation exposes a structural deficit in private capital and strengthens the macro thesis for Bitcoin.
The firm formerly known as MicroStrategy decouples from its software roots to issue yield-bearing instruments backed by a 672,497 Bitcoin treasury.
The bank is leveraging strict compliance standards to restrict startups like Blindpay while scaling its own $1 billion-a-day digital currency network.
The network rollback suggests that for major IP partners, transaction finality is secondary to balance sheet protection.
BlackRock CEO says regulatory clarity has paved the way for sovereign wealth funds to treat crypto as a hedge against fiscal debasement.
Galaxy Digital CEO warns that legacy assets must transition from “narrative-driven” to “business-driven” models as the market demands protocol-level revenue.
A 5-year dormant wallet moved massive liquidity to Binance Monday, signaling a ‘Great Rotation’ as Wall Street demand drains exchange reserves to 2022 levels.
Tron founder Sun doubles down on 2022 bailout narrative, framing a self-interested liquidity bid as a missed opportunity to save the exchange.
Draft legislation proposes a “grand bargain” for crypto: a five-year income deferral for staking rewards in exchange for strict wash sale rules and hedging taxes.
State-backed North Korean hackers pivot to centralized exchanges, driving a 45% surge in illicit revenue despite executing fewer total attacks.
The asset has drifted 5% lower in 2025, frustrating retail traders while on-chain metrics signal a quiet maturation of the market structure.
With a New York trust charter in hand and a federal regulator now leading legal, MoonPay is courting Wall Street’s biggest exchange operator to cement its status as a qualified custodian.
The reversal dismantles a key barrier for state-chartered crypto banks, prompting immediate praise from Custodia CEO Caitlin Long and a dissent from Vice Chair Michael Barr.
Prices touched $90,000 before plunging to $86,000. Viral rumors of institutional dumping sparked the move, but data shows a standard rebalance.
Platform pits established Shiba Inu against high-volatility newcomers to highlight divergence between legacy digital assets and emerging speculative tokens.
Agency implements 120-day decision deadline under GENIUS Act, granting default licenses to lenders if regulators stall.
Bank pivots from private ledgers to public infrastructure, seeking enhanced liquidity and 24/7 settlement utility for institutional clients.
Legislation championed by Senator Lummis aims to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve funded by revaluing Federal Reserve gold certificates.
Asset manager seeks Singapore-based strategy lead and US product directors to expand “next-generation” tokenization and ETF offerings.
Conflicting reports of mining crackdowns and institutional selling drive sentiment to yearly lows, though Fundstrat remains bullish on a Q1 rebound.
The launch of CFTC-regulated futures on Coinbase Derivatives integrates Shiba Inu into the traditional financial plumbing of the U.S. market, granting access to both institutional clearing firms and retail brokerages.
The company behind USDC is teaming up with Aleo to explore a confidential version of its stablecoin, addressing the market’s call for privacy alongside transparency.
Bitcoin effectively front-runs the central bank’s impending policy shift, signaling that institutional capital is rotating back into risk assets as seller exhaustion takes hold.
Matter Labs sets a 2026 retirement date for its pioneering ZKsync Lite protocol, mandating a strategic migration to the EVM-compatible ZKsync Era network.
Digital asset investment products snapped a month-long outflow streak with $1.07 billion in new capital, driven by record-breaking institutional demand for XRP and renewed Federal Reserve rate cut optimism.
The SEC formalizes the clash between financial surveillance and privacy in an upcoming roundtable, with Commissioner Peirce calling to “recalibrate” oversight measures to protect civil liberties.
The largest exchange transforms from regulatory nomad to licensed financial institution, securing end-to-end activities in the Gulf.
The investigation into the plunder of billions in PH flood control funds uncovers a sophisticated…
The Shibarium Bridge hack investigation shifts to federal enforcement as developer Kaal Dhairya promises to attach K9 Finance’s forensic breakthrough to an open FBI case to demand action from KuCoin.
Cryptography firm Zama eliminates “gas wars” and front-running by launching a Zama token auction that uses Fully Homomorphic Encryption to keep bids confidential on the Ethereum blockchain.
Strategy Inc. establishes a $1.44 billion defensive cash reserve and pushes Strategy Bitcoin holdings past 650,000, issuing a comprehensive update that slashes profit forecasts while defining strict “last resort” liquidation triggers.
House Democrats have released a sweeping staff report detailing alleged Trump crypto corruption, claiming the administration generated $11.6 billion in family wealth while halting federal probes into industry donors.
South Korean authorities suspect the state-sponsored Lazarus Group orchestrated the theft of 54 billion won in Solana assets from Upbit, utilizing forensic techniques that mirror the exchange’s 2019 breach.
