FTX creditors disclosed on behalf of Sunil on X that it has determined that FTX repayments will begin at 10:00 a.m. ET on February 18, 2025, and will be paid to creditors with claims of less than $50,000. The repayment distribution amount will include 100% of the awarded claim value (capped at $50,000), as well as an additional amount of compensation from the awarded claim value from the reference date of November 11, 2022 to 9.0% annual interest after the initial distribution date.
According to BeInCrypto, blockchain investigator ZachXBT has revealed that Coinbase users have lost at least $150 million to social scams in the past year, with cases he independently confirmed alone reaching that amount. In the latest case, a user was scammed out of 110 cbBTC (worth $11.50 million) on the Base network. Attackers used instant exchanges to quickly launder funds, making tracking and recovery nearly impossible through cross-platform exchanges and bridging operations. Za...
According to SolanaFloor, an investor pledged 200,000 SOL worth $45 million on the Solana ecological pledge platform Marinade, and if nothing else, it is expected that the investor will earn 25,000 SOL (worth $5.60 million) by January next year.
According to Crowdfundinsider, crypto payment solutions provider Alchemy Pay has announced that it has registered with the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) as a digital currency exchange provider. The registration enables Alchemy Pay to offer fiat-to-cryptocurrency payment services in the Australian market. In addition, Alchemy Pay is registered with FINTRAC in Canada as a money services company and has received money transfer licenses (MTL) in eight states in the Uni...
According to BitcoinMagazine, Indiana Rep. Jake Teshka has introduced legislation that would allow pension funds to purchase bitcoin ETFs.
According to Cointelegraph, Utah's bitcoin bill has been approved by the House Committee on Economic Development and Workforce Services. The bill is now before the House of Representatives. The bill will open the way for Utah to invest in bitcoin and other digital assets.
According to Cointelegraph, Bank of New York Mellon recently posted a job posting on LinkedIn, which is hiring for digital asset-related positions, indicating that more traditional Financial Institution Groups are entering the cryptocurrency space.
According to app developer Nima Owji, xAI's AI app Grok can now display real-time prices of stocks and cryptocurrencies to users.
According to Lin, head of Asia Pacific commerce at Deribit, there is a bitcoin large option trade today. An investor bought a $105,000 call option at the end of June, and sold a $120,000 call option at the same time. The unilateral size is 100 BTC, and the premium paid is $541,000. The breakeven point of the bull spread option portfolio is $111,000.
According to Slow Mist Cosine published on the X platform, AdsPower intrusion incident stolen funds mainly concentrated in the address has increased by one (previously four), the total amount of stolen funds has exceeded 4.70 million dollars.
According to the data released by the Watcher.Guru on the X platform, the trading volume of the BlackRock Spot Bitcoin ETF opened 2 hours today has exceeded 1 billion dollars.
According to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunaspilu, spot Bitcoin ETFs have had a strong start to the year, with inflows of $4.20 billion, accounting for 6% of all ETF inflows. Since its launch, net inflows have exceeded $40 billion and asset management (AUM) has reached $121 billion, resulting in a return of 127%. At present, the asset size of the Bitcoin spot ETF has exceeded the ESG ETF ($117 billion) and is comparable to the size of the gold spot ETF.
According to Bitcoin Magazine, Semler Scientific, a publicly traded company in the United States, announced that it will increase its financing size to $85 million for the purchase of bitcoin.
On January 24th, according to the disclosure of X user TCB, THORChain is currently in an insolvent state. The data shows that THORChain's current liabilities include 97 million dollars of lending (ETH and BTC) and about 102 million dollars of savings and synthetic assets, while the available assets only have 107 million dollars of external liquidity. TCB said that THORChain's lending obligations were fulfilled by minting and selling RUNE tokens, a design that resulted in a high degree of reflexi...
Japanese listed company Remixpoint disclosed that on January 21, 2025, the company again spent 500 million yen (about $3.19 million) to buy about 31.27 BTC, with an average purchase price of 15.99 million yen (about $102,175). As of now, the company holds a total of about 447.43 BTC.