Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial has made another significant crypto investment, acquiring $21.5 million worth of Ethereum, Wrapped Bitcoin, and Movement Network tokens. According to a Mar. 6 X post by on-chain analytics platform Spot On Chain, the transactions were executed using USDC from a newly created multi-signature wallet, with [...]
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned an Iranian national for operating Nemesis, a darknet drug marketplace, and blacklisted almost 50 crypto addresses tied to it. The U.S. Treasury has taken action against Behrouz Parsarad, an Iranian national behind Nemesis, a darknet marketplace involved in fentanyl and other drug trafficking. In a March [...]
South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit wants to strengthen anti-money laundering measures, specifically by enhancing ways to monitor crypto transactions. On March 5, the FIU revealed a number of strategies to prevent money laundering at the AML Inspection Trustee Council, according to local media Wow TV. The FIU plans to launch [...]
India’s Enforcement Directorate has enlisted CoinDCX to provide custodian services for seized cryptocurrency. Enforcement Directorate, India‘s law enforcement and economic intelligence agency, has selected cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX to manage cryptocurrencies seized during ongoing investigations. In a March 5 press release shared with crypto.news, CoinDCX confirmed it will manage the custody [...]
Skate, a unified liquidity platform whose infrastructure layer powers a cross-chain virtual machine environment, has launched the first automated market maker protocol that will operate across the top blockchains. According to an announcement, Skate AMM allows users to navigate applications across all the top virtual machine, or VM, environments, including [...]
Representative Mike Collins from Georgia announced that his campaign will now accept cryptocurrency donations. Collins, an entrepreneur and active cryptocurrency trader, represents Georgia’s 10th Congressional District and has been a vocal advocate for crypto. “America has been held back by our reluctance to adapt to emerging technology, whether that be [...]
Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. AI agents are on the way. In these first few months of the year, there’s a wave of investment and excitement in this space, with autonomous assistants [...]
President Donald Trump is set to unveil a Bitcoin reserve strategy at the White House Crypto Summit Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed the plan in an interview with The Pavlovic Today, stating that Bitcoin would receive special status under Trump’s initiative. “A Bitcoin strategic reserve is something the President’s interested [...]
Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, has confirmed that he is among those looking to acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations. If the bid to purchase the short-form video platform’s U.S. business succeeds, Ohanian says the goal is to bring it on-chain. The Reddit co-founder noted this after Reuters reported that he had [...]
Crypto phishing losses fell by nearly half in February, but one approval scam alone cost a victim over $600,000, data shows. Losses from crypto phishing attacks dropped 48% in February to $5.32 million, marking the third consecutive monthly decline from $10.25 million in January and $23.58 million in December, data [...]
