Enhanced KYC checks can be a win-win for crypto exchanges and consumers — here’s why
Adopting more stringent Know Your Customer (KYC) checks can give crypto exchanges a competitive edge over those that meet minimal standards.
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Indonesia passes much-anticipated data privacy law to put bad actors behind bars
Indonesia’s parliament has introduced a data privacy law as its first motion months after encountering several breaches in the Southeast Asian country. On Tuesday, the Indonesian legislators passed the personal data protection bill that had been deliberated for more than a year. With this law, data handlers could become liable for up to five years … Read more
Malaysia-based Respond.io helps businesses juggle multiple messaging apps
There are multiple messaging apps active in Southeast Asia and most consumers prefer to use them over email when they contact a business. Respond.io serves as a central dashboard for the biggest apps, including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Line, Viber, Telegram and WeChat. The Malaysia-based company said today it has raised $7 million in Series A … Read more
Alameda Research ‘happy to return’ $200M loan to Voyager Digital
The trading company will pay back the debt, which has fallen almost twice in dollar estimate, by the end of September.
OpenAI’s image generator DALL-E can now edit human faces
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge OpenAI is letting users of its AI art generator program DALL-E edit images with human faces. This feature was previously off-limits due to fears of misuse, but, in a letter sent to DALL-E’s million-plus users, OpenAI says it’s opening up access after improving its filters to remove images … Read more
$160 million stolen from crypto market maker Wintermute
The CEO of Wintermute has stated that they are “open” to treating the hack as a white hat hack and would speak to the attacker.
Congress demands crypto payments notification from DOS when helping Ukraine
The bill amendment demands the Secretary of State submit reports to congressional committees explaining why the DOS made the determination to pay out rewards in cryptocurrency.
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Crypto market maker Wintermute loses $160 million in DeFi hack
Wintermute, a leading crypto market maker, has lost about $160 million in a hack, a top executive said Tuesday, becoming the latest firm in the industry to suffer a breach. Evgeny Gaevoy, the founder and chief executive of Wintermute, disclosed in a series of tweets that the firm’s decentralized finance operations had been hacked, but … Read more
Apple to hike App Store prices across Europe and some parts of Asia next month
Apple’s App Store prices are going up outside the US. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple says it will increase App Store prices across Europe and in some Asian markets next month as currencies weaken against the strong US dollar. The price increases will effect both in-app purchases and regular apps on … Read more
Intellectual property has an awkward fit in Web3 decentralization — Lawyers
IP rights will continue to be an area of conflict within Web3 and NFTs, but there’s no easy solution, lawyers told Cointelegraph.
Hackers take over CoinDCX Twitter account, promote fake XRP ads
A hacker took over CoinDCX’s official Twitter account and has constantly been tweeting XRP scam links.
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Citi Says Ether Remains Relatively Stable Despite Significance of the Merge
Issuance of ETH tokens is estimated to drop 90% to around 600,000 a year, the bank said.
UK to change Online Safety Bill limits on ‘legal but harmful’ content for adults
Changes are incoming to draft online safety legislation in the UK which continues to attract controversy over the impact on free speech. The draft Online Safety Bill has already been years in the making but new prime minister Liz Truss signalled earlier this month that she wants “tweaks” to ensure it does not harm freedom … Read more
Crypto Market Maker Wintermute Hacked for $160M, OTC Services Unaffected
Cryptocurrency market maker and liquidity provider Wintermute has lost $160 million in a hack relating to its DeFi business, according to a tweet from the company’s founder and CEO.
DTCP taps SoftBank as an anchor LP for its next $500-600M fund
Last week, we got a glimpse of how SoftBank is pulling away from some of its more exuberant investing of the past years, when news broke that it had sold its entire stake in edtech startup Kahoot, at a loss. This week, we’re getting a look at what SoftBank is doing to diversify how it … Read more
Sources say Web Summit Ventures will be a new $40M follow-on fund
Web Summit, one of the world’s largest events centered around technology startups, is to launch a brand new venture capital vehicle consisting of two new funds, TechCrunch understands. The move follows an acrimonious fall-out between Web Summit’s co-founders, who first started the now-defunct Amaranthine VC fund in 2018, in part to join the ballooning investment … Read more
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YouTube’s ‘dislike’ and ‘not interested’ buttons barely work, study finds
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Even when users tell YouTube they aren’t interested in certain types of videos, similar recommendations keep coming, a new study by Mozilla found. Using video recommendations data from more than 20,000 YouTube users, Mozilla researchers found that buttons like “not interested,” “dislike,” “stop recommending channel,” and “remove from … Read more
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