Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest publicly listed holder of Bitcoin, resumed buying BTC last week after reporting no purchases in the final week of March. Strategy acquired 4,871 Bitcoin (BTC) for $329.9 million last week, according to an 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. The purchases were made at …
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A threat actor known as “Jinkusu” is allegedly selling cybercrime tools designed to bypass Know Your Customer (KYC) checks at banks and crypto platforms. The tool uses deepfakes and voice manipulation to trick KYC verification systems on finance platforms, cybercrime tracker Dark Web Informer wrote in a Sunday X post. Cybersecurity company Vecert Analyzer added …
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Opinion by: Dominic Lohberger, chief product officer at Sygnum. Counterparty risk in crypto markets has always moved in cycles. Exchanges default or get hacked. Standards tighten for a while. Then, complacency quietly returns as losses are forgotten. What is happening this time is different. Leading traditional finance players entering crypto must adopt practices from established …
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Onchain perpetual futures trading has cooled for five straight months since peaking in October 2025. Perp volume on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) fell to $699 billion in March 2026 from October’s $1.36 trillion, according to DefiLlama data. The decline has been steady across the period, with volumes slipping through November and December before losses extended through …
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China’s tax and financial regulators on Monday urged banks and local authorities to use blockchain and privacy computing to upgrade the “bank-tax interaction” model and expand financing for small businesses. The State Administration of Taxation and National Financial Regulatory Administration said in a joint policy notice that banks and taxpayers should standardize data sharing and …
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A Maryland man has been charged with allegedly stealing more than $53 million from a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange and laundering the proceeds through Tornado Cash, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton says that Jonathan Spalletta, also known as “Cthulhon” and “Jspalletta,” faces charges of computer …
Wells Fargo chairman and CEO Charles Scharf is maintaining a positive outlook on the US amid the Iran war. In a new Fox Business interview, Scharf says various indicators at the household and business levels all point to a robust US economy. “…separating out the pure economy from markets, what people are nervous about in …
Bitcoin (BTC) faces a fresh showdown this week as macro tensions contrast with a bullish BTC price trend reversal. A classic BTC price metric is above to flip bullish for the first time in nearly a year — last time, price gained $25,000 in two months. Short time frames see liquidations as “aggressive” traders pile …
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Prediction markets rapidly repriced the odds of US escalation in the Iran conflict, offering a real-time signal of geopolitical risk for traders. Odds on platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi shifted in real time as President Donald Trump paired new threats with signals of possible negotiations on Sunday, while Bitcoin (BTC) rose more than 3.5% …
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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has revealed that during experiments, one of its Claude chatbot models could be pressured to deceive, cheat and resort to blackmail, behaviors it appears to have absorbed during training. Chatbots are typically trained on large data sets of textbooks, websites and articles and are later refined by human trainers who rate …
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Stablecoin issuer Circle has released a post-quantum security roadmap for its layer-1 blockchain, Arc, aiming to implement solutions across all layers of the network’s tech stack. Circle said on Thursday that it is planning a phased implementation, starting with quantum-proof wallets and signatures when Arc launches on mainnet. This feature will be opt-in, the company …
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North Korean IT workers have been embedding themselves in crypto companies and decentralized finance projects for at least seven years, according to a cybersecurity analyst. “Lots of DPRK IT workers built the protocols you know and love, all the way back to DeFi summer,” said MetaMask developer and security researcher Taylor Monahan on Sunday. Monahan …
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Bitchat, a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app developed by Block CEO Jack Dorsey, has been removed from Apple’s App Store in China for allegedly violating its internet service regulations. In an X post on Sunday, Dorsey shared a screenshot from Apple’s app review team informing him that Bitchat had been removed from the App Store in …
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A popular crypto trader has come forward on the social media platform X to predict that the Bitcoin price might soon head further downwards to the $63,000 level. This prognosis is based on the liquidity dynamics that have, over the past few weeks, driven the flagship cryptocurrency’s price. Bitcoin Market Structure Suggests More Volatility Ahead …
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