NEW: A 22-year-old Singaporean is set to plead guilty in one of the largest crypto theft cases in the U.S., scammers posed as Google and Gemini support to trick an investor into handing over $240M in $BTC.
MARKETS: Privacy coins are the only crypto sector above Bitcoin's October 2025 peak, up 213% since then, led by @Zcash's surge as @Grayscale's $ZEC ETF records $34.4M in inflows since launch.
JUST IN: Hunter Biden plans to launch a memecoin on September 9 via Coinbase's Base network, allocating 20% to investors who lost money on $TRUMP and up to 30% to be burned if Democrats win the 2028 presidential election, per WSJ.
LATEST: Ethereum's next major upgrade will let users pay transaction fees in stablecoins instead of $ETH, with EIP-8141 confirmed for the 2027 Hegotá upgrade.
NEW: @solana triples its maximum transaction size on Wednesday, allowing operations that previously required multiple transactions to be completed in one.