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In Southeast Asia, a new UN report says, criminal syndicates are growing more sophisticated by using crypto and generative AI.

Bitcoin protocol Babylon completed its second staking round on Tuesday, increasing deposits to about 24,000 BTC ($1.5 billion) from about 1,000 BTC previously. The staking round was "duration-based," meaning it lasted for 10 Bitcoin blocks. The uptake could show robust demand for a growing decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem atop the 15-year-old Bitcoin blockchain, previously confined to alternative networks like Ethereum and Solana.

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The bold move gained the support of the crypto community, which has long railed against the federal agency's "regulation by enforcement."

Traditional risk assets like stocks surged while gold and oil tumbled, but cryptos didn't get the memo.

Trump promised not to sell seized bitcoin, but the Supreme Court's decision leaves the door open for the government to sell it.

American rap legend Nasir Jones, known professionally as Nas, has been one of the early adopters of cryptocurrency and even used his art to market the industry to the masses. What happened: On Apr. 30, 2021, a track titled "Sorry Not Sorry" was dropped, featuring Nas along with DJ Khaled, Jay-Z, James Fauntleroy, and Beyoncé. The song showed Nas rapping the lines, "I'm coin-based, basically crypto-currency scarface. Join us, there's gotta be more of us," in what was a clear reference to his stak