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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has appointed former college football player Bo Hines to the new crypto council. Announced Sunday, Hines will be onboard as the executive director of the Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets. Trump’s Crypto Council The 29-year-old acknowledged the appointment in a December 23 post on X, writing: “Thank you, Mr. President! It will be the honor of a lifetime to serve in your next administration. Thank you for everything you have...

Days after Binance introduced its pre-listing token selection pool, Binance Alpha, it launched 29 tokens with mixed performances. Data shared by crypto analysts Sankin shows that out of the listed cryptocurrencies, 17 have seen their values increase while 12 experienced declines. Small-Cap Tokens Lead the Pack In a December 23 post on X, Sankin noted a trend where smaller market-cap assets generally performed better than their larger counterparts. Those with fully diluted...

The growing speculation surrounding a potential presidential pardon for Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has been fueled by high-profile figures and shifting political tides. A major Trump ally, Elon Musk, for one, will be “shocked” if US President Joe Biden does not grant an early pardon to the disgraced former CEO of FTX. Crypto, Politics, and Pardons Bankman-Fried, who was convicted in November 2023 on seven charges, including fraud and embezzlement, is currently serving a 25-year...

Key metrics on Ethereum are painting a bullish outlook for the network’s native cryptocurrency, ether (ETH), despite its sluggish momentum over the past weeks. The asset has struggled to match bitcoin’s (BTC) momentum following the conclusion of the United States presidential election, but on-chain metrics indicate a bullish trend in the near term. According to an analysis by the pseudonymous CryptoQuant official EgyHash, factors like Ethereum’s funding rates and Estimated...

Mohammed Azharuddin Chhipa, 35, from Springfield, Virginia, was convicted on December 13, 2024, for providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Nations and others. The charges stemmed from his actions between October 2019 and October 2022, during which he raised funds to assist female ISIS members in Syria. Guilty of Financing ISIS Operations In an official press release, the...

Kim Nam-guk, a former South Korean lawmaker from the Democratic Party, is under legal scrutiny for allegedly concealing substantial cryptocurrency holdings in his 2021 and 2022 asset declarations. He is accused of omitting millions in crypto profits and transferring assets to bank accounts. Hidden Crypto Profits A local news outlet, Donga, prosecutors have requested a six-month prison sentence for Kim, claiming he concealed 9.9 billion won, worth approximately $6.8 million,...

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned two individuals and one entity involved in a network laundering millions of dollars in illicit funds for North Korea. Lu Huaying and Zhang Jian, based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), used a UAE-based front company to facilitate money laundering and cryptocurrency conversion, funneling the proceeds back to Pyongyang. OFAC Imposes Sanctions In its official press release on December...

As 2024 gradually wraps up, the web3 security firm Cyvers has released a Security, Fraud, and Compliance Report for the year, detailing how much impact cybercriminals and their operations had on the crypto industry. According to an executive summary shared with CryptoPotato, in 2024, the crypto industry lost over $2.361 billion to cyber threats across 165 incidents. This figure represents a 40% increase from 2023, when losses totaled $1.69 billion. Access Control Incidents...

A new survey by the blockchain infrastructure provider P2P.org has unveiled some challenges and trends affecting institutions’ crypto adoption strategies. It also highlighted opportunities that institutions could explore to adapt to the evolving practices in the crypto industry. The survey included participation from more than 15 institutional players, with intermediaries, investment funds, and venture capital funds making up 46%, 31%, and 23% of the respondents,...

Cardano’s blockchain technology is set to revolutionize the Argentine lithium industry through an agreement with three players in the sector: Atómico 3, Zengate, and Alto Grande. The collaboration will introduce the world’s first lithium tokenization project, a disruptive initiative scheduled for launch in Q1 2025. Mechanics of Tokenization According to local reports, the project will use blockchain technology to convert the property rights of lithium into digital tokens....