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Roughly a year after US Treasury officials added addresses associated with the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash to the department’s list of sanctioned entities, authorities arrested Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm on money-laundering charges.

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Pertsev’s case moved forward; he was found guilty and sentenced to more than five years in prison in May 2024. As of January 2025, the Tornado Cash developer remains in custody as his lawyers prepare to appeal the conviction and sentence.

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Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, the husband and wife behind laundering millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin from the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, have both been sentenced to prison.

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Ulbricht was already in prison during Trump’s first term, causing some crypto users to question whether the soon-to-be president will actually commute his sentence. Ulbricht was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole following his 2015 conviction for money laundering, computer hacking and conspiracy to traffic narcotics.

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Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, was approved as a licensed broker-dealer in Brazil, the most populous country in Latin America.

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Kekius Maximus is a mashup of the internet meme Pepe the Frog and Maximus Decimus Meridius, the main protagonist of the 2000 film Gladiator, played by Russell Crowe.

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This ETP, set to launch in Q1 2025, will provide traditional finance investors in Europe with exposure to Floki, a memecoin ranked 66th by market capitalization.

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The Floki DAO has unanimously voted to allocate part of its community buyback wallet, containing 16.3 billion Floki tokens, as liquidity for the upcoming Floki Exchange-Traded Product (ETP).

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Etherscan data shows the KEKIUS memecoin was created on Dec. 13, which accumulated $11.4 million by Dec. 31 before exploding to $380 million at its peak on Jan. 1, according to CoinGecko.

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This ETP, set to launch in Q1 2025, will provide traditional finance investors in Europe with exposure to Floki, a memecoin ranked 66th by market capitalization.

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The Floki DAO has unanimously voted to allocate part of its community buyback wallet, containing 16.3 billion Floki tokens, as liquidity for the upcoming Floki Exchange-Traded Product (ETP).

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Etherscan data shows the KEKIUS memecoin was created on Dec. 13, which accumulated $11.4 million by Dec. 31 before exploding to $380 million at its peak on Jan. 1, according to CoinGecko.

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The Dow Jones index clocked its ninth consecutive daily loss, its longest losing streak since 1978, losing 0.61% to close the trading day on Dec. 17 at 43,339.

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This performance highlights the impact of interest rate cuts on the valuation of the largest companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.

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“Tomorrow marks the final Fed meeting of 2024,” declared capital markets commentator The Kobeissi Letter in a Dec. 17 post on X.

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As such, market participants have now turned their focus on the US Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut decision later today.

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According to data from CME Group’s FedWatch Tool, the odds of the Fed keeping interest rates unchanged are now standing at 4.6% at the time of writing, against 95.4% for a 0.25% rate cut.

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“Meanwhile, CPI, PPI, and PCE inflation are all back on the rise as the labor market weakens,” The Kobeissi Letter noted, adding:

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