
International crackdown halts $45M crypto fraud, freezes $12M assets
Operation Atlantic, led by the Ontario Securities Commission and law‑enforcement partners, disrupted more than $45 million in cryptocurrency fraud and froze roughly $12 million of stolen assets. The scheme relied on approval‑phishing to trick users into authorising illicit wallet transfers.
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By the numbers: Mastercard to acquire BVNK for up to $1.8B

Sequans (SQNS) sold 970 Bitcoin at $104,608.94 each to redeem half of its July 2025 convertible debt, slashing total liabilities from $189 million to $94.5 million and cutting its debt‑to‑net‑asset‑value ratio from 55% to 39%. The sale leaves the Paris‑based firm with 2,264 BTC, valued at roughly $240 million, while its ADRs slipped another 9% and are down 82% year‑to‑date. CEO Georges Karam called the move tactical and market‑driven, emphasizing that the long‑term bitcoin‑holding strategy remains intact as the company eyes ADR buybacks, preferred‑share issuance and yield‑generating bitcoin initiatives.
One thing about this cycle: Even when sentiment is negative, there's always a specific sector rallying on its own And right now, it's privacy coins The privacy coins market cap right now is pushing $24 billion And the moves have been wild: - $ZEC: +20%...

BNB slumped 7.8% to $940, breaking key support at $980 and $940 amid a 72% surge in trading volume that points to large‑holder sell‑offs. The drop followed a failed breakout above $1,020 and coincided with a broader market downturn that...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird sued crypto‑ATM operators CoinFlip and Bitcoin Depot, underscoring growing consumer‑protection concerns about the devices. Law‑enforcement agencies and state attorneys general, from DC’s Brian Schwalb to Arizona’s Kris Mayes, have targeted operators such as Athena Bitcoin, while the FBI estimates...

MARA Holdings and MPLX signed a letter of intent to build integrated power‑generation and data‑center campuses in West Texas, beginning with a 400 MW gas‑fired facility that can scale to 1.5 GW, with MPLX supplying natural gas from its Delaware Basin plants....

If you're an L1 pivot to L2. Ethereum L2s now 4,400 TPS per day. That's a 20x TPS jump in the last 30 days. L2s are now adding a 200x scaling factor to Ethereum. That spike starting October - that's all @Lighter_xyz. A team...
DeFi lending lives and dies by trust. One of the biggest mistakes is trying to compare DeFi lending with AMM pools because they work in completely different ways. Lending only works when people believe the markets are sound, that collateral is...

Wall Street analysts have sharply raised price targets for IREN after the bitcoin miner secured a $9.7 billion AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft to provide 200 MW of data‑center capacity. Cantor Fitzgerald’s Brett Knoblauch lifted his target to $142 from $100, Bernstein to...

U.S. prosecutors are seeking a five‑year prison term for Samourai Wallet founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill after they pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed crypto‑mixing service that laundered at least $237 million from drug trafficking, darknet markets, hacks and...

Lark Davis notes that despite a bleak crypto market, decentralized finance (DeFi) activity is booming, with record DEX volumes driven by yield‑seeking traders and a shift toward on‑chain liquidity. He highlights key catalysts such as Ethereum Layer‑2 Linea’s token‑burn mechanism,...

The article details how Stream Finance suffered a $93 million loss, prompting the platform to freeze deposits and withdrawals and causing its stablecoin, Staked Stream USD, to depeg to $0.51. The loss is linked to a $100 million exploit on Balancer and...

Ripple’s latest acquisition of custody firm Palisade pushes its 2025 investment total to roughly $4 billion, complementing earlier purchases of Hidden Road, Rail, and GTreasury. The deal expands Ripple’s institutional wallet and storage capabilities, offering a combined bank‑grade vault and lightweight...

The post reports that Bitcoin slipping below $104,000 triggered a plunge in the Crypto Fear & Greed Index to 27, the lowest level in seven months, signaling extreme market fear. Analysts link the drop to waning institutional demand, a recent...

Microsoft has signed a five‑year, $9.7 billion cloud‑services contract with Texas‑based Bitcoin miner IREN, converting up to 200 MW of its Childress campus from Bitcoin ASIC mining to GPU hosting for AI workloads. The deal includes a $1.9 billion 20 % pre‑payment and a...

