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Crypto and fintech news from across the web, curated for you by the Protos newsroom.
- Apr 30, 2025
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Circle wants its USDC payments network to be the Ripple killer—by Protos Staff
- Coinbase ups Bitcoin-backed USDC loan limit to $1 million after seeing $130 million in originations this year
- Coinbase Leaps Into Supreme Court Case in Defense of User Data Going to IRS
- ZachXBT says $330 million bitcoin theft victim is an ‘elderly’ person in US
- Celsius ex-CEO Alex Mashinsky says he’s no Sam Bankman-Fried in bid for light sentence
- Crypto industry losses reach $92 million in April due to DeFi exploits: Immunefi
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DOGE aide in charge of layoffs could be breaking law by holding BTC, report—by Protos Staff
- Inside Movement’s Token-Dump Scandal: Secret Contracts, Shadow Advisors and Hidden Middlemen
- Donald Trump Advisor Bo Hines: There Is a ‘Space Race’ to Build Bitcoin Reserves
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FixTheFilters: Bitcoin arguments go viral over relaxing Core data storage—by Protos Staff
- Britain at risk of losing ground to rival fintech and crypto hubs, execs warn
- British bank Barclays beats on profit, braces for potential tariffs-led economic slowdown
- SEC Delays Dogecoin and XRP ETF Decisions
- SEC ends investigation into PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin without enforcement
- Telegram Debt Goes DeFi in $500 Million On-Chain Fund Launch on TON
- BlackRock Looking to Tokenize Shares of Its $150B Treasury Trust Fund, SEC Filing Shows
- Trump-backed stablecoin USD1 hits over $1 billion market cap on BNB
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The Ethereum Foundation won’t disclose Vitalik Buterin’s voting power—by Protos Staff
- Samourai Wallet Prosecutors Are Considering Dropping Charges Under New DOJ Crypto Enforcement Priorities: Filing
- UK plans close co-operation with the US over crypto regulation
- Robinhood Crypto Revenue Expected to Fall in Q1 After Record Late 2024 Gain: JPMorgan
- Apr 29, 2025
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Ledger scammers are sending letters to steal your recovery phase—by Protos Staff
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What has Trump done for crypto in his first 100 days?—by Protos Staff
- UK Government Releases Draft Crypto Rules
- Main Street investors hold on tight out of trust in President Trump, Treasury Secretary says
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Every country that has failed to make bitcoin legal tender—by Protos Staff
- Corporate Bitcoin holdings soar as firms add nearly 100,000 BTC in April 2025
- Trump’s 100-Day Economic Report Card
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Tornado Cash is safe from US sanctions, says court—by Protos Staff
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Trump’s personal lawyer Jim Trusty pivots to crypto lobbying—by Protos Staff
- SoFi CEO says fintech bank is bringing back crypto investing
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Bankera founders blew ICO funds on luxury real estate, report—by Protos Staff
- With Trump In Power, Foreign Crypto Companies Make Inroads in US
- BlackRock’s IBIT Sees Second-Largest Bitcoin Inflow Since Launch, Nearing $1 Billion
- FTX pursues NFT Star and Delysium to recover millions in missing tokens
- Circle secures in-principle approval to operate as money services provider in Abu Dhabi
- DOJ Seeks 20-Year Sentence for Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky
- Bitcoin-Friendly Poilievre Loses Seat as Carney’s Liberals Win 2025 Election
- Arizona Lawmakers Approve Complementary Bitcoin, Crypto Bills
- Ethereum Foundation shuffles leadership, splits board and management
- Howard Lutnick, Trump’s ‘Buoyant’ Trade Warrior, Flexes His Power Over Global Business
- Trump memecoin dinner prize sparked $2.4 billion in onchain transfers: Kaiko
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Polymarket: Odds of India invading Pakistan rose to 41%—by Protos Staff
- Why Trump’s Economic Disruption Will Be Hard to Reverse
- Apr 28, 2025
- Strategy Adds $1.4B in Bitcoin, Nears Limit of Equity Offering Program
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Bitcoin devs continue fight over ‘arbitrary’ data storage—by Protos Staff
- Tether’s gold-backed XAUT stablecoin holds 7.7 tons of reserves after first quarter
- Prediction Markets Traders Bet Big on Easy Liberal Win as Canadians Head to the Polls
- Coinbase eyes 4-8% annualized BTC returns via bitcoin yield fund
- Strategy Adds Additional $1.42B of Bitcoin With Latest Purchase
- Canada Election: It’ll Be Carney or Poilievre Against Trump’s Tariffs
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Craig Wright has pivoted to farming—by Protos Staff
- Bitget to pursue legal action against 8 users who profited over $20M from VOXEL trading fiasco
- European ETFs post record $93B quarter of inflows amid pivot away from US exposure
- Monero Jumps 51% After ‘Suspicious Transfer’ of $333M in Bitcoin
- Nexo to reenter US market after two-year regulatory exit and $45 million settlement
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Dave Portnoy’s pathetic memecoin picks are down at least 97%—by Protos Staff
- Monero’s XMR Rockets 40% as XRP Leads Crypto Majors Gains
- U.S. Dollar’s Weakness Creates an Opportunity for the Euro. Can It Last?
