Memecoins Under Fire as BTC Lullfest Below $100K Revives Memories of 2018 Attendees at Consensus saw memecoins as net negative for the broader crypto market. Some expected the SEC to approve ETFs tied to top altcoins.

Crypto Daybook Americas: Bybit Hack Fails to Ruffle Feathers, Traders Eye SOL ETF Your day-ahead look for Feb. 24, 2025

USDe Stablecoin Developer Ethena Raises $100M: Bloomberg USDe’s market cap has jumped to around $6 billion this month, becoming the third largest stablecoin behind Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC

FTT Briefly Spikes After Sam Bankman-Fried Tweets for First Time in 2 Years Bankman-Fried is currently in the Metropolitan Detention Center, serving a 25-year prison sentence.

Solana Plunges 14%, XRP, Dogecoin Down 8% as Crypto Market Sell-Off Worsens Traders said the current bearish sentiment could be overblown and macroeconomic decisions were key to support market growth.

Binance Open Bitcoin Futures Bets Jump By Over $1B as BTC Chalks Out Bearish Candlestick Pattern: Godbole Futures activity hints at an influx of fresh shorts as Monday’s bearish marubozu candle points to more losses ahead.

Pump.Fun’s Rumored AMM Pivot a ‘Strategic Miscalculation,’ Says Raydium A Raydium contributor doubts the memecoin factory could replicate its success.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: SOL and DOT Drop 6%, Leading Index Lower Bitcoin (BTC) price gained 0.5% from Friday.

DekaBank Rolls Out Crypto Trading, Custody Services for Institutions: Bloomberg The bank, with over 370 billion euros in assets under management, is emphasizing security and regulatory compliance.

Chintai Tokenizes $570M Real Estate Cash-Flow for RealNOI The platform gives investors access to cash flows of nearly 1,900 apartments, while helping property owners access capital.

Payments Card Issuer Infini Offers Reward for Return of Funds After $49 Million Exploit The neobank offered the perpetrator 20% of the stolen funds to return the money within 48 hours, threatening legal action otherwise.

OKX Settles U.S. DOJ Charges, Pays Over $500M Penalty and Forfeiture An OKX subsidiary said it resolved a U.S. DOJ investigation.

Bitcoin Slips Under $94K as Stocks Try to Shake Last Week’s Jitters Macro uncertainty combined with carnage in most of the rest of crypto is weighing bitcoin down.

Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade Goes Live on ‘Holesky’ Testnet, But Fails to Finalize The upgrade was pushed out on Monday, but it wasn’t entirely clear why the test network was not finalizing.

U.S. Law Enforcement Seizes $31M in Crypto Tied to Uranium Finance Hack Hackers made off with approximately $50 million when the automated market maker was exploited in 2021.

Germany’s Centre Right Alliance Secures Most Seats in EU Nations Election Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU secured 28.52% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) secured 20.8% of the vote.

Raydium’s RAY Dives 25% as Pump.Fun Appears to Test Own AMM Exchange Crypto watchers noticed the popular Solana tool apparently testing its own AMM in early Monday hours, dampening sentiment for tokens of its existing exchange.

Solana Whales Increase Engagement in Bearish Options Plays on Deribit Amid SOL Meltdown and Impending Unlock SOL put options accounted for most of the block trades that crossed the tape on Deribit last week.

Bybit Closes ‘ETH Gap’ as Exchange Replenishes $1.4B Hole After Hack Bybit has returned to a 1:1 backing of client assets days after being hit by the biggest crypto heist ever.

Arthur Hayes Floats the Idea of Rolling Back Ethereum Network to Negate $1.4B Bybit Hack, Drawing Community Ire “I would support it because we already voted no on immutability in 2016,” Hayes said on X, while Ethereum community strongly criticized it.