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Dolce & Gabbana Sued Over $6,000 NFTs Losing 97% Value
18.5.2024
Dolce & Gabbana USA Inc. faces a lawsuit from a customer who claims the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) he bought for $6,000, which included metaverse outfits, lost 97% of their value due to delivery failures by the luxury fashion house. The complaint, filed in Manhattan federal court, alleges...
‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Goes Hard on Gold, Invests $10 Million in Q1
18.5.2024
Michael Burry, an investor famous for making a fortune by anticipating the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis, made a sizable bet on physical gold. According to regulatory filings, Burry’s Scion Asset Management purchased over 440,000 Sprott Physical Gold Trust units, a closed-end fund that...
‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Goes Hard on Gold, Invests $10 Million in Q1
18.5.2024
Michael Burry, an investor famous for making a fortune by anticipating the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis, made a sizable bet on physical gold. According to regulatory filings, Burry’s Scion Asset Management purchased over 440,000 Sprott Physical Gold Trust units, a closed-end fund that...
Ontario ‘Crypto King’ Faces Major Fraud and Money Laundering Charges
18.5.2024
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced on May 15 that two Ontario residents have been charged with offenses under the Criminal Code of Canada as part of Project Swan, a joint investigation by the Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) and the OSC. Aiden Pleterski, self-proclaimed...
Ontario ‘Crypto King’ Faces Major Fraud and Money Laundering Charges
18.5.2024
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced on May 15 that two Ontario residents have been charged with offenses under the Criminal Code of Canada as part of Project Swan, a joint investigation by the Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) and the OSC. Aiden Pleterski, self-proclaimed...
French Regulator Renews Warning Against Blacklisted Bybit
18.5.2024
The French securities regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), has issued a renewed warning against using the digital asset platform Bybit. The AMF reminded French investors that Bybit is an unregistered crypto platform operating illegally in the country. The regulator has advised...
French Regulator Renews Warning Against Blacklisted Bybit
18.5.2024
The French securities regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), has issued a renewed warning against using the digital asset platform Bybit. The AMF reminded French investors that Bybit is an unregistered crypto platform operating illegally in the country. The regulator has advised...
Turkey Drafts Crypto Bills To Align With International Standards
17.5.2024
The crypto law that was presented by Abdullah Güler, the group chairperson of the political group AK Party, on May 16 would significantly regulate the cryptocurrency business in compliance with global norms.
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Crypto Mining Surge and Erratic Weather Strain Laos’ Power Grid
17.5.2024
A report released on May 16 highlights how increased electricity consumption due to crypto mining and inconsistent rainfall have led to power shortages in Laos, challenging its goals as a hydropower exporter in Southeast Asia. Reuters: Increased Crypto Mining Strains Laos’ Hydropower Grid...
BONE skyrockets post successful ShibaSwap Shibarium integration
17.5.2024
Following the successful implementation of ShibaSwap to Shibarium, the project’s layer-2 scalability solution, the value of Bone ShibaSwap (BONE), the governance token of Shiba Inu’s decentralized crypto exchange platform and the official gas token of Shibarium saw a double-digit spike....
MakerDAO unveils PureDai: A decentralized stablecoin with no dollar peg
17.5.2024
MakerDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization that created the Dai stablecoin, has revealed intentions to launch a new stablecoin called PureDai. This step is intended to provide a fully decentralized alternative to Dai, which now depends on a combination of centralized and decentralized...
Liquid Staking Market in Flux: Withdrawals Hit Swell and Mantle, Reshuffling Landscape
17.5.2024
Over the past 18 days, 27 distinct liquid staking derivatives (LSD) protocols have experienced withdrawals amounting to approximately 50,000 ether, valued at $146.72 million. The most significant reductions occurred in the LSDs Swell and Mantle, with Swell’s ether holdings decreasing...
Solayer, a restaking protocol based in Solana, raises $20 million
17.5.2024
A Solana-centric staking protocol known as Solayer amassed $20 million in a mere forty-five minutes while it was still in the process of being introduced. It occurred during the Genesis Epoch 0 phase. This involved limited time, a limited cap, and the assemblage of a fair amount of important...
Bitcoin Hits $67K, Leading to $45M in Short Position Liquidations
17.5.2024
The price of bitcoin surpassed the $67,000 mark on Friday, reaching a peak of $67,482 per unit, the highest value since late April. This increase has resulted in the liquidation of nearly $45 million in leveraged bitcoin short positions over the past day. $120M in Crypto Positions Liquidated...
Lackluster Performance for Hong Kong Bitcoin ETFs Since Launch
17.5.2024
Since the Hong Kong spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) began trading, their performance has been underwhelming, with three ETFs accumulating around $228 million in net assets. Inconsistent Inflows and Outflows Mark Hong Kong Bitcoin ETFs’ First Weeks On Thursday, the spot bitcoin ETFs...
DTCC, Chainlink pilot accelerates fund tokenization with major banks on board; LINK soars 7%
17.5.2024
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), recognized as the world’s largest securities settlement system, has successfully completed a pilot project in collaboration with the blockchain oracle Chainlink and multiple major U.S. financial institutions. The term “Smart NAV” given...
China Expands Digital Yuan Pilot: Hong Kong Residents Can Now Set up E-CNY Wallets Locally
17.5.2024
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) have advanced the digital yuan (e-CNY) pilot for payments, aiming to increase e-CNY wallet usage in Hong Kong. Residents can now set up and top up wallets via the Faster Payment System (FPS), marking the first global...
Solana-based platform Pump.fun loses $2M in flash loan exploit
17.5.2024
Pump.fun, a Solana platform, has suffered a loss of $2 million. The perpetrator used flash loans to acquire SOL, followed by Pump.fun meme coins. The breach of the bonding curve was a resultant factor. Pump.fun stated that it has strengthened its contracts to stop the hackers from taking more money...
US Bitcoin ETFs See 4 Days of Inflows, Blackrock’s IBIT Nears GBTC’s Reserve Levels
17.5.2024
On Thursday, U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) marked their fourth day of inflows, accumulating $257.3 million. Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) also experienced its fourth day of inflows, gaining $4.6 million during the trading sessions. Spread Between IBIT and GBTC Bitcoin...
Solana Meme Coin Marketplace Pump.fun Issues $1.9 Million Exploit Postmortem, Discloses Former Employee Involvement
17.5.2024
Pump.fun, a leading Solana-based marketplace and deployment tool for meme coins, issued a postmortem on the exploit that occurred on May 16. The team stated that a former employee took advantage of its position to misappropriate 12.3K SOL, worth $1.9 million. An X user nicknamed Staccoverflow...