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President Trump officially ruled out a pardon for Sam Bankman-Fried, confirming he will not intervene in the FTX founder’s 25-year sentence. The decision came during a broader discussion where Trump also rejected clemency for Sean “Diddy” Combs, Robert Menendez, and Nicolás Maduro. Despite SBF’s attempts to court a Republican audience and his parents’ lobbying efforts, Trump has distinguished this fraud case from other crypto pardons like Ross Ulbricht and CZ. Well, that’s it for Sam Bankman-Fried, the infamous founder of the disgraced FTX exchange, as Trump ruled out the possibility of pardoning him, according to The New York Times. During…
Bitcoin ended 2025 lower than it started, while gold and the S&P 500 delivered superior returns to investors over the same period. Analysts expect 2026 may be a slower year for crypto, with the market digesting Bitcoin’s substantial three-year gains rather than generating fresh momentum. Recent price movements have been driven largely by exchange-traded fund inflows rather than organic on-chain demand, potentially masking weaker underlying fundamentals. Valuation metrics suggest Bitcoin’s market price has outpaced its on-chain fundamentals, indicating consolidation or modest pullbacks are more likely than significant gains near-term. Anyone disappointed with the year Bitcoin had in 2025 could face…
Zodia Custody became the first global custodian to support AUDM, an Australian dollar-backed stablecoin issued by Macropod, the country’s first licensed stablecoin issuer. The partnership allows institutional clients to hold AUDM in cold storage, facilitating programmable payments and real-time settlement for both traditional and crypto-native firms. AUDM recently debuted on the Independent Reserve exchange following its development in the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Project Acacia for tokenised settlement. Zodia Custody has added cold-storage custody support for AUDM, an Australian dollar stablecoin issued by Macropod, making it the first global custodian to support the token. AUDM is designed to track the…
Bitcoin finished 2025 in the negative zone. This would make it the fourth negative year since 2012, although at only a low single-digit loss compared to -50.2% in 2014, -72.1% in 2018 and -62% in 2022. At times like this it is worth remembering what is the single core element that drives Bitcoin’s value beyond its scarcity and “digital gold” narrative. That core Bitcoin idea is that trust is not necessary to coordinate value. After all, Bitcoin’s fixed supply (scarcity) of 21 million coins is only value-boosting to the extent that no trusted party can change it. Despite naysayers from…
The era of the hooded hacker hoarding Bitcoin in a dark web wallet is over.In 2025, the center of gravity in the illicit cryptocurrency economy shifted decisively away from the volatility of the original cryptocurrency and toward a dense, dollar-linked shadow system.According to new Chainalysis data shared with CryptoSlate, stablecoins accounted for 84% of the $154 billion illicit transaction volume last year, marking a clear shift in risk toward programmable dollars.This structural shift has enabled Chinese money laundering networks to scale “laundering-as-a-service” operations while nation-states like North Korea, Russia, and Iran plugged into these same rails to evade Western controls.Why…
Talk of the United States buying Greenland has returned to Washington, and miners are tracking the power projects on the island.The White House said a U.S. purchase of Greenland is an “active discussion,” according to Reuters.For Bitcoin miners, the more actionable clock is Greenland’s industrial power planning.How Greenland’s hydropower translates into real Bitcoin mining capacityGreenland’s government said it plans to open a public tender round in the second half of 2026 for the two largest mapped hydropower sites intended for industrial use, Tasersiaq (site 07.e) and Tarsartuup Tasersua (site 06.g), according to Naalakkersuisut.gl.It said the two sites together could produce…
Zcash (ZEC) suffered the steepest decline among top-tier digital assets on Jan. 8, plunging approximately 20% amid a collision of governance turmoil and a leverage-driven market flush.According to CryptoSlate data, Zcash fell to a month-low of $382, making it the day’s biggest loser on the Top 100 leaderboard.This price performance decoupled violently from the broader crypto markets, where digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum had registered muted losses during the reporting period.The catalyst for the rout was the abrupt exit of the entire Electric Coin Company (ECC) team, the group historically responsible for Zcash’s core development, following a breakdown in…
On Jan. 7, Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial (WLFI) formally applied for a national banking charter to establish the “World Liberty Trust Company.”This is a proposed national trust bank specifically designed to handle USD1 stablecoin issuance, custody, redemption, and reserve management. USD1 is WLFI’s flagship product, with more than $3.3 billion in supply across 10 blockchain networks.On the surface, the move appears to be a standard compliance upgrade—a predictable attempt by a high-profile crypto issuer to appear more “institutional” to skeptical observers.However, a closer examination of the application reveals a more complex, forward-looking wager on the trajectory of the digital…
Key takeaways PI is down 1% in the last 24 hours and has now dropped below $0.21. The cryptocurrency could record further bearish performance amid market correction. PI trades at $0.2072 as the market undergoes a correction PI, the native token of the Pi Network, has lost 1% of its value in the last 24 hours and is now trading at $0,2072 per coin. The bearish performance comes as centralized exchanges (CEXs) received 1.90 million PI tokens over the last 24 hours, suggesting risk-off sentiment among holders. According to data obtained from PiScan, over 1.90 million PI tokens were deposited…
Key takeaways CRV is up by less than 1% despite the ongoing market correction. The coin could rally towards the $0.5 psychological level as bulls continue to accumulate. Curve DAO tops $0.40 Curve DAO (CRV) is trading above $0.40 after adding more than 8% to its value in the last 24 hours. It is facing resistance at $0.433 after recording excellent gains in the near term. The bullish performance comes amid whale accumulation. According to Santiment’s Supply Distribution data, whales holding between 10 million and 100 million CRV tokens (blue line) have accumulated a total of 33 million CRV tokens…