The US Securities and Exchange Commission reached a settlement with Tron and founder Justin Sun on Thursday, the SEC said in a filing. Under the settlement, Rainberry Inc., one of the companies affiliated with the Tron network, will pay a $10 million fine and be barred from future violations of securities regulations. The SEC sued […]
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Short seller Culper Research is betting against ether (ETH) and ETH-linked stocks such as BitMine (BMNR), arguing that the network’s finances worsened after Ethereum’s recent network upgrade. The firm said in a Thursday report that the December 2025 upgrade, called Fusaka, flooded the network with excess blockspace and has “degraded ETH tokenomics.” That drove transaction
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A US federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against crypto lender BlockFills in a lawsuit filed by Dominion Capital, temporarily freezing assets linked to the dispute, according to a filing seen by CoinDesk. In a complaint dated February 27, Dominion alleged that BlockFills misappropriated and unlawfully retained millions of dollars in clients’
The crypto industry continues to break down barriers in the core US financial system, and digital asset exchange Kraken’s approval of a restricted Federal Reserve account marked another such milestone that analysts believe could be the first of a trend. The arrival of crypto in the Fed’s payment system – tentative and limited though it
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Ripple, the blockchain company closely linked to the XRP Ledger network (XRP), said on Thursday that customers on its Ripple Prime platform can now trade the full range of crypto futures listed on Coinbase derivatives. The move gives institutions a new way to access regulated crypto derivatives in a market overseen by the Commodity Futures
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Bitcoins BTC$70,867.63 early-week rally began to fade after US markets opened Thursday, sending the cryptocurrency up nearly 2% over the past 24 hours to $71,400. The move comes alongside declines in broad equity markets as the Iran war shows no signs of moving to a quick end, sending oil up 5.3% to $78.70 a barrel.
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Sanctions evasion dominated crypto-related illicit financing last year, with state actors including Russia, Iran and North Korea driving a surge in activity, Chainalysis said in a Thursday report. Sanctioned entities received at least $104 billion in cryptocurrency, a nearly eightfold increase over 2024, pushing the total illicit onchain volume to a record $154 billion. The
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French authorities arrested John “Lick” Daghita, who allegedly stole tens of millions in crypto from the US government. In an X post on Thursday, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that Daghita had been arrested on the island of Saint Martin on Wednesday in a joint FBI and French gendarmerie operation. In his social media post,
BTCC TradFi hits $200m and celebrates with zero-fee campaign on gold and silver
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CleanSpark (CLSK), a US-based bitcoin BTC$71,379.49 mining company that runs large data centers sold almost all of the bitcoin it produced last month to generate cash for an expansion into artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). The Nasdaq-listed miner produced 568 BTC in February and sold 553 BTC, about 97%, according to its latest
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