Opinion by: Slava Demchuk, co-founder and CEO of AMLBot Asia’s cryptoverse has lost more than 1.5 billion in the first half of 2025 — more than during 2024, including Bybit and pig butchering scams in Southeast Asia. Most engines are built around typologies of Western money laundering. They miss custom laundering channels tailored to each…
Read more
Gemini Space Station, the crypto exchange and custodian founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker GEMI. Founded in 2014, Gemini operates a regulated crypto exchange, custody service, and a range of…
Read more
Spot Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) closed the week with outflows after a nearly two-week streak of significant inflows. On Friday, US-spot Ether (ETH) ETFs saw $59.3 million in outflows, bringing an end to their eight-day inflow streak that added approximately $3.7 billion to the products, according to Farside data. Ether ETFs are an important signal…
Read more
Ether holds a slight edge over Bitcoin in the short-term as social media chatter around the cryptocurrency is less overheated, says sentiment platform Santiment. “The $ETH crowd hasn’t shown nearly as much bullishness despite significantly better performance over the past 3 months,” Santiment said in an X post on Friday amid the ETH/BTC ratio, which…
Read more
US-based spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) just logged their strongest week of trading volume yet, according to an ETF analyst. “Biggest week ever for them, thanks to Ether ETFs stepping up big,” ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said in an X post on Friday. Ether ETFs were “asleep” for 11 months, says Balchunas “Ether…
Read more
Venture capital firm Digital Currency Group (DCG), the parent company of many entities tied to cryptocurrency and blockchain, has filed a complaint against two of its subsidiaries over a promissory note to guard against the 2022 default of Three Arrows Capital (3AC). In a Thursday filing in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District…
Read more
American Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency mining company linked to the Trump family, is reportedly looking to acquire at least one publicly listed company in Asia to further its Bitcoin (BTC) purchases. According to a Financial Times report, American Bitcoin wants to buy a company in Japan and potentially another in Hong Kong. It aims to follow…
Read more
The US Justice Department has authorized the seizure of more than $2.8 million in cryptocurrency along with cash and other assets as part of a criminal case against an alleged ransomware operator. In a Thursday notice, the Justice Department said it had unsealed six warrants authorizing the seizure of $2.8 million in crypto from a…
Read more
Key takeaways: Bitcoin marks its steepest pullback in a month, with the ghost month trend hinting at further downside to $105,000. Onchain data shows a rise in US and Korean spot demand, pointing to a short-term recovery. Bitcoin (BTC) saw a sharp correction on Thursday, slipping below $117,000 on Aug. 14, marking its steepest pullback…
Read more
US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins signaled that the regulatory agency will work with US President Donald Trump’s administration to allow retail investors equal opportunities to invest in private equity. Atkins cited the recent Trump executive order to allow crypto and alternative assets in 401K retirement accounts — tax-sheltered retirement plans funded by…
Read more