Jacob Lyon

A lot happened both outside and inside EthCC this week, including a ‘bearish’ wedding, multiple robberies, and ETH’s creator getting soaked.

Jose Luis Alonso Melchor allegedly threatened to expose sensitive Crypto.com information while demanding over $47K from the company.

The tokens were created to cash in on the hype around Euro 2024, however, it didn’t take long for them to be labeled as scams.

A US court ordered Sam Ikkurty and his various firms to be issued a summary judgment while dismissing his own requests for a summary judgment.

Polkadot’s rate of spending on advertisers, influencers, and events has reportedly left it with just two years’ worth of funds remaining.

Evolve Bank and Trust admitted that it has known about the breach for a month but only notified end users last week.

Logan Paul accused Jake Greenbaum of hijacking his NFT CryptoZoo project and accused him of insider trading but his lawsuit was ignored.

Dennis Jones committed suicide in March after handing over ‘everything he had’ to a crypto scammer posing as a love interest on Facebook.

Artist Jeremy Ryan, aka ‘NFT Demon,’ is accusing Elon Musk’s X Corp of destroying his ‘income and livelihood’ by banning his seven accounts.

Europol’s ‘Operation Endgame’ saw four individuals arrested, took down over 100 servers across the globe, and seized over 2,000 domains.

The ShinyHunters group is demanding the ransom for more than 1TB of financial and personal data belonging to 560 million Ticketmaster users.

Mt Gox confirmed that the transfer of 140,000 bitcoin, worth roughly $9 billion, in 16 transactions is part of its repayment plan.

A government inquiry concluded that the FTX-backed charity acted ‘quickly’ and ‘diligently’ after excluding FTX-linked trustees.

Ethereum researcher Emmanuel Awosika claims Wikipedia holds a ‘clear anti-crypto stance’ and took issue with Molly White’s role as editor.

Scathing reviews of the rabbit r1 have brought attention to creator Jesse Lyu’s earlier work on a failed NFT project called Gama.

The Belarusian hackers behind last week’s KGB leak previously turned the passport of president Aleksandr Lukashenko into an NFT.

A video shared by crypto influencer and alleged rug-puller Matt Wallace claiming to depict the start of WW3 has been debunked as CGI.

The Dubai leg of crypto conference series TOKEN2049 is facing disruption after it was hit by a heavy storm that reportedly flooded the city.

Google filed the suit against two China-based app developers, accusing them of persistently dodging Google policies to host crypto scam apps.

The FTX-linked charity Effective Ventures, which previously returned $26.8 million in donations to FTX, will reportedly shut down by 2025.