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Crypto and fintech news from across the web, curated for you by the Protos newsroom.
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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
- Apr 18, 2025
- Capital One and Discover merger approved by Federal Reserve
- BlackRock’s BUIDL drives 92% surge in tokenized US treasury market
- Coinbase flashes warning that the crypto winter came early this year
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Solana-focused BullX still exists despite allegations it ‘called it quits’—by Protos Staff
- Manta Co-Founder ‘Targeted’ by Lazarus Group in Zoom Phishing Attempt
- Galaxy proposes new ‘market-driven’ voting system for Solana emissions following SIMD-228 rejection
- Long-Term Investing Has Gotten Riskier as Trump’s Tariffs Shake the Markets
- Why Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson isn’t miffed by White House snub: ‘I don’t need to make a deal with Trump’
- Crypto Exchange eXch Shutting Down Following Links to Lazarus, Bybit Hack
- Leaders of $190M Brazilian Crypto Ponzi Scheme Sentenced to Over 170 Years in Prison
- Apr 17, 2025
- Panama City Greenlights Bitcoin, Ether Payments for Tax and City Services
- Quantum Computing Group Offers 1 BTC to Whoever Breaks Bitcoin’s Cryptographic Key
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Bank of America lobbies to dethrone Tether and Circle—by Protos Staff
- Meloni Meets With Trump, With Tariffs on the Agenda
- Crypto Casino Founder Richard Kim Arrested After Gambling Away Investor Funds
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What’s the deal with Zora, Base, and content coins?—by Protos Staff
- IMF Warns Trump Tariffs Will Weaken Economy and Increase Inflation
- KiloEx – Rekt
- Secret Service, Canadian Officials Disrupt $4.3M Ethereum “Approval Phishing” Scam
- Bybit shuts down four more Web3 services after axing NFT marketplace
- Powell Faces Pressure From the Markets and Trump Over Rates
- North Korean hackers target crypto devs with fake recruitment tests
- Energy experts slam ‘deeply flawed’ Harvard-led study on Bitcoin mining’s environmental impact
- XRP Downside Fears Persist Despite ETF Optimism, Options Data Show
- Nvidia C.E.O. Meets With Chinese Trade Officials in Beijing
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Coinbase claims the token Base just launched isn’t actually a token at all—by Protos Staff
- Trump Administration Weighing Ban Against China’s DeepSeek: Report
- Three Wallets Snag ‘Base is for everyone’ Tokens Before Official Announcement, Profiting $666K
- US court pauses 18-state lawsuit against SEC after agency’s leadership change
- A16z Calls on SEC to Update Crypto Custody Rules for Registered Investment Advisers
- Bitcoin and U.S. Equities Show Early Signs of Fading Correlation
- UBS loses crown as continental Europe’s most valuable bank to Santander amid U.S. tariffs
- Binance acting as adviser to governments on crypto regulations
- Apr 16, 2025
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Your $1,200 COVID stimulus could be worth $14,700 in bitcoin—by Protos Staff
- Almost Nobody in Colorado Is Paying Taxes With Crypto
- RAY token up 8% as Raydium rolls out Pump.fun competitor ‘LaunchLab’
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BlackRock ETFs: Gold outperforms bitcoin in Trump’s second term—by Protos Staff
- The Biggest Crypto Fraud Since FTX?
