South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has ordered Bithumb to pay 210 million won, or about $136,000, for breaching overseas personal information transfer rules.  Summary Bithumb’s privacy fine adds fresh pressure as Korean regulators tighten checks on overseas exchange transfers. The case shows order-book sharing can trigger data rules when member details move abroad without…

In crypto news today (June 25), BTC USD crashed below $60,000 late yesterday but has since recovered to $61,500, with nearly $1Bn in liquidations piling up and $780M of that $994M figure coming from long positions. The Bitcoin crash coincided with ETF flows seeing $469M exit the various BTC funds, the largest day of outflows…

A new CoinGecko analysis found that nearly seven in 10 Pump.fun tokens stopped trading on the same day they launched.  Summary Most Pump.fun launches lose trading activity within hours, showing how thin meme demand can be. Only 4.55% of tokens lasted over 90 days, making long-running projects rare on the platform. The data comes as…

Ripple and SBI Group have launched Ripple USD, known as RLUSD, in Japan after approval from the Japan Financial Services Agency.  Summary JFSA approval now gives RLUSD a regulated Japan entry point through SBI VC Trade’s platform. Ripple’s stablecoin rollout targets payments, tokenization, and collateral management for Japanese users and institutions alike. The launch extends…

Pump.fun’s low entry barriers have created millions of tokens, but most projects fail almost immediately after launch. Nearly seven out of every 10 tokens launched on the Solana-based meme coin launchpad, Pump.fun, since January 2024, stopped trading on the same day they were created, according to a new analysis by CoinGecko. The study examined…

Michelle Bond has lost her bid to dismiss criminal charges, with a federal judge setting her trial to begin on Nov. 9 after rejecting arguments tied to her husband Ryan Salame’s plea agreement. Summary A federal judge has denied Michelle Bond’s bid to dismiss campaign finance charges and scheduled her trial for Nov. 9. Prosecutors…

In crypto news today (June 24), Bitcoin is struggling to reclaim $63,000, and this weakness has sparked fears that a drop to $60,000 is coming next. Although BTC/USD is stuck in a tight range, Michael Saylor’s Strategy has begun buying Bitcoin again. Liquidations have cooled off from yesterday, with just $346M picked up, down from…

Cathie Wood has dismissed mounting inflation fears despite U.S. headline CPI rising to 4.2% in May, arguing that underlying price pressures are close to disappearing. Summary Cathie Wood says underlying inflation is near 0.5% despite headline U.S. CPI rising to 4.2% in May. The ARK Invest CEO cites productivity gains and Truflation data to argue…

HSBC Bank Middle East Limited has launched a live tokenized deposit service in the UAE, adding the UAE dirham to its HSBC Orion blockchain network and giving eligible corporate clients instant, around-the-clock access to cross-border liquidity, a production deployment, not a pilot. The dirham becomes the sixth fiat currency on Orion, joining the euro, British…