Who is Evan Tangeman? The 22-year-old, of Newport Beach, California, was sentenced on April 24, 2026, to 70 months in federal prison for laundering $3.5M on behalf of a cybercriminal syndicate that stole more than $263M in cryptocurrency. He pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy, not a minor bookkeeping charge, but the same statute used to …
The official TRUMP memecoin is down more than -95% from its January 2025 peak of $75, and the traders who rode that wave up are done pretending the story has a second act. The upcoming Mar-a-Lago conference for the token’s top 297 holders drew just $1.4Bn in trading volume in the run-up, compared to $12.9Bn …
On December 26, 2025, an active-duty Green Beret stationed at Fort Bragg opened a fresh account on the crypto prediction platform Polymarket. Over the following days, he placed roughly 13 bets totaling $33,034, all on outcomes tied to U.S. military action against Venezuela. When Special Forces raided Caracas on January 3, 2026, and captured Nicolás …
World Liberty Financial is under fire after Tron founder Justin Sun filed a federal lawsuit alleging fraud, breach of contract, and the illegal freezing of tokens worth up to $1Bn. The response from Eric Trump was, somehow, a joke about a banana. WLFI’s native token WLFI crypto is trading at $0.07712, down 3.15% in the …
Coinbase’s quantum computing advisory board has released its first formal assessment of blockchain security, and two names stand out: Algorand and Aptos. According to the advisory group, which draws expertise from Stanford University, the Ethereum Foundation, and several other institutions, these two chains have made architectural choices that leave them better positioned to survive the …
Men in uniform knocked on the door. They had badges, authority, and a script tight enough to convince the victim that resistance was futile. Within minutes, $1M in Bitcoin was gone, transferred voluntarily, by the victim’s own hands, under threat of fake arrest. No exchange was hacked. No password was phished. The blockchain’s cryptographic walls …
Tokyo’s Metropolitan Government has launched a subsidy program offering companies up to 40 million yen – roughly $250,000 – to build real-world use cases around digital yen stablecoins, administered by the city’s Bureau of Industrial and Labor Affairs under Japan’s Payment Services Act. The detail most headlines are missing, though, is what this program actually …
Josh Stark, one of the Ethereum Foundation most senior executives, is stepping down after a five-year tenure, a departure that lands at an unusually turbulent moment for one of crypto’s most influential organizations. Stark announced the decision was made in early March 2026, with his official exit set for the end of April 2026, noting …
The SEC Division of Trading and Markets published a staff statement, telling certain wallet-linked crypto trading apps they can operate without a broker-dealer license – for now – as long as they function as neutral software and stay out of the business of actually moving your money. The detail most headlines are missing, though, is …
Hyperliquid HIP-3 market just crossed $2B in open interest, and the number itself is almost beside the point. The detail most headlines are missing is what’s actually driving it: seven of Hyperliquid’s top ten markets by volume are now tokenized equities or commodity futures, not crypto pairs. This isn’t a DeFi platform doing DeFi things. …
