Within days of each other, courts in China, the UK and Morocco handed down significant sentences to criminals involved in physical crypto crime.  While efforts are ongoing to make the cryptocurrency industry more secure online, law enforcement officials globally are also cracking down on physical crypto crime known as wrench attacks. Does China punish crypto...

A US-sanctioned Iranian businessman, known to be adept at evading international sanctions, has reportedly been linked to operations using crypto to help Iran finance its armed forces and circumvent sanctions. Babak Zanjani is believed to be involved in processing finances for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). So far, they have carried out about $850...

The Uniswap DAO has pushed out a new proposal to expand its UNIfication program by activating protocol fee collection and UNI token burning to the BNB, Polygon and Celo networks.  The proposal to expand on the three networks will be looking at replicating the rally that the initial rollout sparked when it launched on the...

Fenwick & West, a prominent Silicon Valley law firm, has entered into a $54 million preliminary settlement agreement to address customer lawsuits related to the defunct crypto exchange, FTX. Filed in court on Friday in Miami, Florida, the settlement has yet to receive judicial sanction. Settlement will address claims that FTX clients raised against the...

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A French-Moroccan man convicted of organizing some of the recent daring kidnappings of crypto figures in France has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. The news comes amid a growing debate in French society over the massive number of data leaks in the country that are compromising personal security. Moroccan court sends crypto kidnapper...

Crypto bulls saw more than half a billion dollars wiped out in liquidations after the crypto market printed red indexes all around. The cumulative digital assets market cap dipped by more than 2% over the last 24 hours to hover around $2.53 trillion. Bitcoin saw $55 billion leave its market cap amid the fresh sell-off....

Mark Cuban said the story around his Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) sale was wrong, and he did not dump the asset because of the Iran war. As reported previously on Cryptopolitan, Mark offloaded 80 percent of his Bitcoin when its price dipped along with gold hitting $5,000, with which he claimed that this digital asset was...

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) has become the loudest name in the chip trade this week, surging by 12% on Friday to make it a 40.3% rally for the week, and is now up about 75% over the past month, breaking all-time highs after all-time highs. Meanwhile, the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) hit its first intraday record...

Gold now makes up basically the entirety tokenized commodity market, according to data from a16z Crypto, whose latest report put tokenized commodities at about $5.1 billion, while tokenized gold alone sat near $5 billion. Silver and every other commodity product had only $57.6 million combined, which leaves gold with about 98% of the market. Oil,...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed plans to introduce an exemption that would allow crypto firms to trade tokenized equities, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday.

Kevin Warsh took the oath as Federal Reserve chair at the White House on Friday morning, giving President Donald Trump a new Fed chief at a rough time for the U.S. economy. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas swore him in. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, National Economic Council Director...

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has come under pressure again following high-profile departures over the past few days, with researchers Carl Beek and Julian Ma announcing their exits on Monday.

Asset manager Grayscale says that the small group of blockchains already dominating decentralized finance (DeFi) and tokenized assets, Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, and Canton Network, are best positioned to absorb the first wave of institutional capital once the United States passes the CLARITY Act, its long-promised crypto rulebook. The CLARITY Act cleared the Senate Banking...

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), parent company of the NYSE, has partnered with OKX to roll out perpetual futures contracts for its Brent Crude and WTI Crude energy benchmarks.

An anonymous X user named Matthew posted a long thread today claiming he found the real identity of Zach and accusing the crypto investigator of taking money from major industry players that almost never end up in his threads. Matthew said the account was made this month and that this was his first post after...

YZi Labs (the venture company formerly known as Binance Labs) has officially opened the application process for the latest season of its EASY Residency cohort, with applications open to founders until June 21st, 2026. The latest edition (Season 4) will also be the first time the program brings a founder cohort physically to the Gelephu...

China has denied claims that it is discouraging local tech companies from taking foreign investment, despite continued withdrawals by international investors from major sectors. Li Chao, a National Development and Reform Commission official, stated on May 22 that the government has never instructed Chinese IT companies to steer clear of foreign funding. He continued by...

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) slapped a record-breaking penalty of 1.85 billion yuan (approx worth $271 million) on Futu Holdings. This turns out to be one of the authority’s most aggressive enforcement actions to punish non-compliance.  Futu said the matter remains under review and that it will engage with regulators before any final decision....

You should start playing crypto games immediately if you have an iPhone. These wildly innovative new games reward your gaming with prizes from the real world. Check out these best crypto games for iPhone users and see if there’s some additional profit in them for you. Those familiar with crypto games could download an online...

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is probing Polymarket and Kalshi over suspected insider trading.

Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer, created history on May 22, 2010, when he spent 10,000 Bitcoin on two pizzas. The trade was valued at about $41(market cap under US$1M) at the time.  According to Binance, the 10,000 Bitcoins would be valued well over $700m (market cap over US$1.5T) now. In August 2025, when BTC price was...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tokens Near Protocol (NEAR) and Grass (GRASS) are extending gains on Friday, building on improving sentiment in the sector. NEAR is up 18%, trading near the $2.40 resistance, while GRASS hovers around $0.45.

A freshly created wallet moved 684,934 HYPE tokens (approx worth $40.7 million) from Coinbase in two days. This transaction is seen by traders as a sign of a sudden increase in liquidity in the crypto market for one of the most supply-restricted large-cap tokens. What makes the transaction unique is not just the volume but...

THORChain has opened a governance vote for node operators on its path to restarting operations after the May 15 exploit that drained ~$10.7 million from a single vault.

Bitcoin price has slid straight from $125,000 to $60,000 levels over the last 6 months, leading the crypto market’s massive decline. However, Michael Saylor suggests that the BTC market will recover soon. In an interview, Saylor described the situation as a warming spring period. He mentioned that BTC is currently in a highly supported zone...

Analysts at Solana Floor have sounded the alarm after a fraudulent airdrop impersonating Jupiter Exchange came on its radar earlier today. The warning from the blockchain analytics outlet noted that the phishing campaign targets Solana users with the promise of a fake airdrop, luring them into connecting their wallets to a malicious asset-draining site. According...

China's Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is cracking down on U.S. stock trading platforms and has seized illegal gains. 

The chief executive of a major Polish fintech company has been detained in the U.S. as part of an investigation into a massive loss of customer funds. The man has been wanted by law enforcement authorities in Poland under a Red Notice issued by Interpol for his role in the alleged fraud case. His arrest...