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The self-proclaimed hacker demanded $450,000 after falsely claiming to be in possession of sensitive Coinbase customer data.

The messaging app is pushing ahead with its buildout of crypto infrastructure.

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Broker-dealer and crypto trading platform INX Digital (QTCQB: INXDF) has entered the bidding contest for bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital.

Kraken is feeling the cold.

Fink was speaking at the New York Times Dealbook conference.

The stewards of the TON network have set up a ‘rescue fund’ with a soft commitment of $126 million to support projects experiencing liquidity problems as a result of the FTX fallout.

The exchange shuttered on Nov. 13 after a reported hack.

Crypto exchange and custody businesses are among entities that will have to identify and keep records for new and existing clients.

FTX subsidiary LedgerX is preparing to put up $175 million toward its parent company’s bankruptcy proceedings, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Entry into Italy’s registry for virtual currency operators is mandatory to operate in the country.

The addition is part of a major overhaul of the Casa app which will be relaunched in January.

The decentralized exchange is airdropping $5 million to past users of Genie, the NFT marketplace aggregator it acquired in June.

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Nov. 30, 2022. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Crypto regulation can be misunderstood as approval, officials at the European Central Bank said in a blog post explaining the bank’s stance on bitcoin.

The traditional-finance giant cites billions in benefits from using distributed ledger technology

The liquidity provider, which closed the funding in September, had minimal exposure to the collapsed exchange.

Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi has said it will form a “strategic partnership” with Poloneix, following rumours last week that the two firms were planning to merge.

Centralized intermediaries have seeped deep into the crypto user experience, but they continue to be its main path to adoption.

A draft bill seen by CoinDesk also covers stablecoins, crypto derivatives and companies outside the bloc.

Data sourced from Dune Analytics shows an address supposedly owned by Crypto.com transferred 1.8 trillion shiba inu to Binance.

Some investors see cryptocurrencies taking 10-15 years to become fully mainstream, the report said.

Some lawmakers worry if the upcoming crypto regulations are tough enough to stem wider structural problems in the industry.

Non-fungible token (NFT) and gaming investor Animoca Brands plans to set up a fund worth as much as $2 billion to invest in metaverse businesses, the firm’s co-founder has said in an interview, Nikkei Asia reported Wednesday.

London’s High Court has ordered six cryptocurrency exchanges including Binance, Coinbase, Luno and Kraken to disclose client information to trace $10.7 million that was stolen from a UK-based exchange in 2020.

Singapore state fund Temasek’s investment in FTX has caused reputational harm, but “it is the nature of investment and risk-taking,” said Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong.

Binance bought Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC), a Japanese crypto exchange regulated by the country’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), for an undisclosed amount.

On Monday, GMX earned $1.15 million in trading fees, surpassing Uniswap’s $1.06 million for the first time on record.

Terraform Labs’ co-founder is being charged with violating the Electronic Financial Transaction Act, according to media reports.

Genesis is in talks with creditors and potential investors, Bloomberg News reports.