- Term Finance recovers $1 million of $1.6 million loss to oracle configuration error
- Celsius Crypto Victims Demand Life Sentence for Alex Mashinsky, Saying He ‘Devastated Lives’
- El Salvador pauses public Bitcoin buys under IMF deal but its stash keeps growing
- New SEC guard Paul Atkins promises ‘clear rules of the road’ to escape crypto ‘lava pit’
- Arkansas town nixes crypto mine plans: ‘We’re not the Bitcoin mining state’
- Apr 26, 2025
- Payments giant Stripe building ‘new stablecoin product,’ bypassing US, EU and UK
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Jerome Powell defies Trump, keeps crypto restrictions at Fed—by Protos Staff
- Apr 25, 2025
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Chairman of Swiss National Bank hasn’t budged on bitcoin—by Protos Staff
- MELANIA token hits turbulence as developers allegedly offload $18 million in tokens
- BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF nears 3% of total BTC supply as inflows spike
- Solana Foundation begins pruning validators from delegation program
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Submit an anonymous tip to Protos Leaks and hold the powerful to account—by Protos Staff
- Crypto User Loses $700,000 To Address Poisoning Scam—Here’s What Happened
- Semler Scientific Pushes Bitcoin Stack to Over 3,300 BTC With $10M Buy
- Roger Ver pays Trump’s ‘dirty trickster’ $600,000 to escape extradition
- BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Will Be the World’s Biggest ETF in a Decade, Michael Saylor Says
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Tether thinks Jack Mallers will keep focus on Twenty One’s BTC, not USDT—by Protos Staff
- SEC requests dismissal of Dragonchain lawsuit, citing Crypto Task Force launch
- US spot bitcoin ETFs log $442 million in net inflows as BTC price shows resilience
- North Korean Hackers Targeting Crypto Developers With U.S. Shell Firms
- Arkansas city rejects crypto mining proposal after community pushback
- Markets Rise on Hints of Easing Trade Tensions
- Strategy Stock Could Climb as New Rival Twenty One Validates Its Bitcoin Strategy
- Bitcoin buying SPAC venture Twenty One lists 76 risks. Here are some big ones
- Apr 24, 2025
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How Tether-backed Twenty One plans to rival MicroStrategy—by Protos Staff
- TON Foundation names MoonPay co-founder Maximilian Crown as CEO amid growth plateau
- Coinbase Introduces Free Conversion for PayPal’s PYUSD as Stablecoin Competition Intensifies
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Nike’s RTFKT NFT collection is losing its images—by Protos Staff
- TON Foundation Appoints MoonPay Co-Founder, Maximilian Crown, as CEO
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HTX prepares for dinner with Donald Trump—by Protos Staff
- Revolut, the $45B neobank, posts $1B profit in 2024
- Shaquille O’Neal Reaches Settlement in FTX Lawsuit That Lawyers Say He Was ‘Running’ From
- Cantor Equity Shares Surge 55%, Jump Another 15% Pre-Market on Bitcoin SPAC Deal Buzz
- Trump’s Tariffs Expected to Grind Germany’s Economy to a Halt
- FBI Says Americans Lost $9.3B to Crypto Scams in 2024
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Bithumb boosts security in wake of SK Telecom malware hack—by Protos Staff
- ‘Pure-play’ bitcoin never looked so impure
- Russia’s Finance Ministry to Offer Crypto Trading to ‘Highly-Qualified’ Investors: Report
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The Vatican isn’t excommunicating crypto gamblers—by Protos Staff
- Upbit and Bithumb suspend Synthetix token deposits, citing sUSD risks
- US court to sentence former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky on May 8 over fraud and manipulation charges
- BlackRock’s IBIT attracts $643 million in single-day inflows; largest in 13 weeks
- Solana Foundation Shifts Validator Strategy to Promote Self-Sufficiency
- Bitcoin Traders Eye Long Term BTC Accumulation by Selling Put Options
- Metaplanet hits 5,000 BTC milestone as corporate bitcoin accumulation race heats up
- Apr 23, 2025
- Alabama drops case against Coinbase as crypto policy discussions evolve
- Rachel Reeves Says U.K. Will Not Alter Standards for U.S. Trade Deal
- Strike founder Jack Mallers to lead Tether-backed multi-billion bitcoin buying venture, Twenty One Capital
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Jerome Powell has been good for bitcoin, and Trump says he won’t fire him—by Protos Staff
- Citadel’s Ken Griffin warns Trump about tarnishing the ‘brand’ of U.S. Treasurys
- TRUMP Coin Jumps 70% on President’s Dinner Event for Top Token Holders
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Zora airdrop went unannounced for two hours and crashed BaseScan—by Protos Staff
- Zora airdrop triggers confusion as token launches without announcement, requires users claim manually
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Has your senator invested in cryptocurrency?—by Protos Staff
