Former Argentine Senator and ALS advocate Esteban Bullrich was locked out of his Binance account for five months after the platform’s mandatory face verification system failed to recognize him, a direct consequence of the muscular paralysis that ALS progressively causes. His public appeal on X went viral, drawing widespread attention to a security design gap …
AFP Protección, Colombia’s second-largest pension fund administrator, managing approximately $55Bn across more than 8.5 million clients, has launched a new portfolio product that includes Colombia Bitcoin exposure, marking the second major Colombian pension institution to make this move in under a year. The detail most headlines are missing, though, is that this isn’t a fund …
In the latest Russia crypto news, the European Union has issued its 20th sanctions package against Russia, and this one hits the crypto sector in ways unlike anything that came before. Rather than blacklisting individual exchanges or wallets, the EU has targeted the entire Russian cryptocurrency industry, including Russia’s own central bank digital currency, the …
Strategy holds 780,897 BTC valued at over $59Bn. The BlackRock crypto IBIT fund holds 798,026 BTC. That gap, roughly 17,000 coins, could close this week. The detail most headlines are missing, though, is how the mechanics actually work: Strategy has been selling a financial instrument called STRC to raise cash, then deploying that cash directly …
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If you’ve been paying attention to Polymarket and the growing Trump crypto empire over the past few months, you already know something has been off. The BBC has now put numbers to what the on-chain data has been whispering for a while, and the picture isn’t pretty. Across multiple major geopolitical events during Trump’s second …
Roughly $13 million in user funds vanished from Russia crypto exchange Grinex in April 2026, and by the time the exchange suspended trading, the money was already moving fast across blockchain networks toward a single destination wallet. The halt left users unable to access their funds, withdraw balances, or execute trades, with no timeline given …
Bitwise has launched BAVA, an exchange-traded fund holding Avalanche (AVAX crypto) tokens directly and staking a portion of those holdings to generate yield for investors. It is the first Avalanche ETF to market with a staking component built in from day one, beating competing filings from VanEck and Grayscale to the launch. The detail most …
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan is arguing that Bitcoin’s addressable market could eventually surpass gold’s, currently sitting around $20 trillion, if geopolitical fragmentation continues accelerating. The claim isn’t abstract: Hougan’s April 2026 memo frames Bitcoin not just as a store of value competing with gold, but as a politically neutral settlement asset for a world where …
Goldman Sachs filed for a Bitcoin Premium ETF on April 14, 2026, an options-based fund designed to generate regular income for investors rather than simply track Bitcoin’s price. The filing marks one of Wall Street’s most structurally novel entries into crypto products yet. The detail most headlines are missing, though, is that this is not …
