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Trump Media Retreats From Crypto.com Deals as Priorities Shift

Trump Media’s Crypto Bet Unravels Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the company behind Truth Social, is walking back its ambitious foray into crypto.

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Revisiting: Circle’s $222M Arc Token Presale, Three Months Later

By David E | 1 week ago

What Our Earlier Coverage Reported On May 11, 2026, our earlier coverage reported that Circle Internet Group had raised $222 million in a private presale for its new ARC token, attracting major institutional investors like Standard.....

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Bank of Italy Study Finds Stablecoin Remittances Often No Cheaper Than Traditional Methods

By Loic Dos Santos | 1 week ago

Conversion Fees Erode Stablecoin Savings A recent study from the Bank of Italy has cast doubt on the assumption that stablecoins offer a consistently cheaper alternative for international remittances...

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We checked: Four months after Drift Protocol’s $285M exploit, what did it mean for DeFi and ETH?

By Loic Dos Santos | 1 week ago

What our earlier coverage said On April 3, 2026, our earlier coverage reported that Drift Protocol, Solana’s largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange, was hit by a $285 million exploit that drained its vaults in just 12 minutes...

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Luno Cuts 20% of Global Staff as Automation and Crypto Downturn Bite

By Loic Dos Santos | 1 week ago

Second Round of Cuts This Decade Cryptocurrency exchange Luno is reducing its global workforce by roughly 20%, marking the company's second major round of layoffs in less than four years...

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Zcash Ironwood Upgrade: $80M Migrates as Counterfeiting Bug Forces Shielded Pool Overhaul

By David E | 1 week ago

$80M Shifts to Ironwood Shielded Pool Zcash users moved approximately 176,000 ZEC—valued at about $81 million—into the newly launched Ironwood shielded pool within just 24 hours of its activation, according to coindesk.com...

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1inch’s Aqua Protocol Goes Live Across 13 Chains, Letting Wallets Power Shared DeFi Liquidity

By Loic Dos Santos | 1 week ago

Wallets Stay in Control, Not Pools 1inch has opened its Aqua protocol to the public, enabling a new approach to decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity across 13 Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible blockchains...

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BitMart Exchange Shuts Down as Crypto Trading Slump Deepens

By Loic Dos Santos | 1 week ago

Withdrawal Delays Rattle BitMart Users BitMart’s announcement that it will permanently wind down its trading platform has triggered a wave of concern among customers, particularly regarding the speed and reliability of withdrawals...

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BitMart Exchange to Shut Down: Nine-Year Run Ends With User Uncertainty

By David E | 2 weeks ago

After Nine Years, BitMart Calls It Quits BitMart, a global cryptocurrency exchange that has operated since 2015, will wind down all trading services by August 26, 2024...

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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev’s X Account Hacked to Promote Fake ‘Vladhood’ Memecoin

By Loic Dos Santos | 2 weeks ago

Scam Post Racks Up 175,000 Views On Thursday, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev’s X account was compromised and used to promote a fraudulent memecoin called Vladhood (ticker: $VLAD)...

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BitMEX, Pioneer of Perpetual Swaps, to Shut Down After 11 Years

By David E | 2 weeks ago

Pioneering Exchange Calls It Quits BitMEX, the crypto derivatives exchange that introduced perpetual swaps to the industry, has announced it will permanently close its doors on September 23, 2026, at 04:00 UTC...