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Is the Paws Telegram mini app legit? What you need to know
6.5.2025
What is the Paws Telegram Mini App? Paws is a Telegram-based Mini App created by the same team behind other projects, such as Notcoin and Dogs. If you’ve been cruising around Telegram lately, chances are you’ve stumbled upon Paws, the viral...
Crypto spending will grow, but fiat isn’t going anywhere: Mercuryo CEO
6.5.2025
Petr Kozyakov, CEO of crypto payments platform Mercuryo, told Cointelegraph that the future of finance may not be a winner-takes-all scenario but a blend of digital assets and fiat, each used where it makes the most sense. In a Cointelegraph interview, Kozyakov said that while crypto payments...
IRS appoints Trish Turner to head crypto division amid resignations
6.5.2025
Veteran US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Trish Turner was appointed to lead the agency’s digital assets division following the departure of two key crypto-focused executives.Turner, who has spent over 20 years at the IRS and most recently served as a senior adviser within...
OKX exec warns against hype amid real-world asset tokenization boom
6.5.2025
The CEO of crypto exchange OKX’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) division has called on the industry to prioritize real-world utility as interest in tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs) continues to grow.In a Cointelegraph interview at the Token20249 event in Dubai, OKX MENA CEO Rifad...
Bitcoin vs. digital fiat is freedom vs. serfdom
6.5.2025
Opinion by: Simon Cain, contributor at Bitcoin Policy UKMost jurisdictions globally are researching, developing or implementing retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). If you see these as harmless move-with-the-times digital updates of old-fashioned paper money, look again. CBDCs...
US Senate crypto bills stall amid Trump ties and ethics concerns
6.5.2025
Efforts to pass crypto legislation in the US Senate face mounting resistance amid growing ethical concerns around US President Donald Trump’s ties to crypto.In a May 5 letter to the Office of Government Ethics, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley said that Trump and his family stand...
Is the Paws Telegram mini app legit? What you need to know
29.4.2025
What is the Paws Telegram Mini App? Paws is a Telegram-based Mini App created by the same team behind other projects, such as Notcoin and Dogs. If you’ve been cruising around Telegram lately, chances are you’ve stumbled upon Paws, the viral...
Is the Paws Telegram mini app legit? What you need to know
29.4.2025
What is the Paws Telegram Mini App? Paws is a Telegram-based Mini App created by the same team behind other projects, such as Notcoin and Dogs. If you’ve been cruising around Telegram lately, chances are you’ve stumbled upon Paws, the viral...
1inch launches on Solana with crosschain swaps in the pipeline
29.4.2025
Decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator 1inch has launched on Solana, marking a significant step toward its vision of a “unified multichain” decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.According to a press release shared with Cointelegraph, the integration enables users to trade over...
Russian ruble stablecoin: Exec lists 7 ‘Tether replica’ features
29.4.2025
The concept of a Russian ruble stablecoin received special attention at a major local crypto event, the Blockchain Forum in Moscow, with key industry executives reflecting on some of the core features a ruble-backed stablecoin might require.Sergey Mendeleev, founder of the digital settlement...
Abu Dhabi institutional giants team up for dirham stablecoin
29.4.2025
A trio of major Abu Dhabi institutions, including the Emirate’s sovereign wealth fund, have teamed up to launch a new dirham-pegged stablecoin.Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund ADQ, the United Arab Emirates’ largest bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), and the massive conglomerate...
Bankera founders used ICO funds on global property buys: Report
29.4.2025
The founders of the crypto fintech firm Bankera used funds from the project’s 2018 initial coin offering to purchase luxury properties worldwide, according to a report by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.The OCCRP reported on April 28, citing leaked company records...
Zurich Uni’s secret AI experiment manipulated Redditors’ opinions
29.4.2025
Researchers at the University of Zurich have been accused of undertaking an unauthorized four-month-long experiment on a Reddit board using artificial intelligence-generated comments to test whether AI could alter people’s opinions. As part of the experiment, AI-powered accounts faked...
Samourai Wallet, feds ask for time to mull dropping crypto mixer case
29.4.2025
US federal prosecutors and the co-founders of the crypto mixer Samourai Wallet have asked a court for more time to consider potentially dismissing the case after the Justice Department rolled back its crypto enforcement.Lawyers for Samourai Wallet CEO Keonne Rodriguez and chief technology officer...
US dollar facing growing competition for stablecoin dominance: Tether co-founder
29.4.2025
While United States dollar-denominated stablecoins dominate the stablecoin and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization game, other competitors are coming into play, according to Tether co-founder Reeve Collins. Speaking to Cointelegraph in Dubai, Collins said that while dollar-backed stablecoins...
Ray Dalio says global monetary order ‘on the brink’ of breakdown
29.4.2025
Legendary investor Ray Dalio has said the world is “on the brink” of the global monetary order breaking down, which is being accelerated by the Trump administration’s tariff disruptions.The trade tensions are fracturing the monetary, political and international world orders...
Crypto group asks Trump to end prosecution of crypto devs, Roman Storm
29.4.2025
The crypto lobby group, the DeFi Education Fund, has petitioned the Trump administration to end what it claimed was the “lawless prosecution” of open-source software developers, including Roman Storm, a creator of the crypto mixing service Tornado Cash.In an April 28 letter to White...
Mastercard links with Circle, Paxos for merchant stablecoin payments
29.4.2025
Mastercard says it will allow merchants across its network to be paid with stablecoins in a partnership with payment processor Nuvei and stablecoin issuers Circle and Paxos. Through the venture, 150 million merchants across the Mastercard network will now have the option to receive payments...
Ethereum Foundation shuffles leadership, splits board and management
29.4.2025
The Ethereum Foundation, which backs the development of the Ethereum blockchain, has overhauled its leadership structure to separate the responsibilities of its management team and board of directors.The board will act as the “security council to protect the heart and soul” of...
BONK price gains 60% in a week as Solana memecoins make a comeback
29.4.2025
Key takeaways:BONK price is up 73% since April 22, hitting a five-month high of $0.00002167.BONK’s open interest surged 290% to $43.2 million. Bonk (BONK), the second-largest Solana-based memecoin by market capitalization, is on track to continue the recovery it began on April 22. BONK...