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The European Union’s markets regulator has warned that tokenized stocks — crypto tokens tied to the value of listed shares — could mislead investors because they do not usually provide the same rights as owning the underlying shares. Natasha Cazenave, executive director at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), said
Ethereum’s largest testnet, Holešky, will be retired in the coming weeks as part of a planned shutdown and migration following the network’s Fusaka upgrade. The Ethereum Foundation announced that Holešky will be taken offline two weeks after Fusaka is finalized, and testing and infrastructure teams will stop supporting
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Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here are the latest daily trends and events affecting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation. Today’s highlights: crypto funds drew nearly $2.5 billion in inflows last week despite sharp declines in Bitcoin and Ether prices; open interest
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Cointelegraph reports that a growing social-engineering scam on Discord — often called the “try my game” scam — has led to large crypto and NFT thefts after attackers infiltrate communities and pose as trusted friends. One high-profile victim, an NFT artist known as Princess Hypio, said she lost roughly $170,000 in
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Bitcoin is trading in rocky waters as the price struggles to hold above $108,000, with little sign of an immediate recovery. Traders are exercising caution ahead of the U.S. Labor Day holiday when Wall Street will be closed, while the market faces the added overhang of a large,
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Solana’s proposed Alpenglow consensus upgrade is on track to pass, with more than 99% of cast votes in favor so far. The governance vote has reached the quorum threshold, and with just two days left in the voting window the proposal appears likely to move forward. Unveiled in May
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California governor teases “Trump Corruption Coin” California Governor Gavin Newsom told the "Pivot" podcast he plans to launch a memecoin he described as the "Trump Corruption Coin." According to Newsom, the token is meant as a satirical response to former president Donald Trump’s involvement in
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Private businesses and publicly traded companies are buying Bitcoin at a rate nearly four times higher than miners are producing new coins, according to data from Bitcoin financial services firm River. This accelerated institutional demand could create supply pressure if exchange reserves keep falling. River’s data shows that, on
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Crypto treasury firms that hold digital assets on corporate balance sheets can introduce new layers of counterparty risk into what are otherwise bearer assets, according to Josip Rupena, CEO of lending platform Milo and a former Goldman Sachs analyst. He argues these engineered treasury strategies resemble the securitization practices that
Eric Trump, son of U.S. President Donald Trump and co‑founder of Bitcoin mining firm American Bitcoin (ABTC), told attendees at the Bitcoin Asia 2025 conference in Hong Kong that he is confident bitcoin (BTC) will reach $1 million within the next several years. Trump reiterated a prediction he
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Indian court hands life sentences in Bitcoin extortion case An Indian anti-corruption court convicted 14 people, including 11 police officers and a former Bharatiya Janata Party MLA, and sentenced them to life imprisonment for their roles in the 2018 kidnapping and extortion of a businessman in Surat. The group was
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An Indian anti-corruption court has sentenced 14 people, including 11 police officers and a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator, to life imprisonment for their roles in the 2018 kidnapping and extortion of a Surat-based businessman who had recovered cryptocurrency. The court found the accused guilty of criminal conspiracy, kidnapping