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Shiba Inu has seen a supply drop in the last 24 hours with millions of $SHIB sent to dead wallets in this timeframe. According to the Shibburn website, a total of 6,079,210 $SHIB were sent to dead wallets in the last 24 hours. This adds to a total of 33,555,505 $SHIB burned in the last seven days and 197,397,403 tokens in the last 30 days.Overall, 410,839,970,136,820 $SHIB tokens have been burned out of the initial 1 quadrillion $SHIB supply, accounting for 41.08%. This is worth $7,358,037,796 in monetary terms. The $SHIB burn rate has increased 37.28% from the past day,…

Olena Oblamska, a Ukrainian national also known as Lola Ferrari, has been extradited from Thailand to face federal charges in Oregon for her alleged role in Forsage, a DeFi platform that prosecutors say operated as a $340 million Ponzi and pyramid scheme. She has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. What was Forsage, and how did it work Forsage launched in 2019 and marketed itself as a decentralized, smart-contract-based investment platform. The pitch was familiar: low risk, high yields, all powered by the magic of DeFi. In reality, according to prosecutors, the platform had no genuine underlying…

Bitcoin price started a downside correction from the $78,000 zone. $BTC is consolidating and might aim for a fresh increase if it clears $78,000. Bitcoin failed to stay above $77,500 and extended losses. The price is trading below $77,000 and the 100 hourly simple moving average. There was a break below a contracting triangle with support at $76,750 on the hourly chart of the $BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair might extend losses if it stays below the $76,200 and $76,000 levels. Bitcoin Price Faces Resistance Bitcoin price failed to clear the $78,000 resistance zone. $BTC started a…

Ethereum treasury companies are under pressure to generate revenue from staking and other yield strategies as spot crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) weaken the appeal of public companies that simply hold Ether ($ETH), according to a new Everstake report. Staking accounted for an average of 60% of reported revenue among six $ETH treasury firms that separately disclosed staking-related income, the staking infrastructure provider said. Everstake reviewed 15 publicly listed companies with $ETH treasury strategies and found that the firms in its sample that reported 2025 losses posted about $1.41 billion in combined net losses. Separately, BitMine Immersion Technologies reported a $9.02…

Earlier this week, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters that the end of the war between Ukraine and Russia is “getting very close,” with Kyiv and Moscow apparently nearing some sort of deal. For A7A5 — a ruble-pegged stablecoin designed to bypass the sanctions imposed on Russia following the 2022 invasion of its neighbor — any resultant easing of those measures raises an existential question: What happens when the conditions that created your market disappear? According to Oleg Ogienko, an executive at the stablecoin, the business survives. Like its dollar and euro-pegged equivalents, the ruble token provides faster, cheaper international…

$ONDO captured major attention across the crypto market after its sharp 17.9% rally. The move followed news about a successful tokenized Treasury settlement pilot involving Ripple, Mastercard, and JPMorgan. Investors quickly reacted as institutional participation signaled growing confidence in blockchain-powered finance. The development also pushed conversations around real-world asset tokenization back into the spotlight. The crypto market has waited for large financial firms to move beyond experimentation. This pilot delivered exactly that signal. Ripple, Mastercard, and JPMorgan tested infrastructure tied to tokenized U.S. Treasuries. The collaboration highlighted how traditional finance firms now explore faster and more efficient settlement systems. $ONDO…

Polymarket, the crypto prediction market that became a household name during the 2024 election cycle, is under investigation by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission over roughly $800M in oil-related markets. The allegation: traders with advance knowledge of US military actions may have used that information to place winning bets on oil price movements. What happened, and why it matters The core of the investigation centers on whether a small cohort of highly informed traders systematically exploited Polymarket’s oil-related prediction markets. The claim is that these traders had access to insider information about US military operations, the kind of geopolitical…

The price of bitcoin has been closely tracking the 2026 realized price, currently around $76,200, according to Checkonchain, since the beginning of April. The realized price is the average onchain acquisition cost of all bitcoin that last moved within a specific year. In other words, it reflects the aggregate cost basis of market participants from 2026, and some market participants see it as a more meaningful gauge than traditional psychological support or resistance price levels. In February, when bitcoin plunged to nearly $60,000, the market found support close to the 2023 realized price, reinforcing the growing importance of these cohort…

Data from the cryptocurrency prediction platform Polymarket showed that the market overwhelmingly priced in the expectation that the Fed will keep interest rates unchanged at its June meeting. This meeting is of critical importance as it will be the first meeting after Jerome Powell’s term as Fed chairman ends, and investors are closely watching how the policy direction will be shaped under the leadership of the new Fed Chairman, Kevin Warsh. According to Polymarket data, the probability of no change in interest rates at the June 17 meeting is 98 percent. In contrast, the probability of a 25 basis point…

A post shared and later deleted by the cryptocurrency exchange Binance sparked a brief wave of speculation surrounding the memecoin “Aura” within the Solana ecosystem. BroLeon, a well-known figure in the cryptocurrency community, reported that a post containing the phrase “aura maxxxing” attracted attention in the market and caused a sudden price movement in Aura, a memecoin based on Solana. Some users in the community interpreted the post as a sign that relations between Binance and the Solana Labs ecosystem were warming up again. In particular, comparisons were made to the memecoin Usduc, previously listed on the Binance US platform,…