Ethereum validators have successfully executed a network-wide Ethereum gas limit increase to 60 million, expanding block capacity by 33% to alleviate Layer 2 congestion ahead of the Fusaka upgrade.
A critical cooling failure at a CyrusOne data center has forced CME Group to halt all trading, severing the primary hedging link for institutional crypto investors and amplifying market volatility risks.
Cybersecurity researchers have identified Crypto Copilot, a malicious browser extension actively skimming funds from Solana traders by injecting hidden transfer instructions into legitimate Raydium swaps.
The Shiba Inu ETF inclusion narrative gains official ground as NYSE Arca files a 19b-4 request for the T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF, listing SHIB as an eligible asset.
A brutal wrench attack in San Francisco left a tech investor tortured and robbed of $11 million at a property owned by Lachy Groom, the former partner of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
A new financial report argues Strategy faces a $48B ‘Ponzi’ liquidity trap, citing negative operating cash flows and potential index exclusion as catalysts for a solvency crisis.
The DOGE shutdown is official as the Department of Government Efficiency ceases standalone operations, leaving unverified savings claims against a $7 trillion federal spending backdrop.
Coinbase Derivatives eliminates institutional trading gaps by introducing round-the-clock trading for Coinbase SHIB futures via partners like Webull and StoneX, fulfilling critical liquidity requirements for a potential spot ETF.
A renewed marketing push from lender CoinRabbit highlights four years of sustained SHIB utility, a…
Seven-year analytics pioneer DappRadar shuts down as RADAR crashes 38%, raising questions about who survives when real builders can’t.
Shiba Inu (SHIB) has secured a coveted spot on Japan’s “Green List” of approved crypto…
The fourth Bitcoin death cross in 18 months marks a potential market bottom as on-chain data and historical patterns suggest contrarian buying opportunity despite bearish technicals.
Active-duty U.S. soldier among 5 who pleaded guilty helping North Korean IT workers infiltrate 136 US companies using laptop farms and stolen identities.
Hyperliquid suffers $5 million loss in POPCAT crash—the third time attackers exploited identical liquidity flaws using meme coins JELLYJELLY, TST, and now POPCAT.
Thai police arrested 15 Eastern European nationals operating a cryptocurrency investment fraud website from a windowless Bangkok warehouse after neighbors reported suspicious activity.
House Oversight documents show convicted financier funded MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative in 2015. The same lab later participated in three Federal Reserve CBDC pilots.
A new UAE law stops short of a Bitcoin ban but imposes a sweeping licensing regime on crypto services, creating significant compliance risks for global firms.
Canary Capital’s XRPC begins trading on Nasdaq following auto-effective registration as institutional demand for regulated altcoin exposure drives wave of new exchange-traded products
The landmark ruling upholds a worldwide injunction against assets allegedly diverted from the stablecoin’s reserves by a Hong Kong-based trust, locking down funds at the center of a crisis that prompted a bailout by Tron founder Justin Sun.
Apple expands Wallet functionality to 170 million US passport holders, enabling airport identity verification without physical documents at 250 locations nationwide.
The path is clear for regulated investment funds to capture yield from assets like Ether, resolving a major compliance and taxation roadblock.
The landmark extradition of the alleged kingpin shines a light on the illicit financial flows and digital asset links supporting transnational cybercrime hubs in Southeast Asia.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is investigating JPMorgan Chase for allegedly terminating banking services to…
Alexey Dolgikh, a 35-year-old Russian crypto executive, has died in a high-speed Lamborghini crash in…
A new Shiba Inu price prediction from technical analysts points to a breakout from a long-term accumulation phase, with some targeting a return to the $0.000032 resistance level.
Wall Street’s biggest bank reveals massive crypto exposure through ETFs and treasury stocks in latest 13F filing.
Six arrests expose how fake dating profiles funnel millions into crypto wallets beyond borders.
A fraudulent app posing as Hyperliquid slipped past Google Play’s defenses, sparking warnings for crypto…
Columbia University researchers reveal that Polymarket wash trading may have driven nearly 60% of the platform’s weekly volume in late 2024, fueled by airdrop farming ahead of the token launch.
Two underage children were located unharmed in Dubai after their parents are killed in a high-stakes crypto extortion plot
Court-submitted financial records for the defunct crypto exchange Bittrex contain data points that a researcher says are statistically improbable, potentially compromising creditor recovery.
India’s strategic entry into the global stablecoin race is marked by the development of ARC, a rupee-backed stablecoin by Polygon Labs and Anq, collateralized by Government Securities and designed to integrate sovereign assets with blockchain finance.
