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After sharing fake “Swifties for Trump” photos on Truth Social, the former president says AI is “very dangerous.”

Ignore the Crypto Twitter hype: Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (aka CZ) remains in custody, though he has been moved from prison.

Crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments has launched a trust giving investors exposure to Avalanche (AVAX), joining its many other products.

You can earn millions of free in-game coins in the Telegram game Rocky Rabbit. Here are the solutions for Thursday, August 22.

Bitcoin transactions briefly cost as much as $132 early Thursday as users rushed to be the first to stake native BTC via Babylon.

The planned “NFT” token will be called ME instead, and the ME Foundation is gearing up to launch it via the Magic Eden Wallet.

The Trump family is launching a DeFi project linked to ‘digital real estate,’ and the former president has now officially promoted it.

The Wall Street titan’s money market fund is now available on the crypto network behind AVAX.

U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds pulled in $39.5 million on Wednesday, on the fifth successive day of net inflows.

Meanwhile, a CryptoQuant analyst noted that Bitcoin OTC desk balances for miners have surged to a two-year high, hinting at selling pressure.

On Wednesday, Public Citizen warned large crypto donations may influence lawmakers to weaken regulations, possibly putting consumers at risk.

It follows the exchange’s $230 million hack in July, which saw hackers make off with $102 million worth of Shibu Inu tokens, among others.

Lawyers for Salame argue the Government “failed to abide by its word” by resuming its investigation into his partner, Michelle Bond.

Like the company’s first patient, “Alex” is an avid gamer, and has set new records for brain-controlled computer interfaces.

While Michigan-based Lingo Telecom had not produced the deepfake material, the FCC took action against the company for failing in its duty.

The FAA has approved the company’s plan to shuttle people through the skies ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games.

A senior campaign advisor cited the need for rules for “that sort of industry,” but the statement was hailed as a breakthrough.

Tron’s SunPump now tops Solana’s Pump.fun in terms of newly created tokens over the last day. Will the momentum shift last?

Ideogram 2.0 steps up its realism and adds features that could vault the company back to the top.

The pro basketball player agreed to pay $300,000 to alleged Binance victims, while the influencer agreed to a $40,000 settlement.

The price of Bitcoin is back up over $60,000 per coin as the Federal Reserve posts notes from its last meeting.

Hackers put the Solana meme coin scam in front of some 5 million McDonald’s followers before pulling the rug and flaunting their gains.

Roman Zimian, who founded the alleged “large-scale international pyramid scheme” FutureNet, had previously escaped from house arrest in Italy.

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BlackRock’s spot Ethereum ETF crossed $1 billion in cumulative net inflows Tuesday, nearly tripling flows for Fidelity’s runner-up.

Financial regulators and law enforcement agencies shut down 13 cryptocurrency ATMs operating without proper authorization.

Casio’s Virtual G-Shock project is expanding from digital watches to sneakers, thanks to social move-to-earn game Stepn Go.

“Going Infinite” author Michael Lewis defended his book about the disgraced FTX founder as a “fuller description of events” in a new essay.

Both companies plan to integrate verifiable credentials on-chain to bridge the gap between off-chain and online identities.

Blockchain can replace “a medieval, antiquated system,” PIP Labs cofounder Jason Zhao told Decrypt ahead of its testnet launch.