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The United States government has increased the reward offered for information on OneCoin co-founder Ruja Ignatova’s whereabouts to $5 million. According to an official release from the U.S. Department of State spokesperson in conjunction with the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria, anyone who brings information leading to the arrest or conviction of Ignatova, popularly known as Cryptoqueen, would be rewarded with $5 million. This new reward represents a significant increase from the...

Marathon Digital Holdings, a global crypto-focused platform, announced that its mining operations for Kaspa have yielded approximately $15 million worth of KAS since they commenced last September. The company states that the decision to mine Kaspa was part of its strategy to diversify its mining operations. Marathon Mining Kapsa In the statement released on Wednesday, Marathon Digital mentioned that since the dawn of their Kaspa mining operations, they have already mined...

Cryptoslam data indicates that the initially strong NFT market is now recording a downward momentum, having declined in critical metrics, including sales volumes, unique sellers, and buyers. The ongoing rough patch in Bitcoin markets has been blamed for the decline in NFT volume. NFT Volumes Downward Momentum According to data from Cryptoslam, the NFT market experienced a significant decline in monthly volumes during Q2 compared to the first quarter of 2024. Sales volumes in...

Two men have been sentenced for manipulating the price of Hydrogen Technology’s cryptocurrency, HYDRO, and scheming to defraud investors. This case marks the first time a jury in a federal criminal trial has classified a cryptocurrency as a security and found that price manipulation of cryptocurrency constitutes securities fraud. $300M HYDRO Crypto Fraud Scheme Court documents and trial evidence revealed that Kane, the co-founder and CEO of Hydrogen Technology, and Hampton,...

Losses from hacks and rug pulls in 2024 year-to-date amount to over $473 million across 108 incidents, according to Immunefi’s latest data. This marks a 20% decrease compared to the same period in 2023, which saw losses of more than $595 million. In May 2024, victims of hacks and fraud lost $52.4 million across 21 incidents, a 12% decrease from May 2023’s losses of almost $60 million and a 28% decrease month over month. The crypto bug bounty platform’s report observed that a...

Analysts at market intelligence platform CryptoQuant have outlined on-chain metrics that could signal that the bitcoin (BTC) price has bottomed and cryptocurrencies are beginning to rally again. The latest weekly CryptoQuant report mentioned signals like higher bullish momentum, rising BTC demand, and faster stablecoin liquidity growth as the metrics to watch. Higher Bullish Momentum CryptoQuant’s Bitcoin Bull-Bear Market Cycle indicator currently signals that the crypto...

Free speech champions across the world celebrated earlier this week as Julian Assange – founder of WikiLeaks – was finally released from a UK prison after five years behind bars. During his more than decade-long legal battle to escape persecution from multiple national governments, Assange often leaned on crypto to drive global fundraising campaigns to secure his freedom. A newly resurfaced video from years before Assange’s arrest shows him praising cryptocurrencies as a...

On June 25, the ECB published an update on its two-year preparation phase for the digital Euro CBDC that ends in October 2025. The central bank said that privacy and data protection are its top priorities, but there are a number of disturbing features to the currency that would result in the total opposite. On June 26, crypto entrepreneur and investor Daniel Batten highlighted a few of them. JUST IN: ECB announce first progress report on the digital Euro Features:– easier to...

Crypto market intelligence provider IntoTheBlock published a report on Thursday comparing the best risk-adjusted methods to earn yield in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). Despite the “nearly infinite number of composable strategies” the firm claims its most optimal to stick to “straightforward strategies,” that boil down to “only a handful of different primitives.” The Best Way to Earn In DeFi The first strategy highlighted by the firm is AMM Liquidity...

Amidst increased network activity and the price rally of its native token, TON, The Open Network ecosystem is seeing a surge in phishing attacks. Unassuming users’ TON wallets are being lured through airdrops and other deceptive methods by attackers. Telegram Users With Anonymous Numbers At Risk Yu Xian – the founder of blockchain security firm SlowMist – issued a warning about these malicious activities primarily propagating through group chats, where attackers are...