Francesco Campisi · 5 months ago Kraken Under Extortion: Criminals Threaten to Leak Data on 2,000 Users Kraken is being extorted by criminals threatening to leak internal videos exposing data from 2,000 accounts. CSO Nick Percoco says the exchange will not pay. Funds are safe — but the insider-threat problem is bigger than one exchange. HackNewsCrypto
Riccardo Curatolo · 5 months ago FBI: $11.4 Billion Lost to Crypto Fraud in 2025 The FBI's 2025 IC3 report recorded $11.4 billion in crypto fraud losses in the US — a 22% surge from 2024 and an all-time record. Americans over 60 accounted for $4.4 billion of those losses. ScamsUnited StatesAI
Riccardo Curatolo · 5 months ago G. Love Loses 5.9 BTC to a Fake Ledger App on Apple's App Store G. Love lost 5.92 BTC — roughly $420,000 — after downloading a fake Ledger Live app from the Apple Mac App Store on April 11, 2026. ZachXBT traced the funds to KuCoin. Here is what every hardware wallet user needs to know. ScamsHackBitcoin
Giulia Ferrante · 5 months ago CoinShares Lists on Nasdaq: Europe's Crypto Giant Takes on Wall Street CoinShares (CSHR) listed on Nasdaq on April 1, 2026, marking the first European pure-play crypto asset manager to trade on a US exchange. With $6B AUM and 12 straight profitable years, CEO Mognetti is targeting US market share directly. FintechBanksUnited States
Giulia Ferrante · 5 months ago Bitwise Files HYPE ETF: Hyperliquid Heads to Wall Street Bitwise filed an updated S-1 with the SEC on April 11, 2026 for a spot HYPE ETF — ticker BHYP, 0.67% fee, custody with Anchorage Digital. Arthur Hayes bought $1.1M the same day, targeting $150 by August. Grayscale and VanEck are in the queue too. DeFiNewsToken
Francesco Campisi · 5 months ago HSBC and Anchorpoint Win Hong Kong's First Stablecoin Licences Hong Kong's first stablecoin licences went to HSBC and Anchorpoint Financial on April 10, 2026 — just 2 approvals from 36 applications. Here's what this means for global digital finance. StablecoinsRegulationAsia
Riccardo Curatolo · 5 months ago Tether's Italian Billionaires: How Devasini and Ardoino Built USDT and Set Their Sights on Juventus Devasini and Ardoino built a $13B-profit empire on USDT — now Italy's richest crypto holders, they hold 11.5% of Juventus and haven't withdrawn their €1.1B takeover bid. Here's the full story. FootballStablecoinsTether
Francesco Campisi · 5 months ago Pyth Network Challenges Bloomberg: Fidelity and Euronext Go On-Chain Pyth Network's Data Marketplace launched April 9, 2026 with Fidelity, Euronext, and Tradeweb publishing proprietary data on-chain for the first time. The $50 billion financial data industry just got its first real challenger. BlockchainFintechSmart Contracts
Francesco Campisi · 5 months ago Binance Brings SpaceX and OpenAI to Your Wallet: Pre-IPO On-Chain Pre-IPO tokens for SpaceX and OpenAI are now live on Binance Web3 Wallet. Private markets worth trillions just opened to retail investors on-chain — no brokerage account needed. RWABinanceToken
Francesco Campisi · 5 months ago CZ vs Star Xu: The $1 Billion Book Shaking the Crypto Industry CZ's Freedom of Money, published April 8, 2026, triggered a $1 billion public bet with OKX CEO Star Xu over allegations of contract forgery and rival reporting. The feud between crypto's two biggest exchange founders is shaking industry governance. BinanceNewsCrypto
