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BTC

$80,643.00

0.27%

ETH

$2,322.72

0.22%

BNB

$646.33

-1.42%

SOL

$92.89

-0.33%

TRX

$0.350234

-0.10%

ZEC

$598.61

-1.18%

ADA

$0.269458

-2.98%

BCH

$449.53

-0.86%

XMR

$407.82

0.68%

CC

$0.155914

3.64%

XLM

$0.161498

-3.16%

LTC

$57.75

-2.16%

M

$3.38

-4.91%

SUI

$1.073

-0.76%

SHIB

$0.00000633

-2.67%

RAIN

$0.0074152

-1.61%

CRO

$0.07057

-2.64%

TAO

$308.99

-1.62%

MNT

$0.680314

-1.91%

ONDO

$0.412119

-11.59%

ICP

$3.54

-13.04%

OKB

$87.43

-1.35%

SKY

$0.079046

-6.30%

PI

$0.173297

-0.73%

HTX

$0.00000196

0.00%

PEPE

$0.00000421

-3.31%

ENA

$0.127242

-4.63%

POL

$0.100698

-2.35%

QNT

$72.81

-2.46%

U

$1.00

0.06%

KAS

$0.03731171

1.46%

WLD

$0.265827

-3.51%

APT

$1.087

-3.97%

ARB

$0.139939

-2.20%

GT

$7.45

0.39%

JUP

$0.242944

-1.66%

PUMP

$0.00213297

-2.01%

JST

$0.083641

1.85%

FLR

$0.00830351

3.09%

VET

$0.00752901

-7.11%

BONK

$0.00000717

-2.08%

BDX

$0.079848

-0.05%

XDC

$0.03016002

-2.61%

GHO

$0.999615

-0.01%

HASH

$0.01089149

3.52%

FET

$0.229975

-2.20%

LUNC

$0.00009341

0.05%

A7A5

$0.01288682

-0.85%

STX

$0.261779

-3.58%

SEI

$0.068779

1.02%

CHZ

$0.04432422

-2.84%

SPX

$0.460876

0.85%

XTZ

$0.383123

-3.89%

MON

$0.03423652

-0.29%

TIA

$0.432804

-3.93%

SUN

$0.02028403

-0.05%

USX

$0.999803

0.01%

CRV

$0.248301

-3.56%

H

$0.201168

3.42%

B

$0.368058

-4.73%

KAU

$147.60

-3.22%

GNO

$132.34

-0.94%

OP

$0.161211

-4.79%

2Z

$0.098355

-1.46%

CFX

$0.064867

-3.62%

DCR

$19.29

-1.39%

ZBCN

$0.00340047

3.88%

LDO

$0.392231

-4.32%

BTT

$0.00000033

0.79%

BSV

$16.09

-3.39%

NFT

$0.00000032

-0.22%

KAG

$79.21

-2.91%

UB

$0.116125

2.14%

GRT

$0.02672731

-3.83%

KAIA

$0.04805955

-1.97%

LIT

$1.047

-4.27%

XPL

$0.104047

-6.90%

JTO

$0.532496

-5.65%

9BIT

$0.02783787

1.27%

RAY

$0.835309

-3.99%

WIF

$0.222776

-2.34%

AKT

$0.751986

-2.82%

TEL

$0.00215932

2.57%

IP

$0.577077

-2.41%

XCN

$0.00524575

-0.92%

S

$0.051961

-3.86%

WAL

$0.081822

-2.66%

TWT

$0.460988

-3.74%

GALA

$0.00402415

-4.14%

ZK

$0.01860354

-5.99%

VSN

$0.04781022

-2.07%

HNT

$0.9442

-2.53%

CFG

$0.293387

-12.81%

AR

$2.48

-9.78%

BAT

$0.107717

-3.91%

MX

$1.75

0.01%

APE

$0.159232

-4.68%

SFP

$0.314775

-4.57%

IMX

$0.184547

-5.06%

A

$0.093344

-5.01%

XEC

$0.00000754

-2.39%

AB

$0.00152642

-0.24%

FF

$0.064105

-2.91%

TAG

$0.00131327

-6.89%

GLM

$0.142466

-2.11%

BSB

$0.606525

10.62%
Price data by
Stephen Graves

Stephen Graves

Stephen oversees sponsored content, Learn, and other special editorial and commercial projects at Decrypt. Previously he has contributed to titles including Stylus, Stuff, and LS:N Global. Disclosure: He holds BTC and SCRT, and has recused himself from writing or editing stories about SCRT.

Stories by Stephen Graves

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    Tether Stakeholder Gave Farage Undisclosed $6.7M Gift Amid Reform UK Crypto Funding Scrutiny

    Christopher Harborne, a billionaire with a 12% stake in USDT stablecoin issuer Tether, gave Nigel Farage a previously undisclosed $6.7 million (£5 million) gift in 2024. The donation, first reported in The Guardian, was to pay for his personal security, Farage later told The Daily Telegraph. The payment was reportedly structured as a personal gift and was never officially disclosed under UK campaign finance laws. At the time Farage received the gift, he had not announced plans to run as a Membe...

