What’s Happening in Crypto Today? Daily Crypto News Digest
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of blockchain and crypto news today – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news.
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Eric Salma
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AUSTRAC Slaps Cointree with $48K Fine for Late SMRs – Who’s Next?
In a statement released on May 16, Australia’s financial intelligence agency (AUSTRAC) has fined Melbourne-based crypto exchange Cointree A$75,120 for submitting suspicious matter reports after the legal deadline.
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Russian power engineers say they have developed new methods to help them track down and prosecute illegal crypto miners operating in areas prone to electricity shortages.
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European authorities have dismantled a sprawling money laundering network dubbed the “mafia crypto bank,” arresting 17 individuals accused of laundering over €21 million ($23.5 million) in cryptocurrency for criminal groups linked to China and the Middle East.
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At Strategy World event, Michael Saylor discussed how AI powered their Bitcoin treasury to $52 billion. AI evolved from text editing to financial modeling, aiding in decision-making through data analysis from multiple sources
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Anthony Scaramucci expressed concerns about potential corruption and distractions caused by President Trump's involvement with cryptocurrency, including the TRUMP meme coin and partnerships with crypto businesses.
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Crypto Czar David Sacks and Gemini Exchange Owners Join Donald Trump Jr.'s Exclusive $500K Private Club
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Alchemy Pay has released its 2025 roadmap, outlining its shift from a crypto payment gateway to a global financial hub. The plan includes regulatory-focused growth, Real World Asset (RWA) integration, the launch of Alchemy Chain for stablecoins, and AI-driven payment solutions.
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U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds amassed $3.06 billion in inflows last week, according to newly published figures. Meanwhile, Blackrock’s IBIT fund edges closer to the 600,000 BTC threshold, requiring just 11,314 BTC to eclipse this significant benchmark.
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U.S. President Donald Trump is reaffirming his commitment to tariffs, emphasizing that this approach could lead Americans who pay income tax to witness their taxes “substantially reduced, maybe even completely eliminated.”
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Bitcoin has spent the past seven days trying to hold near $85,000, with a trading range between $83,200 and $86,000. Buying momentum has turned positive in the past 24 hours, but an interesting technical analysis of the current price action points to a looming downside risk.
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, in a new blog post on the Ethereum Magicians forum, floated a "radical" long-term proposal for the blockchain network's execution layer: replacing the Ethereum Virtual Machine's (EVM) bytecode with the open-source RISC-V architecture.
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Attention Avalanche Validators!
If you are attending the upcoming Avalanche Summit London, we want to give you a gift, a status symbol to represent your importance to the network 🎁🔺
To confirm you are attending and want to receive the gift, please fill out the form below before 4/25 at 12pm EST. forms.gle/1B4ZzNcrtTtXT7…
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+62.5% growth in users and machines since last month.
@peaq stays building the world's largest DePIN eco on Polkadot.
Dom 👀@itsVLVT
ICYMI: Over 4 million addresses (humans and machines) are live on @peaq. The machine economy is coming. Inevitable...
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Stargate to the Superchain.
The SuperStacks incentives campaign on @Optimism is live.
Move USDT0 and other participating assets to @Base, @InkOnChain, @Optimism, @Soneium, @unichain, and more on the Superchain using Stargate.
Earn $OP rewards from top protocols such as: @Velodrome, @Aerodrome, @Uniswap, @Morpho, @Aave + more.
Learn more about the incentives 👇
Optimism@Optimism
Use the Superchain and get rewarded: SuperStacks is here. Connect your wallet. Provide liquidity. Earn XP. Be the first to get started ↓
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📘 @DeepBookOnSui 3.1 is live.
This upgrade turns up the heat with:
→ Permissionless pools
→ Pay fees in input tokens (20% discount with DEEP)
→ Streamlined liquidity provisioning
Plus: lower trading fees = tighter spreads, better price efficiency.
A more open, high-volume, and capital-efficient DeFi is here.
DeepBook Protocol on Sui@DeepBookonSui
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CCT support is live ⚡️
@chainlink’s token standard is now supported via LI.FI — allowing CCT tokens to plug into our multi-chain routing and discovery flow.
Chainlink@chainlink
Cross-chain liquidity aggregator @lifiprotocol has officially integrated support for CCIP and the Cross-Chain Token (CCT) standard. Every token adopting the CCT standard can be instantly available via @jumperapp, the largest bridge aggregator by volume. At launch, LINK and SHIB will be the first CCT tokens supported, with more to follow. li.fi/knowledge-hub/… Through a burn-and-mint transfer mechanism, CCTs can be transferred cross-chain at any size, with a flat fee, and zero-slippage.
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We're excited to see @aave getting a step closer to its first non-EVM deployment on @Aptos, a Chainlink Scale member.
If approved by the Aave community, Aave V3 will launch on Aptos mainnet, with its markets secured by Chainlink Price Feeds.
Aave@aave
The ARFC to deploy Aave on @Aptos is live 👻 One step closer to Aave's first non-EVM deployment.
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Upcoming session at @money2020 Asia: Digital Assets Implementation with HBAR Foundation - From Concept to Reality
Join Sabrina Tachdjian (@tsakoog) Head of Fintech & Payments Fund @HBAR_foundation for a behind-the-scenes look at how issuers, marketplace providers, and settlement platforms bring digital assets to life.
🗓️ April 22 | 3:05-3:20PM
📍Unfiltered Stage
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