Category: Bitcoin News

Pantera-Backed, Web3 Startup Silent After Entity Claims 60% Of Airdrop

admin

Web3 startup aPriori has gone quiet after fresh allegations over its latest token airdrop, as onchain analysts flag unusually concentrated distribution patterns. About 60% of the recent aPriori (APR) token airdrop was claimed by a single entity across 14,000 interconnected cryptocurrency wallets, according to blockchain analytics platform Bubblemaps. The wallets were freshly funded through crypto exchange Binance with 0.001 BNB (BNB) each over a short period, Bubblemaps said. All of the addresses then sent their APR allocations to new wallets. The mysterious entity that claimed 60% of the airdrop allocations…

El Salvador Claims $100M BTC Dip Buy Despite IMF Deal

admin

El Salvador, the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, says it has bought more than $100 million in BTC despite pledging to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to limit public exposure to the asset as part of a loan agreement. According to data from El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office, the government acquired 1,090 Bitcoin (BTC) worth more than $100 million on Tuesday. The purchase comes after the IMF said in a July report that the Central American nation had not bought any new Bitcoin since the organization approved a…

Libra Scandal Wallets Buy $61.5M In Solana After Draining Memecoin

admin

Wallet addresses tied to the controversial Libra (LIBRA) token are still pulling money from the failed memecoin and rotating it into other cryptocurrencies despite asset freezes and ongoing fraud investigations. The wallets associated with the Libra token — which was controversially endorsed by Argentine President Javier Milei — have withdrawn nearly $4 million in liquidity from the memecoin to buy the Solana (SOL) dip. After the withdrawal, two cryptocurrency wallets associated with the Libra team acquired $61.5 million worth of SOL at an average price of $135, according to blockchain…

ARK Invest Buys $10M in Bullish as Crypto Stocks Slide

admin

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest ramped up its exposure to crypto exchange Bullish on Monday, buying $10.2 million worth of shares as its stock slid to a fresh record low during a brutal downturn for publicly traded crypto firms. According to ARK’s daily trade disclosure, the ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) added 191,195 Bullish shares, while ARKW bought 56,660. The ARKF fund also picked up 29,208 shares. The move comes as Bullish (BLSH) tumbled 4.5% to $36.75 on Monday, extending a months-long slide that has pushed the stock down nearly 46% over…

ADAPT Digital Platform Hopes to Boost African Trade Using Iota Blockchain

admin

A collective that includes the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, Iota Foundation, the Tony Blair Institute and the World Economic Forum has joined forces to develop a digital platform in Africa to digitize trade across the continent. Announced on Monday, the Africa Digital Access and Public Infrastructure for Trade (ADAPT) is an open-source digital public network that will enable cross-border payments through stablecoins and store digital trade documents and interoperable digital identities, according to the Iota Foundation. Dominik Schiener, co-founder and chairman of the Iota Foundation, said in…

Bitcoin Whale Wallets Are Growing Amid Extreme Fear

admin

The number of Bitcoin whale wallets has spiked as the price of Bitcoin has struggled this week, sinking as low as $89,550 on Tuesday. Data from the crypto analytics platform Glassnode shows that whales have been accumulating since late October, with a notable spike in the number of Bitcoin whale wallets holding above 1,000 BTC starting Friday. Whale wallets’ numbers fell to a yearly low of 1,354 on Oct. 27 — when BTC was trading at around $114,000 — but as of Monday, this number has spiked 2.2% to sit…

Bitcoin and Crypto Market Near Bottom, Long Term Buying Opportunity

admin

Bitcoin could hit a bottom as soon as this week, according to BitMine chairman Tom Lee and Bitwise Asset Management chief investment officer Matt Hougan, as Bitcoin briefly dropped below $90,000, its lowest in seven months. During an interview on Monday with CNBC, Lee said crypto is suffering after the big liquidation event on Oct. 10, and traders are still nervous about whether the US Federal Reserve will cut rates in December.  “I think that’s all creating this downside pressure. But I think the good news is there are signs…

AMINA Receives License to Offer Crypto Services in Hong Kong

admin

Swiss crypto bank AMINA Bank AG said it has secured regulatory approval in Hong Kong to offer crypto trading and custody services to institutional clients in the region, adding its the first international bank to receive such permission. AMINA said the “Type 1 license uplift” received from the Securities and Futures Commission would help it address a gap in the Hong Kong institutional crypto market, which has faced limited access to bank-grade crypto services due to the region’s high regulatory compliance standards. The license will allow AMINA’s Hong Kong subsidiary…

Data Shows 41.5% Of XRP Holders Are Now Underwater

admin

XRP could be headed for further downside if it fails to secure a meaningful recovery soon, with 41.5% of XRP holders underwater at current prices, according to analysts.  In an X post on Monday, crypto analytics firm Glassnode stated that the “XRP supply in profit” has reached its lowest levels since November 2024, when the price was approximately $0.53.  “Today, despite trading ~4× higher ($2.15), 41.5% of supply (~26.5B XRP) sits in loss — a clear sign of a top-heavy and structurally fragile market dominated by late buyers,” said Glassnode. …

White House to Review IRS Proposal to Tax Foreign Crypto Accounts

admin

The White House is reviewing the Internal Revenue Service’s proposal to join the global Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework, which would provide the tax department with access to Americans’ foreign crypto account data. Adoption of the “Broker Digital Transaction Reporting” proposal — submitted to the White House last Friday — would put the US crypto tax system in line with 72 other countries that have committed to implementing CARF by 2028. While the proposal wasn’t categorized as “economically significant” by the IRS, the rule would force Americans to be far more stringent…