Leaked files show Binance let $1.7b move through 13 suspicious accounts — including $144m after its $4.3b U.S. plea deal — despite terror‑finance red flags and odd logins. Summary Internal data reviewed by the FT shows 13 suspicious Binance accounts handled $1.7b in crypto, with around $144m in volume after the 2023 U.S. criminal settlement.…
Trump pledges 1,600 new power plants to cut AI-driven energy costs as ERCOT warns that large-load requests, 73% from data centers, have surged to 226 GW. Summary Trump claims 1,600 new generating plants will come online within 12 months, arguing that electricity and consumer prices will fall under his economic agenda. The address highlights surging…
A user lost nearly $50m in a stablecoin address poisoning scam after copying a fake address, as U.S. senators push the SAFE Crypto Act to tackle rising crypto fraud. Summary A stablecoin user sent 49,999,950 tokens to a poisoned address copied from transaction history after an initial test transfer to the correct recipient. Address poisoning…
Midnight, Cardano’s privacy-focused token, hits a record high as major exchange listings boost volume, liquidity and trader interest despite ADA’s muted DeFi activity. Summary Midnight’s price and volume surged to a record high after new listings on Binance, Bybit and Kraken drove liquidity and narrowed spreads across order books. Technicals show a clean breakout above…
Bitcoin trades in a ‘bullish neutrality’ regime as composite indicators improve and short liquidations dominate, creating controlled upside pressure with limited froth. Summary Composite regime indicator sits at +16.3 in the upper neutral band, a zone that historically delivered positive 30‑day returns in 2025 backtests. Short liquidations dominate, with long liquidation share below 50%, signaling…
700Credit says a network breach exposed names, Social Security numbers and financial data of 5.8m+ Americans, prompting regulators and law firms to warn of identity theft risks. Summary 700Credit reported to the Maine Attorney General that 5,836,521 people were affected after unusual network activity revealed unauthorized access to systems with personal data. Exposed information includes…
Ireland fined Coinbase Europe €21.5m after data issues left €173b in transactions unmonitored, with failures undisclosed during its VASP registration and now forcing an exit to Luxembourg. Summary The Central Bank of Ireland fined Coinbase Europe €21.5m after data configuration failures in an outsourced TMS left about 30m transactions, worth roughly €173b, unmonitored between 2021…
Quantum computers can’t decrypt Bitcoin but could forge signatures from exposed public keys, putting ~6.7m BTC at risk unless wallets migrate to post‑quantum paths before large fault‑tolerant machines arrive. Summary Bitcoin stores no encrypted secrets on‑chain; the critical quantum threat is Shor‑enabled key recovery from exposed public keys, allowing authorization forgery on vulnerable UTXOs. Project Eleven’s Bitcoin…
Taiwan’s justice ministry holds seized BTC and stablecoins as lawmakers debate BTC as a reserve asset and regulators advance a strict stablecoin framework. Summary Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice controls 210.45 BTC and about NT$1.3b in seized crypto, mostly dollar-pegged stablecoins plus ETH, BNB, Tron and Livepeer. The disclosure fuels a political fight over treating Bitcoin…
Coinbase sues three U.S. states, arguing prediction markets are CFTC-regulated derivatives, not state-governed gambling, in a key test of federal authority. Summary Coinbase filed lawsuits against Michigan, Illinois, and Connecticut over efforts to block or restrict event-based prediction market products on its platform. The exchange argues these markets are CFTC-regulated derivatives, not gambling, warning that…
