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Spot bitcoin ETFs began trading a year ago, opening up the crypto market to a wider range of investors and paving the way for more such products.

An unexpected change in the redemption mechanism of the protocol's yield-generating token caught investors off-guard, throwing the DeFi community into disarray.

Ian McGinley, the enforcement director at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is stepping down days before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) is seeing significant gains in Friday's trading. The cryptocurrency's token price was up 4.5% over the past 24 hours, as of 4:30 p.m. ET. Meanwhile, the price of Bitcoin was up 2.9%, and the price of Ethereum was up 1.7%.

A Ripple executive says RLUSD has seen ‘incredible momentum’ since its launch.

The crypto meme was strong at the end of 2024 with investors bidding up major tokens like Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB), and Pepe (CRYPTO: PEPE) along with even wilder tokens like dogwifhat, Fartcoin, and Bonk. According to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence, at noon ET on Friday, Dogecoin is down 10.4% in the past week, Shiba Inu has dropped 11.7%, and Pepe is down 19.9% in just the last week.

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictments of Russian citizens Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko, Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik, and Anton Vyachlavovich Tarasov, accusing them of operating services that helped criminals launder cryptocurrency. The three were allegedly involved in operating Bender.io and Sinbad.io, two cryptocurrency mixers “that served as safe havens for laundering criminally derived funds, including the proceeds of ransomware and wire fraud,” principal deputy