Utah Man Sentenced to 3 Years in $2.9M Crypto Fraud Scheme.
A federal court in Utah has sentenced Brian Garry Sewell to three years in prison for orchestrating a $2.9 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme that defrauded at least 17 investors through…
Bybit Opens BYUSDT to Retail Users Following VIP Rollout.
Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has expanded access to its innovative BYUSDT token to eligible retail users after a successful exclusive launch for VIP clients. This…
XRP Surges Past $2 as XRPL 3.0.0 Upgrade Goes Live.
XRP has broken through the psychological $2 barrier for the first time in years, with XRP price posting sharp gains as the long-awaited XRPL 3.0.0 upgrade officially went live on…
Cathie Wood Says Bitcoin Offers Higher Returns Per Unit of Risk.
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood has once again championed Bitcoin, declaring that it delivers higher returns per unit of risk than virtually any other asset class over meaningful time horizons.…
Polygon Scales Network After Record Usage Pushes Fees Higher.
Polygon rolled out additional scaling optimizations to its PoS chain and AggLayer following sustained record transaction volume that kept average fees elevated above $0.09 for several days — the longest…
Vitalik Buterin Defends Tornado Cash Developer, Backs Privacy Rights.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin publicly defended Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm — currently facing trial in the U.S. on money-laundering charges — arguing that prosecuting open-source privacy tool creators sets…
Meme Coins PEPE and BONK See Significant Surge in 2026’s First Week.
PEPE and BONK led the meme coin sector with explosive gains in the opening week of the year — PEPE up 78% and BONK up 92% since January 1 —…
Tether Supports SQRIL’s Push for Global QR Payment Interoperability – Major Step Toward Stablecoin Mainstream Adoption.
Tether announced its official support for the SQRIL initiative — a collaborative global effort to create a unified, open standard for QR code-based payments that enables seamless cross-border and cross-network…
Trump Media Plans 1:1 DJT Token Distribution for Shareholders – Rewards Via Crypto.com Partnership.
Trump Media and Technology Group (Nasdaq: DJT), the operator of Truth Social, Truth+, and Truth.Fi, announced plans to distribute a new digital token to its shareholders on a 1:1 basis…
Record $27B BTC and ETH Options Expired Quietly Amid Holiday Lull.
A record-breaking $27 billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum options contracts expired on December 26, 2025, passing with remarkably low volatility as markets observed a holiday lull. The massive expiry— the…