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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The Dogecoin and Shiba Inu prices are down today after a brief rebound yesterday. Crypto pundit Nobler has suggested that these price declines are due to price manipulation rather than a wave of sell-offs among investors. Why The Dogecoin and Shiba Inu Prices Are Down CoinMarketCap data shows that the Dogecoin and Shiba Inu prices are on the decline today, following significant gains yesterday. In an X post, Nobler stated that Binance, Wintermute, and BlackRock were all selling Bitcoin ahead of the Federal Reserve’s announcement. This explains…
In August 2025, Ripple Labs formally closed its years-long battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).The company paid a $125 million civil penalty, accepted an injunction on certain institutional XRP sales, and walked away with something more valuable than victory: clarity.Judge Analisa Torres had already ruled in July 2023 that XRP itself wasn’t inherently a security and that programmatic sales on exchanges didn’t trigger Howey test requirements.Direct institutional sales totaling about $728 million did violate securities law, but the core business survived intact.The existential threat evaporated, and the stain of “unregistered security in secondary markets” lifted.Industry watchers expected the…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) behind troubled DeFi protocol Balancer has issued a notice to the wallet behind a $128 million heist of the money maker project. The Balancer DAO is requesting that the hackers cooperate to resolve the situation or face an escalation in any form necessary. Balancer To Hacker: Take Bounty Or Risk Persecution On Monday, Balancer suffered a major security breach resulting in the loss of assets worth over $100 million. According to the report by the protocol’s development team, the attack affected the balancer…
In brief The Bitwise Solana Staking ETF debuted on October 28. Spot Bitcoin ETFs have shed more than $2.1 billion in assets since then. Solana’s price has fallen about 29% over the past month. While Bitcoin and Ethereum funds shed assets, Bitwise’s fledgling Solana ETF racked up more than $126 million in net inflows in its first full week of trading, an auspicious sign for the SOL-tracking product and potentially for other altcoin funds.The Bitwise Solana Staking ETF (BSOL) has generated more than $545 million in net inflows since its October 28 debut on the New York Stock Exchange, including…
Russian entrepreneur Roman Novak, a convicted crypto fraudster, and his wife Anna were abducted and found murdered in the United Arab Emirates, after a plot linked to ransom demands and digital assets went awry.Roman Novak was well known across St. Petersburg for defrauding investors out of millions from his various crypto ventures. After being sentenced to a six-year prison sentence for large-scale fraud in 2020, Novak relocated to Dubai, creating the Fintopio crypto app and allegedly raising hundreds of millions from new investors.In early October, Novak and his wife set out for what appeared to be a promising investor meeting…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin’s mining industry is feeling growing strain as the key profitability gauge, hash price, slides toward levels that could push smaller operators offline and put pressure on mining equipment providers and service partners. Hash Price Nears Danger Level According to industry reports, hash price — the expected daily revenue per unit of computing power — is about $42 per PH/s today, down from above $62 per PH/s in July. That dip toward the $40 mark is forcing some smaller and less efficient miners to weigh powering down…