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North Korea on Tuesday denied its involvement in the recent cryptocurrency heist at Binance, dismissing as "a trite provocation" a US announcement that North Korean hackers were behind the incident. Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, said Friday that hackers stole more than USD 6 billion in what appears to be the largest cryptocurrency heist on record. The FBI later said the theft was orchestrated by North Korean hackers, attributing the attack to a hacking group known as TraderTraitor, which was also behind a USD 1.5 billion hack of the Bybit exchange last year. On Tuesday, Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, called the FBI announcement "a trite provocation" and "an absurd rhetoric." "This is not the first time that the US has attempted to spread misunderstanding of the DPRK in the international community, blindly linking the DPRK with the cyber crime' incidents whenever they occur on an international scale," she said in a ...

The original cryptocurrency rose about 1% Monday, trading around $78,300 at 1 p.m. in Singapore

Roughly 4,000 of the 4,200 Bitcoin held in a wallet used by Liquid Network were taken, the platform operator said

Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX on Tuesday launched WazirX AI, an artificial-intelligence trading assistant that combines market research, portfolio analysis and trade preparation in a single conversational interface. Integrated into WazirX's app and website, the tool allows users to ask questions about live crypto prices, market news and macroeconomic developments, receive analysis with supporting charts, review their portfolios and approve trades without switching between charts, news feeds and trading screens, according to a company statement. The AI assistant follows an "Ask-Understand-Decide" model, coordinating market-data, technical-analysis, portfolio and order-management functions across multi-step requests. "Crypto markets operate 24/7, but traders should not have to spend their day moving between charts, news feeds and trading screens," said Nischal Shetty, founder, WazirX. "WazirX AI combines market research, portfolio monitoring and trade preparation into one ...

Despite differences in trading behaviour and portfolio construction, Bitcoin and Dogecoin emerged as the most popular crypto pairing across every age group in Q2-CY26 on the CoinSwitch platform.

Bitcoin climbed to around $69,500 after a wave of short covering, amid Trump's meeting with crypto executives and lower borrowing costs adding to buying momentum

The 13 US-listed funds saw a net $389.7 million drained in the week of Aug. 10, after pulling in $853.5 million the previous week

Coldcard is a brand of hardware device that allows users to secure their Bitcoin in so-called cold wallets

Crypto is taxed, tracked and traded in India. But the RBI still refuses to recognise it as an asset class. Can this uneasy arrangement endure?

Exchange said company invested in virtual digital assets before amending its MoA

The original cryptocurrency climbed as much as 1.9 per cent Monday morning in Singapore to $80,393, its highest level since Jan. 31

Bitcoin has weathered the war with Iran, which broke out at the end of February, better than many traditional assets

The CBI has arrested Darwin Labs co-founder Ayush Varshney, one of the main accused in the Rs 20,000 crore Gain Bitcoin currency scam case, officials said on Wednesday. The agency had issued a Look Out Circular against Varshney. His attempt to flee the country on Monday triggered an alert, leading to his detention at the Mumbai airport, they said. Varshney was formally arrested on Tuesday. According to the CBI, Darwin Labs designed and developed the digital infrastructure which formed the operational backbone of the alleged fraudulent enterprise Gain Bitcoin. During the investigation, the agency detected the alleged involvement of Darwin Labs Private Limited and its co-founders -- Varshney, Sahil Baghla and Nikunj Jain, the chief capital officer and founder at Vaomi AI -- in the design, development and deployment of a cryptocurrency token known as MCAP and its associated ERC-20 smart contract. In a statement, it said that Darwin Labs allegedly played a central role in building the

What began as a sharp crash in October has morphed into something more corrosive: a selloff shaped not by panic, but by absence of buyers

Bitcoin fell as much as 3.9 per cent to $81,102 Friday in Singapore, its weakest since Nov 21, extending a rout that gathered pace overnight

Asian shares were mixed Wednesday after stocks on Wall Street held steadier as both bond yields and bitcoin stabilised. US futures rose and oil prices edged higher. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 jumped 1.6% to 50,063.65 on big gains for technology shares like Tokyo Electron, which jumped 5.6%. Adventest, a maker of computer chip testing equipment, surged 6.9%. Technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group Corp. surged more than 8% following reports that its founder, Masayoshi Son, regretted having to sell shares in computer chip maker Nvidia to help pay for other investments. The company's share price sank after it announced last month that it had sold the shares for $5.8 billion. South Korea's Kospi also got a lift from tech shares, gaining 1.2% to 4,042.40. Shares in Samsung Electronics, the country's biggest company, rose 1.8%. But Chinese markets declined following the release of data showing weaker factory activity. Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 1.1% to 25,797.24, while the Shanghai Compo

Bitcoin, the world's most valuable cryptocurrency, has fallen 21.2 per cent in November, raising losses over the past three months to 23.2 per cent

With the, apparently coincidental, four-year anniversary of the last big tightening coming up this month, expect the next move by authorities to be a change of heart, a relaxation

Crypto markets are gaining momentum as Bitcoin has bounced back, surpassing $87,000 after dipping to $74,500 earlier this month

Crypto miners depend heavily on Chinese suppliers like Bitmain Technologies Ltd. which, while Beijing-based, routes a lot of machinery through Southeast Asia