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TRON founder Justin Sun cried foul after the Trump family-linked World Liberty Financial blacklisted his wallet following a $9 million WLFI token transfer to crypto exchange HTX. Sun called the freeze “unreasonable” and said the transfer was merely a routine test, not a market-moving sale. The transfer saw Sun’s wallet move 50 million tokens, and was flagged shortly after the transfer occurred, according to on-chain data from Arkham Intelligence.  JUST IN: JUSTIN SUN’S ADDRESS BLACKLISTED FOR TRANSFERRING $9M $WLFI pic.twitter.com/O25281D7mi — Arkham (@arkham) September 4, 2025 The reason for the blacklisting remains unclear, but the move has fueled speculation that World Liberty Financial is trying to prevent early sellers from dumping their tokens and subsequently pressuring prices during the crypto’s first week of trading. Sun Responds To WLFI Blacklisting Sun, who is one of WLFI’s key investors, took to X to respond to the blac...

Phantom, a renowned multi-chain crypto and non-fungible token wallet services provider, has acquired SimpleHash, a token data platform, to enhance real-time price tracking, non-fungible token metadata, and marketplace activity. This announcement has led to immediate market reactions, with Phantom’s native token, PHANT, experiencing a 5.3% price surge from $1.13 to $1.19 within the first hour. Phantom is getting even better! — Kumeka Team (@KumekaTeam) February 26, 2025 Phantom Acquires SimpleHash In a February 26 press release, Phantom confirmed that they had acquired SimpleHash, a token data platform. Under the acquisition, the SimpleHash and Phantom teams will join hands to supercharge token data tracking for Phantom users, ensuring they get the most accurate and high-performance wallet experience possible. In a short statement after the acquisition, Brandon Millman, CEO of Phantom, remarked: “By bringing on SimpleHash, we’re ensuring that Phantom users ...

The Ethereum price dropped over 1% in the last 24 hours to trade at $2,722 as of 11:16 p.m. EST on trading volume that rose 50% to $23.9 billion. This retracement in the ETH price comes after Bybit received approximately 446,879 ETH, valued at $1.23 billion, to address the losses from the recent hack. The support came through loans, whale deposits, and ETH purchases, with the influx of funds allowing Bybit to nearly close the financial gap created by the breach, which was valued at $1.25 billion. Latest Update: Bybit has already fully closed the ETH gap, new audited POR report will be published very soon to show that Bybit is again Back to 100% 1:1 on client assets through merkle tree, Stay tuned. https://t.co/QLa1vOujM6 — Ben Zhou (@benbybit) February 24, 2025 Ethereum Price Analysis: Potential Breakout Or Continued Consolidation? The ETH price has experienced a significant price movement over the past few months. The altcoin’s daily chart illustrates a clear roundi...

Crypto, with its promise of financial inclusivity, ironically remains largely inaccessible to the blind and visually impaired. In 2017, Bitcoin.com published an interview with Craig McGee, a blind Bitcoin (BTC) enthusiast from the UK. Born with Norrie disease, a genetic disorder, he faced unique obstacles in his Bitcoin endeavors. “The biggest hurdle for the blind is accessibility,” Craig explained. “Most of the wallets are difficult to use, and the QT client interface doesn’t work too well with a screen reader. So I have to do most things with the debug console, and I have to use the ‘help’ command to remind me of some of the commands. Some wallets are even worse as the menus are not read out by the reader so I can’t get them to debug. “ In 2024, this story still isn’t unique to Craig; it’s a shared experience among many of the 43 million blind and 295 million severely visually impaired individuals worldwide. Their journey in the digital finan...

Beam wallet has acquired Join, an app that allows users to shop and pay with stablecoins anywhere. The acquisition allows Beam wallet users to shop online at Amazon and Shopify among other merchants and pay using stablecoins. Beam has announced early access, with roll out expected in February. Eco, the developer of self-custody wallet Beam, has announced its acquisition of Web3 app Join, making it possible for Beam users to shop and pay for purchases online at Amazon and Shopify using stablecoins. According to an announcement the Beam wallet team made on Thursday, the acquisition of Join brings checkout onchain. This facilitates a better shopping experience for users without compromising on the benefits of decentralization, the platform said in a threat on X. 1/ BIG NEWS: we’ve acquired @join to enable shopping online with Stablecoin s. It’s time to bring checkout onchain. No more waiting for the rest of the world to catch up. Want to be the ...

A wallet associated with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has been flagged sending 400 ETH worth $600,000 to Coinbase. Blockchain sleuths have flagged a number of ETH transactions from a wallet associated to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in September 2023 totalling over $3.9 million. Seperate blockchain monitoring profiles shared details of a 400 ETH transaction worth an estimated $632,000 from Vitalik’s wallet to Coinbase on Sept. 25. @VitalikButerin deposited 400 $ETH to #Coinbase at $1,579 ($632K) 2hrs ago. Notably, Ethereum’s co-founder has deposited a total of 2,421 $ETH to multiple CEXs at 1,628 on average ($3.94M) via two addresses over the past 10 days. More details: https://t.co/tiJwn0omkk… https://t.co/C3BqRmsUau pic.twitter.com/8v1jmadwaM — Spot On Chain (@spotonchain) September 25, 2023 According to Spot On Chain, Buterin’s most recent transaction is the latest in a spate of ETH deposits to centralized exchanges over the past 10 days. The blockchain an...

