Category: Bitcoin News

Thai SEC Cracks Down On World’s Unlicensed Operations

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World, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s digital identity project, formerly known as Worldcoin, is facing new issues in Thailand, with local authorities raiding an iris scanning location allegedly operated by the platform. Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) conducted a joint operation with the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) to raid an iris scanning location related to “WLD exchange services,” the SEC announced Friday. World’s WLD (WLD) token is the project’s native cryptocurrency, distributed to eligible World ID users in exchange for verification through iris scanning at World’s orb locations. According…

What Will Trigger DOGE Price Breakout?

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Key takeaways: Dogecoin’s (DOGE) 7.5% rally from its local lows below $0.18 appears to be cooling off, but traders believe DOGE remains on track to “continue its uptrend” toward higher targets in 2025. Several data points suggest what must happen for Dogecoin to increase its potential to break out of consolidation in the coming days or weeks. Dogecoin must crack $0.20 resistance Dogecoin’s bullish case hinges on its DOGE/USD pair flipping the resistance between $0.20 and $0.22 into support. “DOGE is currently consolidating near $0.19 after a significant pullback,” crypto analyst…

CZ’s Pardon Does Not Equate To An Acquittal

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Opinion by: Joshua Chu, co-chair of the Hong Kong Web3 Association US President Donald Trump’s recent pardon of Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhou has grabbed headlines. Some commentators hail the move as a way to “clear CZ’s record and allow him to return to the industry,” but this misses the point that a presidential pardon is not an erasure of guilt.  Judicial powers are, after all, only conferred upon the judiciary. Only a sitting judge holds the power and authority to overturn a conviction, acquit and restore innocence.  In CZ’s…

Binance’s CZ Clashes with Warren After Trump Pardon Comments

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Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao fired back at US Senator Elizabeth Warren after she claimed he “pleaded guilty to a criminal money-laundering charge.” In a Friday X post, Zhao wrote that Warren “can’t get her facts right.” He added, “There were NO money laundering [charges].“ What Zhao pleaded guilty to was a single felony count of violating the US Bank Secrecy Act by failing to maintain an effective Anti-Money Laundering (AML) program at Binance. This led to him receiving a four-month sentence in April 2024. CZ’s pardon was signed on…

Crypto Spot Trading Rises 31% In Q3

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Cryptocurrency spot trading on major centralized exchanges (CEXs) recovered during the past quarter, reversing the downward trend that began in early 2025. The total spot volume for the top 10 CEXs surged by 30.6% in the third quarter, netting $4.7 trillion, crypto analytics platform TokenInsight reported in its latest exchange analysis published Friday. The surge marked a notable trend reversal after CEX spot volumes suffered two steep declines in the first half of the year, signaling renewed investor interest as Bitcoin (BTC) rallied to new highs above $123,000 in August.…

Will HYPE Price Go Even Higher After Robinhood Listing?

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Key takeaways: HYPE breaks out above key resistance, eyeing a 40% move toward $56.5 by November. A drop below the 200-day EMA could invalidate the bullish setup and push the price toward $32–34. HYPE, the native token of decentralized exchange Hyperliquid, has jumped by over 13% a day after its listing on US-based trading platform Robinhood, and was trading as high as $40.87 on Friday. HYPE/USDT hourly chart. Source: TradingView Can HYPE rally further from current levels? HYPE breakout hints at 40% rally next HYPE has confirmed a breakout from…

Trump Helped ‘Crypto Criminal’ Binance’s CZ: Rep. Waters

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United States Representative Maxine Waters strongly criticized US President Donald Trump for his decision to pardon Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. Trump pardoned Zhao on Thursday, saying people told him “what he did is not even a crime.” Waters, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Financial Services, hit back later Thursday, claiming in a statement that “Trump is doing massive favors for crypto criminals who have helped line his pockets.” “Trump’s pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao—who pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering and facilitating…

FET, Ocean Protocol Agree On $120M FET Token Return, To Avoid Lawsuit

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The feud between Fetch.ai and Ocean Protocol Foundation may be drawing to a close as the two sides look to reach a middle ground without escalating it into a full-blown legal battle. On Thursday, Fetch.ai said it would cancel all pending legal claims against the Ocean Protocol Foundation if the latter returned the 286 million Fetch.ai (FET) tokens that were allegedly sold during their merger. “They are expecting a legal proposal from us for the return of the tokens,” said Fetch.ai CEO Humayun Sheikh, during a Thursday X Spaces show,…

Australians Are Deeply Interested In Crypto Based On Web Traffic.

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Australians show the world’s highest per-capita interest in cryptocurrency, according to new web-traffic data, with most activity focused on trading and speculation. Data compiled by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto division calculated the percentage of web traffic from each country across the top 30 tokens on CoinGecko, filtering out Bitcoin and stablecoins.  Australians had the highest per capita percentage of token-related web traffic at 74.63% per 1 billion people, while South Koreans were a close second with 73.48% of token-related web traffic, and users from the United Kingdom were third…

Bitcoin Whale From 2009 Moves Coins After 14 Years Asleep

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A “Satoshi-era” Bitcoin wallet with $442 million worth of BTC has become the latest sleeping Bitcoin giant to wake, shifting some of its funds for the first time in 14 years. The unknown owner of the wallet made most of its stash mining 4,000 Bitcoin (BTC) between April and June 2009, only a few months after the first blockchain network went live, Whale Alert said in an X post on Thursday.  Data from the onchain analytics platform Nansen shows the whale sent 150 Bitcoin, worth over $16 million, in a…