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US Judge in Ooki DAO Trial Orders CFTC to Serve Original Founders With Lawsuit
13.12.2022
Federal judge William Orrick said he did not previously know that Tom Bean and Kyle Kistner were current token-holders at Ooki DAO
Bahamian AG and Prime Minister Announce Sam Bankman-Fried’s Arrest in The Bahamas
13.12.2022
Disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has been arrested in The Bahamas, according to local reports citing the country’s attorney general Ryan Pinder. According to Pinder, SBF’s arrest “followed receipt of formal notification from the United States that it has filed criminal charges...
While Elon Musk Plans to Purge 1.5 Billion Inactive Twitter Names, Bitcoiners Beg Him to Preserve Hal Finney’s Account
13.12.2022
On Dec. 9, 2022, Twitter’s owner Elon Musk told the public that the social media company plans to purge 1.5 billion accounts. Musk further added that the deletions would be obvious accounts that have no tweets or they haven’t logged in for years. However, after Musk announced this...
Binance Withdrawals Surge as Concerns About Its Reserve Report Spook Traders
13.12.2022
Binance endured $902 million of net outflows in the past 24 hours, according to data by Nansen
First Mover Asia: QCP Capital Founder Sees Crypto Industry’s Immediate Future Tied to Genesis Debacle, Expects Rebound in 2024
13.12.2022
During a panel discussion at Taipei Blockchain Week, Darius Sit noted the continued institutional adoption of the crypto options and derivatives market, among industry high points; former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrested
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested, Bahamas Says
13.12.2022
The Royal Bahamas Police Force arrested FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, a press statement said
US Senators Rebuke Sam Bankman-Fried for Refusing Invitations to Testify
12.12.2022
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Friend has rebuffed attempts from the top members of the Senate Banking Committee to get him to testify, despite a willingness to participate in several other interviews and a similar hearing in the House of Representatives
Polygon’s NFT Market Demonstrates Signs of Significant Increased Adoption, but Not Growth in Sale Volume, Nansen Data Shows
12.12.2022
Amid a crypto winter exacerbated by the FTX fallout, first-time and returning buyers have reached all-time highs in Polygon’s non-fungible token market. Yet, sales volumes are near all-time lows
Fugitive Do Kwon Now Staying in Serbia Report Says — Terraform Labs CEO Suggests SBF Is to Blame for UST Depeg
12.12.2022
A new report has claimed that Do Kwon, the fugitive CEO of Terraform Labs, is currently staying in Serbia. The report added that the South Korean government has engaged the Serbian government regarding the matter. Meanwhile, Kwon has accused Sam Bankman-Fried and Alameda Research of orchestrating...
Crypto Markets Today: Binance a Target of Federal Probe
12.12.2022
Industry woes widened on Monday with a Reuters report that U.S. prosecutors are considering criminal charges against Binance and individual senior executives, including CEO Changpeng Zhao. Crypto Markets Today is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today's crypto markets
DeFi Yield Protocol Rebrands as Dypius to Help Users Embrace Metaverse Opportunities
12.12.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Bucharest, Romania,12/12/22, Chainwire: After experiencing success in the crypto space, DeFi Yield Protocol announces a complete rebranding to Dypius. The experienced team conducted several months’ worth of research to come up with the best way to represent what they had evolved into...
SEC Strikes Back in Grayscale Suit Over GBTC ETF Conversion
12.12.2022
The SEC is holding firm that its decision to reject Grayscale's bitcoin ETF bid was proper
Terra Validators Grant $900K to Security Auditor SCV
12.12.2022
SCV will try to maintain a "bare minimum" of security across the Terra ecosystem
In the Wake of Collapse, FTX Fortune Cookies Are Still on the Menu
12.12.2022
The partnership between a fortune cookie advertising agency and the bankrupt crypto exchange is an unfortunate relic of the past
FTX US 'Was Not Independent' of Parent Company, New FTX CEO Will Say in House Testimony
12.12.2022
FTX CEO John Ray III is scheduled to testify before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday
Report: Alameda’s Caroline Ellison Retains SEC’s Former Enforcement Division Chief
12.12.2022
After more attention has been cast on the former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison, a report details that Ellison has hired Wilmerhale partner Stephanie Avakian, an attorney that worked for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The news follows leaked documentation of Ellison’s...
Chainlink Whale ‘Oldwhite’ Used More Than 150 Wallets to Avoid Staking Limits
12.12.2022
The crypto wallet labeled “Oldwhite” on OpenSea is connected to over 1 million staked LINK tokens, blockchain data shows, even though Chainlink officials tried to get "greater inclusion" from a broad base of participants by limiting each wallet to 7,000 LINK tokens
The Birth of the (Network) Nations
12.12.2022
Balaji Srinivasan says modern states are geographically concentrated but ideologically un-aligned. So what about states where online communities are in lockstep but geographically dispersed? That's the idea behind his new book, one of the big crypto-themed ideas of the last year
The Birth of the (Network) Nations
12.12.2022
Balaji Srinivasan says modern states are geographically concentrated but ideologically un-aligned. So what about states where online communities are in lockstep but geographically dispersed? That's the idea behind his new book, one of the big crypto-themed ideas of the last year
Adoption of DeFi, ZK Tech, NFTs and More Will Continue to Increase in 2023
12.12.2022
The crises of the past year obscured genuine growth in promising crypto industries, writes Pantera Capital General Partner Paul Veradittakit. Expanding on these themes will drive growth in the coming year