Christian Nwobodo

Journalist CryptoSlate

Christian is a crypto-curious nerd who loves to investigate how protocols work under the hood. Christian is interested in DeFi protocol research, token economics, and on-chain analytics.

Author Stats

Total Articles 358

Since Jul 2022

Last Active Mar 3, 2023

Primary Beat Regulation

Christian Nwobodo Recent Articles

Scams

UK judge rules to extradite Christopher Hamilton to US for trial on OneCoin scam

Two Britons Hamiton and McDonalds had filed to avoid extradition the US. A UK Judge, however, ruled that Hamilton will proceed for trials in the US, while McDonald will remain in the UK.

4 years ago

Crypto

CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily: Tether fights back against insolvency claims, EU struggles to curb inflation

FBI's warning against DeFi protocols, LUNA Classics price action, EU struggles to curb inflation and much more in this edition of CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily.

4 years ago

Exchanges

Crypto Lender Nexo allocates $50M to buyback its native token

Nexo has committed additional $50 million towards its long-standing buyback initiative.

4 years ago

Stablecoins

Tether responds to WSJ’s insolvency claim, says its US Treasury assets are safe

Tether responded to a WSJ article claiming that a 0.3% in the price of assets held in Tether's reserve could lead to insolvency.

4 years ago

Crypto

CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily: BTC short liquidations reach $9M, Ava Labs CEO deems CryptoLeaks’ allegations ‘conspiracy theory’

Liquidation of $9 million in Bitcoin shorts, limits on Singapore retail investors, Chainplay's GameFi report and much more in this edition of CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily.

4 years ago

Exchanges

Virtuzone, Binance enter partnership to foster UAE crypto adoption

Binance and Virtuezone's partnership will help reduce payment barriers startups face when working to set up their businesses in the UAE.

4 years ago

Exchanges

Compound v3 “Comet” launched with support for single borrowing model

Compound users can only borrow USDC stablecoin by depositing approved collaterals into the v3 pool. Collateral deposits will not earn interest but can borrow more with less risk and lower gas fee.

4 years ago

NFTs

X2Y2 implements flexible royalty option for buyers

Buyers on X2Y2 now have the option to choose an amount they would like to contribute to an NFT project.

4 years ago

Legal

Report: Arrested Tornado Cash Developer allegedly historic links to Russian intelligence agency FSB

Alexey Pertsev previously worked as a developer for Digital Security OOO, which was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in 2018 for aiding Russia's offensive cyber capabilities.

4 years ago

Merge

Binance will refund users affected by potential Ethereum fork after the Merge

Binance will suspend ETH and ERC-20 deposits and withdrawals prior merge. It will refund users' an equal amount of ETH affected by the merge.

4 years ago

Adoption

Crypto ATM operator Bitcoin Depot, marketplace WonderFi seek to go public on Nasdaq

Crypto ATM operator Bitcoin Depot and WonderFI exchange have filed applications to start trading on Nasdaq in the U.S. and Canada respectively.

4 years ago

Bankruptcy

Voyager Digital gets approval to pay $1.6M bonus to 38 employees

The Bankruptcy court has approved $1.6 million as employee bonuses. Creditors committee will work with Voyager to cut cost by $46 million.

4 years ago