Author: James Wilson
The Trump family has allegedly taken control of World Liberty Financial, gaining a large share of the platform’s revenue from token sales and future fees. According to a review of changes on the company’s website reported by Reuters on Mar. 31, two of the project’s co-founders, Zak Folkman and Chase Herro, were replaced by an organization in which the Trump family owns a majority stake. The Trump family’s company, DT Marks DeFi LLC, gained majority control of the platform in January 2025 by acquiring a 60% share through a new holding company, WLF Holdco LLC. These previously unreported changes mark…
REZ crypto surged by as much as 38% today, ahead of its upcoming listing on South Korea’s Bithumb exchange. According to crypto.news data, Renzo (REZ) hit an intraday high of $0.022 on April 1, lifting its market cap to nearly $43 million. While the token was rallying, its daily trading volume dipped 17% to around $114 million, showing signs of trading activity cooling off after the initial hype. The pump came shortly after Bithumb announced it would be listing REZ on its Korean Won market. Trading is scheduled to go live at 4:00 PM KST on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.…
The crypto market witnessed over 60 crypto hacks in Q1 resulted in $1.63 billion in losses, more than doubling from $706 million a year earlier. Crypto hacks in the first quarter of 2025 resulted in more than $1.6 billion in losses, making it the worst quarter for crypto security breaches to date, per data from Immunefi’s latest research report. Data from PeckShield also shows that crypto losses from hacks in Q1 more than doubled from $706 million in Q1 2024. #PeckShieldAlert Q1 2025 witnessed 60+ crypto hacks, resulting in total losses of $1.63B, a YoY increase of 131% compared to…
Kentucky has dropped its lawsuit against Coinbase over staking services, becoming the third U.S. state to roll back legal action against the exchange in recent months. On March 31, the Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions filed a joint stipulation of dismissal, officially ending its case that accused Coinbase of offering unregistered securities through its staking program. Following the move, Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal took to X, calling for federal clarity. “Congress needs to end this litigation-driven, state-by-state approach with a federal market structure law ASAP,” he wrote. Kentucky’s exit follows similar dismissals by Vermont and South Carolina. Vermont…
Privacy-focused infrastructure provider 0xbow has launched Privacy Pools, a new blockchain tool that lets users protect their transaction history while attempting to follow the law. On a Mar. 31 post on X, 0xbow announced the mainnet launch, stating that Ethereum (ETH) users can now achieve on-chain privacy while avoiding illicit funds. Privacy Pools use zero-knowledge proofs to enable private ERC-20 token transfers. gm Ethereum ☀️It is our great honor to announce the mainnet launch of Privacy Pools!ETH users can now achieve on-chain privacy, while still dissociating from illicit fundsIt is now up to all of us to Make Privacy Normal…
Tether, the issuer behind the USDT stablecoin, has continued its Bitcoin investment strategy, purchasing an additional 8,888 BTC on the last day of Q1 2025. The latest acquisition, which cost $735 million, expands Tether’s (USDT) total Bitcoin (BTC) holdings to 100,521 BTC, or roughly $8.29 billion, according to data from Arkham Intelligence. The acquisition is part of Tether’s ongoing strategy to bolster its reserves by allocating 15% of its profits to Bitcoin purchases, a commitment the company made in May 2023. Among the company’s other on-chain assets are $5.16 billion in USDT, $215.85 million in XAUT, and $46.17 million in…
After losing its entire total value locked to an exploit, decentralized finance protocol SIR.trading has offered the attacker a $100K bounty to return the remaining funds. On March 31, Xatarrer, the anonymous creator behind the Ethereum-based platform, made a direct on-chain plea to the hacker. In the message, they asked the attacker to keep $100,000, which accounts for roughly 28% of the stolen funds, as a “fair share” for finding a critical vulnerability, vowing that no legal action would be pursued if the remaining funds were returned. Xatarrer said the project was built from scratch over four years with late-night…
Binance founder CZ has hiked the fee for messaging him on ReachMe, a paid chat platform he recently adopted, after being flooded with messages. On Mar. 27, CZ shared an update on X about his experience with ReachMe, a platform that helps influencers monetize direct messages. Initially setting the fee at 0.04 Binance Coin (BNB), about $24 per message, he was quickly overwhelmed with spam and irrelevant questions. Raising the price to 0.1 BNB ($60) still didn’t deter the flood of messages, leading him to set the fee at the current 0.2 BNB ($120) per message. CZ claims that his…
The zkLend exploiter lost all 2,930 ETH in a phishing scam while trying to launder the stolen money using what they thought was Tornado Cash. According to a Mar. 31 post on X by Consensys-backed De.Fi Antivirus Web3, the attacker mistakenly deposited the stolen funds into a fake Tornado Cash website, resulting in an immediate loss. On-chain data shows that after realizing the mistake, the hacker sent a desperate message to zkLend’s deployer address, admitting their blunder. “I tried to move funds to Tornado, but I used a phishing website, and all the funds have been lost. I am devastated,”…
Think of a riddle like a puzzle or a game where someone describes something in a mysterious or clever way, and you have to figure out what it is. It’s like a little brain teaser that makes you think. For example, here’s a classic riddle: “I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?” Now, that might sound tricky at first, but if you think about it, the answer is pretty simple: an echo. An echo “speaks” (repeats sound) without a mouth, “hears” (repeats back) without ears,…