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Confusion spread in the first week of 2026 after online reports claimed the U.S. government had quietly sold bitcoin linked to the Samourai Wallet case. Those claims triggered debate as a recent executive order restricted what agencies can do with forfeited bitcoin. Officials now say those reports were inaccurate.

Ethereum price today trades near $4,013, holding above a critical cluster of exponential moving averages (EMAs) that continue to define the near-term trading range. After briefly testing $3,964 earlier in the session, ETH regained the $4,000 handle, signaling that buyers are defending the ascending trendline that has guided the asset’s recovery since April.

A federal court in California has ruled that Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs are not securities, closing a class-action lawsuit that had challenged the legal status of one of the most well-known digital collectible projects. The decision ends years of uncertainty surrounding Yuga Labs’ compliance with U.S. securities law and marks one of the simplest judicial statements yet on non-fungible tokens’ (NFTs) regulatory classification.

A Chinese national, Zhimin Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, has been accused of orchestrating a massive fraud in China between 2014 and 2017, .

The most hyped token launch of the year is just hours away. World Liberty Financial’s ($WLFI) token, backed by a massive , is set to begin trading today, September 1, at 13:00 UTC.

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Crypto analyst Javon Marks has reaffirmed his bullish price target of $0.000081 for Shiba Inu (SHIB), a move that would represent a staggering 609% gain from current prices.

In what many are calling a striking turn of events with major implications for DeFi regulation, a U.S. federal judge has dismissed key criminal charges against Avraham Eisenberg. Eisenberg is the individual accused of manipulating the decentralized exchange (DEX) Mango Markets in a controversial $110 million crypto exploit.