Pro-Russian outfits have resorted to digital asset funds in a bid to support the war efforts against Ukraine while evading international sanctions. A new report suggests that these groups are raising a massive amount of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies via crowdfunding campaigns. According to Chris Janczewski, head of global investigations at TRM Labs, the blockchain...Read More
Major stablecoin issuer Tether has further reduced its commercial paper holdings to less than $50 million, with more than half of its backing in US Treasury Bills. The continuous reduction in Tether’s commercial debt holdings is in line with the firm’s plans revealed earlier in the year. In an update posted on Twitter on Monday...Read More
Long before the Ethereum network’s transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), censorship concerns have been a bone of contention. To mitigate these risks, Vitalik Buterin has proposed “partial block auctions.” In the latest blog post, the Ethereum co-founder suggested that builders should have a more limited amount of power to prevent ETH censorship post Merge. Instead of...Read More
The US Securities and Exchange Commission brought charges against Kim Kardashian for promoting a crypto security – Ethereum Max. The popular US media personality, model, and businesswoman agreed to pay $1.26 million to settle the charges. CryptoPotato reported in January this year a lawsuit filed in California against Floyd Mayweather and Kim Kardashian, claiming that...Read More
Celsius Network founder Alex Mashinsky, who resigned as the CEO of the embattled Defi platform on September 27, reportedly withdrew $10 million in May, just weeks before the company froze withdrawals on June 12. Mashinsky voluntarily disclosed the information to the official unsecured creditors’ committee in the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, the Financial Times quoted his spokesperson...Read More
Transit Swap’s project team was reportedly working on collecting “specific data” of the victims and chalking out a return plan as it focused on retrieving the remaining 30% of stolen funds. However, it appears that the hacker is in no mood to let go of the rest. Higher Bounty As per blockchain security expert, Peckshield,...Read More
The author of the best-seller believes the US Federal Reserve will continue to raise interest rates, which will ultimately push the prices of BTC, gold, and silver down even more. However, this presents a good buying opportunity that could make investors smile in the future. Buy BTC Now, Says Kiyosaki Robert Kiyosaki used to be...Read More
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused Bitkub, the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and four other offenders of their alleged involvement in wash trading. The individuals will have to pay a fine of over $600,000. Bitkub Involved in Wash Trading Case? According to a press release on Tuesday (September 27, 2022), the Thai SEC...Read More
In a two-year-old gaming app fraud case, the top Indian financial crime investigating agency has frozen 85.9 bitcoins, equivalent to $1.6 million, held in an account on Binance. Separately, it also froze WRX, the native coin of WazirX, and USDT together, worth nearly $550,000. Earlier this month, the agency raided several premises in Kolkata in...Read More
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused two companies, their executives, and a supposed international gold trader, of running a fraudulent scheme to boost demand for their digital token. The false promotion of the token netted proceeds of over $36 million for the defendants, the agency said. A Fake $10 Billion Gold...Read More
While institutional traders are not prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa, the region is known to have the highest number of small retail transactions globally. Part of the driving force for cryptocurrency adoption there is fiat currency devaluation, high unemployment rate, and economic instability. Crypto P2P Thriving in Africa Despite Regulatory Problems According to a report by...Read More
Ethereum pulled off a stunning technical upgrade that saw the popular blockchain transition to the proof-of-stake consensus model for processing transactions after six years of work. However, post-merge activity on layer-2 has dropped. According to the latest stats by Dapp Radar, the already descending unique active wallets and transactions have further dropped by 35% from...Read More
Change is in the air as the crypto space continues to see top executives step down from their roles amid the market crisis that stemmed from the Terra Luna fiasco and the Federal Reserve’s continuous interest rate hike, which negatively impacted the global financial market. The change in crypto-related executive leadership started with Twitter co-founder...Read More
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is objecting to a motion by troubled cryptocurrency lender Celsius, seeking to reopen withdrawals for selected customers. Since Celsius halted withdrawals in June, the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, while the CEO recently resigned from his position. A United States Trustee for the DOJ, William Harrington, on Friday...Read More
California’s regulator has targeted 11 crypto-related entities which allegedly violated the state’s securities laws. The watchdog also claimed that their business model was in the manner of a Ponzi or pyramid scheme. The Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI), in an announcement on Tuesday, stated that while all the accused companies offered unregistered securities...Read More
