Fraud victims want China to recover $4.3B worth of Bitcoin seized by UK policeUnited Kingdom authorities found 61,000 BTC when they raided a house rented by money launderers in 2021.Apr 12, 2024Ezra Reguerra
OpenAI makes ChatGPT ‘less verbose,’ blurring writer-AI distinctionThe update could worsen the ongoing challenge of writers sounding like AI despite having written the articles themselves.Apr 12, 2024Amaka Nwaokocha
Bitcoin Cash open interest folds 47% since halving as price slidesThe majority of the asset’s price decline occurred on April 10, with a steep drop of 7.51% in a three-hour window.Apr 12, 2024Ciaran Lyons
Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade to make normal wallets ‘smart’ and improve UXThe update would add an improvement proposal inclusive of new operating instructions for wallets that give them smart contract-like features.Apr 12, 2024Jesse Coghlan
Ethereum’s next hard fork could make lost private keys a thing of the pastThe social recovery tool requires users to have first transferred all their assets to an invoker contract, which will perform all future transactions for the user.Apr 12, 2024Brayden Lindrea
Elon Musk’s AI spinoff is seeking $4B that could level up Grok: ReportMusk is seeking investors to back his ChatGPT rival, Grok, which has entered a crowded AI chatbot marketplace.Apr 12, 2024Martin Young
Bitcoin no longer in ‘easy mode’ — Expect a leverage wipeout, observers warnSome crypto traders suggest waiting on the sidelines to avoid getting “rinsed by leverage,” as they can always “play catch up later.”Apr 12, 2024Ciaran Lyons
Technical charts suggest a roaring altseason may be just ahead: AnalystsBitcoin dominance charts moving sideways may be a reversal signal that could kick off altseason, say analysts.Apr 12, 2024Martin Young
MarginFi outflows $190M as CEO rage quits amid token controversyWithdrawals from the Solana-based DeFi protocol have reached record levels amid an apparent management meltdown and claims from competitors that it hasn’t met its promises.Apr 12, 2024Tom Mitchelhill
GBTC fees will drop when Bitcoin ETFs ‘start to mature’ — Grayscale CEOGrayscale’s Bitcoin ETF may have the highest fees and outflows compared to the competition, but chief Michael Sonnenshein said he’s happy to wait.Apr 12, 2024Jesse Coghlan
Generation Z and millennials choose crypto over stocks — ReportA recent survey by Policygenius found that one in five American adults own cryptocurrencies.Apr 12, 2024Nancy Lubale
Filecoin staking platform busted, Matrixport says ‘short ETH’: Asia ExpressStaking platform’s Filecoin missing after Chinese police heist, Matrixport bets against ETH, HashKey gets retail trading license in Hong Kong, and more.Apr 11, 2024Zhiyuan Sun
Pac Finance causes $24M in liquidations via sudden parameter changeMultiple users on social media claimed they had been liquidated after a Pac Finance admin wallet allegedly changed the parameters for ezETH loans without warning.Apr 11, 2024Allen Scott
Australians wouldn’t value retail CBDC for its privacy or safety, RBA findsAustralians would rather have accounts with commercial banks and keep their data away from the RBA.Apr 11, 2024Derek Andersen
Bitcoin derivatives metrics suggest $70K is here to stayReduced leverage use in Bitcoin futures greatly reduces the odds of cascading liquidations in the case of a BTC price pullback.Apr 11, 2024Marcel Pechman
Montenegro’s Justice Minister to decide on Do Kwon’s extradition after court rulingIt’s unclear if the Terraform Labs co-founder’s lawyers intended to appeal the court decision, which would again delay any possible extradition to the United States or South Korea.Apr 11, 2024Turner Wright
Ethereum price weakens against Bitcoin — Here’s whyEthereum price stagnates in its ETH and BTC pair as investors’ expectations for a spot ETH ETF dwindle.Apr 11, 2024Nancy Lubale
Worldcoin reaches 10M users, 70M transactions and at least 13 goats boughtOpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s identity coin startup Worldcoin’s World App now has more daily users in April than its entire monthly user count to start 2024.Apr 11, 2024Tristan Greene
Sam Bankman-Fried files to appeal conviction and sentenceThe notice of appeal was filed electronically on April 11, nearly two weeks after the former FTX CEO was sentenced to 25 years in prison.Apr 11, 2024Turner Wright
BlackRock could open the door to US-regulated stablecoinsThe increasing engagement of Wall Street firms in the stablecoin market may accelerate regulatory advancements and pave the way for a private counterpart to the digital dollar.Apr 11, 2024Ana Paula Pereira
Ubisoft teases new blockchain game at Paris Blockchain WeekThe AAA game developer aims to launch its first blockchain-based game by the end of 2024.Apr 11, 2024Gareth Jenkinson
NASA created VR metaverse to prep astronauts for life on lunar space station“When they slip on their headsets, they’re not just seeing the station—they’re in it,” according to a NASA blog post.Apr 11, 2024Tristan Greene
Nigeria’s government is blaming Binance for its own mismanagementNigeria’s currency is collapsing because of financial mismanagement. Now, two Binance employees have been entangled in the government’s search for scapegoats.Apr 11, 2024Nicholas Anthony
Web3 developer Community Labs pledges $35M for Arweave ecosystem acceleratorQualified projects will be able to pitch their products to prominent VCs after the 10-week accelerator.Apr 11, 2024Zhiyuan Sun
Chainlink aims to bolster cross-chain security via Transporter Chainlink aims to make cross-chain bridges, which account for nearly 50% of all value lost to DeFi exploits, more secure.Apr 11, 2024Zoltan Vardai
Sam Bankman-Fried asks to stay in Brooklyn prison for appealJudge Lewis Kaplan said at a March 28 sentencing hearing that the former FTX CEO would serve his time at a medium- or low-security prison in the San Francisco Bay Area.Apr 11, 2024Turner Wright
Ghostface Killah Ordinals drop today, Women and Weapons… violent? NFT CollectorGet in quick to mint one of 10,000 free Ghostface Killah Bitcoin Ordinals, plus Women and Weapons and more.Apr 11, 2024Leah Alger
Solana memecoin frenzy raises questions about crypto utility, reputationThe Solana memecoin frenzy has seen several tokens rise to multimillion-dollar market capitalizations within days.Apr 11, 2024Prashant Jha
Bitcoin funding rates stay cool while BTC price coils beneath $71KBitcoin bulls escape a fresh inlation-induced burn as U.S. PPI figures drop faster than expected and BTC price action challenges $71,000.Apr 11, 2024William Suberg
Circle enables USDC transfers for BlackRock’s first tokenized fundBlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, the first tokenized fund launched by BlackRock, can now be transferred to Circle using the USDC stablecoin.Apr 11, 2024Helen Partz