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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A US law enforcement task force seized hundreds of fake investment websites and unsealed warrants against two suspects tied to a Burmese crypto scam compound. US Reward For Scam Center Tips The US State Department is offering $10 million to anyone who helps disrupt the Tai Chang scam centers in Burma — a bounty that signals just how seriously Washington is taking the problem of industrialized fraud in Southeast Asia. That announcement came alongside a sweeping action Thursday by the US Scam Center Strike Force, which said…

MAGA Coin (TRUMP)—a prominent political meme coin during the 2024 U.S. presidential election—once skyrocketed to a peak of $17.82 in early June 2024, as Donald Trump’s campaign reached its height. Currently, the token is trading around $0.04, representing a decline of nearly 99% from its all-time high.MAGA is a typical example of the “PolitiFi” token category, where speculative capital often clusters around political narratives and quickly exits once public interest wanes.What Is MAGA (TRUMP)?MAGA coin, often traded under the ticker TRUMP, is an ERC-20 meme token built around the image and slogan “Make America Great Again,” primarily traded on decentralized…

Iris Coleman Apr 25, 2026 00:10 DeepSeek V4, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell, offers 1M-token context AI with reduced memory overhead and faster inference, targeting long-context workflows. DeepSeek has unveiled its fourth-generation AI models, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, pushing the boundaries of long-context inference. These models, available now via NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPU-accelerated endpoints, are designed to handle up to a 1 million-token context window, a significant step forward for applications like advanced coding, document analysis, and agentic AI workflows. The flagship DeepSeek-V4-Pro boasts 1.6 trillion total parameters with 49 billion active parameters, while the more…

On April 24, Zcash (ZEC) price gained an upward momentum and soared above 5% on a daily chart amid the positive sentiment in the crypto market.  The current price chart suggests that Zcash is following a classic bullish reversal pattern, which comes after breaking out from a long-term descending channel. One of the major factors behind the surge is the release of a major security patch in the zcashd version 6.12.0 software to fix a long-standing weak point in the legacy Sprout shielded pool.  On Friday, Zcash (ZEC), one of the leading privacy coins, witnessed a spike of 5% on…

A crypto pundit has shared a bold XRP price prediction, using AI analysis and outlining several market drivers and ongoing developments that could fuel the rally. In the analysis, the expert projects that in 2026, XRP could potentially skyrocket to $10 and by 2035, the cryptocurrency could reach historical highs above $500. Although the analyst maintains a broadly bullish outlook for XRP’s price, he urged investors and traders to take the forecast “with a grain of salt,” noting that it remains speculative.  XRP Price Forecast From 2026 To 2030 In an X post shared on April 22, crypto market analyst…

As HSBC, Lloyds, and JPMorgan all commit to tokenized deposits on the Canton Network, Digital Asset Chief Product Officer Bernhard Elsner explains why the instrument is structurally distinct from stablecoins and how Canton’s architecture eliminates bridge risk rather than simply managing it. Summary Tokenized deposits carry the full legal status of a bank deposit, with capital requirements, supervisory oversight, and deposit insurance that stablecoin holders do not receive. HSBC completed a tokenized deposit pilot on Canton, Lloyds issued the first tokenized GBP on a public blockchain using Canton, and JPMorgan is bringing JPM Coin to Canton in a phased 2026…

Post-quantum startup Project Eleven has today awarded a 1 BTC ($77,736 at writing time) prize to the independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli for the latest and largest demonstration of a quantum attack on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC).Using a publicly accessible quantum computer, Lelli successfully derived a 15-bit elliptic curve private key from its public key counterpart in about 45minutes. He used a variant of Shor’s algorithm to crack the elliptic-curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP), which is native to the digital signatures of Bitcoin and Ethereum.The milestone marks a 512x increase in total search space complexity, or 32,768 possible private key combinations,…

Luisa Crawford Apr 24, 2026 21:01 Donald Trump to host TRUMP memecoin holders at Mar-a-Lago as the token’s value struggles, raising ethical concerns and market volatility. Donald Trump is set to host a private luncheon this Saturday at Mar-a-Lago for top holders of his namesake cryptocurrency, the TRUMP memecoin. Nearly 300 guests, including prominent figures like Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, Bitcoin advocate Anthony Pompliano, and Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley, are expected to attend. The event has reignited controversy over the token’s ethics and the president’s financial ties to the project. The Official…

U.S. Treasury and Tether froze $344M in USDT tied to Iran’s IRGC, spotlighting how Tehran’s $7.8B crypto ecosystem leans on stablecoins to dodge sanctions and move oil money. Summary U.S. authorities have frozen $344 million in cryptocurrency linked to Iranian networks, in a move Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent framed as part of a broader campaign to cut off “all financial lifelines” to the regime. Tether assisted the U.S. government by blacklisting roughly $344 million in USDT across two addresses, whose on‑chain patterns Chainalysis says match Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) wallets and intermediaries tied to Iran’s central bank. Chainalysis estimates…

Bitcoin’s latest onchain and derivatives data point to a constructive setup, with VanEck highlighting negative funding rates and a clustered hash rate drawdown alongside softer volatility and cautious positioning.  The firm notes in their latest report that realized volatility fell from about 56% to 41% as US‑Iran tensions eased, while the 7‑day average funding rate dropped to roughly -1.8%, its lowest level since 2023 and in the 10th percentile of readings since late 2020. Since 2020, bitcoin’s average 30‑day return during periods of negative funding has been 11.5%, compared with 4.5% across all periods, with a 77% hit rate for…