- A decade in, Liberland needs the Bitcoin standard more than ever
- US Secret Service combats $4.3 million Ethereum ‘phishing’ scam with aid of Canadian officials
- Wall Street trading desks are feasting on the volatility from Trump’s global upheavals
- Coinbase Revenue, Trading Outlook Hit by Tariff Tensions: Oppenheimer
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Abandoned DeFi websites used to host crypto wallet drainers—by Protos Staff
- Mantra Plans ‘Comprehensive Burn Program’ of OM Following 90% Crash
- Trump-Family Backed World Liberty Gets $25M Investment From DWF Labs
- Official Trump memecoin wallet cashes out $4.6m to Coinbase ahead of team unlocks
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Crypto influencer Tiffany Fong rejected Elon Musk’s baby-making offer, report—by Protos Staff
- Deel’s CEO is now in Dubai, complicating Rippling’s lawsuit
- China debates how to handle criminal crypto cache
- South Korean presidential contender vows to push crypto ‘as much as’ Trump: report
- Ethereum Gaming Project CyberKongz Says SEC Has Ended Investigation
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Every UK MP hacked on X since Elon Musk took control—by Protos Staff
- Apr 15, 2025
- After Persuading GameStop to Adopt Bitcoin, Strive’s Matt Cole Targets Intuit
- Binance’s Potential Zcash Delisting Met With Dismay From Industry Heavyweights
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US government might use tariffs to buy bitcoin—by Protos Staff
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Did Solana process more transactions than all other blockchains last week?—by Protos Staff
- Stocks Edge Higher Amid Trump Tariff Uncertainty
- Ethena Agrees With Regulator to Withdraw From German Market
- ZKSync Admin Wallet Compromised, $5M Stolen
- Trump’s latest crypto venture will be a real estate video game
- Bitdeer Prioritizes Mining to Weather Tariff Turmoil
- Binance-Backed DEX KiloEX Suspends Operations Following $7.5 Million Exploit
- Bitcoin Eyes Gains Versus Gold After Trendline Breakout, Monero Sees Golden Cross
- Bunq, a neobank for ‘digital nomads,’ accelerates U.S. expansion effort as profit jumps 65%
- Only 11% of El Salvador’s registered Bitcoin firms operational
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Major crypto exchanges suffer complications after AWS outage—by Protos Staff
- Binance, KuCoin, and Other Crypto Firms Hit by Amazon Web Service Issue
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Chinese chip used in bitcoin wallets is putting traders at risk—by Protos Staff
- Online trading platform Webull soars 375% in second day on market after SPAC merger
- Circle’s EURC Stablecoin Surges 43% to Record Supply as Dollar Troubles Fuel Demand
- SEC Postpones Decision on Staking Proposal for Grayscale Ethereum ETFs
- Apr 14, 2025
- KuCoin, MEXC and 12 Crypto Exchanges’ Apple Apps Blocked in South Korea
- ZachXBT identifies key figures tied to Mantra’s 90% OM token crash
- Nomura’s Laser Digital Denies Involvement in Mantra Crash
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Anchorage Digital probed by top US AML task force, report—by Protos Staff
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MicroStrategy bought BTC at nearly the worst possible price last week—by Protos Staff
- Inside ‘An Ethereum Story’: Filming Vitalik Buterin, Crypto’s Most Reluctant Star
- Google to Restrict Crypto Ads in EU to MiCA-Licensed Firms
- Crypto Bank Anchorage Probed by U.S. Homeland Security
- Mantra denies responsibility after OM token flash crash wipes out $5bn
- Bybit denies $1.4M listing fee, school promo accusations on X
- MANTRA investor Laser Digital denies role in OM token crash, says ‘core’ holdings remain ‘locked’
- Strategy Scoops Up 3,459 More BTC, Now Holds 531,644 BTC
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MANTRA CEO says ‘reckless’ exchanges caused OM token collapse—by Protos Staff
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CZ told to ‘give up the scamming’ in X spat with Ari Paul—by Protos Staff
- Trump-Linked Crypto Project Buys $775,000 Worth of SEI as Altcoin Accumulation Continues
- China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies
- Man Pleads Guilty to Submitting False Tax Returns Tied to $13M CryptoPunks Sales
- Trump’s World Liberty Financial buys $775K in SEI in altcoin buying spree
- Goldman Sachs is about to report first-quarter earnings
- Mantra’s OM Crashes 90% in Bizarre Selloff as Team Alleges ‘Forced Liquidations’
- Metaplanet Becomes 9th Largest Public Bitcoin Holder With Latest BTC Buy
- MANTRA’s 88% crash sparks over $71 million in liquidations: Coinglass
- Ray Dalio Sounds the Alarm on Global Systemic Risk, But Bitcoin Remains Resilient
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