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After the market-wide cryptocurrency bull run kicked off in November 2024, the upward trajectory of Bitcoin (BTC) stalled out in late December. Although a renewed rally saw a new all-time high (ATH) of $108,786 reached on January 20, prices managed to hold above the $100,000 mark just until the end of the month — when President Trump’s implementation of tariffs caused a market-wide selloff of risk assets. The leading cryptocurrency has been trading sideways since; although this time around, the level of support has solidified higher than before, at $96,500. Picks for you R. Kiyosaki said to invest in cattle—here’s how much you’d have if you did 8 mins ago GME Ethereum partners up with Stocktwits 28 mins ago ...

Canadian police tackling crypto crime are now using Chainalysis software to trace transactions, track suspects, and see where funds have been deposited, an upgrade that they believe will allow them to return more stolen funds to victims. Sergeant Kevin Talbot of the Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) Economic Crime s Unit announced on Friday that the force would be adopting a software program called Reactor developed by the blockchain forensics expert. As reported by the Lethbridge Herald, according to Talbot, it’s unusual for local police forces like the LPS to have such tech.  “We’ll get to the point where we have transaction data but we’re unable to trace it because it requires special programming to do these things,” Talbot said (Via the Lethbridge Herald). The adoption comes at a time when police are seeing a trend of crypto investment scams according to Talbot. Now, he says, the force has its “ own training and programming to do it ourselves .”  Crypto whales targeted in w...

A frontrunning miner extractable value (MEV) bot that had drained approximately $11 million worth Ether from the Curve protocol returned nearly all of it. A miner extractable value (MEV) bot that drained 6,106 Ether from the Curve Finance pETH-ETH pool has return ed most of the funds to the JPEG'd deployer, which represents nearly all of the drained funds . This event occurred after the bot's address sent a message on the Ethereum blockchain seeking to prove that their email address was associated with the frontrunning bot. The Ethereum IDM negotiations that led to the partial return of funds . Source: Etherscan .  The return ed funds come only from the pETH-ETH Curve pool associated with the JPEG'd protocol, which was frontrun by the bot. All other exploited funds are still under the control of the attacker who initiated the exploit. The Curve team has also sent a message to the original attacker in an attempt to get the rest of the funds return ed. This is a developi...