Informed Crypto News

The new AP watchmaker collaboration with Swatch has left the once-prestigious status symbols of crypto bros in shambles.

The Consensus conference hosted a party at E11even, the same club where World Liberty founder Zach Witkoff was arrested.

Bitcoin developer flags a sudden 4x spike in new node IP addresses in ADDR messages, raising possible sybil or eclipse attack concerns.

To bet on the upside valuation of AI giant Anthropic over the weekend, Hyperliquid crypto traders paid up to 8,700% annualized fees.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has adopted Pam Bondi’s stock index-praising tactic to glaze Donald Trump on social media.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong sold $541M in COIN by the first week of January. Then his company proceeded to lose $394M within three months.

Online banking platform Revolut blamed issues with a “third-party provider” as it showed a drop in BTC’s price from $79K to just $0.019 today.

Ethereum NFTs were one of the only things in crypto rallying during the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas. BTC dropped 4%.

The ongoing crypto hack epidemic has seen 30 hacks so far in April, with 12 in the last week alone totaling $11M in losses.

Critics allege that a collection of pseudonymous wallets committed insider-like trading of Robinhood stock derivatives via Hyperliquid.

Binance’s facial identification system left an ALS patient locked out of his crypto funds for five months.

Musk claims that Sam Altman reneged on his promises to turn OpenAI into a “non-profit” and cashed in with Microsoft and Amazon deals.

Bitcoin 2026 opened with a virtually empty main stage, speakers dialling it in, security blunders, and a decimated NAKA stock price.

Hackers abused a Robinhood notification system and Gmail’s dot trick to send real-looking phishing emails from “[email protected].”

Bitcoin security researchers have fact-checked Project Eleven’s quantum computing breakthrough and 1 BTC prize.

Litecoin mocked Solana’s outages for years, then suffered its own chain reorg via a delayed privacy upgrade exploit.

Crypto exchanges Binance, Bitget, and Gate all claimed that they are investigating the RAVE token as it began its -97% downward spiral.

DeFi is in crisis mode with multiple lending markets at full utilization after $290M of Kelp DAO’s rsETH was hacked from Layer Zero.

Vercel says attackers accessed its internal systems, sparking fears poisoned Next.js code could be used to drain funds from DeFi apps.

It took years of leverage and over $11B in unrealized losses for Michael Saylor’s Strategy to flip green on its BTC bet today.

Tether-related companies Northern Data and Rumble are set to begin their merger, with Rumble offering equity for shares of Northern Data.

Kyrgyzstan-registered crypto exchange Grinex has suspended operations. It had previously been linked to sanctions evasion of up to $6B.

Solana’s “100% uptime” claim is true at the cluster level, but anyone in the Harmonic Major validator went delinquent 32 times in 30 days.

Tether has pledged up to $127.5M to help Drift “support user recovery and relaunch the Drift platform” after a $285M hack.

Eight web3 games have either shuttered, paused operations, or pivoted back to web2 this year as major funding dries up.

Strategy’s high-yield dividend stock STRC funds record BTC purchases, sparking major social media controversy and scrutiny from Coffezilla.

France has reportedly seen one violent crypto-related robbery attempt every five days on average this year.

Justin Sun blasted Trump-linked World Liberty Financial’s token plan after investing $75M, calling its new governance proposal “tyrannical.”

Extreme negative funding rates turned the winning short-sale of a crypto meme into a huge loss, despite a correct bet on its decline.

Kevin Warsh, Trump’s nominee to be chair of the Federal Reserve, has extensive financial ties to the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

This year’s largest “bitcoin only” conference is stacked with speakers who previously promoted altcoins that later crashed.

Wei Zhou, ex-Binance CFO turned Coins.ph CEO, is cast by CZ as a disloyal antagonist but portrayed elsewhere as a sidelined insider.

CoW Swap was previously used by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin to sell millions of dollars worth of ETH.

NBC TV host Savannah Guthrie has returned to the TODAY Show amid ongoing concerns for her mother abducted by a bitcoin ransom criminal.

Strategy has been responsible for the vast majority of bitcoin treasury company purchases and their money-losing buys.

A US senator is not happy with Binance figures about its Iran-linked activities and is demanding a new set of answers by April 14.

Kalshi’s former lawyer now helps the US Department of Justice in lawsuits that cushion Kalshi from criminal lawsuits by state regulators.

Crypto has exacerbated the problems of private credit, extending leverage and rehypothecation risk across increasingly risky loan books.

The 194-year-old tortoise called Jonathan was reported to have died yesterday based on the false reports of a crypto scammer.

Drift Protocol was hacked for roughly $280M yesterday after a likely social engineering scheme breached its multisig approvals.

Flare’s FXRP DeFi ecosystem, pitched as a billion‑dollar XRP breakthrough, has seen slow adoption and largely flat user growth.

The UK sanctioned #8 Park, a Cambodia-based crypto scam compound built with the capacity to hold 20,000 trafficking victims.

President Donald Trump has embraced BTC, but did the asset actually perform better under Trump, Biden, or Obama?

Strategy slashed its $20.33B STRK at-the-market offering on March 22 after selling just 5% of its 269.8M share goal.

MrBeast bought an app that published a word-for-word script for teens to persuade their guardians to invest in crypto.

The US indicted two China-based pharmaceutical firms for allegedly selling fentanyl precursor chemicals to Mexican cartels for crypto.

Donald Trump has posted absurd and contradictory claims on a near-daily basis about the Iran War on Truth Social.

Almost 46% of crypto wallets trading Pump Fun-launched tokens made less than $500 in the past month, with over 50% posting overall losses.

Retail withdrawal requests are exceeding 5% thresholds for Q1 2026 across private equity and credit funds.

Since Donald Trump joined Israel’s war with Iran on February 28, BTC has rallied 8% while gold has fallen 18%.