Centralized Exchanges Underreport Liquidations: Hyperliquid CEO

Hyperliquid co-founder and CEO Jeff Yan claimed that the way centralized crypto exchanges, and Binance specifically, report data is likely to underrepresent liquidations. Bitcoin (BTC) fell to $102,000 on Friday after US President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on China. Similarly, Ether (ETH) fell to $3,500, and Solana (SOL) dropped below $140 in a marketwide sell-off. CoinGlass data indicated that on Friday, $16.7 billion of long liquidations and $2.456 billion of short liquidations occurred, making it the biggest liquidation event in crypto history. In a Monday X post, Yan pointed…

BNB Is the ‘Most Overlooked Blue-Chip,’ Says CEA CEO

BNB’s recent surge to a new all-time high above $1,300 is not an “unexpected upshot or rare peak,” rather it shows the network’s credibility, according to David Namdar, CEO of Nasdaq-listed CEA Industries, which has also become the world’s largest BNB Treasury. In a recent interview with Cointelegraph, Namdar called BNB (BNB) “the most overlooked blue-chip in the market,” arguing that the rally reflects years of underappreciated fundamentals finally breaking through. “The market is waking up to the credibility, scale, and utility of the BNB ecosystem,” he said, pointing out…

Crypto.com CEO Calls for Regulatory Probe After $20B in Exchange Liquidations

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek urged regulators to investigate exchanges that saw the largest liquidations since Friday, calling for thorough reviews of trading fairness and consumer protection after about $20 billion in liquidations. He asked whether any platforms effectively halted trading, whether trades were correctly priced against indexes, how trade monitoring and AML programs are set […] Source

Investigation Links 100K BTC Hyperliquid Whale to Former BitForex CEO

An onchain investigation by crypto researcher Eye has linked the mysterious Hyperliquid whale, who controls over 100,000 BTC, to Garrett Jin, the former CEO of BitForex, a now-defunct exchange embroiled in a fraud scandal. In a Saturday post on X, the onchain sleuth noted that the whale’s main wallet, ereignis.eth, was connected to another ENS name, garrettjin.eth, which directly leads to Jin’s verified X (Twitter) account, @GarrettBullish. “The ENS name ereignis.eth (“event” in German) confirms his link to this wallet, identifying him as the actor behind the large-scale operations on…

Crypto.com CEO Urges Probe After $20B Liquidations

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek has called for a regulatory investigation into exchanges that suffered the largest losses following a record $20 billion in crypto liquidations over the past 24 hours. In a Saturday post on X, Marszalek urged regulators to “conduct a thorough review of fairness of practices,” asking whether trading platforms had slowed down, mispriced assets, or failed to maintain proper anti-manipulation and compliance controls during the crash. “Regulators should look into the exchanges that had most liquidations in the last 24 hours,” he wrote. “Any of them slowing…

Coinbase CEO Slams Senate’s ‘Bad’ DeFi Bill, Stalling Crypto Laws

Key Notes A new DeFi proposal by Senate Democrats has stalled bipartisan crypto legislative talks. Industry leaders, including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, criticize the proposal as a ‘crypto ban’. The proposal aims to regulate DeFi front-ends and developers, and create a ‘restricted list’ for protocols. A new decentralized finance (DeFi) proposal from Senate Democrats has sparked widespread industry criticism and stalled bipartisan talks on a comprehensive crypto market structure bill. Critics argue the plan would effectively ban DeFi in the US by requiring KYC for non-custodial wallets, designating developers as…

SBF’s ‘Biggest Mistake’ Was Signing Over FTX To CEO John Ray

Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, said his “biggest mistake” during the $8 billion collapse was handing control of the company to new management — a decision he claims cost him a last-minute opportunity to save the firm. Bankman-Fried, once the leader of the $32 billion FTX exchange, is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for seven felony charges related to the collapse of FTX and Alameda Research in November 2022, which resulted in an $8.9 billion loss of investor funds. Looking…

Bitcoin lending will x10 by 2028: Maple CEO

Sid Powell, CEO of Maple Finance, says that Bitcoin lending will reach $200 billion, and that BTC is this generation’s wealth engine. Summary Maple Finance CEO Sid Powell believes that Bitcoin lending will 10x in three years Rate cuts are making DeFi more attractive for investors Bitcoin is this generation’s wealth engine, like housing was for baby boomers Maple Finance has quietly grown into one of the biggest players in crypto credit. Sid Powell, CEO of Maple Finance, told crypto.news that he expects this growth to continue, driven by Bitcoin’s…

Consensys CEO Says SWIFT Is Building on Linea

SWIFT — the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication — will be building its recently announced blockchain payment settlement platform on Ethereum layer 2 Linea, Consensys CEO Joe Lubin has confirmed. On Monday, SWIFT revealed that it had tapped Consensys and over 30 TradFi institutions to build infrastructure for a 24/7 real-time crypto payments system — but didn’t confirm which chain it would build on despite widespread speculation that it would be Linea. However, Lubin confirmed Linea’s selection in a fireside chat with Cointelegraph’s Gareth Jenkinson at the Token2049 conference…

ETHZilla CEO Predicts Ethereum as Future of Finance

ETHZilla CEO McAndrew Rudisill has revealed he made the decision to go all in on Ethereum after seeing its potential in the nearly trillion-dollar global remittance market. Two months later, his formerly floundering biotechnology company is now the eighth-largest public Ethereum treasury in the world. “Ethereum is effectively a gateway for money supply globally to transmit in US dollars,” ETHZilla CEO McAndrew Rudisill told Cointelegraph. The company began life as Life Sciences Corp, a Nasdaq-listed biotechnology firm, which rebranded as ETHZilla Corporation in July, shortly after the US President Donald…