One of DeFi’s largest multi-chain breaches of 2025 exposes systemic vulnerabilities in Balancer’s V2 architecture.
New SEC guidance, coupled with a major asset manager’s assessment, positions the $5.9 billion Shiba Inu token for its first potential spot exchange-traded product filing in the U.S.
The Federal Reserve injected $50.35 billion into the U.S. banking system on October 31 through…
Despite the Amazon Web Services official status reporting all systems as operational, user reports detailing service outages and login issues peaked on Downdetector, signaling persistent challenges in the centralized cloud infrastructure powering much of the digital economy.
Faruk Fatih Ozer, founder of the collapsed Thodex crypto exchange, was found dead on the morning of November 1, 2025, in his single-person cell at a Turkish prison.
Crypto PACs have built a $263 million political war chest, surpassing the total political spending of the oil and gas industry and demonstrating rapidly growing financial influence in U.S. politics.
Researchers at International Business Machines (IBM) set a new benchmark for entanglement, accelerating the theoretical timeline for systems capable of breaking Bitcoin encryption.
The convicted founder of FTX is attempting to use the crypto bull run to challenge the FTX fraud verdict, arguing the defunct exchange was never insolvent.
In a calculated legal move, Kalshi is taking its battle with New York regulators to federal court, aiming to set a national precedent on whether CFTC oversight preempts state gambling laws.
The financial giants have announced a strategic collaboration to integrate digital assets, particularly stablecoins, into traditional financial systems, aiming to enable faster, 24/7 programmable payments for institutional clients worldwide.
The technology giant is positioning its new platform, built with wallet provider Dfns, as the critical infrastructure needed to move enterprise blockchain projects from experimental pilots to full-scale production.
Even as Washington stalls, Wall Street moves forward with the NYSE clearing the first U.S. spot Solana ETFs for trading under new SEC rules that bypass staff approval.
The luxury automaker is moving beyond accepting crypto for payments to using a dedicated token as a tool for managing exclusivity and high-value asset sales within its elite Hyperclub.
The failure of a planned upgrade left millions of users unable to trade during a volatile market session, with a display bug showing empty accounts causing widespread concern.
The Ethereum co-founder shared a post about blockchain security, reminding users that while a 51% attack cannot break a chain’s core rules, it could compromise external systems that trust validators for off-chain information.
Coinbase’s x402 experiment revives a long-forgotten web rule to let AI systems send tiny payments automatically. Behind the buzz lies a real shift: the internet’s first test of machine-to-machine money.
The bank’s decision to accept Bitcoin for loans marks its formal integration into Wall Street’s credit system, reclassifying it from a speculative trade to a functional financial asset.
The Central Asian nation has launched a national stablecoin and prepared its CBDC for deployment, positioning itself as a template for state-level crypto adoption with deep infrastructure support from the world’s largest exchange.
The decision follows a reported $2 billion investment into Binance linked to a Trump-affiliated stablecoin, fueling sharp criticism from lawmakers and policy experts.
After a 16-month shutdown caused by a devastating hack, India’s largest crypto exchange is betting…
A verifiable quantum advantage from Google’s new processor has reignited discussions on crypto’s vulnerabilities, but…
A sweeping class-action lawsuit accuses Solana’s Meteora and Kelsier Ventures of orchestrating a $100 million…
Tucker Carlson says the CIA created Bitcoin, reviving an old conspiracy at a Turning Point USA event. Experts say there’s still no evidence behind it.
The a16z Crypto Report 2025 declares this the year crypto went mainstream, as stablecoins move…
The key DeFi feature, liquid staking on Shibarium, is being restored with new security measures…
Support for the Saga Web3 phone has officially ended, yet demand driven by crypto airdrops…
The previously underreported return of funds from a 2021 meme coin donation was the critical…
SpaceX, the aerospace firm, transferred nearly 2,400 BTC, prompting immediate analysis that pointed toward routine…
Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin publicly commends Polygon’s contributions and Nailwal’s leadership after a rare moment…
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has unveiled plans for “Percolator,” a sharded perpetual DEX, signaling a…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is spotlighting the GKR protocol, a 17-year-old cryptographic method that enables faster, more efficient verification for blockchains and AI systems.
The Astra Nova $RVV token’s October 18 launch turned into a $10 million collapse, sparking a fierce debate across the crypto industry over whether the loss was a genuine hack or a coordinated rug pull.
A ripple of digital silence spread across the internet today as Amazon Web Services’ crucial US-EAST-1 region faltered, momentarily pausing vast swathes of the global digital economy, from crypto trading to critical online services.
A cross-border sting has broken apart a sprawling SIMCARTEL that powered fake identities, market manipulation,…