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Tether trials Notabene’s new travel rule technology to combat financial crimes
26.10.2021
The "Travel Rule" aims to bring reporting standards for virtual asset service providers in line with other traditional financial institutions
5 Dollar-Pegged Tokens Command 94% of the Swelling $135 Billion Stablecoin Market Cap
24.10.2021
During the last month, four out of five of the top stablecoins by market capitalization saw their valuations swell in size. At the time of writing, there’s $135.4 billion in stablecoins but the top five collectively represent 94.40% of that total. While the largest stablecoin in terms...
Following Bitcoin’s all-time high, DeFi TVL hits a record high above $233B
21.10.2021
The total value locked in DeFi protocols soared to $233.8 billion as rising token prices and the increasing integration of stablecoins helped send the metric to a record high
Tether Hits out at Hindenburg Research’s ‘Pathetic’ USD 1M Bounty Offer
20.10.2021
The investment research firm and short-seller Hindenburg Research has offered a USD 1m reward for information on how the tether (USDT) stablecoin is actually pegged to the United States dollar, and data on how Tether’s deposits actually work. In a strongly worded response, Tether called...
Mashinsky says USDT is minted for crypto as $1M bounty offered to unpick reserves
20.10.2021
Hindenburg Research is offering a $1 million bounty for information on Tether’s reserves, with the firm stating that Tether is yet to disclose virtually anything “about its counterparties.”
Top Ten Crypto Market Capitalizations Shifted a Great Deal Since the Last Time BTC Hit $60K
18.10.2021
The price of bitcoin recently jumped above the $60,000 per unit mark on October 15, and the leading crypto asset has not seen prices this high since mid-April six months ago. However, as far as the top digital assets are concerned, in terms of market capitalization, things are a whole...
CFTC Fines Stablecoin Issuer Tether and Crypto Exchange Bitfinex $42.5 Million
15.10.2021
On Friday, October 15, 2021, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it had ordered the company Tether Holdings Limited and Ifinex Inc., the parent company of Bitfinex, to pay fines totaling $42.5 million. The CFTC accuses Tether of “making untrue or misleading...
Coingecko Publishes Q3 Crypto Report — BTC Outperformed Every Major Asset Class, Altcoins Decouple
15.10.2021
On Thursday, the crypto asset aggregation portal Coingecko published the firm’s 2021 third-quarter report which shows a number of different findings. According to the study, for the most part, the crypto economy recovered from the market downturn in May as the top 30 market caps grew by...
CFTC slaps Tether and Bitfinex with a combined $42.5 million fine
15.10.2021
The settlement triggered concerns that the CFTC's role in stablecoin regulation could be misunderstood by the public
CFTC Fines Tether For Lying & Bitfinex For 'Illegal' Transactions + More News
15.10.2021
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Defi and Algorithmic Stablecoin Demand Grows in 2021 Despite Large Centralized Competitors
13.10.2021
On Wednesday, October 13, 2021, the market capitalization of all the stablecoins in existence is around $134 billion, which is 5.60% of the entire $2.4 trillion crypto economy. While centralized stablecoin projects dominate the pack of dollar-pegged tokens, a great number of decentralized...
Tether jako obvyklý podezřelý a záhada za 68 miliard dolarů
13.10.2021
Tether je přes svoji dlouhodobě kontroverzní pověst nejpoužívanější stablecoin, který má poměrně dramatickou historii. Situace kolem Tetheru letos v červenci vyeskalovala natolik, že jej začala řešit i Janet Yellen s šéfem americké SEC. Jeho nejnovější kapitola se začala psát teď na podzim
Bitcoin Skyrockets Above $57K, Recaptures Trillion Dollar Market Cap, Double-Digit Weekly Gains
11.10.2021
The price of bitcoin continues to climb higher as the crypto asset has captured over 19% in gains during the last seven days. Bitcoin tapped a daily high on Monday reaching $57,678 per unit, jumping 4.4% in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin Outperforms the Pack as Speculators Assume ETF Approval Is Coming...
Tether Hits Back at 'Outlandish' Report as USDT 'Mystery' Continues
8.10.2021
lecoin-tether">report that it claimed was full of “outlandish anecdotes” and “character assassination.”Tether has previously claimed to have drawn a line under the matter of whether or not it actually has the funds it says underpins the USD-pegged token by publishing results of an “audit
Tether fires back against report it is using reserves for investments and making crypto-backed loans
7.10.2021
"If those loans fail, even a small percentage of them, one Tether would become worth less than $1," said Bloomberg reporter Zeke Faux
Tether scores win in class action case as court dismisses RICO claims
29.9.2021
"Litigation will expose this case for what it is: a clumsy attempt at a money grab, which recklessly harms the whole cryptocurrency ecosystem," said Tether
Bitfinex paid a colossal $23M fee to send $100K of USDT
27.9.2021
In what is presumed as a technical error, popular crypto exchange Bitfinex have paid a seismic $23.7 million dollars in gas fee for a comparatively nominal $100K transaction
SEC Denies Freedom of Information Act Request Concerning Tether Documents
26.9.2021
On September 24, the staff writer for The New Republic, Jacob Silverman, tweeted about a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request he filed that was ultimately denied. On the social media platform, Silverman wrote that he got Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) responses to his FOIA requests...
Crypto Market Dives as China Continues Crackdown, Singles out Tether & Foreign Platforms
24.9.2021
ment.The crypto market dived following the news. Bitcoin (BTC) dropped by 5% in an hour, hitting USD 43,234 (09:42 UTC), while ethereum (ETH) lost more than 7% of its value, moving below USD 2,900. Other major altcoins dropped by 6%-9%.In a
Evergrande: Buy the dip or bail? Pundits weigh in
22.9.2021
Marty Bent, the co-founder of Bitcoin mining firm Great American Mining, is glad to be hodling Bitcoin as uncertainty hangs over the legacy financial system