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) on Tuesday announced that a multi-jurisdiction CBDC pilot spearheaded by BIS Innovation Hub has been successful. The project saw 164 transactions worth nearly $22 million in real-value cross-border payments through a purpose-built multi-CBDC platform – mBridge. Apart from the central banks of Hong Kong, China, Thailand, and the United...Read More
An analysis carried out by the financial services company – Bankrate – determined that US millennials are not as enthusiastic about cryptocurrencies as they were last year. Around 30% said they feel comfortable investing in digital assets compared to 50% in 2021. The Latest Change in Trends Younger generations, including millennials and Generation Z, are...Read More
The Solana blockchain experienced yet another outage late on Friday, but it’s back online after getting restarted. The protocol’s native cryptocurrency dropped by 6% daily as a consequence of the latest network outage. The Solana Status Twitter page informed late last night about the network issues as it stopped processing transactions. Shortly after, Stakewiz –...Read More
On Tuesday night, an Ethereum MEV bot gained 800 ETH through the use of clever arbitrage, only to lose all of it and more to a hacker an hour later. Here’s how the situation played out on-chain: The event began with a third-party trader mistakenly losing nearly $2 million to spreads on Uniswap v2 trade....Read More
One of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in Spain – Telefonica – partnered with the crypto exchange Bit2Me to allow clients to pay for services in digital assets. Cryptocurrency adoption seems to be on a high level in the Iberian country. A few months ago, the leading airline company – Vueling –...Read More
The Texas-based bitcoin mining giant is entering a merger agreement with SilverSun Technologies, a publicly-traded business technology solutions provider, as Rhodium is planning to list on Nasdaq after an initial delay. Meanwhile, the fall in the price of BTC and the ongoing crypto winter has caused bitcoin mining companies to struggle to stay afloat. Rhodium...Read More
Prominent business intelligence and software company MicroStrategy is looking to hire a software engineer to develop a Lightning Network-based SaaS platform. This comes shortly after the firm’s former CEO – Michael Saylor – stepped down. According to its job listing, the company has advertised for a position that seeks an experienced software developer for a...Read More
The Delaware Department of Justice’s Investor Protection Unit halted the operations of 23 entities and individuals involved in cryptocurrency romance frauds, known as “pig butchering” scams. A recent analysis conducted by Bankless Times estimated that Americans lost around $185 million between January 2021 and March 2022 due to such schemes. Crypto Scammers Again in the...Read More
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against The Hydrogen and its market maker, Moonwalkersfor, for allegedly engaging in unregistered securities and artificially inflating token’s priceoken. The SEC accused the two firms and thtwo execs of breaking the securities laws’ registration, anti-fraud, and market manipulation provisions. The securities watchdog also asked for...Read More
The Bank of Russia and the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation (MiFin) have agreed that crypto mining should be allowed only in certain areas. According to a new report by RBC-Crypto, Russian officials are preparing to legalize mining activity only in energy-rich regions and aim to ban the niche in energy-scarce ones. The...Read More
The bear market has been tough for everyone, and holding on to Coinbase shares may not be wise, according to Wells Fargo. The multinational financial services company issued a profitability warning stating that the current market conditions may hurt the publicly traded crypto exchange. Despite having the early-mover advantage, Coinbase is now facing stiff competition...Read More
The world’s largest digital asset manager – BlackRock – reportedly launched a blockchain exchange-traded fund (ETF) for the European market. The product enables such consumers to gain exposure to companies part of the cryptocurrency sector, including miners and exchanges. According to a recent coverage, BlackRock’s newest blockchain ETF is called “The iShares Blockchain Technology UCITS...Read More
Following the exit of Michael Moro as the CEO of Genesis Global Trading, the crypto brokerage firm’s co-head of sales and trading is also stepping down from his position. The development continues the latest trend of crypto company executives who have resigned from their positions. In a tweet thread on Wednesday (September 28, 2022), Matt...Read More
Singapore-based company Terraform Labs has stated that South Korean prosecutors exceeded the limits of their authority regarding the arrest warrant against the firm’s co-founder, Do Kwon. Terraform Labs also said that the Luna token is not a security, arguing that public pressure could have caused the prosecutors to amplify the definition of securities. South Korean...Read More
On-chain data shows that Bitcoin’s mining difficulty was lowered to 31.36 trillion hashes at a block height of 756,000. Despite this, the Bitcoin ecosystem is still guarded by the most secure blockchain network. According to data from BTC.com, the Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustment decreased by approximately 2.3% on September 28th. The latest decline comes two weeks...Read More
