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Investment scams involving crypto accounted for more than 50% of all reported crypto losses in 2024, according to the FBI’s latest report. Cybercrime involving cryptocurrencies hit record highs in 2024, with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reporting $16.6 billion in total internet crime losses — a 33% jump from 2023 — including $9.3 billion tied to crypto-related scams, up 66% year-over-year. In the 47-page report, the FBI stated that cryptocurrency played a “central role” in cybercrime losses in 2024, noting that nearly 150,000 complaints involved cryptocurrencies. Investment scams caused the most damage, resulting in $5.8 billion in reported losses. Many of these cases involved “pig butchering,” where scammers build fake online relationships and trick victims into investing in fraudulent crypto platforms. Complaint and loss trends since 2020 | Source: FBI You might also like:$46m in Coinbase user scams reported this month: ZachXBT Older Americans were hit hardest. Victims aged 60 and older reported over $2.8 billion in crypto scam losses, the most of any age group. In a bid to counter the trend, the FBI launched Operation Level Up in early 2024, where more than 4,300 victims were identified and 76% of those were unaware at the time that the agency contacted them that they were in fact being victimized. Analysts at blockchain forensic firm TRM Labs noted in a research note that scams remained the “dominant form of illicit activity on-chain in 2024,” with investment and financial grooming scams causing billions in losses. TRM Labs identified “at least $10.7 billion in crypto funds sent to fraudulent schemes, with thousands of new phishing and investment scam websites appearing monthly.” The analysts added that scammers keep using QR codes, crypto ATMs, and stablecoins like Tether’s USDT (USDT) or decentralized stablecoin DAI (DAI) to reach victims, often through AI-generated personas. Read more:Crypto scams turn deadlier in Q1 as rugpull losses surge 6,500%

Shardeum 是 WazirX 创始人 Nischal Shetty 共同创立的第一层区块链，其代币生成活动已安排在 2025 年 5 月 5 日。 该项目于 4 月 17 日在 X 上发布的帖子确认了发布日期，并指出将很快分享有关其空投、代币销售和 SHM 列表的更多详细信息。这标志着该项目向前迈出了重要一步，其主网发布自最初时间表以来已被多次推迟。 最新消息 ➡️ Shardeum TGE ➡️ 05.05.2025有关空投、代币销售 $SHM 分配和上市的更多详细信息将很快公布🎊敬请期待！pic.twitter.com/mpLjbnJSaM— Shardeum (@shardeum) 2025年4月16日 本月初，Shardeum 宣布将于 4 月 15 日上线。由于市场条件不利，Shardeum 在 4 月 10 日发布的更新中将原定上线时间推迟至 5 月。团队澄清说，技术已经准备就绪，但由于市场条件仍然不利，战略性的推迟将确保其更强劲的亮相。 您可能还喜欢：VanEck 将于 5 月 14 日推出针对加密货币相关股票的“NODE”ETF Shardeum 即将上线，此前经历了漫长的开发周期，包括多个测试网、“Liberty”、“Sphinx”以及激励机制测试的“Atomium”，这些测试网帮助该平台测试了可扩展性和社区参与度。据团队介绍，Shardeum 的测试网创下了纪录，拥有超过 17.1 万名验证者和超过 8100 万笔交易。 尽管该项目取得了技术上的里程碑，但仍面临内部动荡。据《经济时报》此前报道，去年已有十多名员工离职，其中包括社区和业务团队的关键成员。然而，该公司声称其领导力比以往任何时候都更加强大，并指出最近聘请了斯里尼瓦桑·帕塔萨拉蒂（Srinivasan Parthasarathy）担任首席技术官。 为了奖励早期支持者，Shardeum 还制定了分三阶段的空投活动。第一阶段，将向开发、社区和验证者角色的贡献者分发超过 360 万枚 SHM 代币。激励测试网和主网启动活动的参与者将在后期获得奖励。 SHM 代币将用于多种网络功能，包括治理、质押和 Gas 支付。为了支持其通缩模型，Shardeum 将销毁所有交易费用。SHM 的总供应上限为 5.08 亿，其中超过一半分配给社区。 阅读更多：Synthetix 的 sUSD 稳定币尽管采取了挂钩恢复措施，但仍跌破 0.8 美元

Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. Solana (SOL) has emerged from one of its most turbulent periods to date. Stress-tested in Q1 2025 by an unprecedented wave of memecoin launches on platforms like Pump.fun, the network faced both extraordinary transaction volume and congestion. It saw tens of thousands of new token launches in just a few months, bringing billions of dollars on-chain through millions of transactions. You might also like:Only Solana could handle a memecoin supercycle | Opinion It was a real test of how Solana would perform under pressure. Yet, rather than faltering, the network adapted and improved. From this intense period of on-chain activity, a more resilient blockchain has emerged—one that’s increasingly being seen as not just a “memechain” but as a foundational layer for stablecoins and real-world payments. The memecoin stress test Memecoins, despite their speculative nature, served a valuable purpose: they pushed Solana’s infrastructure to the limit. During the January peak, tokens like Official Trump (TRUMP) and MELANIA (MELANIA) helped drive Solana’s decentralized exchanges to a near-record $40 billion in 24-hour trading volume. Together, these two meme tokens reached a combined fully diluted valuation (FDV) of nearly $70 billion—larger than many publicly listed companies. This sent the daily trading volume on Pump.fun past the $5 billion mark, higher than Coinbase.  