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European Council Passes MiCA Crypto Regulation – A Turning Point for Crypto Landscape
6.10.2022
The European Council on Wednesday passed the new MiCA crypto regulation, by many seen as a turning point for Europe’s crypto industry.
The new bill, with the full name Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA), has now been voted through the European Council, but still needs to pass an additional vote...
SEC Halts Crypto Ponzi Operation Targeting Latino Investors
6.10.2022
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed an emergency action to stop an ongoing crypto Ponzi scheme targeting Latino investors.
According to an SEC press release, the scheme was being operated by defendants Mauricio Chavez and Giorgio Benvenuto through CryptoFX - a company...
QANplatform Collaborates With API3 to Integrate API3 Oracles
6.10.2022
QANplatform recently announced a partnership with API3 to integrate API3 Oracles. The collaboration will see the QANplatform integrate the protocol within its quantum-resistant smart contracts. As a quantum-resistant L1 hybrid blockchain, QANplatform helps enterprises and developers to build...
Here’s What Crypto Billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried Thinks About Markets – Have We Bottomed?
6.10.2022
While many industry observers ask themselves whether the crypto markets have reached their bottom level before they will rebound, Sam Bankman-Fried, the outspoken CEO and founder of major crypto exchange FTX, believes that the coming months could see crypto pegged to the general outlook for...
Russia Allows International Trade in Cryptocurrency for Any Industry
5.10.2022
The Finance Ministry of Russia is looking to facilitate a more accommodating cryptocurrency policy, as it plans to permit the use of digital assets for international settlements in any industry without restrictions.
The Russian Ministry of Finance acknowledges the growing significance...
World Mobile Forms an Exclusive Partnership With Immunify.Life
5.10.2022
World Mobile has formed an exclusive partnership with Immunify.Life, with the intention and aim of jointly improving and upgrading the overall healthcare system and also effectively working towards creating better means of linking up with the left-out and backward areas which are, more often than...
Binance Opens Offices in Brazil as Team Size Doubles
4.10.2022
Major crypto exchange Binance continues its international expansion with the opening of two new offices in Brazil, based in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
The platform said in a tweet that its latest move is designed to “expand in the country and to grow crypto adoption in Latin America.”
The...
Indian Crypto Exchange WazirX Lays Off 40% of Workforce
3.10.2022
Major Indian crypto exchange WazirX has laid off about 40% of its employees, citing a fall in trading volumes due to the bear market and the regulatory climate in India.
Local news outlet the Economic Times reports that the figure equates to around 50 to 70 employees of the exchanges around...
Celsius CEO Withdrew $10 Million Before Company Entered Bankruptcy
3.10.2022
Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky withdrew $10 million from the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency lender just weeks before the company froze customer accounts and collapsed, according to sources cited by The Financial Times....
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Two Firms Charged by US SEC for Crypto Pump and Dump Scheme
3.10.2022
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged two now-defunct cryptocurrency firms and their executives for allegedly running a pump-and-dump scam worth $36.8 million from 2017 until 2019 via a token called 'Dignity' (DIG). ...
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Arbitrum Airdrop May Be Coming Soon - Here’s What You Need to Know
2.10.2022
Major Ethereum scaling solution Arbitrum is reportedly preparing for its much-anticipated airdrop. In light of this, pundits have shared some useful insight on the nature of the airdrop and possible eligibility prerequisites....
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Russia Supplying Kazakhstan with Electricity for Cryptocurrency Miners
2.10.2022
Russia is looking to bolster Kazakhstan's energy demands in an amendment of the partnership between the two nations, as a means to provide electricity to miners within the former Soviet republic member state. The move comes amidst growing demand for electricity by crypto miners in Kazakhstan,...
Solana Price Plunges as Blockchain Suffers Outage Again
1.10.2022
Solana's price has taken a hit amid another major outage that has grinded the network activity to a halt.
Crypto pundit and host of NFT Alpha show, Nick Valdez first brought the development to public attention on Twitter after a series of speculative mentions. A few hours later, the official...
Uniswap to Raise $100 Million in New Funding Round
1.10.2022
Uniswap Labs – the firm behind one of the world's largest decentralized exchanges, Uniswap – is looking to raise a massive $100M fund in its latest funding round. This round follows Uniswap's previous Series A funding in 2020....
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Ethereum Scaling Solution Aurora Pays $2 Million Bug Bounty to Hackers
30.9.2022
Aurora, an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible scaling and bridge solution built on top of the NEAR Protocol blockchain network, has completed the payment of a $2 million bug bounty to a pair of whitehat hackers that reported vulnerabilities on the platform back in June. ...
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FTX Crypto Exchange CEO Considered Buying Twitter with Elon Musk
30.9.2022
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the billionaire CEO of crypto exchange FTX, was interested in joining Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter, according to new court documents that were made public as part of the case discovery process.
Business Insider reports that Will MacAskill, an executive of the SBF-funded...
Ripple Labs XRP Secures Victory in Ongoing Legal Battle Against SEC
30.9.2022
In another installment of its legal struggle against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), US blockchain firm Ripple has obtained a positive ruling from a U.S. District Court Judge in Manhattan who overruled the regulator’s attempts to withhold documents from the fintech....
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Pantera Capital Seeks $1.25 Billion for Second Blockchain Fund
29.9.2022
U.S. hedge fund Pantera Capital has unveiled plans to raise as much as $1.25 billion for the company’s second blockchain fund, indicating that institutional investors have a growing appetite for cryptocurrencies in spite of the latest market downturn....
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Re is Creating a Decentralized Global Insurance Market Using Avalanche
29.9.2022
Re is in the due process of constructing a decentralized insurance marketplace by perching itself on the Avalanche platform. This will be on a global level. The exercise will help and assist in tokenizing reinsurance and open the doors for the opportunity of being in a position to reach out...
Victims of TerraUSD UST Collapse Speak Out – Will Do Kwon Be Arrested?
29.9.2022
Victims of the collapse of the Terra ecosytem, which wiped out over $60 billion of investors' funds, have been speaking up and calling for Do Kwon and entities related to him to be brought to justice.
In a Twitter thread, 'FatManTerra,' a pseudonymous finance investor who has been providing...