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Zano Blockchain’s Hard Fork Facilitates Privacy Coin Creation, Introduces Confidential Assets
25.3.2024
The Zano blockchain’s recently completed Zarcanum hard fork (HF4) will enable users and organizations to create custom tokenized assets that meet their specific needs. These custom tokenized assets or confidential assets, will be untraceable on the Zano blockchain. The team believes that...
Privacy Coins Under Attack – Not Down for the Count Yet
22.2.2024
The delisting of monero by Binance marked a significant turning point for privacy coins, showcasing the growing impact of regulatory demands on privacy-focused projects, while also spotlighting emerging projects like Zano that aim to navigate these challenges. Regulatory Pressures Set to Reshape...
Grayscale Files For Privacy ETF With SEC, Zcash Part of Offering
22.2.2024
Crypto-focused asset manager Grayscale filed for a privacy-focused exchange-traded fund (ETF) to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.
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Monero Price Suffers 17% Drop on Binance Delisting
6.2.2024
Monero‘s price dropped as much as 17% on Tuesday after Binance said it would delist the privacy token from its platform. Binance delisted four tokens, including Aragon (ANT), Multichain (MULTI), Via (VAI), and Monero (XMR). The decision was a result of a routine assessment of standards...
Monero Tracing: Privacy Coin Proponents Dismiss Finnish Law Enforcement Agency’s Tracing Breakthrough Claims
31.1.2024
A Finnish law enforcement agency, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), recently claimed that it may have found a way to trace the privacy coin Monero. However, proponents of the privacy coin have dismissed the agency’s claims and insisted that the cryptocurrency is still untraceable....
Samourai Wallet Unveils Privacy-Enhancing BTC to XMR Atomic Swaps in Beta Launch
16.1.2024
According to the Samourai Wallet developers, the beta release of bitcoin/monero atomic swaps has been launched, marking an exciting development in privacy-preserving techniques. This new release of the desktop application streamlines the process of securely swapping bitcoin and monero via the...
Binance Threatens Delisting of 10 Privacy Coins, Including Monero and Zcash Amid Regulatory Crackdown
4.1.2024
Binance threatened to delist prominent privacy cryptocurrencies Monero and Zcash due to increased regulatory attention surrounding anonymous digital assets. Image by Vadim Artyukhin, Unsplash. On Thursday, Binance warned it may soon delist 10 prominent privacy coins, including Monero, Zcash,...
Former Monero Lead Maintainer Calls on Binance to Take a Stance on Privacy Coin Issue
30.12.2023
Ricardo Spagni, the former lead maintainer of Monero, one of the most used privacy coins in the cryptocurrency market, has called on Binance to take a stance on the issue of privacy coins. Spagni stated that avoiding taking sides in the process is a disservice to the whole industry and that...
Okx to Cut Ties With Privacy Coins Amid Regulatory Heat, Triggering Market Dip
29.12.2023
In light of the ongoing dialogue around Binance’s removal of privacy coins, the cryptocurrency exchange Okx has declared the removal of various spot trading pairs linked to privacy tokens such as monero, zcash, and dash. Okx attributes its decision to remove these offerings...
Fading Interest for Privacy Cryptos Leads to $440M Market Dip in 2023
18.11.2023
Throughout 2023, numerous sectors within the cryptocurrency market have experienced gains. However, leading privacy-centric crypto tokens have lagged behind in performance compared to their counterparts. Since January, the market value of the privacy cryptocurrency sector has diminished by $440...
Moonstone Research Study Etches Doubts on Monero’s Privacy; Crypto Community Reacts
6.11.2023
On September 1, 2023, hackers made off with 2,675.73 monero (XMR), worth over $3 million at the time, from the Monero CCS donation wallet in nine separate transactions. Now, blockchain analysis firm Moonstone Research has traced forward through three of those transactions in a postmortem released...
Binance Abandons Planned Delisting of Some Privacy Coins in EU Markets
29.6.2023
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has reconsidered a decision to delist some privacy tokens in several European markets. The leading coin trading platform will continue to offer trading in these digital assets after revising their classification to comply with EU regulations. Binance to Continue...
CZ Binance on Buying Banks to Fight Crypto Regulation Woes, Russian Banker Says CNY Likely to Dethrone USD, and More — Week in Review
4.6.2023
Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance, doesn’t think buying a bank would solve the crypto industry’s troubles with traditional financial institutions, amid issues his own exchange currently faces in regions like Australia and Europe. In other news, the chairman of Russia’s...
Crypto Exchange Binance to Remove Privacy Coins From 4 European Markets
31.5.2023
Multiple reports have revealed that Binance, the crypto exchange with the highest trade volume, has announced the removal of 12 privacy-focused cryptocurrencies from its markets in Spain, France, Poland, and Italy. Commencing on June 26, 2023, users residing in these four countries will no longer...
UAE’s Clear Rules and Openness to ‘Experimentation’ Key to Attracting Crypto Firms, Says Ben Caselin of Maskex
26.5.2023
Players in the crypto space are attracted to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) because the region not only has clear rules but is also “open to experimentation,” Ben Caselin, the Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at the crypto exchange Maskex, has said. Caselin also said...
Financial surveillance, privacy and CBDCs: Why are governments going cashless?
24.5.2023
Attorney Marta Belcher joins The Agenda podcast to unpack financial surveillance’s vast infrastructure and warn of the potential ramifications of central bank digital currencies
Privacy-Preserving Payments Shouldn't Be 'Niche', Monero Contributor Justin Ehrenhofer Says
13.4.2023
New Privacy Blockchain Namada Proposes First Ever Shielded Airdrop to Zcash
12.4.2023
Namada is a layer 1 blockchain for multichain privacy, according to a release provided to CoinDesk
EU Money Laundering Law Won’t Prevent Crypto Payments, Lead Lawmaker Says
28.3.2023
The new legislation, which will be put to vote on Tuesday, is set to impose new restrictions on transactions from self-hosted wallets
Privacy Coins Take a Beating This Year Losing Over $6 Billion, Anonymity Takes a Back Seat to Defi, NFTs
24.12.2022
The last 12 months have been tough on digital currency investors as the crypto winter has caused a large sum of value to leave the once-bustling economy. The privacy coin economy, for instance, shed more than 55% against the U.S. dollar as it dropped from $11.7 billion in Jan. 2022 to the current...