The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added 134 crypto wallet addresses to its ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) sanctions entry on Wednesday, including 131 Tron addresses and 3 Monero add… [+1053 chars]

ISIS-K allegedly used its media wing to solicit donations via Tron, Monero, and Bitcoin, highlighting stablecoin issuers' growing role in sanctions enforcement.

CoinDesk

US Treasury sanctions over 100 ISIS-K crypto addresses that moved over $1.4 million

Bitcoin BTC
$59,203.29 fell 1.5% on Tuesday after failing to hold above $60,000 on Monday. It now trades at $59,250, looking set to challenge the weekend lows of $58,800. Ether (ETH) is down by 1.73… [+3931 chars]

Bitcoin and ether slid toward key support price levels. DeFi tokens were hit hardest, even as XLM and LIT bucked the broader market weakness.

Bitcoin nears 2024 lows as options traders pay up for downside protection

Building secure obfuscation has proved brutally hard. An ideal version was proven impossible in 2001, which sent researchers after the weaker iO target instead, a roughly two-decade effort littered w… [+1232 chars]

The Ethereum co-founder says indistinguishability obfuscation could one day act like a “trustless trusted third party,” but today’s versions remain far too slow for real use.

Vitalik Buterin says crypto’s most powerful idea is still nowhere near ready

Strategy (MSTR) is sitting on one of the largest unrealized losses in corporate history and its bigger than some of cryptos most prominent projects.
The software-turned-bitcoin-treasury company hold… [+1099 chars]

Strategy’s paper loss exceeds the market caps of hundreds of tokens, highlighting the extreme concentration of risk in the crypto market right now.

Too big to fail: Strategy’s $13 billion bitcoin paper loss alone dwarfs hundreds of prominent tokens

The crypto market remained sluggish and weak on Wednesday as bitcoin BTC
$62,871.38 and ether (ETH) fell less than 0.4% since midnight UTC and the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) lost 0.9%, with 18 of its … [+3592 chars]

Bitcoin held above $62,500 and ether near $1,665, but sluggish price action and widening put skews signal bears remain firmly in control.

Bitcoin clings to $62,500 as bears tighten grip on crypto market

The crypto market fell on Tuesday, with bitcoin BTC
$62,481.64 trading at $62,300, having lost 2.5% since midnight UTC, while ether (ETH) tumbled by more than 4% to $1,650.
The selloff follows Mond… [+3750 chars]

Bitcoin lost 2.5% to $62,300 and ether fell over 4% to $1,650, while $717 million in liquidations amplified losses across altcoins.

Crypto market drops as Nasdaq tech selloff spills into digital assets

The rest was scattered. ZachXBT traced more than $12 million to deposit addresses at the KuCoin exchange and about $8 million to instant swap services, which convert one coin into another quickly and… [+724 chars]

Onchain sleuth ZachXBT traced remaining funds across exchanges, instant swap services and other blockchains. Tether later froze $72 million in USDT linked to the activity.

Monero prices rocket to $438 amid $120 million onchain laundering maze

Taylor Hornby, the security engineer who used Anthropic's Opus 4.8 AI model to find a critical bug in Zcash, says privacy coin Monero is among the tokens he intends to audit next.
Asked on X whether… [+1202 chars]

Taylor Hornby, who uncovered the Orchard flaw that sent Zcash down 38%, says other privacy coins are on his list too.

Researcher who found Zcash's bug with AI adds Monero to his audit queue

Monero

We're excited to announce that XMR has been added to dYdX synthetic perpetuals! 

According to CoinMarketCap, dYdX has more trading volume than all other DEXs combined! 

https://dydx.exchange/blog/markets-19 

Monero Space Organizer

This is a huge milestone in Monero development.

COMIT Network just released Bitcoin &lt;&gt; Monero atomic swaps to mainnet. Today, users can swap Bitcoin and Monero without having to trust an intermediary or the counterparty.

COMIT's atomic swaps are a critical tool for private trading of Monero outside of exchanges.

Oh, and as a bonus it works with Tor. Because of course it does.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/nmtdpr/let_there_be_swap_on_mainnet/

Monero's price isn't the only metric on the rise. Checkout the other key ways Monero has been growing over the past year! 

https://www.getmonero.org/2021/04/24/this-year-in-monero.html

Monero Talk sits down with COMIT to discuss their work on Monero &lt;&gt; Bitcoin atomic swaps. This technology allows for trustless trading of both assets without requiring an exchange. 

"COMIT: Bitcoin-Monero Atomic Swaps are Near" 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuZrtHNTixo 

COMIT is one of about 5 different groups working on implementing XMR &lt;&gt; BTC atomic swaps.

Dr. Daniel Kim's new keynote lecture "Behavioral Finance, Cryptocurrency Markets" premieres in about 45 minutes! 

https://youtu.be/REC5V7d3pqM 

In this TCV Summit keynote lecture from February 2021, Dr. Daniel Kim weaves together award-winning research from academic finance with case studies from both the legacy financial and cryptocurrency markets to examine the degree to which cryptocurrency markets achieve efficient price discovery.

The Monero community is calling on Elon Musk to add Monero payments for Tesla!

Monero is the cypherpunk currency defending your freedom. We will not stop on our mission to give people the money that they deserve.

If Monero is added, we will donate a new Model 3 to EACH of 3 charities selected by the community! #Tesla4XMR

We need the ENTIRE Monero community to help us share the word! Help us support a worthy project and worthy nonprofits!

https://monerotesla.com

Cake Wallet, a popular non-custodial wallet for Monero, now additionally supports Bitcoin! 

Only you hold your Monero and Bitcoin keys. Still open source. Easily exchange BTC/XMR (and others) in the app. Available for free in the iOS and Google Play stores. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/cakewallet/comments/lb2mpj/update_cake_wallet_version_410_now_with_bitcoin/