Sumitomo Mitsui Trust – one of the largest asset managers in Asia – will tap Tokyo-based crypto exchange Bitbank to set up a company offering digital asset services to institutional clients this year. The newly created firm will hold cryptocurrencies and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) for “large investors and corporations.” Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Focused on Security...Read More
Difficult to prove, yet often suspected, insider trading has been a staple practice of dishonest investors ever since the stock markets took off. Over time, regulators like the SEC were founded in order to fight the phenomenon – despite it being an elusive one hard to pin on a perpetrator. This is due to the...Read More
China may have banned cryptocurrencies on its territory, but blockchain technology remains a key priority area for the government. Its global ambitions in this space are just taking off with BSN Spartan Network, which is advertised to be open-source and free from the Chinese government’s snooping. BSN’s Spartan Network Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN), a project...Read More
Earlier this month, the crypto industry suffered a huge setback after Terra’s algorithmic stablecoin UST depegged from the US dollar and caused LUNA to lose 99.9% of its value. Shortly after the crash, Terraform Labs’ CEO Do Kwon proposed a revival plan for the Terra ecosystem. It centered on forking the current chain, abandoning UST,...Read More
Tl;dr: Coinbase Wallet makes it simple to trade tokens on your choice of network. This month, we expanded our trading features to support token swaps on BNB Chain and Avalanche. By Catherine Shyu Sullivan, Senior Product Manager More than $1 trillion were traded on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) in 2021 — a staggering 858% increase from...Read More
American video game retailer GameStop announced the launch of its digital asset wallet. Following the development, shares of GameStop (GME) rose by more than 2% premarket on Monday to $98.02. It was currently trading at $95.66. GameStop Wallet GameStop’s new self-custodial Ethereum wallet will allow users to store, send, receive and use cryptocurrencies and non-fungible...Read More
Cryptocurrency holders that became successful through either mining, DeFi, or NFTs, often are left with large amounts of BTC, ETH, or another blue-chip digital asset. While this in and of itself isn’t a negative thing, wealth comes with its own set of challenges. For example, using that wealth to buy real estate, pay bills, or...Read More
As part of yet another phishing attack, the Twitter account of prominent digital artist Mike Winkelmann, also known as Beeple, was hacked to promote a crypto scam. “Stay safe out there, anything too good to be true IS A F***ING SCAM,” tweeted the artist after regaining his account. The hacked account featured a phishing link...Read More
BitMEX has extended Sjors Provoost’s Bitcoin developer grant until November 2022, a six month extension from the previous grant, which expires at the end of this month. As an author of the book Bitcoin: A Work in Progress (available on Amazon), Sjors formerly joined the BitMEX grant programme in August 2021, however prior to that...Read More
India’s regulatory uncertainty for the crypto sector came into sharp focus at the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos. In an interview with Reuters, CoinSwitch Kuber CEO Ashish Singhal highlighted the government’s policy dilemma on the industry. “Users don’t know what will happen with their holdings – is the government going to...Read More
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged two U.S. residents and their entities for running a cryptocurrency investment scheme that defrauded over 170 investors. CFTC Charges Two Men for $44M Crypto Scam In an official press release, the CFTC alleged that the defendants, Sam Ikkurty and Ravishankar Avadhanam, had fraudulently solicited a...Read More
Terra LUNA’s price is up over 59% today, currently trading at $0.0001912, surpassing $1.2 billion in market capitalization. The recent price hike for LUNA is most likely due to Terra’s Founder, Do Kwon’s statements yesterday, responding to accusations and questions from the community, which put the market at ease. Let’s look at Terra LUNA and...Read More
