Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas

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Spot Bitcoin ETFs lose $681M in first week of 2026 as risk appetite fades

Crypto January 11, 2026

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) started 2026 with sharp outflows, shedding a combined $681 million over the first full trading week of the year. According to data from SoSoValue, spot BitοΏ½...

Pump.fun says creator fees β€˜may have skewed’ incentives, plans revamp

Crypto January 11, 2026

Pump.fun co-founder Alon Cohen said the Solana-based memecoin launchpad is overhauling its creator fee system after concluding that the existing model may have skewed incentives. Creator fees need cοΏ½...

Wrench attacks against crypto holders are rising and growing β€˜more violent’

Crypto January 5, 2026

Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency holders are becoming more frequent and increasingly severe, according to a new analysis of so-called wrench attacks. In a Sunday post on X, Haseeb Qureshi, οΏ½...

Coinbase pauses local fiat rails in Argentina less than a year after its arrival

Crypto January 5, 2026

Crypto exchange Coinbase has paused its local fiat operations in Argentina less than a year after formally entering the market, scaling back peso-based services while keeping its crypto functionalityοΏ½...

Rep. Torres to target insider trading on prediction markets after bet on Maduro

Crypto January 5, 2026

US Representative Ritchie Torres is preparing to introduce legislation aimed at curbing insider trading on prediction markets, following scrutiny around a highly profitable wager tied to the sudden cοΏ½...

Crypto phishing losses fell 83% in 2025, but drainer ecosystem β€˜remains active’

Crypto January 4, 2026

Crypto phishing attacks tied to wallet drainers dropped sharply in 2025, with total losses falling to $83.85 million, down 83% year over year from nearly $494 million in 2024. The number of victims οΏ½...

BitMine stakes $259M more ETH, pushing validator entry queue near 1M Ether

Crypto January 4, 2026

BitMine Immersion Technologies has added another 82,560 Ether, worth roughly $259 million, to Ethereums staking system, intensifying congestion in the networks validator entry queue as institutional οΏ½...

Billion-dollar Bitcoin hacker Ilya Lichtenstein released early, thanks Trump

Crypto January 4, 2026

Ilya Lichtenstein, the hacker behind one of the largest Bitcoin thefts on record, has been released from prison just over a year after receiving a five-year sentence, thanks to a criminal justice refοΏ½...

SOL accumulation tops crypto trends on New Year’s Day: Santiment

Crypto January 2, 2026

Cryptocurrency markets kicked off 2026 with a focus on Solana, as Santiment data showed discussion regarding whale accumulation of SOL-related tokens as the top trend on Thursday. Santiment said mulοΏ½...

Trader bags $1M from β€˜abnormal’ BROCCOLI714 memecoin activity on Binance

Crypto January 2, 2026

A trader claimed to have profited about $1 million on New Years Day by capitalizing on abnormal trading behavior of a suspected market maker account on Binance. Investor Vida said on X that the abnoοΏ½...