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Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon pulled in 23,000 BTC from holders Tuesday—but this time, the round didn’t jack up network fees.

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A Russian investigator was convicted of accepting roughly $73 million in Bitcoin from an organized crime group he had been looking into. 

Researchers have cooked up a novel recipe for AI that could cut its energy consumption by up to 95%. Here’s the secret ingredient.

The next season of Hamster Kombat is coming soon, and players who keep their HMSTR tokens in the game will receive some benefit.

The tokenized products will open up access to tokenized real-word asset (RWA) investments for retail traders, according to Midas.

The bank also predicted that Bitcoin will hit $200,000 by the end of 2025, regardless of who wins the U.S. Presidential election.

The report said “organized crime groups are exploiting vulnerabilities, and the evolving situation is outpacing governments’ capacity to contain it.”

Vardan Khachatryan, Chief Legal Officer of Fastex, discussed how the exchange’s new products are building out crypto compliance.

Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B appears to have launched a meme coin. And insiders look to have already made $250,000 from it in just 12 hours.

Crypto.com filed suit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after receiving a Wells notice, the company announced Tuesday.

Analysts are questioning whether the estimated $16 billion in cash payments to FTX creditors will flow back to crypto markets.

The rapper’s move followed light-hearted banter on Twitter American professional boxer Ryan Garcia, who encouraged him to “bet on Sundog.”

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The surge in Trump’s odds has fueled speculation about potential manipulation, centering on a Polymarket user known as “Fredi9999.”

The “Uptober” narrative has helped buoy support for Bitcoin. Now, traders are looking for further signs inflation is cooling.

The Central American country has been slammed for its unorthodox ways—but foreign investors are bullish, it seems.

As Hurricane Milton hits Florida, bizarre lies and conspiracy theories are flowing freely on X.

As the price of Moo Deng on Solana fades, one anonymous trader is watching his stash of hippo tokens bleed by millions of dollars in (paper) value.

The U.S. government now appears free to sell 69,370 Bitcoin that it seized from a Silk Road-affiliated wallet.

The director behind an HBO documentary on Bitcoin said its release has been heightened by people wagering on Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity.

Collapsed crypto exchange FTX was given the green light Monday to execute its bankruptcy plan following nearly two years of recovery efforts.

Black Forest Labs launched Flux 1.1 Pro, its fastest and most advanced AI image generation model yet—beating Ideogram and MidJourney in speed and quality.

Bitget promised that it will fully compensate traders of its BGB token, shortly after the asset’s value plummeted and then quickly rebounded.

Metaplanet, a Japanese public firm that’s following MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin reserve playbook, announced that it has purchased even more BTC.

Other top picks for Trump’s SEC chair include two prominent crypto advocates: former CFTC chair Chris Giancarlo and current SEC commissioner Hester Peirce.

Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin sold 10 billion Moo Deng tokens for a charitable donation—and then the meme coin surged in price.

EigenLayer community members have expressed concerns that the tokens that were transferred were supposed to be locked.

The all-in-one dashboard will soon be available to other investment DAOs and syndicates following an update.

Ahead of a documentary that says it’ll reveal the identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, degens are trading meme coins based on his cat.