Investment management giant BlackRock filed an amended version of its spot Bitcoin ETF S-1 application form on Wednesday, following numerous updated filings from rival firms. The updated filing includes five additional pages of text warning of additional risks the fund’s investors may face, including risks related to Bitcoin itself. Bitcoin Lacks Transparency, Says BlackRock In...Read More
Superdao, a platform founded to help with the development of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), said it would shut down operations due to unprofitable returns and would refund investors. The platform raised over $10 million in 2022 and supported more than 2,000 DAO launches. Superdao to Exit Market Superdao CEO Yury Lifshits announced plans to wind...Read More
Do Kwon, the co-founder of Terraform Labs, is at the center of a legal storm as new revelations regarding the terraUSD (UST) stablecoin collapse in 2022 come to light. Kwon is under investigation, with recent developments indicating that the involvement of market maker Jump Trading could be crucial in the legal proceedings. Jump Trading’s Profits...Read More
New York Attorney General Letitia James has taken decisive action against major players in the cryptocurrency industry, filing a lawsuit against Gemini Trust, Genesis Global Capital, and Digital Currency Group (DCG). The legal action centers around Gemini Earn, a joint effort between Genesis and Gemini that offered investors significant returns on their cryptocurrency deposits. Nonetheless,...Read More
Elon Musk and Mark Cuban have joined forces to challenge the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) practice of conducting in-house trials without juries. The duo has presented a joint amicus brief to the Supreme Court, raising questions about the legitimacy of the SEC’s administrative proceedings and their implications for the Seventh Amendment right to...Read More
Tesla’s Q3 2023 financial report reveals that the company did not trade or sell any Bitcoin during the last three months. As of Sept. 30, Tesla still possesses around 9,720 BTC, valued at approximately $275.6 million based on current market rates. Tesla Still Holds its Bitcoin According to Tesla’s recently released Q3 2023 financial report,...Read More
After a year’s worth of stonewalling spot Bitcoin ETF applicants, the SEC may be taking a more laid-back approach toward their proponents. Cordial Discussion With Applicants Following a failed bid to block Grayscale from creating an ETF via lawsuit, Cathie Wood – the CEO of Ark Invest – stated that she had noticed a welcome...Read More
Coinbase has revealed that customers residing in eligible non-US regions now have the opportunity to engage in perpetual futures trading on Coinbase Advanced, the firm’s specialized platform designed for discerning retail traders. Starting on October 18, traders will be able to employ USDC as their currency of choice to place bids on four distinct contracts...Read More
Sui Network – a layer 1 blockchain – has gained significant traction since its mainnet launch in May. However, South Korean regulators believe the developers lied about several aspects of the token. According to the latest report by a local news agency, the director of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSC) said that an investigation will...Read More
BNB Chain – the community-driven blockchain ecosystem – announced the public launch of the Greenfield Mainnet. According to the official blog post, Greenfield is a decentralized storage-centric network designed to cater to data-intensive decentralized applications within the BNB ecosystem. This network aims to offer customizable storage solutions that seamlessly integrate with smart contracts on the...Read More
The Biden administration is being called upon by over 100 lawmakers in the United States to clarify its efforts at combatting global terrorist financing using cryptocurrencies. The bipartisan letter follows reports that Hamas, the Islamist organization that launched attacks on Israeli civilians earlier this month, used crypto to raise millions of dollars over the past...Read More
Bitcoin ASIC manufacturing giant – Bitmain – has reportedly fired four of its employees who leaked salary information and cited the “illegal publication of the company’s announcement on salary release” as the reason behind the move. It emphasized its “Management Standards for External Information Disclosure” once again in the notification, underscoring the requirement that employees...Read More
After years of delaying and stonewalling a highly anticipated spot Bitcoin ETF, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is starting to have more productive conversations about the product with hopeful applicants. One such hopeful is Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Invest, who said on Monday that her company has noticed a positive “change in behavior”...Read More
Yuga Labs, the creative force behind the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection, has completed a restructuring phase to position it for long-term success. In a message to the community, Yuga Labs CEO Daniel Alegre shared insights into the company’s journey, achievements, and a renewed focus on the metaverse project, Otherside. Yuga Labs...Read More
New details show that Bankman-Fried had a packed schedule in September 2022, with meetings involving influential individuals less than two months before the exchange’s downfall. From close connections with Bahamian authorities and former President Bill Clinton to an evening at the preferred late-night spot of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, here’s what’s new in...Read More
