DeFi
Scams
US DoJ charges tax evading ICO superstar who spent $10m on private yacht
The founder of a high-flying ICO was charged by authorities in the US yesterday on charges of a massive tax evasion scheme. DoJ charges…
Brave’s Des Martin talks Bitcoin as Web 3.0, tokenizing the web, and why banks are dinosaurs
Brave’s one of the most-used, if not the most used crypto-based projects in the world today. The firm’s browser and in-built wallet service has…
Adoption
Grayscale: 62% of new investors are now “very familiar” with Bitcoin
Grayscale Investments, arguably the world’s largest and most influential crypto fund, published results of a survey conducted last month that measured public sentiment, knowledge,…
Technology
Crypto and stocks broker eToro becomes $2.5 billion ‘unicorn’
Popular social trading app and website eToro became the latest FinTech firm to get a “unicorn” classification earlier this week, local publication Calcalist reported.…
Regulation
“Strong support” for crypto industry regulation at recent G7 meeting
Ministers from the seven influential countries called for greater regulatory oversight and laws for cryptocurrencies as the market sees increased adoption from both institutional…
Adoption
Bitcoin funds see “record” $429m inflows in last week
Bitcoin funds focused on the digital asset and other large-cap cryptocurrencies are seeing record inflows this year amidst rising inflation concerns and a bleak…
Regulation
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire: Policy issues are more prevalent as crypto “gets real”
Regulators and policymakers around the world have never been particularly open to innovations or progressions of the crypto market. However, with the industry growing…
Merge
1% of all ETH is now staked on Ethereum 2.0’s beacon chain
Over 1% of Ethereum’s circulating supply is now locked up on the project’s new beacon chain, just one week after its launch. The chain,…
Trading
Ripple CTO says the company would burn 48 billion XRP if “majority wanted rule change”
Ripple, the distributed payment processing service and issuer of the XRP token, has received a lot of flak in the past years for using…
Regulation
Crypto hedge fund CEO testifies to Washington State Senate about the challenges of regulating digital assets
Crypto regulations have proven to be a slippery slope so far, with governments around the world continuing to suppress the industry’s organic growth by…
Adoption
Crypto.com awarded license to issue debit cards in Australia
Crypto.com announced today that it was successfully granted a license by the Australian Financial Service License (AFSL), which now allows it to extend its…
Technology
StrongBlock launches “Nodes as a Service” in Ethereum 2.0 era
StrongBlock, a protocol designed to reward and reinforce the world’s expanding blockchain infrastructure, today announced the launch of its Nodes as a Service (NaaS)…