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Bankruptcy Judge: Celsius Account Holders Can Retrieve 72.5% of Crypto Holdings, Permitted They Opt-In to Settlement Plan
22.3.2023
Custody account holders with the now-bankrupt crypto lender Celsius will be able to get back 72.5% of their holdings, as long as they agree to a settlement plan.
The settlement plan has now been approved by Judge Martin Glenn in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York,...
New White House Report Slams Digital Asset Industry – Regulation Incoming?
22.3.2023
The digital asset industry has been slammed in a new report published by the White House, with many now fearing that even stricter regulations will be introduced in the US....
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Venezuela’s Maduro Purges Crypto Offices of ‘Mafia’ Influences – ‘Hundreds’ Arrested
22.3.2023
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro says he has “purged mafia influences” from his government’s crypto regulators – after overseeing the arrest of one of his former right-hand men.
Earlier this week, Maduro green-lighted the arrest of Joselit Ramírez, the head of the Superintendencia Nacional...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Introduces First-in-the-Nation Bill to Prohibit Use of CBDC – Regulation Incoming?
21.3.2023
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will not be coming to Florida any time soon, if Governor Ron DeSantis gets his way.
In a press release, Governor DeSantis said his intention with the bill is to “protect Floridians from the Biden administration’s weaponization of the financial sector through...
Nautilus is all set to deploy a parallelized zk-EVM
21.3.2023
Nautilus announced a collaboration with Eclipse to launch a high-throughput chain. The emphasis will be on enabling payment as a built-in feature. Nautilus and Eclipse intend to fuel projects with the potential to serve customers in DeFi-related categories. Both partners contribute essential...
Arkham partners with TRON DAO to develop Total Crypto Intelligence
21.3.2023
Arkham, a blockchain analytics company, has announced its collaboration with TRON DAO via Twitter, showing one more step toward its goal of ‘Total Crypto Intelligence.’ Arkham’s integration with multiple chains into a single platform will open new possibilities for on-chain research. As per...
Spanish Lawmaker Turns Back on Politics – to Become a Bitcoin Guru
21.3.2023
A Spanish lawmaker has turned his back on parliament and his political career – and plans to become a Bitcoin (BTC), altcoins, and blockchain guru instead.
Per reports from Criptonoticias and ABC, Teodoro García Egea, the former General Secretary of the Popular Party, told journalists at a press...
Binance Crypto Exchange Braces for Regulatory Onslaught: Can the Crypto Giant Withstand the Escalating Pressure from US Authorities?
20.3.2023
Binance is increasingly taking heat from regulators on multiple fronts, with its US business being the most vulnerable to ongoing crackdowns by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Most pressing for the exchange in the US now is perhaps claims by the SEC that Binance.US is operating...
Brazilian Police Swoop on Suspected Crypto ‘Sex-tortion’ Ring – How Were Victims Coerced?
20.3.2023
Brazilian police have swooped on what they believe is a sex-themed crypto extortion ring that saw victims blackmailed into handing over tokens.
The Brazilian media outlet Livecoins reported that the probe was codenamed Operation Sextorsion, and was carried out by the Civil Police in Patos...
USDC Stablecoin Sees Massive $3 Billion Outflows in Three Days – What's Going On?
17.3.2023
The popular stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) has seen outflows of around $3 billion over three days this week, issuer Circle said in a blog post on Thursday.
According to the blog post, Circle redeemed $3.8 billion USDC and minted $0.8 billion new USDC tokens between Monday and Wednesday this week...
South Korean Crypto Exchanges Set to Renew Banking Deals
17.3.2023
South Korea’s leading crypto exchanges are ready to renew their banking deals – in a sign that relations between the “big four” trading platforms and the traditional financial sector remain strong.
Per Business Post, Bithumb is close to sealing an agreement with NongHyup Bank (NH Bank)....
EthSign collaborates with Secure3 to safeguard TokenTable
17.3.2023
EthSign has recently come out with an announcement claiming that the company has formed a collaboration with Secure3. This is more in terms of a security arrangement where its TokenTable is concerned. The idea is to be able to effectively safeguard it from any sort of threat perception. EthSign...
UK to Ramp Up Crypto Oversight: Tax Forms to Include Separate Reporting for Crypto Assets – More Regulation Incoming?
16.3.2023
The UK will ramp up oversight of the crypto sector with tax forms sent out to individuals now set to include a separate reporting option for crypto assets.
The change to the tax form will take effect from the tax year that ends in April 2025, and applies to forms for capital gains tax.
These...
SEC Accuses Chinese Businessman with Ties to Donald Trump Advisor of Orchestrating $500 Million Crypto Fraud – What's Going On?
16.3.2023
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the exiled Chinese business tycoon Miles Guo with fraud related to crypto and other assets.
The charges from the SEC relate to the sale of what is referred to as “unregistered and fraudulent offerings,” which raised more than $850 million...
Tether Market Cap Rises by 10% Following Stablecoin Meltdown – Can it Maintain the Lead?
15.3.2023
The market capitalization of the popular stablecoin tether (USDT) has risen as other stablecoins, including Circle’s USD coin (USDC) and MakerDAO’s DAI briefly lost their pegs over the weekend.
As a result of the increase in marketshare for tether, Binance USD (BUSD), a stablecoin issued...
Binance Pauses UK Deposits and Withdrawals Following Partner's Service Halt – What's Going On?
15.3.2023
Major crypto exchange Binance has halted deposit and withdrawal services through bank transfers and card payments for customers in the UK after its partner, London-based online payments firm Paysafe, cut off support for transactions carried out in the British pound (GBP).
Binance’s partner said...
Crypto Companies Shift Funds to Asset Managers Including Fidelity Amidst Banking Turmoil
15.3.2023
Crypto companies are moving their money from banks to asset managers as the turmoil in global banks continue, but industry insiders don’t see the bank failures as the end of banking for the crypto sector.
The turmoil in the banking industry has so far led to three major bank failures in the...
Spanish Football Clubs Sue Crypto Sponsors – Which Teams Are Affected?
15.3.2023
Spanish football (soccer) is suffering a “crypto hangover,” a new report has claimed – with many La Liga clubs left with “defaults, complaints, and an experience to forget” after partnerships with crypto sponsors soured....
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Side Protocol delivers IAS & onboards high-level functionality
15.3.2023
Side Protocol happens to have delivered the Interchain Atomic Swap (IAS), which is a trustless and decentralized protocol serving the purpose of inter-chain asset swaps. For this, it utilizes the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) Protocol standard (ICS-100). The IAS happens to have been...
US Authorities Probe Jump Trading and Jane Street Conversations About TerraUSD Bailout
14.3.2023
The US Justice Department has probed the two major trading firms Jump Trading and Jane Street about plans for a potential bailout of the Terra network’s failed algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST).
According to Bloomberg report from Monday, prosecutors are now looking into group chat...