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A Saipan woman has been sentenced to 71 months in prison for orchestrating a $769,000 bitcoin wire fraud scheme that targeted older victims through false investment claims.

Bitcoin is showing signs of short-term weakness after failing to sustain a rally toward $79,400, with prices slipping back to around $77,000.

Juniper Research said cross-border business-to-business stablecoin payments are projected to reach $5 trillion by 2035, up sharply from an estimated $13.4 billion this year.

BitMine Immersion Technologies has expanded its Ether holdings with a fresh purchase of 101,901 ETH, despite sitting on more than $6.5 billion in unrealised losses.

The Solana Foundation said its core developer teams have aligned on a plan to protect the network from future quantum computing risks.

Bitcoin fell to around $76,600 on Monday, reversing a push toward $80,000 as rising oil prices and renewed tensions involving Iran dampened risk appetite.

Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov has proposed a market-based solution to address roughly $700,000 in bad debt on the LlamaLend platform.

MARA Holdings has launched the MARA Foundation to support the long-term resilience and development of the Bitcoin network.

Aave is leading a coordinated recovery effort following the Kelp DAO exploit, with more than $300 million in pledged support from across the decentralised finance sector.

South Korean digital bank Kbank has partnered with Ripple to trial blockchain-based overseas remittances.

Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc has proposed a hard fork that would reassign coins linked to Satoshi Nakamoto to investors in a new blockchain project.

Tether has launched an open-source framework designed to unify Bitcoin mining infrastructure across hardware, software and operations.