The source links this week’s crypto pullback to a stronger U.S. dollar and renewed Middle East tensions. Bitcoin retreated from $74,000, Ethereum fell to $1,943, while ETF and stablecoin inflow data remained active.
Six months after launch, spot Dogecoin ETFs hold just $14.7 million in combined AUM. Yet inflow patterns point to gradual accumulation by professional allocators, not retail frenzy, signaling a quiet maturation from pure meme to investable asset.
Kraken has adopted Chainlink CCIP for kBTC, citing ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 security standards. Chainlink data also showed more than 282,000 active addresses on the network, while LINK rose 4.7% over 24 hours.
Bitcoin jumped above $71,000 after a conditional two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran. QCP Capital warns this is a 'pause, not peace,' with options skew deepening and strong put demand. Key tests ahead: CPI data and diplomatic progress.
U.S. law enforcement seized the domain of BG Wealth Sharing and froze $41.5M in crypto assets after on-chain investigator ZachXBT traced $92M in laundering linked to a Ponzi scheme with over $150M in losses. The scheme used fake trading platform DSJ EX and promised daily returns up to 2.6%.
OpenAI and Paradigm unveiled EVMbench, a benchmark to test AI agents on detecting, patching, and exploiting vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts. The dataset includes 120 high-severity bugs from 40 audit projects.
Vietnam is drafting rules to bar citizens from using overseas crypto platforms while pushing a domestic licensed exchange pilot. Five local banking and securities groups have passed the first review stage.
Long-term Bitcoin holders accumulated about 316,000 BTC in 30 days, lifting their total holdings to 15.26 million BTC, while trader realized profit margins rose to 17%, a setup one analyst compared with March 2022.
