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Binance Money Laundering Trial in Nigeria Pushed to June 20 Due to Executive’s Illness
24.5.2024
Binance's head of financial crimes compliance Tigran Gambaryan is seriously ill, his lawyers said
The Protocol: From 'Node Sales' to 'Address Poisoning,' the Money's in Crypto
8.5.2024
In this week's issue of The Protocol newsletter, we dive into the crypto industry's fundraising method du jour – it's all about the decentralization! PLUS: Polyhedra says its ZK prover is 2x faster than anyone else's
Free Money? Polymarket Bet Pays 8% if China Doesn't Invade Taiwan
15.4.2024
Betting against that outcome could yield almost 8x as much as Taiwan government bonds. Plus: Mideast turmoil barely changes presidential odds
Is Wormhole About to Crash? W Price Drops 18% as Whale Money Shifts to Slothana
5.4.2024
Wormhole’s W token is down 18% in the last 24 hours, barely two days after listing on Binance, according to data by CoinGecko. The losses come amidst a broader market pullback that has shaved 2.2% off the price of Ethereum (ETH), the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market...
The Protocol: Using the Money Printer
3.4.2024
If you have the money printer – as is the case for many of the blockchain projects with the power to create their own digital tokens – why wouldn't you use it? PLUS: Vitalik Buterin riffs on meme coin and Ethereum's new "blob market."
Bitcoin Halving Is a ‘Show Me the Money’ Moment for Miners
19.3.2024
With April’s “halving” set to cut mining rewards by half, Bitcoin miners are upgrading to more efficient mining machines, cutting costs, finding cheaper sources of power and exploring mergers and acquisition opportunities
Alchemy Pay Gains Approval with New Hampshire Money Transmitter License in the USA
6.3.2024
Alchemy Pay, the leading fiat-crypto payment gateway, proudly announced another successful Money Transmitter License (MTL) acquisition in the USA, the state of New Hampshire, adding to its existing licenses in Arkansas and Iowa. Alchemy Pay is actively pursuing MTL licenses in additional U.S....
The Key to Making More Money During a Crypto ICO? Look Trustworthy, New Study Says
9.2.2024
A February 8 study from the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland, has unveiled that a trustworthy appearance could boost investor funding in crypto initial coin offerings (ICOs) by an impressive 95%. For context, ICOs typically refer to the raising of capital required to launch a...
Veteran Investor Jim Rogers on Crypto: Bitcoin Unlikely to Become Money, Governments Favor CBDCs
3.2.2024
In a new interview, Jim Rogers, who helms Rogers Holdings Inc. and was a co-creator of the Quantum Fund alongside George Soros in the 1970s, shared his observation of “various signs that something is going to go wrong soon” within the U.S. economy, predicting an impending recession....
How to Make Money Buying Art: Advice From Art Market Economist Magnus Resch
25.1.2024
In his latest book, the Yale economist guides prospective buyers through never overpaying for art by examining the data and curating relationships. It turns out NFTs have particular utility here
L2 Protocol Manta Network Suffers DDoS Attack, Project Leaders Face Money Laundering Allegations
21.1.2024
Manta Network, a modular layer two (L2) protocol, said a distributed denial-of-service attack on Jan. 18 resulted in the network accumulating a large queue of recent transactions. The attack, which occurred during a token-issuing event, is believed to have severely limited communication between...
How Tokenized Assets Can Replace Money
17.1.2024
And why universal payments using fractionized assets is unlikely to happen soon
Tether Holdings “Have The Money They Say They Have” Confirms Cantor CEO
17.1.2024
Howard Lutnick’ – CEO of investment banking giant Cantor Fitzgerald – has a message for Tether Truthers: the stablecoin giant’s assets are 100% backed. During an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday, the executive reaffirmed his claims that month that Cantor is a custodian...
Big Wall Street CEO Addresses Controversy Around Tether's Stablecoin Assets: 'They Have the Money'
16.1.2024
Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick vouched for stablecoin issuer Tether’s legitimacy on Tuesday, addressing what has been one of the big questions in crypto over the years as its stablecoin, USDT, has grown into a behemoth: Does Tether have the money it says it does
Banks Will Invest in Blockchain When They Make Money from Bitcoin ETF + More Crypto News
11.1.2024
Source: AdobeStock / Antonio Get your daily, bite-sized digest of blockchain and crypto news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. In this edition: Banks Will Invest in Blockchain When They Make Money from Bitcoin ETF – Swarm Markets Prometheum’s Digital Asset...
KyberSwap Exploited in $46 Million Attack Due to ‘Infinite Money Glitch’
24.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / Roman Samokhin According to Ambient Exchange founder Doug Colkitt, KyberSwap’s $46 million hack was “the most complex and carefully engineered smart contract exploit” and confirmed that what happened was an infinite money glitch. In a detailed thread on...
KyberSwap attacker used ‘infinite money glitch’ to drain funds: DeFi expert
23.11.2023
By exploiting a bug, the attacker caused liquidity to be "double counted," allowing them to get an unfair price for a swap
6 Questions for JW Verret — an attorney who’s tracking the money, but advocating for crypto
3.10.2023
J.W. Verret is a Harvard-educated attorney who teaches corporate finance and accounting at George Mason University. His work has increasingly intersected with the crypto sector in recent years, as his legion of Twitter followers — who know him as “BlockProf,” or the Blockchain Professor —...
Swiss bank UBS launches tokenized money market fund on Ethereum
2.10.2023
The fund is a part of a wider VCC umbrella that brings various real-world assets to the blockchain
Kraken Expands Presence in Europe, Obtains EU E-Money License to Offer Services in Spain and Ireland
26.9.2023
Kraken moves toward a wider European presence with key regulatory steps in Spain and Ireland after it obtained an EU e-money license.
According to a press release on Sept 26, the exchange announced a progression in Europe after it successfully registered with the Bank of Spain for a Virtual Asset...