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Swan Bitcoin has asked a US court for permission to subpoena Cantor Fitzgerald and its former CEO— now US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — in a widening dispute that implicates crypto heavyweight Tether and alleges coordinated misconduct surrounding a joint mining venture. Swan Bitcoin Alleges Conspiracy  The Bitcoin firm says it filed an ex parte application this week in the Southern District of New York to seek discovery that it intends to use in foreign proceedings against Tether-appointed directors of its joint venture, 2040 Energy.  Swan CEO Cory Klippsten identified the targets of those foreign actions as Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, controlling shareholder Giancarlo Devasini, and Bitfinex CEO Jean-Louis van der Velde. In its filing, Swan describes a series of events in mid-2024, when it says a group of the firm’s employees led by then‑CIO Raphael Zagury conspired with Tether personnel — including Tether’s now‑CIO Zachary Lyons — to undermine the joint venture from ...

A 73-bitcoin stash sitting untouched in a separate crypto wallet may be what eventually brings a Russian crypto broker to justice. That dormant pile of digital cash, flagged by blockchain investigator ZachXBT, sits at the edge of a much larger money trail — one that reportedly spans three ransomware payments, multiple networks, and at least one undercover Telegram conversation. Sting Operation Cracked The Case Open ZachXBT, an anonymous on-chain investigator with a long record of tracing illicit crypto flows, identified Russian OTC broker Aleksandr Khinkis as the central figure in the alleged scheme. According to reports, investigators posed as potential clients and contacted Khinkis directly through Telegram. He allegedly handed over an exchange deposit address — a move that gave investigators the thread they needed to pull. 1/ Meet Aleksandr (Aleks) Khinkis, a Russian OTC broker who has allegedly helped a ransomware group launder $4.7M+ via a single crypto exchange account si...

The stablecoin market is facing a critical test. Not a market cycle. Not a liquidity event. A legislative one — and the damage is already visible. An XWIN Research Japan report documents what happened in a single session: Circle, the issuer behind USDC, shed 18% of its market value yesterday, erasing roughly $4.6 billion in a matter of hours. The trigger was not an earnings miss or an exchange collapse. It was a draft amendment — a proposed update to the CLARITY Act that would ban yield on stablecoins entirely. That one legislative clause, not yet law, not yet finalized, was enough to reprice the entire thesis of what Circle is worth. The market understood the implication before the headlines did. The report places the price reaction in its proper context: this is not volatility. It is a structural signal. For years, stablecoins operated as dual-purpose instruments — digital dollars for payments and settlement, yield-generating assets for the wallets that held them. That combination...

According to a pundit, the loudest argument against XRP has never been about technology; it has been about proof that the XRP Ledger is doing something outside of the XRP price movements. XRP keeps getting judged almost entirely by its price, but that outlook is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. A crypto pundit known as X Finance Bull on X has pointed to a dataset that most market participants are overlooking, and the numbers embedded in it tell a story that reveals real XRP adoption is already creeping in. The XRP Numbers Nobody Is Looking At XRP briefly pushed above $1.50 and touched $1.60 last week, but that move was rejected and the price has since fallen back to the low-$1.40s. Despite the price action, many analysts are still bullish based on XRP’s adoption potential. At the time of writing, XRP is trading at $1.42, which helps explain why many investors still feel like adoption has not shown up where it matters most.  That is the gap X Finance Bull focused...

Bernstein analysts led by Gautam Chugani say Bitcoin (BTC) may have already found its floor with the 50% retrace witnessed since last October, and the firm is sticking with its ambitious price target of $150,000 by the end of 2026 for the cryptocurrency.  The firm argued that the market’s changing structure—shifting from retail-driven speculation to one increasingly supported by exchange-traded funds (ETFs), corporate balance sheets, and structured capital—is altering how Bitcoin behaves during downturns and may lengthen the current cycle. Are Institutional Flows Changing BTC’s Price Behavior? Bitcoin has spent the past few months consolidating between roughly $65,000 and $75,000 after several failed attempts to break higher resistance walls at $76,000 last week. Despite this, Bernstein notes the sell-off lacked the cascade of liquidations that characterized earlier cycles.  The analysts view that muted volatility as evidence that the market has matured: long-term holders...

Self-Managed Super Funds (SMSFs) registrations in Australia climbed nearly 70% in the 2024–2025 financial year, with many of those new accounts set up for one specific purpose: buying Bitcoin and other crypto assets. That surge reflects a growing frustration — retirement savers want digital asset exposure, and most of the country’s big super funds haven’t been offering it. Pressure From Members Mounts Hostplus , which manages more than $96 billion in assets for its members, is now moving to change that. The fund’s chief investment officer, Sam Sicilia, confirmed it is weighing a plan to give members access to Bitcoin and other digital assets through its ChoicePlus investment option — a self-directed stream that lets people shape their own retirement portfolios. Reports indicate the offering could be available as soon as the next financial year, pending regulatory sign-off and the resolution of consumer protection requirements still being worked through. “There’s certainly a ...

All has been mostly quiet on the Shiba Inu front, and the meme cryptocurrency is currently moving through a tough price phase. Interestingly, the most recent update on the ecosystem is from ecosystem dApp Woofswap, which confirmed early testing of a Shibarium Layer-3 explorer under the ShibClaw initiative but offered no further details on the L3 itself. That lack of clarity is beginning to stand out at a time when the entire Shiba Inu ecosystem needs stronger direction. Shibarium L3 Development Exists, But Details Are Missing Woofswap, a Shiba Inu decentralized application, recently confirmed that early testing of a Shibarium Layer-3 explorer is underway under the ShibClaw initiative. However, the announcement came with no indication of when a mainnet launch would take place, and this silence has drawn a visible reaction from within the community. The Woofswap X account recently made a post noting the development of the Shibarium L3, but also added that no further information is a...