Minnesota’s HF3642 proposes a full statewide ban on physical crypto kiosks amid rising senior scam losses. Scammers coach victims to bypass kiosk warnings and cross state lines, making the 2024 law easy to circumvent. Commerce Department data shows only 48% of victims got refunds, averaging just 16% of their total reported loss. The use of

MoonPay is shifting gears. Known for letting users buy crypto with a credit card, the company is now moving deeper into financial infrastructure. It has partnered with M0 to launch PYUSDx, a framework that lets developers create application-specific stablecoins backed by PayPal USD. That turns PYUSD from a simple token into a launchpad. Instead of

As tensions flare once again between Iran, Israel, and the U.S., social media, especially on crypto social media X (or Crypto Twitter), fears that Tehran could shut down the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil chokepoint. Such a move, many worry, could send oil prices and global inflation soaring and roil financial markets, including bitcoin.

Eleven Democrats on the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee are pressing the Trump administration to investigate Binance over allegations that the exchange facilitated illicit finance activity tied to Iran and may be violating its 2023 federal settlement. In a letter sent Friday to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent,

UAE’s Billiton Diamond tokenizes $280M in certified diamonds on XRP Ledger, marking a Middle East luxury asset record. The UAE has recorded a new milestone in digital assets after a major diamond tokenization deal on the XRP Ledger. Billiton Diamond, a UAE-based firm, is tokenizing $280 million in certified polished diamonds. Ctrl Alt executes the

The mystery is finally solved. ZachXBT just exposed insider trading activities at Axiom Exchange, that Y Combinator-backed Solana platform. Turns out employees were allegedly using internal admin tools to spy on profitable traders and front-run their own users with that data. Some people are pretty disappointed that this is what all the hype led to.

Bitcoin neared $63,000 in Saturday trading after the U.S. and Israel launched military strikes on Iran, pushing the largest cryptocurrency down roughly 3% in a matter of hours and extending what had already been a difficult weekend for risk assets.The move brings bitcoin to its lowest level since the Feb. 5 crash, when the token

DCTRL, a Bitcoin hub and hacker space out of Vancouver, the fair-weather Canadian city, has announced the sunset of its downtown basement location, iconic among early adopters for its tinkerer mindset and hardware hacker culture. The community will be migrating to a new location in the coming weeks, and updates to the vision of the

Bitrue recorded a 212% spike in XRP spot buying, with buy-side volume outpacing sell-side by over 2x.  XRP ETFs have pulled in $1.1B in net assets, with positive weekly inflows and minimal outflow days recorded. Analyst targets place XRP at $11–$27 for Wave 3, with a long-term Wave 5 blow-off price goal of $100. Bitrue

25 Feb Distribution And ETF Fatigue Cloud Bitcoin’s Path To Recovery Posted on 25 February, 2026 in Bitfinex Alpha by admin The market has largely remained in a higher timeframe downtrend despite lower timeframe moves over the past couple of weeks being confined to a narrow range between $65,000–$70,000 before a breakdown. This is the