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NFTs have had quite the roller coaster year. Spurred by the sale of Beeple’s The First 5000 days for a record $70 million, tokenized digital art was thrust into the mainstream earlier this year.A dramatic dip in sales followed, leading many…

Crypto derivatives exchange FTX has stepped in to loan Liquid exchange $120 million after the Japanese platform was hacked for an estimated $90 million on August 19th. FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried tweeted, “We’ve admired what Liquid…

Spain’s National Police say they have dismantled an alleged illegal cryptocurrency mining operation that was being run from a residential property. A tweet from Spain’s National Police account says that over 100 machines were being…

Geneva, Switzerland, August 24, 2021 - Liti Capital’s wLITI token, a wrapped version of the Swiss company’s LITI equity token, has been listed on the Bitcoin.com Exchange on  24 August at 10:00AM UTC. wLITI is trading with BTC and USDT…

Police officers in Hong Kong have arrested 19 people who are allegedly involved in a $1.4-million fake crypto investment scheme. The fraudsters reportedly told their victims that they could make a fortune if they invest in…

Police in the Australian state of Victoria seized more than $8.5 million AUD ($6 million USD) worth of crypto as part of an investigation into online drug trafficking. The total sum is the largest cryptocurrency seizure ever in…

A millennial from Ohio is handing more than $200 million worth of Bitcoin over to federal law enforcement after operating a cryptocurrency laundering site on the darknet. Thirty-eight-year-old Larry Dean Harmon admitted on record…

Cardano is up 5% in the last 24-hours, to $2.09 at the time of writing, making it the biggest gainer in the top ten.At the same time, other large caps are struggling to break out of this week’s market dip, which coincided with Bitcoin’s…

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid Global just suffered a massive hack, losing control of tens of millions of dollars in top crypto assets, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Tron (TRX), and XRP.   Blockchain analytics…

A man from Maryland has been charged with laundering 2,933 Bitcoin (BTC), worth around $139 million, from a US prison cell. Ryan Farace, 37, has been accused by federal prosecutors of laundering money while serving a 57-month…

After suffering a massive $611 million hack last week, decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Poly Network is attempting to shore up its defenses. Poly Network is launching a “bug bounty” program on Immunefi, a platform that rewards…

London’s High Court is ordering major crypto exchange Binance to track down and freeze the accounts of crypto hackers behind an alleged $2.6-million security breach. The order, which was made public last week, grants the requests…

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The hacker involved in one of the biggest decentralized finance (DeFi) exploits in history is copping to the heist and returning the more than half-a-billion-dollar sum. The cross-chain swapping DeFi tool Poly Network, which was…

Blockchain security firm SlowMist says the attacker behind a $611 million hack of Poly Network left a trail of digital fingerprints revealing the details of the massive crypto heist.  Poly Network, a project that enables the…

A South Florida resident has been arrested for his alleged involvement in a money-laundering scheme that sought to bribe government officials in Venezuela. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), 59-year-old Naman Wakil,…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pressing charges against two crypto executives in its first-ever decentralized finance (DeFi) securities case. In a new press release, the SEC says that it charged two Florida…

The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) is hiring crypto custody firm Anchorage Digital to handle a trove of seized cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash. The USMS is a law enforcement agency of the U.S.…

US Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) says that a senate committee that he chairs will look into methods that discourage the use of cryptocurrencies in cybercrimes. Senator Peters, who chairs the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs…

A suspect accused of masterminding a $330,000,000 crypto scheme says he might be able to repay his victims if the courts will allow him to leave prison. Javier Biosca, a Spanish national, allegedly promised hundreds of investors…