EscalationBlockstream Rejects Ransom After 85% BTC Recovery: Liquid Exploit
The confirmed core comes straight from Blockstream. Its initial incident report, displayed as September 7 at 12:14 AM, says purported white-hat hackers withdrew...
Bitcoin $72-73K: ETF Realized Price and Coinbase Premium
One number is being floated as Bitcoin's line in the sand: $72,000-$73,000. The pitch is simple.
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Early SignalSchwartz Defends XRP Ledger Over 93% Bot Transaction Claim
Ripple's chief technology officer has stepped into a fresh online brawl over the XRP Ledger, pushing back on a viral claim that bots and spam accounts drive 93%...
Market ReactionCLARITY Act: Democrats Push Vertical Integration Provision
The dispute was reported by CoinGape , which framed the vertical integration language as a new hurdle for the bill. The core of the disagreement is straightforw...
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RISK: MEDIUMCLARITY Act: Democrats Push Vertical Integration Provision
The dispute was reported by CoinGape , which framed the vertical integration language as a new hurdle for the bill. The core of the disagreement is straightforw...
RISK: HIGHCoinbase Wallet Rebrands, Pursues Broader Trading
Coinbase is undoing its own rebrand. The company plans to bring Base App back to the Coinbase Wallet name, a reversal that signals a sharper focus on one thing:...
RISK: HIGHSenate Republicans Revise CLARITY Act: DeFi, Prediction Markets
Senate Republicans have released revised CLARITY Act text that takes on two of crypto's thorniest questions: how to treat decentralized finance and how to handl...
RISK: HIGHBitwise Shuts Down Dogecoin ETF Within a Year of Launch
Bitwise is pulling the plug on its Dogecoin ETF less than a year after it launched, telling regulators it will voluntarily close, delist and liquidate the fund...
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EscalationBlockstream Rejects Ransom After 85% BTC Recovery: Liquid Exploit
The confirmed core comes straight from Blockstream. Its initial incident report, displayed as September 7 at 12:14 AM, says purported white-hat hackers withdrew...
Early SignalChangeNOW API 2026: What It Offers, Who Uses It, and Whether It Delivers
An investigative look at the ChangeNOW API in 2026 - endpoint coverage, known wallet integrations, partner revenue share, and the unresolved question of who bea...
Market ReactionNasdaq Invests $100M in Kraken Parent at $21B Valuation
Nasdaq is reportedly writing a $100 million check to Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, in a deal that would value the business at a stagger...
EscalationIs ChangeNOW Legit? What the Evidence Shows in 2026
CCpress investigates whether ChangeNOW is legitimate: Estonian company registration, 450K+ Trustpilot reviews, compliance hold patterns, nine years of operation...
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Vitalik Buterin
Co-founder of Ethereum
Co-founder of Ethereum, the first global smart-contract platform. He remains one of the most influential technical and p...
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Bitcoin Fund Flows Reflect Fed Rate Bets: CoinShares
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Changpeng Zhao (CZ)
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Founder of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. He now focuses on the nonprofit education project Giggl...
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Poly Network Hack: $610M in Crypto Stolen, Most Returned
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Michael Saylor
Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy
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Strategy's Bitcoin Buying Return Lasted Exactly One Week
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Brian Armstrong
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the leading US crypto exchange and the first major crypto company to go public on Nasdaq...
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Republican Senators Warn CLARITY Act Could Fail Next Week
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Charles Hoskinson
Founder of Cardano and IOG, and Ethereum co-founder
Former Ethereum co-founder who left to build Cardano, a blockchain ecosystem centered on academic research and peer-revi...
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COLLAPSESchwartz Defends XRP Ledger Over 93% Bot Transaction Claim
Ripple's chief technology officer has stepped into a fresh online brawl over the XRP Ledger, pushing back on a viral claim that bots and spam accounts drive 93%...
FRAUDPolkadot Holders Vote on dotUSD Proposal With $5M Backing
The proposal lives on-chain as Referendum #1944 , titled "dotUSD: A Native Stablecoin for Polkadot. " It was in the Deciding state on the Root track when the re...
FRAUDXRP Pulls Back Despite BIS Testing XRPL as Rate-Hike Fears Return
XRP just got a landmark institutional nod from one of finance's most powerful bodies, and the price barely blinked. The token slipped to around $1.
FRAUDXRP ETF Imbalance: Why Select US Funds Beat the Token Surge by 100%
A strange gap has opened up around XRP. Select US-listed funds tied to the token have reportedly outrun XRP's own price surge by roughly 100%, creating an ETF i...