Sun, February 23

Hester Peirce Discusses Crypto Task Force Priorities For Regulations

The crypto community is combating the recent market crash with a positive face, as tokens attempt recovery. However, the sector itself has not remained dormant. Over the past few weeks, NFT projects, DeFi, AI, and regulatory spaces have shown increased activity. In the past day, the SEC made several announcements. 

February 5, 2025 2 mins read

Travala Integrates 2.2M+ Crypto-Friendly Hotels on Trivago

Travala, a cryptocurrency-native travel booking service, has teamed with trivago, one of the world’s leading accommodation metasearch engines, to integrate Travala’s entire hotel inventory of over 2,200,000 properties on trivago. Millions of Trivago users worldwide will be able to find, evaluate, and book Travala’s properties thanks to the integration. Travelers will be

February 5, 2025 3 mins read

WazirX Users Choose Between a New Refund Plan or Waiting Until 2030

WazirX Restructuring plan WazirX users now face a tough decision. The exchange has offered two paths for fund recovery after a massive hack. In July 2024, North Korean hackers stole $235 million from WazirX. The hack wiped out over 40% of the exchange’s assets. Users have been waiting for a

February 4, 2025 2 mins read

Union Groups Sue Treasury for Unlawful Data Sharing with DOGE

Union groups have filed a lawsuit against the US Treasury. They accuse the Treasury of breaking federal laws. The lawsuit claims that sensitive financial and personal information is being shared unlawfully. The groups say this data is going to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This group is linked

February 4, 2025 2 mins read

Crypto Market Faces Deeper Losses as U.S.-China Trade Tensions Escalate

The cryptocurrency market witnessed another hit on 3rd, February 2025, as China responded to Trump’s US tariff implementation. In retaliation, China imposed a 10-15% tariff on American goods and launched an antitrust probe into Google. Following this, Bitcoin fell to a three-day low of $91,541, and Ethereum lost nearly 25%

February 4, 2025 3 mins read

Trump’s World Liberty Financial Moves its Crypto Holdings to Coinbase

President Donald Trump has been making some big moves ever since he won the US elections in Nov 2024. From establishing D.O.G.E, launching his own crypto projects, implementing new tariffs, his actions are shaking the world economy. His World Liberty Financial crypto project is holding a considerable amount of funds

February 4, 2025 2 mins read

Crypto.com and Kalshi Super Bowl Bets Under Scrutiny by CFTC

Crypto.com and Kalshi Super Bowl bets under the legal Spotlight. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating them for sports-related prediction market contracts. On this, crypto exchange Crypto.com stated that they will continue providing wages on the Super Bowl. They will also work with the CFTC to address any

February 4, 2025 2 mins read

Tron and Movement Labs Denied “Token Swap Deal” with WLFI Project

TRON and Movement Labs have refuted any $10 million plus token swap deal with World Liberty Financial $WLFI, claiming that their holdings in $TRX and $MOVE were obtained through conventional market transactions, not through private deals. WLFI is a cryptocurrency project backed by President Donald Trump and his family. Moreover,

February 4, 2025 2 mins read

US Charges Canadian Hacker for $65M DeFi Exploits

US prosecutors charged a Canadian national, Andean Medjedovic, with allegedly exploiting DeFi protocols Indexed Finance and KyberSwap, pilfering some $65 million through fictitious trades. On Feb. 3, the Justice Department unsealed an indictment in a Brooklyn federal court against Andean Medjedovic, charging him with hacking, attempted extortion, money laundering, and

February 4, 2025 2 mins read

Donald Trump Orders Creation of US Sovereign Wealth Fund

United States President Donald Trump issued a new executive order to create a US Sovereign Wealth Fund. The order aims to create the fund by the next year and plans to acquire popular short-video application TikTok.  This is not the first time a country has created a fund to make

February 4, 2025 2 mins read