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The images associated with multiple Ethereum NFT collections from the Nike-acquired RTFKT—which was shuttered late last year—stopped displaying early Thursday due to an alleged issue with cloud hosting service Cloudflare. The company’s flagship Clone X profile picture collection—created in collaboration with noted artist Takashi Murakami—and its Animus collections stopped showing their respective, colorful imagery, and instead all showed the same black background and white text as a result of its images being stored off-chain. “This content has been restricted,” the replaced images read. “Using Cloudflare’s basic service in this manner is a violation of the Terms of Service.” As NFT…

Voxel led April 19 with a 92.3% gain, topping the list of daily crypto market movers. Mid-cap tokens like ALPACA, ALEO, and GMT showed strong double-digit price increases. Binance dominated trading volumes for the day’s top-performing altcoins. Voxel (VOXEL) led the crypto market on April 19, 2025, with a 92.3% daily increase, closing at $0.042. According to data shared by Phoenix Group, the rally pushed the project’s market capitalization to $99 million, making it the strongest-performing token of the day. The price action was supported by a surge in trading volume on Binance, the primary exchange for VOXEL activity. The…

El Salvador’s Comisión Nacional de Activos Digitales (CNAD), the agency in charge of regulating digital assets in the Central American nation, is seeking to establish a cross-border regulatory sandbox with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “We want to create international collaboration,” Juan Carlos Reyes, president of the CNAD, told CoinDesk in an interview. “Our biggest message is that digital assets don’t have any geographical barriers. Collaboration with regulators should not have international barriers either.” El Salvador is in a unique situation in that it did not boast of strong financial institutions, or even of an existing ecosystem of…

This is a segment from the Supply Shock newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Rizzo, the Bitcoin Historian here, back this week with the story of one of the younger Bitcoin legends — I’m talking about the one, the only Jack Mallers. If you’ve seen Jack in any of the dozens of interviews he’s given from his large, empty closet, you know he’s an eloquent defender of Bitcoin. You may not know his long road to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Before his work on Strike, he had a few Bitcoin startup ideas that didn’t quite work. Yet all that hard…

A recent announcement for the Private Dinner event for the top 220 holders of the TRUMP meme coin stated that if former President Trump does not attend, attendees may receive a limited NFT. This has sparked speculation about the event’s true purpose. Could it ignite a new market wave? New NFT Collection Launch at the TRUMP Gala Dinner? According to official details from the TRUMP meme coin team, the Trump Gala Dinner is an exclusive event for the top 220 holders of the meme coin. It will be held at Trump National Golf Club in Washington on May 22, 2025.…

A crypto debate is heating up over the huge number of tokens hitting the market. Widely followed crypto commentator “Lady of Crypto” expressed concerns about the number of unproductive crypto assets in circulation. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) joined the conversation by stressing that innovation sometimes needs failure to succeed. He referenced Amazon’s rise, saying trial and error helped the e-commerce giant succeed. In a post on X, Lady of Crypto drew attention to the large volume of low-value tokens in the crypto space. “99.9% of cryptos should not exist. I hope they don’t come back after we recover,” she…

The crypto world is staring down May 30 when two major events scheduled for that day could significantly impact digital asset markets: the long-awaited FTX creditor repayments and looming decision deadlines for US regulators on crypto ETFs. FTX Repayments: Injecting Liquidity or Dampening Sentiment? Nearly 27 months after its catastrophic collapse in November 2022, FTX is finally preparing to repay creditors, with payments over $50,000 scheduled to begin May 30. According to bankruptcy attorney Andrew Dietderich, the exchange—now led by CEO John Ray III—will draw from its $11.4 billion cash stockpile to begin disbursing funds. A fresh injection of billions…

Should President Donald Trump make good on apparent threats to fire Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, analysts tell Decrypt that the extraordinary move would likely throw the American political system into turmoil. But could it also be bullish for Bitcoin? On Thursday, Trump, who has unsuccessfully lobbied Powell to lower interest rates for weeks, said the Fed chair’s termination “cannot come fast enough.” While presidents often come into conflict with the Fed, which dictates U.S. monetary policy, no U.S. leader has ever gone so far as to fire its leadership—at least since the central bank became functionally independent in 1951.…

Bitget has initiated compensation for users impacted by a trading glitch involving VOXEL/USDT perpetual contracts, following unusual price action on April 20. On April 22, Bitget announced that transaction rollbacks and account recoveries had been “basically completed,” and that compensation for users who incurred losses during the VOXEL/USDT perps incident is now underway. The exchange also noted it is conducting a secondary internal review in response to user complaints about incorrect fee deductions and inaccurate profit and loss calculations following the rollback. You might also like: VOXEL skyrockets 55% after major Binance announcement The VOXEL/USDT perps incident began around 8…

Alchemy Pay, the well-known platform offering payment solutions for fiat and crypto assets, has announced an exclusive integration with Cake Wallet, a prominent open-source, non-custodial crypto wallet offering a seamless transfer experience. The integration aims to offer crypto on as well as off-ramps support on Cake Wallet, letting the consumers sell and purchase crypto assets with regional fiat currencies. The platform took to social media to announce this notable development. 🍰Crypto privacy just got easier.#AlchemyPay now integrates On & Off-Ramp support into @cakewallet, enabling users to buy and sell crypto more directly with fiat.More privacy, less friction. Freedom money made…