Cryptocurrency exchange Binance hired Steven Christie as its senior vice president (SVP) of compliance from rival Kraken in May, according to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report Friday.
China’s push for blockchain technology gained steam after 2019 when President Xi Jinping called for corporations from tech giants to become industry leaders in the nascent tech.
The environmentally-focused financial product was introduced by a subsidiary of DeFi Technologies.
Hadean, a company aiming to build the infrastructure for metaverse environments, raised $30 million in a funding round that included online video game Fornite developer Epic Games among the investors.
The summons requires M.Y. Safra Bank to submit information about taxpayers who failed to report and pay their taxes on crypto.
Ethereum developer Preston Van Loon encouraged GitHub to fully restore Tornado Cash’s repositories after partial unbanning.
Specifications on Zilliqa’s “user-friendly” console are yet to be revealed, but a prototype design resembling an Xbox console has been released.
Compute North’s hosting partners Compass Mining have stated that the firm will continue to operate business as usual at this stage.
Earlier this week, the Israeli crypto exchange became the first crypto firm in the country to receive a license enabling it to work with local banks.
The state’s move continues a trend of state-level regulators moving faster than the feds on regulating crypto.
Layoffs at stakefish took effect on the same day as the Ethereum Merge – just as they were set to play a key role in securing the revamped blockchain.
The CFTC’s actions have even been met with strong pushback from its own commissioner, while others have drawn comparisons to the SEC’s regulation by enforcement tactics.
The John Doe summons will require M.Y. Safra Bank to provide information about SFOX customers who used the bank and may owe taxes on crypto transactions.
Earlier this week, new draft legislation on stablecoins came to light aimed at “endogenously collateralized stablecoins.”
Cardano’s newest hard fork is the blockchain’s most significant update since adding smart contract functionality last September.
Last year, the Akutars NFT collection sold out 15,000 tokens, but a major big saw $33 million worth of Ether (ETH) generated from sales locked into an inaccessible smart contract.
First Mover Asia: The average yield one can expect for lending USDC via DeFi protocols is 0.98%; the current one-year Treasury bond is paying 4.08%.
Australian crypto entrepreneur Fred Schebesta said Australia already has a “fledgling” crypto industry but needs to “align with the other major markets.”
Miners dumped over 16,000 ETH, worth more than $20 million, in the past week, on-chain data showed.
Volume on one of the industry’s top marketplaces, OpenSea, has had little movement before and after the Merge, to the surprise of many.
The commission said bZeroX offered illegal, off-exchange trading of digital assets, and has also filed a civil action against the Ooki DAO.
The platform hopes to offer the inventory of 60 more airlines within the next 12 months.
Congress’ attempt to make the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) the primary U.S. cryptocurrency regulator took a procedural step forward on Thursday, with a House lawmaker introducing a bill supporting a parallel effort in the Senate.
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The company earlier this year raised $385 million in fresh capital.
Chief scientist at IOG Aggelos Kiayias explains why Cardano has re-thought smart contracts and how it prioritizes security over speed.
The move by GitHub comes as Ethereum developers have called for platforms that host the mixer service to not ban Tornado Cash code.
XRP attracts buyers after the hope of a positive court ruling triggers a 25% rally above a key longer term resistance level.
King Charles announced the bill in May to both houses of the U.K. Parliament, saying it was aimed at tackling illicit finance, reducing economic crime and helping businesses grow.
The project’s developers cites Solana’s ability to improve efficiency as scalability as reasons for the move.