Popular blockchain investigator PeckShieldAlert reported on April 30 that an address associated with the notorious Poloniex hacker transferred 501 BTC, valued at roughly $32 million, to three new wallet addresses. The move appears to be an attempt to conceal the origin of the stolen funds.
Web3 video games startup GFAL “Games for a Living” has raised $3.2 million in a seed funding round led by the Finnish mobile game development company Supercell Ltd and Mitch Lasky, a general partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark.
Circle stablecoin, USDC, had achieved an important milestone in the stablecoin market, surpassing Tether’s USDT in transaction volume, according to data released by Visa on April 29 through a partnership with Allium Labs.
The North Korean Lazarus Group allegedly laundered $200 million worth of crypto into fiat currency between August 2020 and October 2023, according to an April 29 investigative report by crypto sleuth ZachXBT.
Russian lawmakers are poised to legalize the nation’s burgeoning industrial crypto mining sector, but could impose strict limits on home-based “private” miners.
Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, has made a groundbreaking move in the healthcare sector with a strategic $200 million investment in Blackrock Neurotech, a leading biotech company specializing in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology.
In a relentless pursuit of cyber infiltration, the notorious Lazarus Group, allegedly backed by North Korea, has added a new weapon to its arsenal, which is now targeting LinkedIn users.
Local media reports that South Korea is taking decisive measures to combat the surge in cryptocurrency-related crimes and fraud cases by moving to establish its temporary virtual asset investigative unit as a permanent entity.
Trust Wallet is reportedly back on the Google Play Store following its temporary removal Monday morning, sparking concern among Android Trust Wallet users.
Crypto-powered narcotics gangs have turned Korean-language Telegram channels into “drugs department stores” and a “playground” for young South Koreans, media outlets reported on April 28.
Ki Young Ju, the founder and CEO of CryptoQuant, voiced his support on April 25 for crypto mixing, arguing that such activities were not illegal. His reaction was in response to the arrest of Samourai Wallet’s founders, which sparked concerns in the crypto community over the U.S. government’s aggressive crackdown on the crypto industry.