VeChain has officially launched VeWorld, its self-custody wallet. VeWorld supports features such VIP-180 tokens, currency conversion and fee delegation. VeChain has announced the official launch of VeWorld, the enterprise-focused L1 blockchain’s new self -custody wallet . VeWorld integrates with WalletConnect, an open-source blockchain standard that allows users’ wallets to connect and interact with decentralised applications (dApps) and other wallets. It’s a bridge that connects the Web3 wallet to the dApps ecosystem, bringing the benefits of interoperability to developers and the broader VeChain user base. As such, the mobile wallet’s unveiling means the VeChain ecosystem has added a key piece of infrastructure for crypto. It also marks a milestone achievement for the developer team. “ Our developers have been working diligently, day and night, to build and deliver a superior VeChain wallet. Today marks the culmination of tho...

Analysts at market intelligence platform Santiment suggest that the Ether market may experience increased volatility, potentially leading to a recovery. Through an examination of Ethereum's (ETH) on-chain activity, market intelligence platform Santiment has published a report indicating that the count of daily active Ether addresses experienced a notable increase, reaching around 1,089,893 on Sept. 13. This recent upsurge represents the second -highest number of daily active addresses ever recorded in Ethereum's history . The highest count was registered on Dec. 9, 2022, aligning with Ether's reevaluation following its losses from the post-2021 bear market. As a result, analysts at Santiment suggest that the Ether market may experience increased volatility, potentially leading to a recovery. Additionally, this uptick in on-chain activity indicates a growing demand for the underlying asset. The #Ethereum network just saw 1,089,893 unique wallets acting as a sender or...

Built into Opera Mini, the MiniPay self-custodial stable coin wallet sends and receives transactions in less than 5 seconds, Celo claims. Opera has developed a new dollar stable coin wallet on the Celo network for its Android browser Opera Mini to bring more users into the web3 space. MiniPay interface on Opera Mini | Source: Opera In a blog post on Sept. 13, Celo said the so-called MiniPay wallet weighs 2 megabytes and will be initially available only in Nigeria, expanding to Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa in the coming months. You might also like: Curve.Finance now live on the mobile-focused blockchain, Celo Celo says the companies picked Africa for the launch due to its poor infrastructure and high unemployment rates, which presents a “unique opportunity to offer a more stable way to store and send money using digital assets.” “Users in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa have indicated that even when satisfied with their current payment soluti...

The stablecoin issuer launched a service and API that allows developers to create customized wallets for their users. USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle has released a beta version of a multi-party computation wallet (MPC) service, according to an Aug. 8 announcement. The new service will allow developers of DeFi apps, Web3 video games, e-commerce services, and other blockchain applications to create customized wallet s specifically for their users. It will be available initially on Ethereum, Avalanche, and Polygon. Building crypto apps is still too hard. Plus, less than 0.5% of the 100 million developers worldwide are actively building crypto apps today. This needs to change. Our new wallet -as-a-service developer platform is a huge step in that regard. Check it out https://t.co/ku9LTz8Z97 — Patrick Hansen (@paddi_hansen) August 8, 2023 MPC wallet s are secured by splitting the user's private key into multiple shards and distributing them through a decentralized network. It’s a ...

Casa has added Etheruem support to its self-custody storage solutions, providing multi-signature security for BTC and ETH. Since its inception in 2016, Casa promoted multi-signature self -custody of BTC in the industry with its flagship Bitcoin vault allowing users to store the cryptocurrency using up to five keys for more distributed security. Casa's service originally catered to Bitcoin 'whales' that were willing to spend $10,000 a year on custody, before opening its service to a broader base of Bitcoin users. The company has now added an Ethereum vault to its platform, with ETH holders also able to use up to five keys to secure their holdings. According to Casa CEO Nick Neuman, the fact that Bitcoin and Ethereum operate as completely different protocols, the industry had not yet built a security solution that accommodates both on the same platform aside from various hardware wallet models. The firm is also engaging with users over the potential of adding self-custody...

Many members of the crypto community believe Ledger's latest seed phrase recovery feature is a bad idea. Several crypto community members, including Ledger wallet owners, have taken to social media to express their discontent following the release of Ledger's latest feature. The newly introduced retrieval solution for itshardware crypto wallet s, known as Ledger Recover, aims to offer a safeguard in case users misplace their seed phrase . Exciting update, Ledger has a new product, Ledger Recover, that’s launching soon: https://t.co/nT1VHnnSYz Here’s what Ledger Recover is and what it isn’t, explained by @P3b7_ & in the thread below. pic.twitter.com/RW1w07H6pK — Ledger (@Ledger) May 16, 2023 Ledger Recover is a subscription service that allows users to utilize an additional layer of protection for their private keys. This service employs a technique where the user's seed phrase is divided into three encrypted fragments, each sent to different external entities. Once...

The growth in BRC-20 tokens comes just two months after the creation of the Bitcoin token fungibility protocol. On May 9, the total market capitalization of BRC-20 Bitcoin token s surpassed $1 billion, with a total trading volume of $207.7 million in the past 24 hours. Some of the most notable deployed token s include ordi, nals, VMPX, pepe, and meme, with price variance of between +11% and -55% within the past day. According to analysts at multi-chain wallet BitKeep, the BRC-20 token standard is a novel form of fungible token that "employs Ordinals and Inscriptions to create and manage token contracts, token minting, and token transfers, which are stored on the Bitcoin base chain." Ordinals is a numbering system that assigns a unique number to each satoshi, or one hundred millionth of a Bitcoin (BTC), enabling its tracking and transfer. Meanwhile, the "inscription" process adds a layer of data to each satoshi, allowing users to create unique digital assets on th...