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Bybit Declares ‘War on Lazarus’ as it Crowdsources Effort to Freeze Stolen Funds The exchange is offering a 5% bounty for submissions that could lead to stolen funds being frozen.

Bybit, the exchange hacked late last week for $1.4 billion, launched a website tracking Lazarus group wallet addresses to crowdsource efforts to freeze stolen funds.

Francisco Rodrigues reports.
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SEC Drops Investigation Into Uniswap, Will Not File Enforcement Action Uniswap celebrated the news on X, calling it a “huge win for DeFi.”

The SEC has closed its investigation into Uniswap
Labs, and will not file an enforcement action against it, which the Brooklyn-based company heralded as a “huge win for DeFi.”

Cheyenne Ligon reports
www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/...

Libra Token's Hayden Davis Bragged of Influence Over Argentina's Milei It was unclear if any money was exchanged between Davis and Milei's inner circle in advance of Libra's launch.

SCOOP: Libra co-creator Hayden Davis bragged of sending money to Javier Milei's sister months before the memecoin scandal, saying of the Argentine president: "I control that n****."

Danny Nelson reports
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Not to tout my colleagues' horn here but this IMO shows the importance of trade pubs like @coindesk.com -- we had this when it first happened in Nov www.coindesk.com/business/202...

As well as the news the next morning that Sun became an adviser to WLFI www.coindesk.com/business/202...

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Bitcoin (BTC) Price Crashed Below $94K in Sudden Plunge From Record Perch Around $100K BTC has been red-hot lately, taking out a milestone, but the bottom just fell out.

Bitcoin got a little twitchy.

www.coindesk.com/markets/2024...

Bitcoin (BTC) at $100K: The Financial World Reacts After BTC hit $100,000, growing from zero to $2 trillion in a decade and a half, CoinDesk rounded up reactions — from believers and skeptics — to the milestone.

People have feelings about #bitcoin $100k

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Bitcoin Hits Major Milestone of $100K, Nears $2 Trillion Market Value The early November election of crypto-friendly Donald Trump restarted what had been a stalled rally through much of 2024.

The thing happened

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Crypto Enters Shock Internet Era Mode With The Unthinkable Happening A guy locked in a cage, men killing hens and someone not leaving their toilet until a token reaches a specific market cap. The desperation to make money is real

Users of memecoin factory Pump.fun have used its site to stream shocking videos (ranging from extreme dark humor to dark behavior) — to spur excitement about their tokens.

In response, Pump.fun just suspended the ability to stream.

www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/11...

Trump's World Liberty Financial Gets a Big Boost From Justin Sun's $30M WLFI Purchase Sun's investment, best known for creating the TRON blockchain, comes after World Liberty Financial saw slow initial sales of its WLFI token.

Donald Trump's crypto project was struggling to sell tokens.

Then along came crypto billionaire Justin Sun.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Buying Plans Are Supercharging Stocks. Is This a Michael Saylor Redux — or Another 'Long Island Iced Tea' Fad? A flurry of copycats are trying capture MicroStrategy's magic. Will it work?

Michael Saylor's wildly profitable #bitcoin buying strategy just attracted a flurry of corporate copycats. Will it work or is this another Long Island Iced Tea/Long Blockchain fad?

www.coindesk.com/markets/2024...

The RSS feed should be back to normal now, sans translations and the archives. That was a technical error this morning, and we apologize.

Ethereum's Ether Has Fallen Out of Investor Favor and How The market assigns a very low probability of ether challenging its year-to-date high of around $4,000 by the end of December.

Always darkest before dawn? (Is that even true?)

www.coindesk.com/markets/2024...

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Trump Reportedly Plans to Name Pro-Crypto Hedge Fund Manager Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary If the Senate confirms Bessent, the next person whose signature is on the front of paper U.S. currency will be a fan of digital assets created to replace the conventional financial system.

The next person who signs U.S. paper currency might be a crypto enthusiast 👇

www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/...

Ian Allison's Giant Sam Bankman-Fried Scoop Won Accolades in 2023 The CoinDesk reporter belongs in the Journalism Hall of Fame since there's little, if any, precedent for the waves his story on Alameda Research and FTX stirred up.

And the aftermath www.coindesk.com/consensus-ma...

Divisions in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Blur on His Trading Titan Alameda’s Balance Sheet Alameda had $14.6 billion of assets as of June 30, according to a private document CoinDesk reviewed. Much of it is the FTT token issued by FTX, another Bankman-Fried company.

Oh, and here's that scoop www.coindesk.com/business/202...

Courtroom sketch of Sam Bankman-Fried by CoinDesk's Nikhilesh De

IMPORTANT REMINDER: CoinDesk not only published the big SBF scoop and covered his ensuing trial, @nikhileshde.bsky.social sketched the heck out of said trial (and angered the actual sketch artists)

Another one 👇

Coinbase App Gets Left Behind as Memecoin Craze Drives Traders On-Chain Phantom, a crypto wallet with a steeper learning curve, is ahead of exchange giant Coinbase in the Apple App Store rankings.

This bull market hits a little different www.coindesk.com/business/202...

Cardano's ADA Leaps to 2.5-Year High of 90 Cents as Whale Holdings Exceed $12B On-chain activity shows the involvement of large investors and institutions, indicating that the price surge could have staying power.

Ser, we do have a Cardano story today www.coindesk.com/markets/2024...

After Binance's $4.3B Lesson, Do Rival Crypto Exchanges Risk Running Afoul of U.S. Rules? Bybit, Bitget and OKX combined have 877,000 monthly active users in the U.S., data from Sensor Tower shows. It's unclear if they are just checking prices, or trading in violation of the rules.

Here's an Ian Allison story citing evidence that several crypto exchanges that aren't supposed to operate in the U.S. might have customers there.

www.coindesk.com/business/202...

Custom feeds are also great. If you're looking for a simple feed that matches blockchain-related keywords, take a look at this one.

It uses basic time-based sorting, nothing fancy.

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Influencer-Investors Get Perks to Pitch Tokens: Inside Crypto's 'KOL' Economy Unlike paid shills of yore, "key opinion leaders" invest in the projects they promote on social media. In return for buzz, they can sell tokens sooner than other investors.

we'll be sure to write about you www.coindesk.com/business/202...

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So is Crypto Bluesky gonna be a thing? Guess we'll give it a try ...