The CEO of Praetorian Group International has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for running a global bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 90,000 investors of over $201 million.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin criticized the current direction of prediction markets, warning that an increasing focus on short-term bets risks distorting incentives and encouraging harmful behavior.

South Korean authorities have confirmed that 22 bitcoin, worth about $1.5 million, vanished from a cold wallet held by the Seoul Gangnam Police Station in a 2021 financial crime case.

Online chatter is intensifying around a striking idea: autonomous AI agents may be gravitating toward bitcoin as their preferred rail for cyber sovereignty and permissionless finance, potentially reshaping market dynamics between humans and machines.

Ethereum’s latest draft standard, ERC-8004, is turning artificial intelligence (AI) agents into portable, reputation-backed economic actors across EVM chains — and 21,562 of them are already live.

Crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) ended the week on firmer footing as bitcoin and ether both returned to inflows. XRP and solana also closed green, delivering a modest but broad-based recovery across digital asset funds.

Truth Social Funds has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for two digital asset exchange-traded funds tied to bitcoin, ethereum, and cronos, adding staking rewards to the equation.

With bitcoin priced at $69,383 at press time, the digital asset carries a $1.38 trillion market capitalization, backed by $45.37 billion in 24-hour trading volume, while its intraday swing between $67,098 and $70,434 reflects a market still regaining its footing after a steep, multi-day pullback.

The AI industry is following in the footsteps of crypto, putting money behind candidates considered capable of advancing its regulatory objectives. While industry giants are expected to spend millions before the upcoming midterms, not everyone is on the same side.

Human.tech has integrated Wallet-as-a-Protocol (WaaP) onto the Sui blockchain, introducing a fully decentralized wallet execution layer that enables seedless, self-custodial wallets with familiar logins.

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In the transition from a speculative market to a global financial pillar, privacy has moved from a niche preference to a non-negotiable requirement for institutional scale. Mixin CMO Sonny Liu argues that transparency, once an asset, has become a liability.

A federal jury delivered a sweeping verdict in a crypto Ponzi scheme that ensnared roughly 40,000 investors, marking a decisive step in escalating enforcement efforts and intensifying scrutiny of large-scale digital asset fraud.

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Binance has completed a $1 billion shift of its SAFU reserves into bitcoin, consolidating 15,000 BTC in a decisive move that strengthens its long-term commitment to the world’s largest cryptocurrency as a core reserve asset.