Informed Crypto News

Zendesk, which works with several crypto exchanges, was hacked last month, leading to the leak of millions of Discord user IDs.

FC Barcelona’s official Instagram account was hacked to promote a phony crypto project that pulled in $3.5M in volume.

While leading BlockFi, Zac Prince advertised rates on Circle’s USD stablecoin of 7.5%. Now at Galaxy One, he’s advertising 8% APY on USD.

Kalshi and Polymarket are paying accounts with thousands of followers to promote them to their audiences and display their affiliate badge.

Brad Garlinghouse spoke with a senior validator on the XRP Ledger to explain why institutions are still dissatisfied with privacy tooling.

Michael Saylor has been particularly optimistic about expanding STRC domestically and abroad, yet his STRC ATM sales to date are $0.

Synnax Labs claims PeckShield overlooked an attack vector in its audit that was linked to the $1.7 million hack of Abracadabra.

Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-based exchange with alleged ties to Garantex looks to have moved billions since it was sanctioned in August.

Even though Sam Bankman-Fried is in prison, a BTC wallet controlled by Alameda Research deposited about $30M into Binance last week.

Venture capitalist Naval Ravikant has plenty of conflicts of interest in claiming that Zcash is somehow insurance against BTC.

Crypto bros tracking BTC’s price against re-releases of the McDonald’s McRib got a little too excited about a false report this week.

Lord Miles’ X account claims the YouTuber is in a Saudi jail but crypto sleuths suspect he may have rigged the bet to fail.

Liberland, nestled between Serbia and Croatia, holds an election every three months and announced the results of its latest vote today.

The IRS said that Strategy can disregard unrealized gains and losses on digital asset holdings when computing income subject to the 15% CAMT.

Exuberant traders who bought Plasma’s new XPL token at a $3B market cap last week are looking for someone to blame after a 40% retracement.

T.J. Miller’s Token2049 roast of Justin Sun also saw the comedian mock his height and poke fun at his touchy legal team.

Durov revealed the poisoning attempt on Tuesday, describing a “weird” neighbor leaving something at the door of the townhouse he was renting.

ZachXBT has traced suspicious transfers of funds linking the large SBI BTC mining pool to a possible attack by North Korean hackers.

Bitcoin Knots supporters have argued that a change to an upcoming release of Bitcoin Core could open node operators up to legal attacks.

Schwartz, who has worked on XRP Ledger since 2011, previously admitted to selling off a large part of his XRP portfolio for $0.10 per token.

The accommodation signaled a slight victory for Knots node operators who have protested Core’s easements of OP_RETURN’s datacarriersize.

Netanyahu was pictured with Rauch at a tech event with US investors to discuss how AI could bolster Israel’s economy.

Speaking about STRC, Saylor said, “Everybody in the world would love to have a high yield bank account that yielded 10%.”

Since Strategy removed a ban on ATM share sales between 1-2.5x mNAV six weeks ago, MSTR dilution has paid for 94% of its BTC purchases.

According to net worth estimates from Forbes and Bloomberg, Zhao’s net worth has increased by approximately $20B since leaving prison.