Month: August 2025

London, United Kingdom, 22nd August 2025, Chainwire

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has rolled out its second “crypto sprint,” this time inviting public feedback from market participants on how the agency should approach regulating spot cryptocurrency trading. Acting Chair Caroline D. Pham announced the initiative on Thursday, stressing that the regulator wants stakeholder input to ...

A Bitcoin investor has fallen victim to a massive social engineering scheme, losing 783 BTC—valued at roughly $91 million—in a single transaction earlier this week. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT revealed the exploit in an X post on Thursday, noting that scammers tricked the victim by posing as support staff for a ...

Australia’s corporate watchdog is intensifying its war on online scams after removing more than 14,000 fraudulent websites since mid-2023, with thousands linked to cryptocurrencies. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) revealed on Thursday that over 3,000 of those takedowns involved crypto-related scams, alongside a mix of phishing sites and ...

Injective has entered into a strategic partnership with global investment platform Republic, aiming to expand access to tokenized private market opportunities and accelerate institutional adoption of blockchain-based finance. The collaboration was announced  in an August 21 press release. As part of the integration, Republic’s 3 million users across more than ...

Australia’s financial intelligence agency, AUSTRAC, has ordered Binance Australia to undergo an independent audit following concerns over the exchange’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) controls. The directive, announced on August 22, targets Investbybit Pty Ltd, Binance’s local entity registered as a digital currency exchange provider. Despite Binance’s status as ...

VERB Technology Company has emerged as one of the largest corporate holders of Toncoin (TON), disclosing that it now controls about $713 million worth of the altcoin along with $67 million in cash reserves—bringing its total assets to more than $780 million. According to Thursday’s announcement, a substantial portion of ...

Ripple has struck a new deal with SBI Holdings to introduce its U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, Ripple USD (RLUSD), to the Japanese market, marking a major step in the country’s regulated digital asset ecosystem. Announced on August 22, Ripple and SBI VC Trade SBI’s licensed crypto asset exchange arm signed a ...

On-chain data from CryptoQuant indicates a growing divergence between Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), underscoring shifting market dynamics that could define the next phase of capital flows in digital assets. According to CryptoQuant, Bitcoin’s exchange reserves remain steady at around 2.53 million BTC, showing little movement despite recent price swings. ...

Andrew Tate has booked a $16,000 gain from betting against Kanye West’s meme coin YZY, even as the token’s market collapse highlights the risks surrounding celebrity-linked cryptocurrencies. Blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain reported that Tate opened a three-times leveraged short on YZY at $0.8524. With the token now trading near $0.77, ...