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  • French police. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    French Police Rescue Mother and Child After $400K Crypto Ransom Kidnapping

    A mother and her 11-year-old son were kidnapped from their home in Burgundy on Monday in a ransom plot targeting the father's cryptocurrency business, marking the latest violent crime against crypto entrepreneurs in France. The four attackers held the victims overnight before France's elite GIGN police unit rescued them from a hotel room in Val-de-Marne on Tuesday around 6am, according to the report. The kidnappers reportedly seized about $17,800 (€10,000) in cash and valuables after tying up th...

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  • Circle is the issuer behind USDC. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Circle 'Exploring' Arc Network Token Launch, Proof-of-Stake Shift: CEO

    Circle is “exploring” a token for its stablecoin-focused Layer-1 blockchain Arc Network, the firm’s CEO Jeremy Allaire has stated. Speaking at a company event in Seoul, Allaire said that the token would “help provide mechanisms for governance, incentives, economic alignment, and to ultimately move it into a proof-of-stake system over time.” He added that “we hope to have more to share about that in the not too distant future as well.” That aligns with Circle’s plan to evolve Arc into a “distrib...

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    US Attorney's Office Recovers $600K in Crypto Fraud Scheme Targeting Ledger Wallet Owners

    The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut has recovered and forfeited over $600,000 worth of cryptocurrency from a fraud scheme, the latest in a series of successful digital asset seizures by federal law enforcement. According to a Department of Justice press release, the seizure took place after a Ledger hardware wallet user was targeted by a phishing scam in September 2025. U.S. Attorney’s Office Recovers and Forfeits More Than $600K in Cryptocurrency from Fraud Scheme @FBINe...

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  • What Is Bluesky? The Decentralized Social Media Rival to Elon Musk's X

    Social media platform Bluesky is often touted as an alternative to X (formerly Twitter), and viewed as a competitor to the tech giant. However, its underlying architecture is quite different—where X is a single company with a siloed ecosystem, Bluesky is based on a decentralized infrastructure. Here’s how it works. What is Bluesky? Bluesky is a decentralized social media platform based on the authenticated transport (AT) protocol. The basic underlying idea behind decentralized social media platf...

  • Bitcoin is the leading crypto asset by market cap. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Tops $71,000 as Trump Postpones Iran Power Plant Strike Plans

    Bitcoin surged to highs above $71,000 Monday morning, as U.S. President Donald Trump announced the postponement of planned strikes against Iranian power plants. Bitcoin is currently trading at around $70,000, up 2.5% on the day, after reaching an intraday high of $71,224, per CoinGecko data, though it remains down on the week by some 5%. Per CoinGlass, some $791 million in leveraged positions have been wiped out across the crypto market, $425 million of which were longs. In a post on Truth Soci...

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  • Viv (Viv Ford), Ray (Aakash Kesavarapu), Trent (Richard Templeton) and Pierre (Nate Wise) in Crypto Castle. Image: Crypto Castle/Decrypt

    'Crypto Castle': YouTube Comedy Takes You Back to When Bitcoin Was Just $250

    “Crypto culture sucks,” says actor and comedian Viv Ford. “You'll go to crypto conferences and it's not what it used to be. It used to be fun degen conferences, and now it's like, men from JPMorgan talking about leverage or whatever. And you're, like, what happened?” With her new YouTube sitcom “The Crypto Castle,” Ford’s aiming to break out of “this insane culture bubble” and reset the clock to the days when crypto was full of promise—and Bitcoin cost just $250 a pop. Based on her real-life ex...

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  • Steven Spielberg. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Steven Spielberg Is ‘Not For’ AI Replacing Creatives

    Steven Spielberg may have made a film titled “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” but he hasn’t adopted the technology in his filmmaking process, the legendary director told an audience at SXSW 2026. Spielberg, whose filmography includes classics like “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Jaws” and “Jurassic Park,” said that he’s “never used AI on any of my films yet.” While Spielberg is in favor of the technology “in many disciplines,” he said, "All the seats are occupied" in his writers' rooms. "There's no...

  • Binance. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    DOJ Investigating if Iran Used Binance to Evade Sanctions: WSJ

    The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Iran's use of Binance to evade sanctions, according to a report published Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the WSJ reports that officials have contacted people with knowledge of transactions that saw more than $1 billion allegedly flow through the exchange to Iran-backed terror groups, per a previous report in the newspaper. According to the WSJ's reporting, the officials are seeking interviews and gatheri...

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  • A hacker. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Moldova's Anticorruption Center Alleges $107M Crypto Scheme to Influence Elections

    Moldova’s National Anticorruption Center has uncovered a scheme to influence the country’s 2025 parliamentary elections that used crypto to channel funds to activists and bribe voters. According to CNA director Alexandr Pinzari, cited in local media reports, the scheme involved the “illegal financing of certain political parties, with the aim of influencing the elections’ results in favor of specific electoral contenders.” The scheme involved the transfer of virtual assets to an intermediary in...

