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Fallout From Falsely Confirmed Approval of Spot BTC ETFs + More Crypto News
10.1.2024
Source: AdobeStock / Angelov 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: Fallout From Falsely Confirmed Approval of Spot BTC ETFs Crypto Exchanges to Gross Over $50Bn in 2024 Binance Labs-Backed...
North Korea-Affiliated Hackers Stole $600 Million in 2023 — Ten Times More Damaging Than Anyone Else
10.1.2024
North Korea-affiliated hackers stole digital assets worth $600 million in the past year. According to a TRM Labs report, this figure will likely rise to $700 million if additional attacks which occurred at the tail end of the year are traced to the same hackers. North Korea and its affiliates...
Fox Launches Blockchain-based Open Source Platform with Polygon Labs
10.1.2024
Source: Pixabay The Fox Corporation has partnered with Polygon Labs to unveil the new blockchain-based Verify, an open source platform designed to verify the authenticity of content and track its use across the web. Built on Polygon PoS, the core blockchain infrastructure can transparently prove...
Fox, Polygon Release Blockchain-Powered Tool 'Verify' to Weed Out Deepfakes
9.1.2024
"Verify" is an open-source protocol built on Polygon's PoS blockchain, specifically used to establish the origin and history of registered media
SingularityDAO inks a channel deal with Chainlink Labs
9.1.2024
SingularityDAO ties up with Chainlink Labs to back the Chainlink BUILD community to gain connectivity with further options via SingularityDAO’s launchpad, creative solutions, and various other factors. Incidentally, Singularity DAO is a decentralized collection management protocol. SingularityDAO...
Report Finds Less Illicit Crypto Activity in Nations With Full Licensing Regimes in 2023: TRM Labs
8.1.2024
Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs has found that crypto service providers in countries with full regulatory regimes had lower rates of illicit activity than those in less regulated jurisdictions in 2023
U.S. SEC Seeks to Leverage Terraform Win in Coinbase, Binance Disputes
5.1.2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been blowing a horn in its various legal clashes with crypto exchanges, asking courts to see how its recent win in the Terraform Labs dispute should convince other judges that the regulator is right about platforms like Coinbase and Binance...
North Korea Stole Over $600 Million in Crypto in 2023: Report
5.1.2024
North Korea was responsible for greater than $600 million worth of crypto being stolen in 2023, blockchain intelligence company TRM labs announced Friday. State-sponsored attacks supporting weapons of mass destruction According to TRM Labs’ latest report, the analytics data firm suggests that...
North Korea Was Responsible for Over $600M in Crypto Thefts Last Year: TRM Labs
5.1.2024
North Korea-affiliated actors were behind a third of all crypto hacks in 2023, making off with some $600 million in funds, a new TRM Labs study said
Binance Labs invests in 9GAG’s Memeland native coin, MEME
5.1.2024
Binance Labs recently announced investing in Memecoin (MEME). It is the native ecosystem token on Memeland. The emerging platform is focusing on developing and promoting creator economies and SocialFi. Using the internet meme culture, it aims to connect communities and creators through NFTs...
Bitcoin Cats announces partnership with DWF Labs
5.1.2024
Bitcoin Cats has announced its strategic partnership with DWF Labs. The partnership’s objective is to create an ecosystem that houses some of the most interesting upcoming gaming and entertainment elements. The ecosystem will be built on the networks of Bitcoin and EVM. Although the immediate...
US SEC Cites Terraform Case in Coinbase, and Binance Rulings
5.1.2024
Source: Pixabay The US. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has cited the Terraform Labs recent ruling during the Coinbase and Binance hearings strengthening its claim that the cryptocurrency exchanges went against the securities law. On 28 December, the SEC ruled that Terraform Labs tokens...
CoinMarketCap Announces Gaimin’s GMRX Token to Be Incubated by CMC Labs in a Historic First
4.1.2024
PRESS RELEASE. GAIMIN (www.gaimin.io), the world’s leader in delivering decentralised data processing power through gaimin.cloud (www.gaimin.cloud), has been selected by CoinMarketCap as an inaugural incubatee of the new CMC Labs accelerator program. CoinMarketCap (CMC) is the most valued source...
Binance Labs Invests in Memeland’s Native Ecosystem Token Memecoin (MEME)
4.1.2024
Source: Pixabay / Binance The investment arm and incubator of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Binance Labs, has invested in the Memecoin (MEME) token. According to an announcement on January 4, Binance Labs revealed that it has invested in the naive ecosystem token of Memeland, a project...
Meta’s Quest 2 VR Headset Is Cheaper Than Ever
2.1.2024
First the price went up, and now, following the release of a newer headset from Meta, the very popular Meta Quest 2 has dropped to a new low of $250, making it a much easier buy for the VR-curious. Read more
Avalanche Foundation to Hop Onto the Meme Coin Train, Announces Investment in Selected Projects
1.1.2024
The Avalanche Foundation, an institution that funds avalanche initiatives, has recently announced that it will start investing in meme coins. These purchases will be made using funds from the $100 million Culture Catalyst fund launched in 2022, and the tokens will be selected based on their number...
SEC Whistleblower Reveals Chai Payments App in Terra Ecosystem Didn’t Use Crypto
31.12.2023
Source: Adobe/Casimiro Four crypto tokens sold by Do Kwon and his co-founded company, Terraform Labs, has been qualified as unregistered securities. The tokens in question are TerraUSD (UST), LUNA, wLUNA, and Mirror Protocol (MIR), according to a recent summary judgment ruling by Judge Jed Rakoff...
Judge Grants Summary Judgment for SEC in Landmark Crypto Case Against Terraform Labs
29.12.2023
In a definitive ruling, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff favored the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the multi-billion-dollar fraud case involving Terraform Labs and its founder, Do Kwon. Rakoff noted that the Howey test criteria were satisfied for a range of Terra-related assets...
Reports State at Least $1.7B Was Lost in Hacks and Exploits During 2023
29.12.2023
Several reports that have recently surfaced have revealed the extent of losses that crypto platforms and users faced during 2023 as a product of exploits and hacks. TRM Labs’ latest report states that the number ascended to $1.7 billion, while De.fi, another Web3 security firm, states that...
Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon Violated US Securities Law, Says Judge
29.12.2023
Source: Terra / YouTube US District Judge Jed Saul Rakoff said on Thursday, Terraform Labs CEO and founder Do Kwon violated the US securities law by failing to register UST and LUNA as securities. Rakoff, a judge at the US District Court Southern District of New York, agreed with the the Securities...