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SEC staff reportedly unhappy with Gensler over Kim Kardashian ‘publicity stunt’

The SEC's enforcement staff reportedly believes that Chairman Gary Gensler violated protocol by using media attention to prop his reputation for the Treasury Secretary position.

4 years ago

Metaverse MANA -0.47%

Decentraland has just 30 daily active users despite billion dollar market cap – DappRadar data

Decentraland data per DappRadar is being questioned based on the low number of daily active users on the platform.

4 years ago

Legal USTC -7.34%

South Korea tightens circle on Do Kwon, arrests his aide

South Korean authorities arrested Terra's Head of General Affairs and gave Kwon 14 days to return his passport before it is invalidated.

4 years ago

Legal XRP +1.68%

Ripple ‘slams’ SEC for opposing amicus briefs, XRP up 3.6%

Ripple's XRP is up 3.6% over the last 24 hours, continuing its impressive run over the last 30 days, according to CryptoSlate data.

4 years ago

Exchanges BUSD +0.06%

Binance removes 5 HNT, OOKI trading pairs, adds 18 new ones

Cross & isolated margin pairs HNT/BUSD, HNT/USDT and spot pairs HNT/BTC, HNT/USDT, OOKI/BNB will be removed next week, while 18 new ones are already added.

4 years ago

Featured

CryptoSlate Daily wMarket Update – Oct. 5: Bulls struggle to keep BTC above $20,000

The wMarket Update condenses the most important price movements in the crypto markets over the last 24 hours, published 08:00 UTC on weekdays.

4 years ago

Crypto

CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily: Bitcoin up 22% vs crypto stocks; Russia blocks OKX; US, EU set to discuss crypto regulation

SEC opposes third parties seeking to defend Ripple, Do Kwon describes news of $40M crypto freeze as falsehood, and much more in this edition of CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily.

4 years ago

Bear Market

Bitcoin outperforms traditional crypto stocks in 2022 by up to 22%

MicroStrategy leads crypto stocks losing only 2% more than Bitcoin throughout 2022.

4 years ago

Scams LUNC -0.63%

De.Fi REKT list reveals 18% decrease in lost DeFi funds during September totaling $170M

DeFi saw over $60 billion wiped out in 2022 but September saw a continued downtrend in recorded losses

4 years ago

CBDCs

SWIFT shows CBDCs, tokenized assets can be integrated into global financial system

SWIFT Chief Innovation Officer Tom Zschach said that the innovation could help address CBDC's need for interoperability with the existing financial system.

4 years ago

Exchanges

Russia blocks crypto exchange OKX without disclosing reason

The authorities blacklisted Okx.com's IP address on October 4.

4 years ago

Price Watch

Bitcoin briefly trades above $20k as traders ape into futures

Macroeconomic concerns like Credit Suisse's possible insolvency and the further escalation of the crisis in Ukraine also appear not to be affecting Bitcoin's performance presently.

4 years ago