Citadel Securities invests $400M in Crypto.com at $20B valuation

Crypto exchanges have increasingly positioned themselves as bridges between digital asset markets and traditional finance. Crypto exchange Crypto.com on Thursday announced it has secured a $400 million investment from global market maker Citadel Securities at a $20 billion valuation. The investment comes amid growing institutional demand for tokenized real-world assets, including stablecoins and tokenized stocks. …

Bitcoin liquidity clusters determine BTC’s price direction as futures flow fuels price

Bitcoin futures traders are propping up the current market move, while liquidation heatmap data provides hints on where BTC price may go next. Increased activity across Bitcoin’s (BTC) futures markets is playing the dominant role in its short-term price action, which keeps tracing back to where leveraged positions are stacked. Prices tend to gravitate toward …

Polygon CEO announces job cuts amid Coinme acquisition

The round of layoffs was part of Polygon transitioning operations to payments following a $250 million deal to acquire Coinme and Sequence in January. Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs, announced additional layoffs as the company finalizes its acquisition of cryptocurrency exchange Coinme.  In a Thursday X post, Boiron said that Polygon would say “goodbye …

Trump teleprompter operator made $100K betting on Kalshi markets tied to speeches: ABC

According to ABC News, federal regulators are investigating whether the longtime White House staffer used nonpublic information to profit from event contracts tied to President Donald Trump’s speeches. US President Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator is in talks with federal regulators to settle allegations that he used nonpublic information to profit from bets on Kalshi …

Bitcoin outlook improves amid 6% weekly gain: Can BTC bulls push higher?

Bitcoin buyers have returned to spot, futures and ETF markets but geopolitical headwinds could quickly unravel the progress of the past two weeks. Bitcoin (BTC) spent the week split across two scenarios. One highlighted improving onchain buying pressure and ETF inflows, while the other remained synced to sentiment gauges and news events that projected fear. …

1inch co-founder says he was fired, announces new venture

Anton Bukov said that he no longer took an active role at 1inch and had been “fired” in 2025 after pushing for changes to the company’s management and operations. Anton Bukov, the co-founder of 1inch, said that he was completely exiting his role in the company’s operations after more than seven years. In a Thursday …

Injective files for SEC transfer agent registration to bring securities ownership records onchain

The company said the filing would create a regulated pathway for maintaining ownership records for tokenized securities onchain. Injective said Thursday it has filed a transfer agent registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking to bring one of the core record-keeping functions of securities markets onto blockchain infrastructure. Transfer agents are a core …

Scammer Drains $11,500 From Elderly Virginia Woman After Posing as Wells Fargo Employee

An 86-year-old New Kent, Virginia, resident says she lost a large sum of money to a scammer pretending to work at Wells Fargo. Edith Minor says an urgent alert abruptly popped up on her computer, claiming that a hacker was attempting to access her accounts. Minor says she dialed a number, which she believed was …

62,150 Americans Warned After ‘Unauthorized Party’ Breaches Healthcare Firm in Houston – Personal and Health Records Potentially Exposed

A firm specializing in pediatric health and primary care says hackers have hit its network and stolen files, potentially exposing patient data. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the breach at the Houston, Texas-based Blue Fish Pediatrics impacts 62,150 people. The firm says an unauthorized entity gained access to its computer …

Ethics in crypto market structure ‘really not our concern,’ says Blockchain Association CEO

A former CFTC commissioner urged lawmakers not to “kill all the hard work that we put in the rest of the bill” by making ethics a make-or-break issue on crypto market structure. Summer Mersinger, the CEO of the Blockchain Association and a former commissioner at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), anticipated a vote …

Tradable’s $1B Stellar deal adds to institutional tokenization boom

Tradable will bring up to $1 billion in private credit assets to Stellar, extending the blockchain’s push into institutional finance and tokenized real-world assets. Tokenization platform Tradable plans to bring up to $1 billion in private credit assets onto the Stellar blockchain, expanding institutional access to tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) as demand for onchain private …

Morgan Stanley’s E*TRADE launches spot crypto trading through Zero Hash

Eligible E*TRADE retail clients can now buy, sell and hold Bitcoin, Ether and Solana through a partnership with crypto infrastructure provider Zero Hash. Morgan Stanley’s E*TRADE platform has launched spot cryptocurrency trading, allowing eligible clients to buy, sell and hold Bitcoin, Ether and Solana through a partnership with crypto infrastructure provider Zero Hash. Clients can …

Massachusetts Healthcare Provider Sending Cash To Patients in $400,000 Data Breach Settlement

Patients impacted by a healthcare data incident now have access to financial relief and protective services in a newly approved class action resolution. Aspire Health Alliance, a healthcare provider offering mental health and related services, has agreed to the $400,000 settlement resolving claims stemming from a 2023 breach. The lawsuit was launched because the company …

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