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While the cryptocurrency world is wondering whether new peaks will be seen in Bitcoin, positive comments came from Bitwise manager Matt Hougan. Hougan, who participated in a broadcast on Youtube, said that the price of $200,000 in Bitcoin in 2025 can also be seen, but even if this level is not reached, he expects to see a 6-figure price, ie at least $100,000.
While Bitcoin is pushing the $70,000 limit again, a whale with hundreds of BTC in its hands started sales after years. The account, which sold 500 BTC last month, sold 199 BTC this morning and made profit realisation.
The X account of EigenLayer, the re-staking protocol EigenLayer, which reached billions of dollars of TVL, especially with the interest it received in the last period of 2023, was hacked. In the fraudulent posts, airdrop was promised with trapped links.
An Indian hacker who stole a total of $20 million since 2021 through the fake Coinbase site he created has been arrested at the airport in the US. This person appears to have spent the stolen money on luxury cars and watches.
While meme coins brought thousands of times profit to many people in 2023 and 2024, ‘political meme coins’ also came to the fore with the US elections. Last year, a person who invested only $96 in the TRUMP meme coin became a millionaire.
During the discussions on whether the SEC missed the objection period, a last-minute move came from the institution yesterday evening. The SEC stated that the court requested a change regarding the ‘summary judgement’ given last year. It was noteworthy that the petition did not object to the decision that the sale of XRP to small investors was not a security.
In the SEC-Ripple case, which has been going on for about 4 years, it is claimed that the SEC missed the day of appeal to the judge’s decision. While some experts stated that the appeal date expired on the 16th of the month, a statement came from the institution that the process continues.
The World Liberty Financial project, which US presidential candidate Donald Trump touted as “It will be effective in making America a crypto centre”, did not attract the expected interest in the first days. While only 4% of the tokens put up for sale have been received, experts put forward 3 reasons.
Vitalik Buterin, who shares his ideas on the Ethereum network every week with his blog posts, touched on the issue of scalability this time. Stating that especially decentralisation and robustness should be preserved in the Ethereum main network, Buterin warned that the increase in the scaling difference between layer 2 networks could devalue Ether in price.
Radiant Capital, a multi-chain decentralised finance protocol where users can perform lending and receiving transactions, has been hacked. More than $50 million in crypto money was stolen, the attack was said to cover the protocol’s Arbitrum and BSC networks. RDNT, the protocol’s own token, also fell more than 10%.