Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has revealed on X that it has donated $111,111 worth of bitcoins to freed Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, whose address comes from an address on the freeross.org, which claims to be Ulbricht's official website and offers ways for people to contribute to the creators of dark web marketplaces. According to Mempool's bitcoin blockchain explorer, as of press time, the page has received 93 donations totaling 2.5 BTC, equivalent to approximately $261,000.
加密货币交易所 Kraken 在 X 上披露,已向获释的丝绸之路创始人 Ross Ulbricht 捐赠了价值 111,111 美元的比特币,Ross Ulbricht 地址来自freeross.org 上的地址,该网站声称是 Ulbricht 的官方网站,并提供人们为暗网市场创建者做出贡献的方式。 根据 Mempool 的比特币区块链浏览器,截至发稿时,该页面已收到 93 笔捐款,总额为 2.5 BTC,约合 261,000 美元。
On January 21, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, PumpFun just transferred 116,054.56 SOL to Kraken, worth about $28 million. Since 2025, it has transferred 692,877 SOL to Kraken, worth about $139 million. Its total revenue is 2,365,753 SOL, currently worth about $570 million.
According to Politico, since Election Day, crypto companies including Ripple, Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood, and Circle have poured at least $10 million into the Trump Inauguration Fund, which will be used to fund the grand official event held during the inauguration. Executives have also flocked to Washington to prepare for the new president's swearing-in on Monday. One target that crypto players are focused on is the Digital Asset Advisory Council that Trump has vowed to create.
Kraken's chief legal officer, Marco Santori, a veteran lawyer who led Kraken's legal department for nearly five years, announced his resignation and said he would continue to serve as a senior adviser to the company, helping Kraken build a "global advisory board."
Tether has launched its cross-chain USDT0 token using cryptocurrency exchange Kraken's native Ethereum extension layer 2 network, Ink. It is reported that USDT0 hopes to develop into a cross-chain "unified liquidity layer", making the transfer of USDT in the crypto ecosystem easier. It uses LayerZero's Omnichain Fungible Token standard, a repeater designed to mint and destroy tokens on different blockchains.
According to The Data Nerd, 3 hours ago, Whale 0xBE2 deposited 588 billion PEPEs (approximately $10.99 million) into Kraken. Seven months ago, he amassed these tokens with $5.2 million, resulting in an unrealized profit of $7.34 million and a 141% return on investment.
As monitored by Onchain Lens, Pump.fun deposited 122,620 SOL worth approximately $21.75 million to the Kraken exchange five hours ago. To date, 1,331,067 SOL worth approximately $307 million have been deposited. Total proceeds have reached 2,240,416 SOL worth approximately $410.66 million.