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Since Dogecoin’s debut in 2013, the meme coin market has seen significant growth, reaching a total market cap of $60 billion by June 2024. In March alone, the asset class attracted a whopping $13 billion in spot trading volumes on exchanges, surpassing major blue-chip cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum and Solana. However, this sector is grappling with risks. Red Flags Identified in Meme Coin Investments According to CoinShares’ latest report, the heavy concentration of assets...

Family offices, known for their entrepreneurial spirit, are embracing new investment opportunities. Though cryptocurrencies account for 5% of portfolios, an allocation that would have been unthinkable a decade ago, they remain strikingly split over the role of the asset class. According to the recently published 2024 BNY Mellon Wealth Management Study, approximately 39% of the surveyed family offices are either actively investing in cryptocurrencies or considering them,...

Analysts at market intelligence platform CryptoQuant have identified a surge in demand for bitcoin (BTC) from large investors and permanent holders. While this could mean many things for the crypto industry, it is deemed a positive sign per the laws of demand and supply. In the latest CryptoQuant weekly report, market experts said that accelerating BTC demand growth is necessary for a sustainable price rally. Hence, BTC may soon witness a substantial increase in prices....

The largest stablecoin issuing company, Tether, has recently made a lot of investments in emerging crypto and artificial intelligence firms. These investments and the firm’s advancement beyond stablecoins show that the entity is keen on expanding its operations. Over the past few months, Tether has dipped its foot into other sectors like peer-to-peer communication, Bitcoin mining, renewable energy, and artificial intelligence. Tether’s Latest Investments XREX Group is the...

On June 5, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong reported that one million people have joined ‘Stand With Crypto’ as advocates for the industry, adding, “That’s a lot of voters!” He continued to state that 600,000 of these advocates joined after a Whitehouse veto threat, “and thousands mobilized around the back-to-back historic, bipartisan wins in the House and Senate.” “Crypto is non-partisan and momentum for pro-crypto policy in America has never been stronger.” As of today, 1...

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) indicted Bill Guan, the chief financial officer of Epoch Times, on Tuesday. The DOJ alleges that Guan was involved in an international scheme to launder around $67 million of illicit funds using cryptocurrency. The Scam From 2020 to May 2024, Bill Guan engaged in a large-scale international money laundering scheme, collaborating with others to launder approximately $67 million of illegal funds into the bank accounts of his media company and...

After days and days of registering gains and testing the $72,000 price tag, bitcoin reversed its trajectory on Friday and slumped by more than three grand in hours. The question arises as to why this happened since the inflows into the US-based ETFs keep coming. The Bitcoin ETF Impact It’s safe to say that the biggest and most vital news in the cryptocurrency industry this year has been the ETFs the US Securities and Exchange Commission greenlighted in January. Not the...

Riot shares experienced a recovery on June 5 following a report from short seller Kerrisdale Capital. The paper, released just before the Nasdaq opened, accused Riot of mismanagement and predicted the firm’s impending collapse, stating that Bitcoin miners are selling “snake oil.” Kerrisdale ‘Declares War’ on Bitcoin Miners Kerrisdale’s June 5 report said that RIOT was more proficient in “playing energy arbitrage games and issuing stock” than generating value for shareholders...

The popular on-chain sleuth highlighted in his Telegram channel the latest fraudulent activity that involved an early investor in the Solana-based meme coin – ANDY. It’s also worth noting that Pepe’s best friend’s price has plummeted by more than 20% in the past day alone. ZachXBT Investigation of ANDY DrainerAs the graph above demonstrates, the exploiter drained approximately $2 million worth of meme coins on Friday in several transactions. They began swapping half of the...

History doesn’t rhyme but tends to repeat itself, which is something that has been happening in the crypto industry in the past few weeks. In this case, bitcoin and the rest of the market dropped hard on Friday evening, similar to the events from the previous one. BTC’s Friday Drop It was last Friday when the primary cryptocurrency tested $69,000 but failed and the subsequent rejection pushed it south by over two grand. The weekend was quite uneventful as the asset had...