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Ron Hammond, head of policy at crypto market maker Wintermute, has a cautious outlook on the Clarity Act, putting its chances of passage this year at around 30% even as momentum builds in Washington.“There are a lot of moving parts,” Hammond said, pointing to a legislative process that is advancing, but unevenly. The Clarity Act aims to create rules around crypto market structure regulation in the U.S., including codifying how the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission can oversee digital assets in the U.S.Hammond’s estimate broadly aligns with other signals in the market. A recent Punchbowl survey…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The number of Bitcoin millionaires has significantly dropped amid the BTC downtrend since the start of the year. This comes as long-term holders (LTHs) remain underwater, with BTC well below its current all-time high (ATH) of $126,000. Number of Bitcoin Millionaires Crashes 14% A Finbold research has revealed a 14% decline in the number of Bitcoin wallets holding at least $1 million in the first quarter of this year. This notably came as the Bitcoin price crashed from a yearly high above $97,000 to as low as…
Zerion detected abnormal activity on app.zerion.io and pulled the web app offline. Blockaid has blocked the site. iOS, Android, and browser extensions remain fully safe. Zerion flagged something unusual on its web app on April 11. The team moved fast. Within hours, app.zerion.io was offline. The Web3 wallet platform confirmed the incident directly on X, urging users to stop using the web interface until further notice. “We’re investigating some abnormal activity on app.zerion.io,” Zerion wrote on X, adding that user funds remain safe inside self-custodial wallets. The team asked everyone to rely only on official communication from the account. No…
Crypto exchanges are starting to take on a new role: pricing traditional assets while Wall Street is closed.The growing market for perpetual futures contracts tied to traditional financial instruments including commodities like gold and oil that runs around the clock on cryptocurrency exchanges is responsible.Data from Binance Research suggests these markets, which hit $31 billion in weekly trading volume on commodities volatility, are doing more than filling idle hours. Weekend price moves in gold-linked perps correctly predict the direction of Monday’s opening in traditional futures about 89% of the time, Binance found. The correlation between the two sits near 0.80,…
Tens of thousands of people are affected by a medical cybersecurity incident involving patient information. According to a new filing with the Maine Attorney General, the incident at Alabama-based Heart South Cardiovascular Group affected 46,666 people, including three Maine residents. The healthcare firm says it learned on or about November 11, 2025 that an unauthorized party claimed to possess company data. In a public notice, Heart South says a forensic investigation with outside cybersecurity professionals did not find evidence of unauthorized network access or data theft. However, the company says it later discovered that a bad actor had recently posted…
WLFI token falls to record low after $75M loan concerns, raising risks about liquidity, investor trust, and crypto market stability. The WLFI token, linked to Donald Trump, has dropped to its lowest price ever. This was a fall following fresh information on loans that caused concern. Numerous crypto users began to be concerned about risks. Thus, the token was under intense selling pressure within a short period. WLFI Price Drops Sharply After Loan Details Emerge WLFI is the main token of World Liberty Financial. It fell to around $0.0767 on Saturday, based on CoinGecko data. This marks a 81% drop…
A US mortgage lender is preparing to pay $26,000,000 to settle a class action lawsuit that alleges a cybersecurity incident exposed the personal information of millions of individuals. According to court-approved settlement documents, Florida-based Lakeview Loan Servicing has agreed to a proposed $26 million settlement resolving claims tied to a data breach that affected 2.53 million people across the United States. The lawsuit stems from a cybersecurity incident in which unauthorized actors gained access to company systems and potentially exposed sensitive personal information. The compromised data may have included names, Social Security numbers, financial account details and other identifying information.…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The Bitcoin market could be facing another crucial event that would bolster its long-term integrity. This is highlighted in a recent evaluation of Japan’s Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA) reforms, which suggests a major impact on Bitcoin may come not from an increase in investor count, but from how its participant base evolves. Regulatory Shift May Determine Who Bitcoin Market Participants Are In a QuickTake post on CryptoQuant, the education group XWIN Research Japan explains why Japan’s FIEA reforms could push Bitcoin towards a more mature,…
The memecoin market has always been fueled by timing, cultural appeal, and conviction. Remember when Dogecoin first took off? No one was predicting it would skyrocket to 15,000% returns, ultimately becoming a $13.78 billion market cap behemoth with an unlimited supply model. This was the benchmark for the shape and form a meme-based rally would take. Today, we have a new challenger to the throne, but with a different strategy. Little Pepe has reached a milestone in its journey towards attaining its success, with the amount of its presale funding raised increasing to more than 28 million dollars. Currently, LILPEPE…
Six weeks of war have split the bitcoin BTC$72,978.41 market into two camps. The institutional buyers who keep accumulating regardless of conditions, and everyone else, who is leaving.The result is a market that looks stable on the surface, with bitcoin holding a $65,000 to $73,000 range through five weeks of conflict headlines, $600 million liquidation events, and the worst sentiment readings since the 2022 bear market, but is narrowing underneath in ways that matter for what comes next.Here is who is on each side and what their behavior tells us about where conviction actually sits.The mandated buyersThree entities account for…