“Don’t do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague,” the hackers wrote as they gave the LockBit ransomware gang a taste of their own medicine.

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed House Bill 2749 into law on Wednesday.The bill enables the integration of crypto assets into Arizona’s unclaimed property framework by establishing a crypto reserve fund.

StarkWare general counsel Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos said the OCC has shifted its approach and now appears to favor a focus on integrating crypto within banking frameworks.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao confirmed he applied for Donald Trump to pardon his money laundering conviction after denying earlier reports that he’d done so.

Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung has vowed to make Korea more crypto-friendly and allow spot crypto ETFs if elected next month.

Roughly two million wallets have bought Trump’s memecoin since its launch, according to Chainalysis, with a third having lost money on it.

Bitcoin rose 2.8% on Wednesday morning in Asia after U.S. and Chinese trade representatives announced plans to hold an ice-breaker meeting in Switzerland this weekend.

Senate Democrat Richard Blumenthal sent letters to World Liberty Financial and Fight Fight Fight LLC to investigate potential conflicts of interest related to President Donald Trump’s crypto activities.

crypto investment startup Glider has completed a $4 million financing round, led by a16z, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Ventures, and GSR. Glider plans to use artificial intelligence to help users adjust their cryptocurrency investments according to their needs, and will join the Andreessen Horowitz cryptocurrency startup accelerator this spring.

Optimum has completed a $11 million seed round of financing, with 1kx leading the investment, and Robot Ventures, Finality Capital, Spartan, CMT Digital, SNZ, Triton Capital, Big Brain, CMS, Longhash, NGC, Animoca, GSR, Caladan, Reforge and others participating. Optimum is a decentralized, performance-enhancing memory layer for any blockchain, incubated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (CoinDesk)