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  • Nasdaq. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Nasdaq Partners With Kraken for Tokenized Stocks, Launching 2027

    Nasdaq is partnering with Payward, the parent firm of crypto exchange Kraken, to develop tokenized equities that will enable "programmable investor engagement," the exchange announced Monday. Set to launch in the first half of 2027, the initiative aims to "modernize processes" including corporate actions, shareholder engagement, and proxy voting, Nasdaq stated in a press release. Tokenized shares would afford the holder "full legal and regulatory equivalence," with a transfer of the token repres...

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  • Crime. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    CFO Gets Prison Time After Losing $35 Million of Company Money in Crypto Side Hustle

    A Washington man has been sentenced to two years in prison after diverting $35 million in funds from his former employer to his own DeFi platform—and losing nearly all of it. Nevin Shetty, 42, was found guilty of wire fraud last November for taking and misusing funds from the private software company at which he worked. Shetty, who drafted a “conservative” company investment policy, secretly moved $35 million in company funds to his side business HighTower Treasury, after being told in April 20...

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  • Spar. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Cardano's ADA Token Now Accepted at Spar Supermarkets in Switzerland

    Cardano’s ADA token is now available as a payment option in Spar supermarkets across Switzerland, following the blockchain’s integration with fiat on- and off-ramp platform DFX.swiss. The integration leverages DFX.swiss’ crypto payment standard Open Crypto Pay, already used to enable payments in cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the USDC, USDT and DAI stablecoins. You can now pay with $ADA at 137 SPAR stores across Switzerland. In partnership with @DFX_swiss and @BrickTowers, we...

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  • OKX. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    OKB Token Surges 38% on NYSE’s OKX Investment at $25B Valuation

    The New York Stock Exchange’s parent company has invested in OXK, in a deal that values the crypto exchange at $25 billion. According to a report in Fortune, the deal will enable OKX users to trade tokenized stocks and derivatives listed on the NYSE, from the latter half of the year. Haider Rafique, global managing partner of corporate affairs at OKX, told Fortune that there was “great chemistry in how we looked at the world and the future of tokenized securities, how derivatives should make it...

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    Taiwan Indicts 62 Over Laundering $339M From Crypto Scam Compounds in Cambodia

    Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted 62 people over their alleged links to Prince Group, a network designated as a transnational criminal organization by the U.S. Department of Justice. According to a report by Reuters, those indicted include the group’s chairman and alleged mastermind Chen Zhi, who was arrested in Cambodia and extradited to China earlier this year. Thirteen companies were also charged with offenses, including "initiating, directing, manipulating, and commanding a criminal organi...

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    The banking unit of crypto exchange Kraken has secured approval for a Federal Reserve “master account,” giving it access to the Fed’s core payment systems. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Kraken Financial’s application is expected to be announced today by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, which oversaw its application, and Kraken’s parent company Payward. The approval “improves reliability and efficiency for moving fiat deposits in and out of digital-asset markets,” Arj...

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    A former LAPD officer has been convicted over a “$5 wrench attack” after stealing $350,000 in cryptocurrency from a 17-year-old during a home invasion in 2024. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury found Eric Halem, 38, guilty of kidnapping and robbery, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Halem was charged in December 2024 with kidnapping for ransom, first-degree residential robbery, and home invasion robbery, after he and his alleged accomplices entered an apartment in Koreatown, handcu...

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    A former Labour minister has joined a growing chorus calling for the U.K. to ban political donations made in cryptocurrency. Labour MP Rushanara Ali, who previously contributed to the government’s elections bill during her stint in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, is quoted in a recent Guardian report as calling for an outright ban on crypto political donations. Ali called cryptocurrency donations a vector for “foreign interference in our democracy,” urging ministers to...

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    Freezes and seizures of cryptocurrency by the Scam Center Strike Force from Southeast Asian crime networks have topped $580 million, according to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. In an announcement Thursday, Jeanine Pirro stated that the force had made “significant progress” in freezing, seizing and forfeiting crypto from scam networks operating in countries including Burma, Cambodia, and Laos. In only three months, our Scam Center Strike Force has made significant progress, free...

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    Goliath Ventures CEO Arrested Over $328M Crypto ‘Ponzi Scheme’

    The former CEO of crypto investment firm Goliath Ventures has been arrested on federal charges of wire fraud and money laundering. Christopher Alexander Delgado, of Apopka, Florida, is accused of operating Goliath as a “Ponzi scheme” that raked in some $328 million from investors, one of whom lost some $720,000. Goliath Ventures CEO arrested for wire fraud & money laundering. https://t.co/Us0Dvy5uq0 pic.twitter.com/82ZFkaU5Ir — USAO Middle Florida (@USAO_MDFL) February 24, 2026 According to th...

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