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Uniswap v4 swap volume exceeded $200 billion. This breakthrough has reignited interest in Uniswap. This update coincides with a more than 10% price increase for native UNI. Cryptocurrencies posted significant gains on Monday after the US Senate voted to end the ongoing government shutdown. UNI expanded its daily profit by more than 12% as Uniswap Labs celebrated an impressive breakthrough amid widespread optimism. Team Protocol reported to X and confirmed that Uniswap v4 has handled over $200 billion in swap volume, making it one of the most active networks in the DeFi industry. Notably, Uniswap released a version 4 upgrade…

In a wide-ranging interview on “60 Minutes” on Nov. 2, President Donald Trump pretended not to know about Binance founder Chao Changpeng, the crypto billionaire he pardoned, even though he pleaded guilty in 2023 to violating the Bank Secrecy Act for failing to comply with anti-money laundering procedures and was sentenced to four months in prison.For those who think this is a minor or commonplace crime, consider that the US government has accused him of causing “serious harm to the national security of the United States” and said he “violated the laws of the United States on an unprecedented scale.”…

Criminals have discovered a new way to steal millions of dollars from older Americans. And Indiana lawmakers have the power to stop it.Cryptocurrency ATMs, also known as “crypto kiosks,” are being installed in convenience stores, gas stations, and retail stores across the country. Although these machines allow users to conduct legitimate cryptocurrency transactions, their lack of regulation compared to traditional financial institutions makes them prime targets for fraud.According to the FBI, consumers reported losing a total of $246.7 million at cryptocurrency ATMs in 2024, a 31% increase from 2023. Among crimes where the age of the victim was known, 86%…

It would be reasonable to assume that few residents of Ludlow or Silver Grove have heard of Qiao Changpeng, a leading figure in cryptocurrency. He was worth quite a bit and pled guilty to federal charges of enabling money laundering, resulting in four months in prison and a $4 billion fine for his company, Biance. Details of crimes dating back to 2023 are muddled in a quagmire of this country’s incomprehensible fiscal laws. As The Week pointed out, suffice it to say that Mr. Zhao sought to further enrich Binance by providing “terrorists, drug traffickers, child sex abuse material suppliers,…

Morpho faced a brief outage on November 6th that affected its indexer, backend systems, and app UI. The main lending and borrowing remained online, but users were having trouble loading dashboards and live data. The backend and indexer are restored, but frontend rendering remains impaired. Decentralized lending protocol Morpho suffered a temporary service disruption today, November 6, as bears thrive amid widespread market indecision. According to the project status page, this event impacted supported systems, indexer performance, application rendering, and blocked user access to key functionality. While this outage did not stop critical lending and borrowing activities, Morpho users are…

Unlock Editor’s Digest for freeFT editor Roula Khalaf has chosen her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.Switzerland has long sought financial stability, including neutral safe havens, sound funds and vaults. Now, the company wants to preserve that reputation in digital form.The government has opened talks to allow the issuance of stablecoins in the country, a step towards a future where trust in Swiss authenticity can be expressed not only in numbered accounts but also in blockchain tokens.The proposal outlines new licensing categories for “payment institutions” and “cryptocurrency institutions” that would subject stablecoin issuers to Swiss financial law. It may sound…

On Tuesday, altos suffered a catastrophe as Ethereum abandoned a major level. Permanent tokens lost more than $2 billion amid widespread declines. Concerns are growing that new U.S. sanctions against North Korea will lead to stricter regulations on cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin fell to $102,425 after losing nearly 4% of its value in the past 24 hours, and the digital asset fell further today. Altcoins widened their decline as Ethereum plummeted more than 6% to $3,401. The global cryptocurrency market fell 3% from the previous day to $3.43 trillion. Amid the widespread carnage, tokens linked to permanently decentralized exchanges appeared to be…

Opinion: Danor Cohen, Kerberus Co-Founder and Chief Technology OfficerIn 2025, there will be a torrent of cryptocurrency risks. AI accelerates fraud. Deepfake pitches, voice clones, synthetic support agents – these are all no longer peripheral tools, but front-line weapons. Cryptocurrency fraud may have hit an all-time high last year. Cryptocurrency fraud revenue has reached at least $9.9 billion, driven in part by methods that leverage generative AI.Meanwhile, more than $2.17 billion was stolen in 2025, but that happened in the first half of this year. Personal wallet compromises currently account for nearly 23% of fund theft incidents.Yet the industry is…

Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth: I own some shares of the YieldMax MSTR Option Income Strategy ETF.(NYSEMKT:MSTY) I’m starting to regret my IRA.I have owned Bitcoin(Cryptocurrency: BTC) Focusing on strategy from 2014(NASDAQ:MSTR) The MSTY ETF is just another way to buy Strategy stocks, but with different risks and benefits that I don’t really need. I should have known better, but that’s it. I’m just an imperfect human being too. My moment of clarity may save you from making the same mistake.Where to invest $1,000 now? Our team of analysts has revealed the 10 best stocks to buy now once…

Opinion: Ram Kumar, OpenLedger Core ContributorThe cryptocurrency industry has spent a decade decentralizing itself. At the same time, AI companies have created the most valuable monopoly since Standard Oil, but they are data monopolies, by comparison of which their protocol advantages seem trivial. The AI ​​industry is expected to generate over $300 billion in revenue by 2025, primarily through training models based on trillions of tokens collected from researchers, authors, and domain experts. Bitcoin largest fought a block size war. Ethereum discussed MEV extraction. Meanwhile, OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have scraped the entire body of human knowledge and locked it…