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Sustained growth in network activity, including from the proliferation of artificial intelligence agents, could further propel Ether’s performance, which has lagged behind rival layer-1 network Solana in 2024, Matt Hougan, Bitwise’s head of research, told Cointelegraph.
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Ethereum and Base, an Ethereum layer-2 scaling network, are “where many AI agents are currently operating,” Hougan told Cointelegraph in a Dec. 19 interview.
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Asset manager VanEck estimates Ether’s spot price will reach $6,000 by the fourth quarter of 2025.
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Today in crypto, phishing attacks were the most costly attack vector for the crypto industry in 2024, according to a new report from CertiK, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has clocked its largest one-day outflow since its launch in 2024, and Do Kwon has pleaded not guilty to a slew of charges in the United States.
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Blockchain security firm CertiK has issued a warning to crypto investors about the rising threat of phishing scams, which emerged as the most significant security threat of 2024.
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Crypto phishing attacks involve hackers sharing fraudulent links with victims to steal sensitive information, such as crypto wallet private keys.
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Phishing attacks were the most costly attack vector for the crypto industry in 2024, netting attackers over $1 billion worth of stolen digital assets across 296 incidents, according to CertiK’s annual Web3 security report published on Jan. 2.
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“Phishing was the most costly attack vector last year,” a CertiK spokesperson told Cointelegraph. “Our figures are conservative, the actual figure is higher when you consider unreported incidents and other types of phishing scams like pig butchering.”
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Out of the 296 phishing incidents in 2024, at least three resulted in losses exceeding $100 million, highlighting the scale of damage possible.
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Private key compromises were the second-largest threat after phishing scams, resulting in over $855 million worth of stolen crypto across 65 incidents in 2024.
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Private key compromises were the second-largest threat after phishing scams, resulting in over $855 million worth of stolen crypto across 65 incidents in 2024.
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“Refining Copper’s global growth strategy has been my priority since joining, and this has necessitated key decisions on our direction and approach,” Kuchinad said in a statement on Copper’s UK license application withdrawal.
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Despite the withdrawal, Copper continues to see Europe as one of its key markets alongside the US and the Middle East, Kuchinad noted, adding:
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The regulator said it only approved four out of 35 applications for cryptocurrency firm registration in the past year, with 15 applications withdrawn and nine rejected.
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He argued the opinion “most obviously impacts” his charge of conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a law central to the US sanctions apparatus, as the appeals court found the smart contracts “are not the ‘property’ of a foreign national or entity,” meaning they “cannot be blocked” under the law.
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The Fifth Circuit said Tornado Cash’s smart contracts are unable to be changed or removed and can be used by anyone — including sanctioned North Korean hackers — while the creators “would be powerless to stop them,” adding:
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Storm is also charged with conspiring to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business and money laundering conspiracy. He said that this, too, should be scrapped.
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He argued that “Tornado Cash is not a financial institution” and that “there could be no agreement to commit money laundering because the Tornado Cash protocol became immutable in May 2020, four months before the alleged start of the conspiracy.”
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The Fifth Circuit ruling came from a case launched by six Tornado Cash users — with backing from Coinbase — against the Treasury and OFAC in September 2022. They initially lost the case and then appealed it in November 2023.
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