Informed Crypto News

Researcher Andrey Sergeenkov told Protos about his researc on Ethereum’s scaling improvements and a $63.3M spike in address poisoning losses.

There’s been a disagreement between Ten31’s Marty Bent and Coinbase about lobbying efforts around a proposed BTC tax exemption.

Nasdaq-listed BTC treasury company Strive has announced a $50M cash purchase of fellow BTC treasury company Strategy’s STRC.

Chaos Labs’ Correlated Asset Price Oracle pushed a faulty update yesterday, causing a 2.85% drop in the price of wstETH collateral.

The price of oil relative to BTC during key news events might be one of the most interesting chart studies of the Iran war.

Nigel Farage aide George Cottrell bet $41K that a US-Iran ceasefire won’t happen until late June, contradicting Reform UK’s current stance.

Polymarket currently has open assassination markets on its website and they’re some of the most heavily traded markets on the platform.

US Attorney Jay Clayton has requested a re-trial of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm on two of his criminal charges.

The Compound incident is the latest in a string of website hijackings that have also affected Maple Finance, OpenEden and Curvance.

Amid the Iran war sell-off, influencers’ Dubai property values are crashing harder this month than BTC or most crypto portfolios.

X users are drawing parallels between US Homeland agents purchasing secret microwave weapons and Bob Lax’s one-star microwave review.

AI peddlers and crypto entrepreneurs want us to rejoice about Web 4.0 and the internet being consumed by botnets and AI agents.

Tron founder Justin Sun’s deal with the SEC would see all wash trading and price manipulation claims dropped.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor has increased the dividend rate on STRC so high that it’s now roughly 60% of a typical credit card rate.

Polymarket and Kalshi are popular in the cryptocurrency industry, but neither is truly “decentralized” like other projects.

The proxy currently running Sam Bankman-Fried’s X account is following degenerate memecoin promoters on behalf of the former FTX supremo.

The MONTRA token’s market cap dropped from $100K to $20K, and the Montra Finance website now displays a 404 error page.

The person behind the $5M crypto theft confessed to South Korean police and returned the funds — before they were stolen again.

Pig butchering is expanding so quickly that it’s given rise to two entirely new industries: escrowing and selling hostages.

Despite being widely reported as an “address poisoning” attack, the victim described a violent robbery and appealed for help recovering funds.

A new AI tool claims it can “bypass Cloudflare natively” and scrape DeFi websites with “zero bot detection.”

Curiously, BTC has demonstrated relative strength among trillion-dollar assets since the onset of the Iran war.

Almost four months have passed since the disassembly of a DeFi daisy chain, which saw the value of the “yield vault” sector drop by over $4B.

TRON founder Justin Sun has already seen his TRON Inc. stock continue to crater this week, and now his Rednote account has been banned.

Fans of XRP thought its blockchain could benefit from “quadrillions” of trade settlements at the DTCC via Ripple Prime.