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Algoz will use Zodia’s Interchange service to offer off-venue settlement and mitigate risks around liquidity and insolvency.

The feature was introduced in testnet in March, and allows users with a NEAR account to sign transactions on blockchains it supports, without the need for cross-chain bridges.

The $420 million OnChain U.S. Government Money Market Fund was previously available on Stellar and Polygon.

A major upgrade to Vega’s blockchain and decentralized perpetuals exchange will allow users to bet on the outcomes of future events.

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Aug. 8, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

A wallet linked to the $200 million hack of the Nomad bridge in 2022 transferred 14,500 ETH to sanctioned coin-mixing service Tornado Cash, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield.

The boss of Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has said “cautious consideration” needs to be given to the decision of approving crypto-related exchange-traded funds.

The Japanese company announced its plan to adopt bitcoin as a reserve asset to hedge against the volatility of the yen in May.

Trading volumes nearly tripled and open interest on XRP-tracked futures jumped $200 million in the past 24 hours.

U.S. consumers are accumulating debt at a slower rate, data released Wednesday showed.

United States District Judge Peter Castel passed the approval on August 7, a filing shows. It did not seek a civil monetary penalty.

Donald Trump’s chances of winning the 2024 election have declined 13 percentage points in the last month.

Sanctions are an effort to throw the weight of the U.S. dollar around to tamp down on activities the U.S. government thinks may be harmful – like money laundering to fund terror groups or rogue nations. The New York Federal Reserve thinks they had a real effect in crypto.

The Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) has approved a Solana-based exchange-traded fund (ETF), the agency disclosed in its central database.

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A federal judge ordered Ripple to pay $125 million in civil penalties and imposed an injunction against future securities law violations on Wednesday.

An overnight bounce following dovish remarks from the Bank of Japan has failed to hold.

The Civil Police of São Paulo, Brazil, dismantled a money laundering scheme managed by the drug gang First Capital Command (PCC) that operated a company operating as a crypto exchange, the police said on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday.

Bitcoin swooned, and crypto markets followed. Should blockchain-project founders and developers be worried? PLUS: We break down Ronin Network’s $12 million run-in with white-hat hackers.

Tokenized private funds primed for adoption as the industry has seen with short-term liquidity products, says Peter Gaffney, vice president, business development & strategy at Blue Water Financial Technologies Services LLC.

Auto insurers take a blanket approach to setting premium prices, disadvantaging drivers with better records. DePINs can help individualize policies while keeping data secure, writes Hugo Feiler, CEO of Minima.

As regulators scrutinize DeFi more closely, participants need to improve compliance around AML and KYC and make the process easier for customers, says Thomas Gentle, Compliance Officer, Quadrata.

Mox, a virtual bank subsidiary of Standard Chartered, has started offering bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds to its clients shortly after launching an investment platform in Hong Kong.

Solana and its ecosystem tokens look attractive compared to other altcoins and is a “clear option if looking for longs” after the market turmoil, a K33 Research analyst said.

The Missouri primary defeat of Rep. Cori Bush marks the latest example of the industry’s millions opposing candidates favored by Warren, with whom the sector is waging open warfare.

If the DePIN’s whole product is data, then spoofing makes its datasets less valuable. Here’s how to address false data, according to Leonard Dorlöchter, co-founder of peaq.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a report Wednesday morning assessing the effect sanctions had on Tornado Cash.

The FCA’s actions have led to the removal of 48 apps from U.K. app stores, Lucy Castledine, the regulator’s director of consumer investments, said in an interview.

Twelve assets in the CoinDesk 20 are trading higher, with SOL up 3.9% and BCH up 2.2%.

In November 2020, Chinese authorities seized almost $4 billion worth of various tokens, including ETH, bitcoin (BTC), dogecoin (DOGE), xrp (XRP), among others.