02:15 2025-06-19
Department of Justice links Kansas bank collapse to $225 million "romance scam" seizureA Kansas banker stole millions of dollars from his small-town bank in 2023, causing the bank to collapse, according to a complaint filed Wednesday. Much of the money he stole went to offshore cryptocurrency scammers who were the target of a record-breaking crackdown by the Department of Justice.
Prosecutors have filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit targeting more than $225 million in laundered USDT. The funds were part of a "romance scam" scam linked to a phone scam in the Philippines.
01:42 2025-06-19
Melania sold 76.13 million MELANIA tokens worth over $35 million in three monthsAccording to analyst Ember, the Melania project party has transferred a total of 76.132 million MELANIA tokens from the community and liquidity addresses in the past three months. By adding unilateral liquidity and DCA sales, 244,000 SOL were exchanged, worth about $35.218 million, with an average selling price of about $0.46. The project party then sold the SOL one after another for USDC or transferred to a centralized exchange. During this period, the MELANIA price fell from $0.70 to $0.25.
01:33 2025-06-19
Pyth announces support for UK FTSE 100 index real-time price dataPyth Network, a decentralized oracle solution, announced support for real-time price data for the UK FTSE 100 Index, which covers the top 100 companies by market capitalization on the London Stock Exchange. Anyone can easily access the on-chain price data for these companies, including global banks and insurance companies, energy giants and industrial enterprises, household name retailers and manufacturers, and more.
These numbers...
01:33 2025-06-19
Reuters: Circle closed up 33.8%, stablecoin market will gain new growth if Trump signs Genius ActAccording to Reuters, or due to the rare bipartisan support in the United States to push the stablecoin bill through the Senate, the U.S. stock crypto sector rose sharply, with Circle closing up 33.8%, Coinbase closing up 16%, and Robinhood, a commission-free brokerage that provides cryptocurrency trading services, rising 4.5%. Bernstein analysts pointed out that once the Genius bill is passed into law (possibly by the end of the summer), stablecoins are expected to evolve from the monetary orbi...
00:59 2025-06-19
pump.fun Hire Prominent Lawyer to Deal with Burwick Lawsuitpump.fun is hiring top lawyers to deal with a lawsuit by Burwick Law accusing pump.fun of illegally obtaining millions of dollars through the sale of "highly volatile unregistered securities" and lacking compliance that makes it potentially involved in "terrorist financing, drug dealing and other transnational crimes".
Max Burwick, founder of Burwick Law, and law firm Wolf Popper are representing Kendall Carnahan and other plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against Pump Fun. Burwick Law is a c...