Crypto prices are under further pressure in the US morning hours on Sunday after President Trump announced a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. “Effective immediately, the US Navy … will begin the process of blocking any and all ships attempting to enter or exit the Strait of Hormuz,” the president said in a social […]
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The crypto sector’s new Fellowship political action committee unveiled its first contribution ahead of the 2026 midterm congressional elections, and the $300,000 it spent went to a company co-founded by President Donald Trump’s former crypto adviser, Bo Hines — now CEO of Tether US. The Fellowship super PAC had announced itself as a crypto campaign
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The ripple effects of geopolitical conflicts are reshaping the piping of global trade finance, pushing some commodity traders out of the banking system and into the arms of stablecoins. That’s according to Luke Sully, CEO of trade finance-focused stablecoin issuer Haycen, who says the war involving Iran has heightened compliance fears among Western banks, sparking
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Trump-linked World Liberty Financial has lost a key backer after its $75 million DeFi loan tied up users’ liquidity, with Justin Sun publicly breaking out and criticizing the project’s treatment of investors. “Any action taken by the WLFI team to extract fees from users and treat the crypto community like a personal ATM is illegitimate,”
Big investors are accumulating TRUMP memecoin ahead of an upcoming gala hosted by President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on April 28, even as the token trades near record lows and the impending event faces political scrutiny. Data tracked by blockchain practitioner Lookonchain shows notable whale purchases through centralized exchanges. One whale, “8DHkza”, withdrew $850,488 TRUMP
North Korea’s six-month infiltration campaign at Drift rattled a crypto industry already plagued by billion-dollar businesses. But as the news settled in, a bigger question came into focus: why does North Korea keep returning to crypto in the first place, and why does its approach look so different from every other state-sponsored hacking operation on
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XRP experienced a sharp collapse in late trade, with a sudden wave of selling pushing the price below key support. The speed of the move and the lack of strong recovery suggest that sellers are still in control, although volatility compression points to a bigger move ahead. News summary • XRP fell from $1.36 to
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BitMEX Report Finds 500%+ Increase in Tokenized Commodities and Securities
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Bitcoin BTC$71,849.44 and other major cryptocurrencies were all down about 2% late Saturday night US hours after Vice President JD Vance announced that US and Iranian negotiators had failed to agree to an extended ceasefire. The two sides met in Pakistan on Saturday to negotiate a deal following the nearly six-week US campaign against Iran.
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SpaceX is sitting on 8,285 BTC worth $603 million in Coinbase Prime custody while reporting a loss of nearly $5 billion for 2025, according to Arkham Intelligence data and a report from The Information published late Friday. The loss marks a sharp turnaround from a year earlier, when SpaceX generated about $8 billion in profit
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