The darknet market processed 640,000 cryptocurrency transactions throughout greater than 400,000 purchaser accounts earlier than an exit rip-off shut it down in March 2024. Rui-Siang Lin, the 24-year-old Taiwanese founding father of darknet drug market Incognito Market, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for working a $105 million crypto-powered narcotics operation, the…
Analytics agency TRM Labs reached a $1 billion valuation following the shut of a $70 million Series C funding spherical led by Blockchain Capital. The spherical was backed by a mixture of returning and new strategic traders, together with Goldman Sachs, Bessemer Venture Partners, Brevan Howard Digital, Thoma Bravo, Citi Ventures, Galaxy Ventures and DRW…
Base, the Ethereum Layer-2 community backed by Coinbase, has restored total community stability following intermittent transaction inclusion delays and elevated transaction drops that affected customers on the finish of January. On Jan 31, Base skilled elevated transaction drops and inclusion delays. A configuration change to transaction propagation prompted the block builder to repeatedly fetch transactions…
Binance ranked first in January 2026 Major Crypto Exchange Reserves Ranking Report with whole reserves of roughly $155.64 billion surpassing all different main buying and selling platforms, in keeping with CoinMarketCap. The report highlights Binance’s dominant scale in proof-of-reserve holdings reflecting the alternate’s place as the biggest liquidity venue in the worldwide crypto market. New…
Aave founder Stani Kulechov announced the decentralized finance protocol is winding down its Family iOS pockets over the approaching yr and retiring the Avara umbrella model as the corporate consolidates operations totally underneath Aave Labs. The strategic retreat from consumer wallet products comes from a guess that mainstream customers will undertake crypto by way of…
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest stored shopping for into the crypto hunch, including to positions tied to digital property as Bitcoin steadied within the mid $70,000s and sentiment stayed fragile. Trade disclosures confirmed the agency’s ETFs purchased about $3.25M of Bitmine Immersion Technologies on Tuesday, including publicity to a inventory that has tracked the broader slide…
Bitcoin slipped 3% on Wednesday to $76,000 as traders carried a bitter temper into the Asia session after a tech-led sell-off hit US benchmarks and inspired a shift towards extra economically delicate industries. In early commerce, Japan and Australia opened decrease, and futures pointed to losses in Hong Kong. Market snapshot Bitcoin: $78,719, up 2%…
Arbitrum has issued an pressing safety alert after its ArbitrumDAO governance X account was compromised, with attackers posting phishing links disguised as airdrop promotions. The breach joins a relentless wave of social media takeovers focusing on main crypto tasks in early 2026. The compromised account directed followers to a fraudulent hyperlink at gov-arbitrum[dot]com, claiming a…
Creu Roja (Spanish Red Cross) has revealed a novel, privacy-preserving, digital support platform primarily based on blockchain, with verifiable donor transparency. According to the press launch, Barcelona-based technical infrastructure firm BLOOCK collaborated on the platform’s improvement. The new product integrates enterprise IT techniques with blockchain. Developers utilised Ethereum on the general public blockchain facet, in…
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest revealed on Monday that it stepped deeper into crypto-linked inventory regardless of a broad stoop in each cryptocurrency costs and change shares. The agency added roughly $24.8 million price of positions regardless of the earlier week being marked by falling volumes, declining liquidity, and renewed threat aversion throughout digital asset markets….