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Bitwise has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to list an exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracking the price of the popular memecoin Dogecoin. The proposed Bitwise Dogecoin ETF would hold Dogecoin and closely track the memecoin’s price movements, according to Bitwise’s Jan. 28. S-1 filing with the SEC. Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart noted on X that Bitwise filed […]

Malicious “DeepSeek” crypto tokens have surged over the past 24 hours as the Chinese AI company goes viral. According to data from security firm BlockAid, at least 75 scam tokens were created as of Jan. 27, representing a threefold jump from the previous day. This mirrors the spike in fake tokens released after US President […]

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) echoed calls for government transparency by bringing all public spending onchain in every country. CZ chimed in following reports of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) exploring blockchain to track government spending and reduce the federal deficit in the United States. CZ wrote in a Jan. 25 X post: “Unpopular […]

Onchain data reveals that the number of Bitcoin wallets holding at least $100 is nearing all-time highs. According to Binance, the number of wallet addresses holding $100 or more surged from 24 million in January 2024 to nearly 30 million in 2025, reflecting a year-on-year increase of 25%. “This trend reflects an influx of new […]

The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, under the control of Republican lawmakers, wrote to the CEOs of crypto firms and associations announcing an investigation into claims that individuals or entitles had been debanked based on their ties to the digital asset industry. In a Jan. 24 letter to six crypto industry leaders, […]

US President Donald Trump has signed his first executive order potentially affecting crypto users and industry leaders, which many expected during his first days in office. In a televised address from the Oval Office on Jan. 23, Trump appeared with his “AI and crypto czar” David Sacks, who explained the executive order to the US […]

Lawyers for US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase have requested a federal judge dismiss a lawsuit filed by BiT Global over the firm’s decision to delist wrapped BTC. In a Jan. 21 filing in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, Coinbase asked the court to dismiss the BiT Global complaint, citing the firm’s […]

Crypto.com has announced the launch of an institutional trading platform that will supplement its crypto retail trading mobile application. According to a Jan. 21 announcement, the new platform will feature over 300 trading pairs and enable advanced trading strategies for institutional firms, marking the company’s further expansion into Wall Street. The crypto exchange entered the […]

Coinbase users complained of hours-long delays on Solana transactions as network congestion tied to US President Donald Trump’s Jan. 18 memecoin launch impacted the cryptocurrency exchange. The crypto exchange’s “team is working hard on scaling our Solana infra now,” Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in a Jan. 19 post on the X platform. “Lots of Solana activity […]

US President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial memecoin fell 38% as his wife, incoming First Lady Melania Trump, launched a memecoin of her own, which has hit a value of $6 billion within under two hours. Mrs Trump promoted her self-titled memecoin MELANIA in a Jan. 19 X post that was also shared by her husband. DEXScreener […]