The 50-week EMA has been supporting Bitcoin since early 2023 Every time price tagged it, sentiment was down in the gutter And yet every time, it held and provided support for the next leg up We're heading toward that same level again Will history...
I see a lot of people saying “nuke bitcoin to 80k” Lmao that’s not a nuke. Real nuke would be back down to 40k around the price range the ETF got approved. A solid 60-70% from the top is to be expected. But it’s...
Prediction -- Crypto Gaming Hype will make a comeback! I've been in crypto since 2013, so I've seen trends come and go, and here's my explanation of Crypto hype, and how to act based on it. *This is not investment advice,...
In today’s Unchained Daily: • 🧨 Bitcoin slips under $104K as panic spreads • 🏦 Ripple’s $4B acquisition spree keeps rolling • 🪙 Stream Finance halts after $93M loss and depeg • 🚔 Samourai Wallet duo could get 5 years...

Here is a little hopium. BTC bounced from the OCT 17 lows. Potential to see a double bottom form up. Needs volume to pick up and price to start heading up. Pattern only confirms on a breakout above $115,000. 100k...
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$SOL $160's target reached after breakdown 🎯🎯 https://t.co/RD6080eHYj
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Ripple stablecoin RLUSD hit one billion with over 60% being deposited into @aave. RLUSD is another great growth story on how Aave fuels stablecoin growth.
#Bitcoin trading breakdown This is how you avoid getting chopped up in current conditions and this is why you guys follow me for clear and easy to understand content. I hope this video helps you continue to make high quality trades in...
When public companies begin investing in Bittensor subnet tokens, you know the paradigm is shifting

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#Bitcoin Any breakdown shorters could place stop losses in profits now. (not financial advice just thinking outloud 😀)✅ https://t.co/My2lLFpJw2
Prices are down, but there's MAJOR money to be made. BNB...ZEC...BTC...ETH...SOL... Here's my full (updated) setups on how I'm trading breakdowns and continuations this week🧵:

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It might not feel like that there's ever going to be an #Altcoin run. However, it will. $ARB is nicely accumulating here, which I would suggest we're going to be seeing some good momentum coming in when the markets are reversing....
$3K bitcoin didn’t worry me. $103K bitcoin certainly doesn’t either
NEW: Grayscale submits updated S-1 for spot $DOGE and $XRP ETFs, revealing 0.35% management fee for each
BREAKING🚨 $FOLKS IS LISTING THURSDAY ON BINANCE
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The current crypto prices and the AI generated slop is making whatever part of the market cycle more hellish than it needs to be. Good morning.
It's incredible to see crypto sentiment this negative and Bitcoin is still above $100K...
We might not get to $90k if you are all waiting to buy anything in 5 figures If we do get there the bounce will be incredible I’m laddering orders
🚨 TUESDAY IS @BLOFIN CHART REQUEST DAY 🚨 Tomorrow I will take a look at your favorite #Crypto and #Stock charts! I'll share my analysis of as many as I can get to. Retweet and reply with your favorite...

UPDATE 🚨 OVER $1B IS AT RISK OF LIQUIDATION IF BITCOIN FALLS TO $100K! 👀 https://t.co/OKDhV9baFW

The #Bitcoin dominance is still trending upwards, but on edge to be breaking south. Why? It's mimicking Q4 2019. I'd want to see a break beneath the 20-Monthly MA. If that happens, that's party time. https://t.co/m21WnBhKuj
The point at which you can’t halt the chain is the point when you can no longer reason about the consequences of an extended liveness failure

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#BTC Is Bitcoin still in a Bull Market or a new Bear Market? $BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin

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This a super hard to navigate question. Balancer was vested a lot in hardening V3. But do you deprecate V2 when it’s been running for 5 years ?

#BITCOIN KEEPS DROPPING!! WHAT NEXT FOR THE MARKET?? WATCH NOW https://t.co/NVEBdzEdOS https://t.co/LDiNxEtCru

BREAKING 🚨 BLACKROCK HAS DEPOSITED $213.49M IN $BTC AND $79.83M IN $ETH INTO COINBASE TODAY https://t.co/R6hod7oZH1
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