Bitcoin briefly soared toward $30,000 following a false spot Bitcoin ETF approval information before swiftly retreating to the $28,000 level. But an actual approval could add $1 trillion to the crypto market, according to the latest report by CryptoQuant. The next wave of Bitcoin institutional adoption appears to be advancing in the form of financial...Read More
Ethereum is getting more concentrated into the hands of whales, according to the latest data from on-chain analytics provider Santiment. On October 18, Santiment reported that billionaire Ethereum investors with more than 1 million ETH hold 32.2% of the available supply for the first time since 2016. Furthermore, Ethereum transactions exceeding $1 million hit their...Read More
Back in 2020, Reddit launched Community Points, an initiative that rewarded high-quality posters by giving them Ethereum-based tokens that could be spent on badges and emojis on the platform. At the time, the experiment seemed fun and allowed users of the platform to show off their flair in a way that proved that they had...Read More
The Lido on Solana project will wind down following the inability of the P2P team to sustain the project due to financial constraints. According to the team, the sunsetting of the project will happen over the coming months, with stSOL token holders given until February 2024 to unstake through the Lido on the Solana frontend....Read More
The bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange has staked close to $170 million in several crypto assets, including Solana, Ethereum, and MATIC. Blockchain data revealed that the defunct platform has staked over 5.5 million SOL and more than 24K ETH. FTX Move to Staking Staking is primarily the practice of locking up cryptocurrencies on a blockchain network to...Read More
Nishad Singh, a former top engineer at the defunct crypto exchange network FTX, testified on Oct. 16 that the network’s ex-CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, had planned a potential deal with Telegram for TON tokens. Singh commented when testifying in the ongoing court case against the former FTX CEO for financial malpractices and fraud. FTX Pitched an...Read More
Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has stopped onboarding new users from the United Kingdom, pending when the firm can find a new FCA-authorized partner to approve its cryptocurrency promotions. The UK financial regulator restricted Binance’s previous local partner from approving crypto marketing materials. Binance Currently Unable to Promote Crypto to UK Customers Binance said it will...Read More
The Fantom Foundation has been drained of hundreds of millions of dollars from its crypto wallets by a phishing scammer, according to blockchain security firm CertiK. Fantom is a smart contract and Dapp platform focused on enhanced speed, making transactions more efficient than other layer-one blockchains like Ethereum. Tuesday’s hack affects only the Fantom Foundation...Read More
ProShares is gearing up to introduce a unique offering to the market. The firm recently launched three Ethereum futures ETFs and is now preparing to debut the ProShares Short Ether Strategy ETF (SETH). This new ETF is poised to launch in early November, just a few weeks after the initial Ethereum futures ETFs debuted. ProShares...Read More
Digital asset investment products attracted inflows for the third week in a row, totaling $15 million. However, trading volumes remain 27% below the 2023 average. Over the past week, Bitcoin saw inflows of $16 million, bringing the year-to-date inflows to $260 million, while short BTC products also received $1.7 million. Altcoins, however, did not have...Read More
Binance’s American entity, Binance.US, has officially informed its customers that their digital assets held on the exchange are no longer Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insured. This change follows a previous advisory from the US agency, alerting individuals to the fact that funds placed with financial service providers dealing in cryptocurrency do not fall under...Read More
Coinbase announced the delisting of several trading pairs starting today in a bid to enhance overall market health and consolidate liquidity. The leading crypto exchange said the latest decision comes after regularly monitoring the markets on its platform. Coinbase Delists 80 Non-USD Trading Pairs According to an announcement on October 17th, Coinbase said it had...Read More
Hamas has been leveraging a global financial network to channel support from charities and sympathetic nations, employing various methods, including cryptocurrencies, to circumvent international sanctions. This has prompted the Israeli authorities to freeze several crypto accounts and seize millions of dollars worth of crypto coins following its attack on the country. Israel Freezes Over 100...Read More
Berkshire Hathaway’s top performer this year is Brazilian bank Nubank. The São Paulo-headquartered bank touts itself as a “neobank” and offers blockchain products to its customers. Nubank allows customers to hold and trade cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ether. It also launched its own crypto, Nucoin, in 2022. Berkshire Hathaway Bags ROI with Nubank Stake Berkshire...Read More
According to on-chain data from analytics provider Santiment posted on October 17, LINK has made 30% over the past five weeks or so. It reported that whale wallets with 100,000 to 1 million LINK tokens “have accumulated aggressively,” with $38.5 million worth added in the past week alone. “Their moves are more relevant than small...Read More
