Rodney Burton, known as Bitcoin Rodney, pleaded guilty in the HyperFund case. He agreed with the charge of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. According to the U.S. prosecution, Burton promoted HyperFund from June 2020 to January 2022. Under the agreement, he received at least $7.85
The Chinese superconducting computer Origin Wukong has integrated a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) architecture. The system has already performed more than 1 million computing tasks in protected mode, Global Times reports. The 72-qubit computer uses the built-in Origin Rock software module. The solution protects data
Ki Young Ju, head of the analytics platform CryptoQuant, has stated that the era of altcoins is not over, but projects without fundamental value are doomed to disappear. He singled out three categories of tokens that, in his view, have a chance at long-term success. As Ki Young Ju put it, the crypto market is entering
The Baymak District Court of Bashkortostan has handed down a verdict against two local residents. They were found guilty of attempting to sell drugs as an organized group and of laundering criminal proceeds. A special financial scheme was used in the case. The couriers’ illicit revenue came in as cryptocurrency
CME Group plans to file a lawsuit against the CFTC over the approval of perpetual futures, its CEO Terrence Duffy said in an interview with CNBC. According to him, such contracts fall under the definition of swaps and should be regulated accordingly. A bit of context: at the end of May 2026 CFTC chairman Michael Selig
At the core of bitcoin is an open ledger, so with the proper skill any transfer can be traced from address to address. A whole industry has grown out of this: traders track whales and inflows to exchanges, blockchain forensics experts help recover stolen funds, and compliance filters out "dirty" coins. In this guide
The analytical division of Grayscale Investments published a study on valuing crypto assets through traditional financial models and stated that the token of the DeFi protocol Aave could be worth about $175 within a year under the base market scenario. In addition, Grayscale singled out Uniswap and Hyperliquid as
The abandoned protocol Aztec Connect was hacked again. As security specialists from BlockSec Phalcon and SlowMist reported, on June 18 an attacker withdrew about another $2.2 million from it. This is already the second blow to the protocol in a week after the attack on June 14. This time the hacker stole 1,158 ETH,
CryptoQuant analysts reported the appearance of the first signals of bitcoin accumulation by large players. At the same time, the altcoin segment continues to be under the strongest seller pressure since 2020, while Santiment believes that excessive optimism among market participants could become a restraining factor