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The inclusion of MGX with its crypto ties to the Trump family is particularly controversial .

Crypto crash helps wipe out $1.6 billion of the Trump family’s fortune

The Trumps – and their followers – are getting a crash course in the wild volatility ingrained in digital currencies.

  • Tom Maloney and Annie Massa

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Wall Street bounced higher after the Fed chair’s speech.

The alarm bells are ringing louder in markets

There are cracks appearing in share and crypto markets across the globe.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
The 47-year-old lived a life of luxury renting expensive mansions and plotting to become the monarch of a self-proclaimed nation “Liberland” until she was arrested last year, prosecutors said.

‘Super villain’: Chinese woman jailed after $10 billion crypto seizure

Zhimin Qian evaded arrest in China after fleeing on a moped then travelled using fake passports before settling in Britain under a fake name.

  • Upmanyu Trivedi
So far as Donald Trump has a worldview, it seems to echo a version of the world in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

A report card on the Trump presidency

A year after being elected, Donald Trump is running out of time to deliver on his biggest promise to voters.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Transport for NSW manager Ibrahim Helmy and Capital Lines & Signs director Andrew Stewart.

Transport official boasts of ‘juicy meeting’ and pocketing ‘cash in brown paper bag’

An inquiry was also told the alleged mastermind of a kickback scheme traded more than $600,000 in cash he gained from a single company for meme coins.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Billionaire Changpeng Zhao, who pleaded guilty in 2023 to anti-money laundering failures, has been laying out his blueprint for policing the industry.

‘Biggest name in crypto’: Trump pardons billionaire who admitted to money laundering

Changpeng “CZ” Zhao and his company Binance have been key supporters of some of the Trump family’s crypto enterprises.

  • Will Weissert and Alan Suderman
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The $US400 billion cryptocurrency crash from Friday has raised suspicions of insider trading.

Crypto anger as investors claim insider trading in $600b Trump crash

The cryptocurrency crash triggered by the US president’s threat of 100 per cent tariffs on China on Friday has unleashed fresh claims of insider trading.

  • Eir Nolsoe

Anatomy of two giant deals: The UAE got chips. The Trump team got crypto riches

A lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis valuable computer chips are testing the limits of ethics rules.

  • Eric Lipton, David Yaffe-Bellany, Bradley Hope, Tripp Mickle and Paul Mozur
Ross Ulbricht, who created Silk Road, a dark web market that used Bitcoin to facilitate millions of dollars in drug sales, takes the stage to speak at Bitcoin 2025.

‘A disgrace’: Crypto rebel’s controversial comeback after Trump pardon

Ross Ulbricht seemed destined to spend the rest of his life inside a cell. But now he is free, and making a spectacular return to the crypto world.

  • Ryan Mac and David Yaffe-Bellany
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‘Asset of the future’: Meet the companies ditching cash for bitcoin

Companies are adopting crypto in a demonstration of forward-thinking strategy – yet the risks of past financial crises are never out of the picture.

  • Chris Zappone

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