News
SEC charges Boateng, firms over alleged $16M Ponzi
The SEC has charged Ernest Ossei Boateng and two companies with operating a $16 million Ponzi scheme, allegedly diverting funds for personal expenses and earlier investor payments.
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Nadia Rahman
Markets Editor · 9 years covering crypto · 442 stories
Nadia Rahman is CoinScoop's Markets Editor. She covers Bitcoin, macro liquidity and the spot-ETF complex, and previously reported on rates and FX for a global newswire.
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Markets
Binance sets September 24 delisting for Pax Dollar
Binance announced it will delist Pax Dollar (USDP) from spot trading on September 24, 2026, with a wind-down schedule spanning 76 days.
News
Malone Lam pleads guilty in $245M crypto theft conspiracy
Malone Lam, 22, pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy involving over $245 million in stolen cryptocurrency, facing a sentencing range of 324 to 405 months.
Analysis
Robinhood takes stakes in Crypto.com, OG.com for prediction markets
Robinhood acquires equity stakes in Crypto.com and OG.com, expanding its prediction markets business, which generated $156 million in Q2 revenue.
DeFi
Cronos says $9.19 million remains lost after rollback
Cronos' post-mortem confirms $9.19 million remains unrecovered after a $120.4 million Tectonic exploit, despite a network rollback recovering most funds.
Bitcoin
Coldcard attacker moves $7.7 million from 293-vault haul
A Coldcard attacker moved $7.7 million (97.09 BTC) from 11 of 293 multisig vaults, using THORChain and CoinJoin, with roughly 118.7 BTC remaining in the third wave.
Altcoins
Solana plans to raise maximum transaction size to 4,096 bytes on Sept. 10
Solana plans to increase its maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes with Transaction v1 activation on September 10, a 232.5% jump.
Altcoins
Harmony proposes ending its Layer 1 for an Ethereum AI pivot
Harmony proposes to shut down its Layer 1 blockchain, freeze ONE balances, and issue ERC-20 replacements on Ethereum to pivot toward an AI-video "remix economy."
Altcoins
Two Optimism proposals, two days apart, both want money for Public Light 3.0
Two Optimism governance proposals from STRATEGIC POWER 360, filed two days apart, seek funding for "Public Light 3.0" without specifying an amount.
Analysis
LlamaRisk proposes doubled PT-USDG cap and revised Aave V3 rates
LlamaRisk proposes doubling the PT-USDG-29OCT2026 supply cap on Aave V3 X Layer to 70,000,000 and adjusts borrowing rates for USDe, USD₮0, and USDG.