This onslaught did expose certain issues: validators hit compute limits, RPCs throttled, and trading bots struggled to keep pace. But, in response, Solana’s core developers shipped staking-weighted Quality-of-Service to prioritize honest traffic, QUIC networking fixes to reduce packet loss, and advanced priority fees so users could cut the line transparently.  In short, the network’s foundational thesis—that better hardware leads to better scalability—held up well under pressure.  Stability over speculation Now that the memecoin tide has ebbed, the real opportunity is clear. Stablecoins—reliable, dollar-pegged digital cash—are seeing rapid growth on Solana. The network’s outstanding stablecoin float sits at an all-time high of around $12.7 billion, more than double the figure from a year ago and within striking distance of Ethereum’s all-time peak. Why the influx? Solana is the first L1 that combines sub-second finality, fractions-of-a-cent fees, and battle-tested throughput. Put simply, there are no roll-ups, there’s no waiting around, micro-payments are finally economical, and throughput has been thoroughly proven during the memecoin frenzy of Q1. The chain is finally ready for money markets and payment rails—exactly what mainstream users and regulators require. Real-world rails are already here Take USDG, for example. This stablecoin, issued by Paxos Digital Singapore and designed to be compliant with the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s upcoming stablecoin regulatory framework, is now live on Solana, giving fintech firms a way to transfer US dollars worldwide in seconds for a fraction of a cent. Cheap, final settlement at internet speed is no longer just a theory, but a reality. And then there’s Franklin Templeton’s OnChain US Government Money Fund. One of the world’s largest asset managers is tokenizing money-market shares on Solana because the chain’s throughput and custody tooling already feel familiar to traditional finance ops teams.  Collectively, these heavy hitters aren’t chasing memes; they’re chasing the $20 trillion global payments market that Statista pegs for 2025. If even 1% of that flow lands on Solana, it would eclipse today’s entire crypto market cap—and it’s the stability of these new rail-builders that will make it happen. Firedancer: The next upgrade There’s more good news in the pipeline, too. Later this year, Jump Crypto’s independent validator client, Firedancer, lands on mainnet, which promises 50x faster block propagation and a design ceiling of 1 million transactions per second.  For stablecoin issuers and payment providers, Firedancer could be a game-changer: it offers deterministic finality, even during Black Friday-level transaction spikes. For Solana builders, meanwhile, the upgrade is the green light to aggregate liquidity across a wide range of automated market makers, order-book DEX, and RFQ venues without worrying about network stability. A call to builders Memecoins were a stress test. Stablecoins are the real opportunity. For developers working on wallets, payment apps, remittance tools, or trading infrastructure, Solana is optimized and ready, and now the next phase begins. In fact, it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to say that this is what the blockchain has been preparing for all along. Where memecoins generated attention, stablecoins promise adoption. Solana has shown it can handle volume, and with Firedancer on the horizon, it will only improve from here. For builders seeking deep liquidity, reliable performance, and low fees, Solana is an increasingly compelling choice.  In fact, it is rapidly turning into the Nasdaq-grade settlement layer Anatoly Yakovenko envisioned back in 2020.   Read more:Mass crypto adoption requires transparency and education | Opinion Chris Chung Chris Chungis the CEO and co-founder of Titan, Solana’s first Meta DEX Aggregator. In addition, Chris is very active in the Toronto Solana ecosystem as the local ambassador for MonkeDao in Toronto, as well as a Superteam Canada member. Chris previously served as the CTO of a cryptocurrency and US equity hedge fund, building out low-latency analytics, back office reporting, and trading systems.

