$PUMP fell 4.9% in 24 hours amid scrutiny over alleged promotional payments to a trader known as kimchi.
According to Lookonchain, kimchi may have received 1.35 billion tokens worth $6.25 million before removing Pump.fun from their bio. The payment has not been confirmed.
At $0.00453138, the price is still up 5.2% over 7 days, with 24-hour volume of $153 million.
➖ Bitcoin held steady above $81,000 as turmoil in the AI market eased and crude oil prices rose.
➖ The Cysic exploiter immediately moved all the stolen funds to Tornado Cash, despite the project offering a 10% ransom or bounty.
➖ Ethereum had to postpone the Glamsterdam fork testnet after auditors found a gas security vulnerability that could cause contracts to fail in real-world use.
➖ HSBC officially expanded access to its first stablecoin to more than 3 million daily retail app users.
$UNI fell 6.6% in 24 hours to $6.97, as Uniswap introduced Aggregator Hooks, opening up a new source of token burns.
The integration connects seven external liquidity sources to Uniswap v4. Protocol fees from transactions routed to other exchanges also help fund $UNI burns.
$STRK down 11.3% in 24 hours as the community approves research into the option of Starknet becoming an independent L1. No decision has been made to leave Ethereum.
The non-binding poll received 93.52% of the votes. A network switch would require a separate binding vote.
Price: $0.053756, down 38.8% in 7 days. 24-hour volume reached $88 million.
➖ Bitcoin fell below $82,000 as AI doubts returned and a sharp sell-off led by DeFi tokens took hold.
➖ Chinese prosecutors are seeking the confiscation of $5.1 billion worth of Bitcoin from the Qian case, previously seized by the UK, sparking a cross-border asset battle.
➖ Italian police dismantled a secret bank run by the 'Ndrangheta and Camorra mafias, which laundered $24 million through crypto.
➖ Amid the price correction, U.S. Bitcoin ETFs recorded $528 million in inflows, bringing the total to over $1 billion in three days.
$NEAR rose 11% in 24 hours to $5.19, amid a vote on a proposal to reduce token issuance.
HSP-029 proposes gradually lowering the annual issuance cap from 2.5% to 1.6% over 24 months. The impact: less dilution, but also lower staking yields.
24-hour volume reached $1.445 billion; the 7-day gain was 2.8%. The voting outcome is a risk to monitor.
➖ Buying activity from top-level buyers is holding back Bitcoin's price gains, with the $87,700 level now a critical point watched by the market, according to Glassnode data.
➖ Banks in the UK have faced 10,000 customer complaints about blocking crypto transfers over a 90-day period. Lloyds recorded the most complaints, despite having no official restriction policy.
➖ The OCC has officially finalized stablecoin rules under the GENIUS Act ahead of the January deadline, setting strict reserve and redemption standards, though it has yet to announce when permit applications will open.
➖ Zcash's price surged 12% after developers set the block height for activation of the NU7 network upgrade.
$HYPE rose 4.7% in 24 hours to $81.54, while the Hyperliquid Policy Center urged the SEC to clarify crypto rules.
In a letter to the SEC, the organization requested revisions to the proposal related to token classification, airdrops, and trading in secondary markets.
24-hour volume reached $852 million; the 7-day gain was only 0.2%. $HYPE ranked 11th by market capitalization.
➖ Mt. Gox creditors will have to wait longer after the trustee pushed the repayment deadline to 2027, with $2.8 billion worth of Bitcoin still undistributed because many creditors have yet to complete the required procedures.
➖ France’s parliament approved a vote to impose a 31% capital gains tax on stablecoin trading, sparking concerns about new regulations in Europe.
➖ Bitcoin fell to $81,400 amid a plunge in Asian chip stocks, while options traders rushed to seek downside protection in anticipation of further volatility.
➖ Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin treasury company Strive bought $335 million worth of Bitcoin after investors poured in $369 million, and is now planning a $630 million preferred stock offering.
$NEAR fell 6.0% in 24 hours to $4.67, with selling pressure erasing the session’s early gains.
Blockchain News noted that the price was below the 7-day SMA of $4.96, the 20-day SMA of $5.02, and the 12-period EMA of $4.97. All three are acting as resistance.
24-hour volume reached $701 million, while the 7-day decline was 8.4%. The moving-average area is a level to watch.
➖ The spot Bitcoin ETF market lost nearly $1 billion over two consecutive weeks, with a further $228.6 million in net outflows following $681.1 million the previous week, pushing October into the red.
➖ Sam Altman’s World project is bringing Proof-of-Human identity verification to the banking sector in partnership with Bain Capital and VanEck, aiming to curb potential $40 billion losses from AI fraud.
➖ France is tightening its regulatory grip by advancing a draft stablecoin tax and targeting new rules for self-custodial wallets and an exit tax.
➖ Zcash developer Zakura has submitted an emergency proposal to patch a quantum computing vulnerability that could threaten the privacy of shielded swaps in the future.
$SUI rose 3.3% to $1.005 in 24 hours and remains down 9.9% for the week. Robinhood’s Learn campaign offering $5 in SUI has drawn attention.
Mysten Labs appointed Kevin Boon as CEO. The USDsui buyback has purchased 900,000 SUI since June 22.
24-hour volume was $545 million, the volume-to-market-cap ratio was 13%, and the market ranking was 28th. Daily momentum remains at odds with the weekly trend.