CBDCs Could Need Global Regulation, EU Commissioner Says
Paolo Gentiloni says a series of international agreements might be needed to stop state-backed digital currencies from infringing sovereignty.
Paolo Gentiloni says a series of international agreements might be needed to stop state-backed digital currencies from infringing sovereignty.
A white hat Nomad exploiter says stronger incentives are needed to reward the good Samaritans who help protocols identify and patch vulnerabilities.
The exchange assured users in a series of Tweets that withdrawals should be moving along and matching engines are running as they should, though some users didn’t buy it.
The interim funding round values the business at 180 million euros.
The Polygon team has hired talent from large global tech companies and reached out to brands with many consumers.
The Deribit hot wallet hacker has transferred 1,610 ETH (over $2.5 million) to Tornado Cash, according to data from the Ethereum block explorer Etherscan.
Huobi claimed that calling the incident a white hat move was only pNetwork’s excuse to avoid legal sanctions.
Stablecoin issuer Circle said it will add support for Euro Coin on the Solana blockchain early next year.
Paxos plans to make at least 130 hires in Singapore having obtained a central bank license to offer crypto products and services, Bloomberg reported Monday.
The Chinese government has shown a keen interest in developing a metaverse economy, but its stance on NFTs hasn’t been very clear.
Alameda Research reportedly obtained $2.2 billion worth of loans using FTT as collateral, a token created by cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
The U.S.-China tensions, the Russia-Ukraine war, higher energy prices, rising inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic and cyberattacks came out as some of the most pressing financial risk concerns.
Canadian Bitcoin miner HIVE Blockchain currently holds 3,311 bitcoin worth $68.8 million, according to a production report released Monday.
Signs that market optimism is running away with itself come ahead of the U.S. midterm elections and key economic data.
Open interest has doubled to $203 million, with bearish bets in demand, as Binance’s entry into the FTX-Alameda drama has caused panic among investors.
In 2022 the blockchain has suffered from ten partial or full outages along with slow block times and Solana’s co-founder said it’s “not the experience that we want to deliver.”
The remaining milestones of the Ethereum roadmap consist of The Surge, The Scourge, The Verge, The Purge and The Splurge.
Paul Ryan, the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, will join past leaders of both parties’ congressional campaign committees in a group formed by Paradigm in a bid to help shape the crypto policies coming out of Washington, company officials said.
FTT, SOL, and BNB all begin the week in the red as the market digests Alameda’s questionable financial position.
Royalty enforcement tool only applies to new NFT collections at this stage, with a decision to be made on existing collections at a later date.
The FTX founder has reportedly spent almost $40 million mainly supporting Democrats during the current political cycle, according to Open Secrets.
As of the end of September, Meta had more than 87,000 employees — a large proportion of which is said to work in the Reality Labs division.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao cited “recent revelations” as the reason for the liquidation, noting the sale of its tokens could take months to complete due to the size of its position.
Consumer protection and regulation are key ingredients to transforming digital assets into an asset class worth trillions. The FTX exchange’s Sam Bankman-Fried weighs in. Meanwhile, FTX’s FTT token takes a dive after rival Binance announces plans to dump its remaining holdings.
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“Bitcoin uses 0.05% of world energy consumption. Banking uses 56 times more energy than Bitcoin,” Michel Khazzaka, a cybersecurity engineer and cryptographer, told Cointelegraph.
The Federal Reserve stirred up markets last week, but bitcoin was less reactive than plain old stocks. Crypto Long & Short is CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter featuring insights, news and analysis for the professional investor.
A handful of organizations are combining crypto with decentralized finance models to create better payment systems for trucking companies.