Has Michael Saylor's Strategy built a house of cards?

Has Michael Saylor's Strategy built a house of cards?

Has Michael Saylor pushed Strategy too far? With MSTR at the center of clashing leveraged ETFs and convertible stock plays, the market is making its own bets. Strategy Inc., formerly MicroStrategy, has discarded its core product, assumed a new identity, swallowed over half a million BTC, spawned equity classes with double-digit yields, and inspired an…

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Hackers are selling counterfeit phones with crypto-stealing malware

Hackers are selling counterfeit phones with crypto-stealing malware

Kaspersky researchers say they have found 2,600 confirmed infections through this scam in different countries, with the majority of users in Russia. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky says it has uncovered thousands of counterfeit Android smartphones sold online with preinstalled malware designed to steal crypto and other sensitive data.  The Android devices are sold at reduced prices,…

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EY updates privacy L2 as nixed Tornado Cash sanctions ease fears

EY updates privacy L2 as nixed Tornado Cash sanctions ease fears

EY’s enterprise blockchain Nightfall is now a zero-knowledge rollup as it says corporations are again comfortable with privacy tools with easing Tornado Cash sanctions. Big Four accounting firm EY, formerly Ernst & Young, has changed its enterprise-focused Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Nightfall to a zero-knowledge rollup design as it says corporate clients are more comfortable with…

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Curve Finance clocks B trading volume in Q1 2025

Curve Finance clocks $35B trading volume in Q1 2025

It has also seen a strong uptick in transaction activity over the past 12 months, the DeFi protocol said. Curve Finance, a decentralized lending protocol and exchange, notched record-breaking trading volumes of nearly $35 billion in the first quarter of 2025, a spokesperson for the protocol told Cointelegraph.  Trading volumes increased more than 13% from…

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