虽然比特币 L2s 最近出现资金流出，但一种名为 Hemi 的新协议在其私有主网上积累了更多的存款。 Hemi 是一种比特币（BTC）第 2 层协议，由早期区块链开发者 Jeff Garzik 创立，在主网启动前已实现超过 2.6 亿美元的总锁定价值。 BTC L2 充当与比特币区块链相连的侧链。Hemi、Core、Bitlayer 和 Stacks 等协议旨在通过质押和收益生成来解锁 BTC 的去中心化金融。 该项目原生浏览器的数据显示，存款数量有所增加，其中流动 BTC 衍生品约 2,686 个，以 Ether (ETH) 质押代币为主约 3,207 个。 该 TVL 将部署到 Hemi 的 DEX 和借贷协议上，以提供第一天流动性，促进比特币和以太坊生态系统中热门资产的交易、借贷、质押和收益耕作。 Hemi团队 你可能还喜欢：Bitwise CIO：加密货币的“迷人二分法”提供了机会 Hemi 声称用户存款激增，这与比特币 L2 领域的资金流出形成鲜明对比。根据 DefiLlama 的数据，占主导地位的 BTC L2 Core 在过去一周的 TVL 下降了 12%。随着市场经历广泛的调整，其他市场领跑者，如 Bitlayer、BSquared、Rootstock、AILayer 和 Stacks，也注意到用户余额减少。 Hemi 团队报告的 2.6 亿美元融资将使 L2 跻身该领域前五大协议之列。值得注意的是，这些资金被锁定在 Hemi 的私人主网中，而公共主网的发布计划正在推进中。该团队尚未公布其发布的暂定日期。 主网发布仍在按计划进行，测试网激励措施将在主网公开发布前不久结束。主网上线后，第一轮激励措施将开始。代币生成活动 (TGE) 仍计划在主网发布后四到六周内进行。 半博客 阅读更多：美联储理事：银行和非银行机构应该能够发行稳定币

StakeStone (STO) price is by over 30% in the past 24 hours, buoyed by spot listing on Binance exchange. STO began trading on Binance spot at 16:00 UTC on May 2 across multiple pairs, including USDT and BNB. According to the official announcement, eligible users who subscribed Binance Coin (BNB) to Simple Earn products—either Flexible or Locked—and On-Chain Yield between April 27 and April 29, will receive STO airdrops as part of the launch incentives. Prior to this, the token was only available on Binance’s Alpha Market, giving early access to select users. Launched in early April through a token generation event by Binance Wallet, StakeStone quickly gained traction with listings on exchanges like MEXC, Bitget, KuCoin, and Gate.io. Today’s listing on Binance has further boosted the project’s visibility and the token’s price, leading to over 30% surge in the token’s price. You might also like:StakeStone price surges 20% after a wave of exchange listings At press time, STO trades at $0.17 with the trading volume of over $45 million. On the 4-hour chart, today’s 30%+ surge has pushed STO price well above both the 20-period EMA and the 50-period SMA, signaling strong bullish momentum. The RSI has also entered overbought territory above 70 on the breakout, suggesting a potential pullback or consolidation in the near term. However, a bullish crossover between the 20 EMA and the 50 SMA happened before the breakout, potentially serving as an early signal of the uptrend. Looking ahead, this sharp rally may be due for a short-term pullback, but the technical setup suggests a broader uptrend could be unfolding. Source: Trading View You might also like:Crypto exchange Kraken flags North Korean infiltration attempt through fake job application