South Korean financial authorities – Financial Services Commission (FSC) and Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) – reported a suspect of price manipulation in the virtual asset market to the prosecution. This marks the first case processed through formal investigation procedures under the newly enforced Virtual Asset Act, effective July 19, 2024. The case followed a structured […]
Telegram-based malware scams have now outpaced traditional phishing attacks, according to Scam Sniffer’s troubling findings. From November 2024 to January 2025, incidents involving malicious Telegram groups surged by over 2000%, while conventional phishing methods remained stable. Unlike the typical “connect wallet” scams, these new tactics involve more sophisticated methods such as fake verification bots, fraudulent […]
Litecoin (LTC) prices have surged around 17% over the past 12 hours, propelling the cryptocurrency to an intraday and 4-week high of $118 during early trading in Asia on Thursday morning. However, LTC topped $140 during the December crypto rally and still remains down 72% from its May 2021 all-time high of $410. “Litecoin has […]
Congressman Tom Emmer, a well-known advocate for the cryptocurrency industry, has been named Vice Chair of the House Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence. Committee Chairman French Hill made the announcement on January 14 as part of the House Financial Services Committee’s subcommittee assignments for the 119th Congress. Appointment Details Emmer expressed […]
The floor price of CryptoPunks NFTs surged nearly 15% in just three hours on January 14. The price movement was driven by speculation that Yuga Labs, which owns the collection, might be selling CryptoPunks’ intellectual property (IP) rights. The False Statements These rumors were apparently started by Wale.moca, a researcher at NFT firm Azuki. They […]
On Jan. 15, the Chainlink team announced that the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol v1.5 upgrade was now live on mainnet for all developers. The upgrade empowers developers to take their tokens cross-chain “in a self-serve manner” and deploy Cross-Chain Tokens (CCTs) across more than twenty blockchains in minutes, it added. CCIP is a secure and easy-to-use […]
XRP is the best-performing asset in the crypto top 50 by market capitalization, with a gain of more than 13% on the day. As a result, the cross-border payment token reached an intraday high of $2.87 during trading in Asia on Wednesday morning. XRP has neared its peak from this cycle, which was close to […]
That’s not necessarily an indication of anything going wrong with Dogecoin this week. Most major crypto tokens were trading down significantly Monday after an exuberant rally around the time of the new Congress convening in Washington. By Monday afternoon in Chicago, Bitcoin had fallen some 10% for the week’s trading. Meanwhile, Ethereum had fallen by […]
Bitcoin has recovered from its 2025 and 8-week low of just below $90,000 during late trading on Monday, Jan. 13. The asset gained around $5,000 over the past 12 hours from that drop or so to tap the $95,000 level during trading in Asia on Tuesday morning. BTC is now back in the middle of […]
Fidelity’s latest report predicted that nation-states, central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and government treasuries may strategically position themselves in the cryptocurrency market by 2025. The prediction follows the approval and launch of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs) in 2024, which triggered significant demand from institutional and retail investors. This new accessibility has streamlined Bitcoin allocations, […]