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“There’s a famous saying that sometimes the enemy of your enemy is actually your best friend,” Eric Trump told the crowd at Consensus in Toronto, Canada. “That was the Trumps with the crypto community. And I think the banks made the biggest mistake …

Movement Labs, the scandal-plagued crypto startup backed by Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial, quietly promised large stakes of its token to early insiders—undisclosed deals that now raise fresh questions about who really holds power behind the …

DeFi savings protocol Sky posted a first-quarter loss of $5 million after interest payments to token holders more than doubled, according to a report created by Sky contributors from Steakhouse Financial. The loss is a stark turnaround from the …

U.S. President Donald Trump has come a long way since he said the value of crypto was “based on thin air” in 2019. So much so that he is now one of the sector’s largest proponents, foraying into memecoins, DeFi, NFTs, and even stablecoins. A new …

Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, founder and former CEO of Binance, confirmed on a podcast that he has formally applied for a presidential pardon from Donald Trump—less than a year after serving a four-month sentence in a U.S. federal prison. Zhao shared the …

The IRS, alongside many other regulators, has been pretty active in the crypto world over recent years. On Friday, two directors left. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government …

The IRS lost two key directors working on crypto initiatives, Seth Wilks and Raj Mukherjee, on Friday after they accepted deferred resignation offers directed by the Department of Government Efficiency. Wilks and Mukherjee, who both went to the IRS …

NEW YORK, NY — Mango Markets exploiter Avraham “Avi” Eisenberg, who stole $110 million from the now-defunct decentralized finance protocol in 2022, was sentenced to 52 months in prison on Thursday — on his guilty plea to possession of child sexual …

A financial deal was supposed to help launch the MOVE crypto token.Instead, it led to a token-dumping scandal, a Binance ban, and behind-the-scenes infighting. Contracts obtained by CoinDesk help explain where it all went wrong. Movement, the …

What one hour ago was looking like another positive day in markets has turned decidedly negative as the latest economic veri fueled growing stagflation fears. First up was ADP jobs numbers for April. Coming two days ahead of the government’s own …