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In a significant move, 217 billion PEPE tokens, worth nearly $4.54 million, have been recently transferred to the Kraken crypto exchange. The transaction, flagged by the on-chain analytics platform Spot On Chain, suggests a whale is once again cashing in on PEPE. According to Spot On Chain, a smart whale deposited 217 billion PEPE worth $4.54 million to Kraken hours ago, potentially securing a $767,000 profit or 20% in just 17 days. A smart whale deposited 217B $PEPE ($4.54M) to #Kraken 5 hours ago, likely securing a $767K profit (+20%) again in just 17 days.The whale still holds 1.21T $PEPE…

US President Donald Trump continues to work on cryptocurrencies. At this point, one of these efforts was to create a crypto advisory board. At this point, as Trump and his team work to form the crypto advisory board, potential candidates remain a matter of debate. Prominent potential candidates for Trump’s advisory board include Ripple co-founder Brad Garlinghouse, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. While the names are not fully clear, it has now been claimed that former SEC official William Hinman, known for his 2018 speech about Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), will be on Trump’s crypto…

In this article, we discover what the sequencer node is, an essential component of the Ethereum rollup ecosystem. This infrastructure entity is responsible for a series of processes that bring the transaction data conducted on the L2 into the main L1, acting as a connection point. The operation and the degree of decentralization of the sequencer directly affects the security, reliability, and resistance to censorship of these solutions. Let’s see everything in detail below. What is the sequencer and what is its role in the EVM world The workflow of sequencers in the various Ethereum rollups The problem of the…

Ahead of the much-awaited January 20th inauguration of the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump, the cryptocurrency industry is gaining more bullish sentiment. Moreover, the cryptocurrency industry ended 2024 on a high note after the spot Bitcoin ETF broke the record in the ETF market. With the alluring prospect of a parabolic Bitcoin rally in the near term, more institutional investors and nation-states are expected to follow in the footsteps of MicroStrategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR) and El Salvador. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve at State Level After Trump recently indicated that his administration will do something great with the crypto…

Clutch, a decentralized parlay forum, has announced a strategic collaboration with Camelot, a well-known Arbitrum-based decentralized exchange. The partnership targets to enhance liquidity provision for the crypto traders. Big news: We’ve secured a grant from @CamelotDEX and locked in a long-term partnership.Camelot is now the exclusive liquidity source for all https://t.co/lh8rYqAcDM pools on Arbitrum One, powering seamless, deep liquidity for traders.The @arbitrum alliance will win. pic.twitter.com/3YI5pP0cWH — CLUTCH (@ClutchMarkets) February 16, 2025 As a part of this collaboration, Camelot will operate as Clutch’s primary provider of liquidity. In this respect, all the pools of Clutch on Arbitrum One can leverage…

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission held the first meeting of its Virtual Asset Consultative Panel on Feb. 14, marking a key step in shaping the city’s crypto regulations. According to the official announcement, the panel was led by SFC Executive Director Dr. Eric Yip. It brings together top executives from all licensed cryptocurrency trading platforms in Hong Kong. Its main goal is to safeguard investors while assisting in the development of a robust and resilient cryptocurrency industry. Dr. Yip stressed the VACP’s function in establishing regulatory priorities and encouraging creativity, stating: “The VACP is part of the SFC’s proactive…

Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said that BNB Chain is working on a video tutorial focused on teaching users how to create an AI agent on its platform. This comes after the team outlined an AI-first technology integration strategy in its 2025 roadmap. The roadmap includes the implementation of native AI agents into wallets in order to assist users with trading, spending, and booking travel. CZ teased the upcoming tutorial on X while highlighting BNB Chain’s market position in terms of DEX volume. According to DeFiLlama data, the chain recorded $3.7 billion in 24-hour volume and $31 billion in seven-day volume, representing…

The bitcoin (BTC) price may have more than doubled last year, but investors who bought the largest cryptocurrency during 2024 saw, on average, only a fraction of that according to a measure known as the realized price. The realized price is the average value of all bitcoin calculated at the price at which the tokens last moved on-chain. While that value is around $41,000 for BTC since its inception in 2009, for coins bought last year it was around $65,901 by Dec. 31. With the market price closing around $93,000, 2024’s buyers were, on average, looking at unrealized profit of…

Ripple’s RLUSD surpassed PayPal USD and Euro Coin in trading volume within weeks, reaching $34.7M daily and signaling strong market acceptance. RLUSD integrates XRP Ledger for swift, low-cost transactions, aligning with Ripple’s vision for global remittance innovation and crypto dominance. Ripple’s RLUSD, a stablecoin launched in December 2024, has set the crypto world abuzz. Within weeks of its debut, it surpassed PayPal USD (PYUSD) and Euro Coin (EURC) in daily trading volume, marking a new milestone in the competitive stablecoin arena. RLUSD achieved a daily trading volume of $34.7 million, eclipsing PYUSD’s $19.7 million and EURC’s $12.4 million, according to…

Max Burwick, the managing partner of Burwick Law, which is currently suing Pump Fun, has questioned why the launch of the Dogshit2 memecoin matters while refusing to comment on who launched the token in the first place. Burwick made the comments in a Thursday interview hosted by Dancing Eddie, a legal intern for Cube Exchange. Dogshit2 was featured in Burwick Law’s dossier of evidence against Pump Fun. The dossier showed the token’s creation step-by-step and led many to believe that it was launched by the firm during its lawsuit against the memecoin platform. However, Burwick Law claims, “Our firms have…