WikiLeaks founder Assange pleads guilty to violating the Espionage Act or is sentenced to 62 months in prison

SharpLink Gaming previously announced the purchase of 188,478 ETH ($473.60 million) at $2,513 and another 1,989 ETH ($4.82 million) via OTC 5 hours ago. Whale 0x1fc7, meanwhile, bought and pledged 3,201 ETH ($8.10 million) a week ago and another 1,888 ETH ($4.56 million) an hour earlier.

Nate Geraci, CEO of the US ETF specialist ETFStore, said on social media that the XRP Spot ETF is coming soon. "With Ripple withdrawing its lawsuit against the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), it clears the way for the XRP Spot ETF... and for BlackRock to join," he stressed.

According to Ember monitoring, a giant whale used 10 million USDC to buy VIRTUAL's whale/institution, and finally lost 6.54 million dollars when it got $1.61 million worth of VVV airdrops. The operation process is as follows: Last December, 10 million USDC was spent on 4.251 million VIRTUAL at an average price of $2.35. In January, he received an airdrop of 101,000 VVVVs for holding a large amount of VIRTUAL, and then sold the airdrop for 1.61 million USDC; In March, 4.251 million VIRTUAL was cl...

Last week, Texas police used power tools to retrieve $32,000 from Bitcoin Depot's Bitcoin ATM machine, Decrypt reported. Chris Ryan, chief legal officer of Bitcoin Depot, the operator of Bitcoin ATMs, said the use of violence by US law enforcement officers to retrieve cash from Bitcoin ATMs was an overreach and may have violated the law. Its chief operating officer Scott Buchanan said the machine...

US spot bitcoin ETF saw net inflows of $226.37 million yesterday According to TraderT monitoring, the US spot bitcoin ETF had a net inflow of 497.57 million dollars yesterday.

According to Messrai data, 28 crypto-related projects raised a total of $588 million this week. The top five are: Kalshi financing 185 million USD; Digital Assetcom raised $135 million WLFI financing 100 million USD; Zama raised $57 million; Veda Labs raised $18 million.

According to Protos, an Instagram account with the name Elon Musk is being auctioned off in a trading group on Telegram, with the highest bid currently at $6,000. The account's username has been changed eight times, and it now appears in its profile as "Tekk". The sale of the account has raised concerns that it could be used by the new owner to promote dubious meme coins.

According to CoinDesk, World Liberty Financial, a Trump family crypto project, announced on Friday that it is partnering with Re7 Labs to build a funding pool for its USD1 stablecoin on DeFi lending platforms Euler and Lista, as part of a broader plan to promote the USD1 stablecoin to the BNB Chain. Re7 Labs, a subsidiary of London-based DeFi hedge fund Re7 Capital, plays a key role in the tie-up. The company just disclosed last week that it will receive an investment of up to $10 million from H...

According to CoinDesk, RippleLabs CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced on Friday that the company will drop its cross-appeal to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), and the SEC is expected to withdraw its appeal as well, thus ending a years-long legal dispute between the two parties. The decision came a day after New York judge Analisa Torres rejected the parties' second request for a $50 million settlement. The judge refused to lift the permanent injunction against Ripple, finding no reason to ...

According to The block, Robinhood has launched micro futures contracts for XRP and SOL and launched a mini version of its existing Bitcoin Friday futures. Micro futures are smaller futures contracts that allow traders to speculate on or hedge against price movements in assets such as stock indices, commodities or currencies, with lower capital requirements and lower risk than standard futures.

According to FarsideInvestors monitoring, yesterday Fidelity FBTC net inflow of $165 million, ARKA RKB net inflow of $150 million, Bitwise BITB net inflow of $11.60 million, grey release mini BTC net inflow of $8 million, VanEck's HODL net inflow of $6 million, Franklin EZBC net inflow of $3.10 million.

According to a news release from the Department of Justice, Dwayne Golden, a 57-year-old man from Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 97 months (about 8 years) in prison for his involvement in the operation of fraudulent cryptocurrency companies EmpowerCoin, ECoinPlus and Jet-Coin, and surrendered about $2.46 million in illicitly obtained assets. Dwayne Golden, who was first charged in March 2022 with fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes, and his co-conspirators defrauded investors of $...