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Crypto ATM Scams Rip Off Aussies: Seniors Bear the Brunt
An investigation by Australia’s financial crimes watchdog, AUSTRAC, has revealed widespread lack of compliance by crypto ATM (CATM) operat...
Bonk Unleashes First On-Chain Arcade Shooter, Letting Players Win Tokens
Bonk (BONK), one of Solana’s biggest memecoin by market cap, has launched its first officially licensed video game, Bonk Arena, in collabo...
Meta Investors Overwhelmingly Nix Bitcoin Treasury Proposal
Meta shareholders have crushed a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company’s balance sheet, delivering a near-unanimous rejection ...
Mixed Messages: Silk Road Founder’s 300 BTC Windfall Sparks Speculation
Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht recently received 300 Bitcoin, worth more than US$31M (AU$47M), at his public donation address, prompting a lot ...
25 Young Suspects Charged in String of Crypto-Targeted Attacks on Wealthy Victims
Twenty-five young people, including six minors, have been charged in France in connection with a coordinated series of violent attacks and k...
Justice Minister Quits After US$45M Bitcoin Scandal Rocks Czech Republic
Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blažek resigned on 30 May following public outcry over his ministry’s acceptance and sale of nearly US$45 mi...
TON Blockchain Briefly Halts Block Production in Swift 40-Minute Outage
The Open Network (TON) briefly stopped block production on June 1 following a masterchain dispatch queue error that interrupted the blockcha...
Ethereum’s EIP-7702 Upgrade Exploited by “CrimeEnjoyor” Wallet-Sweeping Scam
Ethereum’s newest account abstraction feature is being weaponised at scale. According to a new analysis by crypto trading firm Wintermute,...
SharpLink Gaming Launches $1B Stock Offering to Fuel New Ethereum Treasury
SharpLink Gaming disclosed in an SEC filing its intention of raising up to US$1B (AU$1.56B) through a public stock offering. The company for...
Ethereum Foundation Changes Tact, Goes ‘Full DeFi’
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has taken a major step forward in decentralised finance (DeFi) by borrowing US$2 million (AU$3.11 million) in G...
Thailand Bans Five Major Crypto Exchanges to Tackle ‘Money Laundering’
As much of the world begins pondering progressive crypto regulation, Thailand has dealt a major blow to its local industry, banning five big...
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Records Best Month Ever, Hitting Ten Consecutive Days of Inflows
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has brought in US$6.22 billion (AU$9.68 billion) in total spot Bitcoin ETF inflows in May alone, ...