- Dave Portnoy: Memecoins are ‘Legalized Ponzi Schemes’
- Hedge Funds Going On-Chain: The “Indexification” of Active Strategies
- Credit a ‘short squeeze’ for the stock market’s big two-day bounce
- Bitcoin briefly flipped Google as fifth most valuable asset globally
- Scott Bessent Accuses IMF and World Bank of ‘Mission Creep’
- Strategy Stock Saw $180M in Failed Trades in March, Possible Short Squeeze Indicator
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Pump Fun co-founder Dylan Kerler linked to 2017 ICO scams, report—by Protos Staff
- New SEC chair ‘will be good for Bitcoin’ — Michael Saylor
- Coinbase to Benefit From Increased Institutional Crypto Adoption: Benchmark
- Third Point’s Dan Loeb says he’s sold out of nearly all of his ‘Magnificent 7’ holdings
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Gate.io to compensate users for outage losses — but there’s a catch—by Protos Staff
- HEX founder Richard Heart declares ‘SEC lost and crypto won’ as regulator drops fraud suit
- Binance South Africa to require information on senders and recipients for local compliance
- Elon Musk Warns China’s Rare Earth Restrictions May Delay Tesla Robots
- SEC Walks Away From Case Against HEX Founder Richard Heart, Attorney Says
- XRP Ledger Bug Patched After ‘Serious’ Flaw Spotted in XRPL Library
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Cathie Wood, the ‘believer’ who predicted $1.5M per bitcoin, has lost billions—by Protos Staff
- Apr 22, 2025
- Strategy, Coinbase, Miners Among Crypto Stocks Rallying as Bitcoin Surges Above $90K
- Trump Media Enters Deal With Crypto Trading Platform
- Dutch lender ING looking to launch euro stablecoin under EU’s MiCA framework
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Yuga Labs wants Pauly0x’s $400K worth of crypto seized—by Protos Staff
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Zora abandons NFTs without warning, launches airdrop with zero rights—by Protos Staff
- ECB, European Commission Clash on MiCA Changes Over U.S. Crypto Policies: Report
- US Indicts Iranian National for Operating Nemesis Darknet Marketplace
- Trump Media and Crypto.com finalize agreement to launch slate of ‘Made in America’ crypto-related ETFs
- Hacker infects Ripple’s XRP Ledger software with crypto stealing ‘backdoor’
- Crypto Ally Paul Atkins Sworn In to Replace Gary Gensler Atop U.S. SEC
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UK street gang launders drug funds with memecoin, report—by Protos Staff
- Crypto crime goes industrial as gangs launch coins, launder billions — UN
- Dutch Bank ING Said to Be Working on a New Stablecoin With Other TradFi and Crypto Firms
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Ripple was Trump inauguration’s top crypto donor before SEC regulatory shift—by Protos Staff
- US judge transfers Binance lawsuit to Florida, citing first-to-file rule
- Bithumb to Split in Two as Crypto Exchange Inches Toward South Korean IPO
- Mantra to Burn $160M OM Tokens, 50% From DAO’s Founder, Following 90% Price Crash
- Bitcoin outperforms gold as US puts 3,251% tariff on Asian solar panels
- ECB fears ‘contagion’ risk from Trump’s crypto embrace, MiCA rules may not be strong enough: Politico
- Galaxy Digital swaps $106 million ETH for SOL, as ether dominance drops to record low
- Apr 21, 2025
- SEC Still Plans on Charging Miami Crypto Company—But It’s Vowing to Fight Back
- USDC closes in on $61 billion as institutional demand outpaces USDT growth
- MANTRA founder will burn $82 million worth of his OM tokens to ‘rebuild trust’ following $5 billion crash
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BlackRock and MicroStrategy hold more BTC than Satoshi—by Protos Staff
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A digital gold panner won the lottery with Binance withdrawal—by Protos Staff
- Bybit seeks community help as $400 million in stolen Ethereum vanishes through Wasabi mixer
- Strategy buys more bitcoin for $555 million, pushing total holdings to 538,200 BTC
- Coinbase-Backed Zora to Airdrop Token After a Week of Contentious Promotions
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Critics attack Bored Ape expenditures, pushover members—by Protos Staff
- Solana’s high staking yield briefly propels it past Ethereum’s staked value
- UK-based crypto fund snaps up $250m in Bitcoin as public firms boost their treasuries
- ConstitutionDAO But for the Apocalypse: Solana NFT Project Aims to Buy Nuclear Bunker
- Bitget will roll back trades, compensate users after ‘abnormal’ VOXEL trading activity
- Crypto casino takings top $80bn as gamblers bypass blocks
- Metaplanet Buys Another 330 BTC as BTC Moves Above $87K
- Bybit CEO says nearly 28% of $1.4 billion hacked crypto ‘gone dark,’ moved to P2P and OTC
- Stablecoin Giant Circle Is Launching a New Payments and Remittance Network
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