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The Ethereum co-founder argues location leaks can harm vulnerable users, even when only general regions are exposed. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has advocated for X to rethink its new geo-inference system. The call comes amid growing scrutiny of how tech firms collect and use customer data. Buterin Flags Privacy Risks in X’s Country Labels Social media platform X recently rolled out a new feature that shows the country of origin for user accounts as part of a push for transparency and handling misinformation. However, not everyone is fully supportive of the update, with Buterin foreseeing some negative long-term effects. The…

Grayscale’s Chainlink ETF also set to win approval this month.DODGE fund transactions could hit $11 million mark on day one of trading.Approval comes as crypto markets slump and investors exit major Bitcoin ETFs.The crypto investment firm Grayscale’s XRP and Dogecoin exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange tomorrow.The US Securities and Exchange Commission issued its approval for the XRP ETF fund in a November 21 release, with a separate note published the same day confirming the DODGE ETF approval.On X, Bloomberg’s senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said that the Dogecoin ETF’s transaction volumes could…

The playbook was simple enough to work once: dress as delivery drivers, knock on the door, force entry at gunpoint, and extract private keys under threat.In June 2024, three men executed that script at a residential address in the UK and walked away with more than $4.3 million in cryptocurrency.Five months later, Sheffield Crown Court sentenced Faris Ali and two accomplices after the Metropolitan Police recovered nearly the entire haul.The case, documented by blockchain investigator ZachXBT, now sits as a reference point for a question the industry has avoided: what does operational security look like when your net worth lives…

Semilore Faleti is a cryptocurrency writer specialized in the field of journalism and content creation. While he started out writing on several subjects, Semilore soon found a knack for cracking down on the complexities and intricacies in the intriguing world of blockchains and cryptocurrency. Semilore is drawn to the efficiency of digital assets in terms of storing, and transferring value. He is a staunch advocate for the adoption of cryptocurrency as he believes it can improve the digitalization and transparency of the existing financial systems. In two years of active crypto writing, Semilore has covered multiple aspects of the digital…

A massive Ether treasury project led by China’s crypto elites amidst market rout. China’s prominent crypto figures have quietly shelved a high-profile effort to create a $500 million Ethereum Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) firm, halting the initiative after months of planning amid a deepening slump across global crypto markets. The project, which was spearheaded earlier this year by Huobi founder Leon Li Lin, HashKey Group chairman and CEO Xiao Feng, Meitu co-founder Mike Cai Wensheng, and Fenbushi Capital founder Bo Shen, had set out to raise half a billion dollars to build a DAT company dedicated to investing in ether,…

The dynamic crypto landscape is unpredictable and events like a bull run call for significant attention from everyone. One of the significant events in the crypto market in 2025 is the crypto bull run that invited huge price appreciation for multiple cryptocurrencies. Interestingly, predictions for a crypto bull run in 2026 have been making the rounds in news and discussions in crypto community. Will the crypto market go further up from here in the last quarter of 2025? Investors, market analysts, traders, and crypto enthusiast want to find out whether a sustained bull run will become a reality. If the…

In brief Satoshi Nakamoto’s net worth has dropped by $41 billion in just over a month. It comes as BTC’s price has tanked more than 30% from its all-time high set in early October. As a result, the pseudonymous Bitcoin creator has dropped down the list of the world’s richest people. Bitcoin’s price has seen a dramatic drop over the past month, dragging its elusive creator’s purported net worth down with it.Just over a month ago, Satoshi Nakamoto’s total Bitcoin holdings were valued at $137 billion, according to Arkham Intelligence data, based on wallets believed to be connected to the…

After days of intense bearish action, the price of Bitcoin appears to be entering a calmer state, as it recovers above the $86,000 level. The latest on-chain data shows that several investors tried to take some profit in the past week, providing a basis for the premier cryptocurrency registering a double-digit loss.  Bitcoin Exchange Inflow Spikes As Price Faces Downward Pressure  In a recent post on the social media platform X, crypto analyst Ali Martinez revealed that significant Bitcoin amounts were sent to centralized exchanges in the past week. Data from Santiment shows that about $20,000 BTC (worth nearly $2…

Kalshi built $1.2B in weekly volume with US users alone. Polymarket built $952M with everyone else, per Defi Rate analytics.Kalshi has raised $1 billion in new funding at an $11 billion valuation, per TechCrunch. The round, led by returning investors Sequoia and CapitalG, comes less than two months after the prediction market operator closed a $300 million round at a $5 billion valuation.The fundraise arrives alongside a notable data point: Kalshi now generates more weekly trading volume than Polymarket, despite having built its user base almost entirely with American traders.Geographic context mattersPolymarket was barred from serving US residents from 2022…

Crypto exchange Coinbase initiated a large fund migration on Saturday, moving tokens to new internal wallets in a scheduled, routine security procedure to reduce long-term exposure of keeping funds in the same wallet addresses, which are publicly known.The migration is not due to any cybersecurity breaches or external threats, according to an announcement from the company. Coinbase said: “Migrating wallets periodically is a well-accepted best practice that minimizes long-term exposure of funds. This is a planned migration and unrelated to industry changes or price conditions. This is not in response to a data breach incident or external threat.”  Source: CoinbaseThis means…