Composable is presenting at Cosmoverse’23 as a Keynote Speaker and Diamond Sponsor, in collaboration with Polkadot and the Web3 Foundation. The Composable team is building the infrastructure and necessary primitives to abstract away the cross-ecosystem user and developer experience. Their efforts align with their ethos of eliminating blockchain borders and siloes, as they are strong […]
Friend.Tech, a platform for Ethereum users, has recently come under scrutiny due to a wave of reported compromised accounts and the subsequent loss of funds through SIM-swap attacks and hacks. Victims of the attacks have reported losing a total of 28.5 ETH, worth around $50 million. SlowMist founder Cos has expressed concern over the platform’s […]
Mário Centeno, Governor of Banco de Portugal, has called for international cooperation to create a “robust framework” for regulating and supervising crypto assets and decentralized finance (DeFi). He believes that regulating these global risks and international players at the national level is not enough. He expressed his disbelief in the democratizing potential of digital assets […]
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to reach a final verdict on the seven firms in question by mid-March. Eric Balchunas, an ETF analyst at Bloomberg, has adjusted the probability of a spot Bitcoin ETF gaining approval by the close of 2023 to 75%, and further increased those odds to 95% […]
Binance, the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and digital asset infrastructure provider, recently assisted the Royal Thai Police in two major operations to dismantle criminal networks engaged in crypto scams. In the first operation, codenamed ‘Trust No One’, Binance’s Investigations team worked closely with the U.S. Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) and the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau […]
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and its CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) are facing a class action lawsuit in California federal court. The lawsuit was filed by an FTX user who lost assets when FTX collapsed and filed for bankruptcy last month. It alleges that Binance, which held a stake in FTX’s FTT token, made […]
Coinbase, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges, announced that it will delist 80 non-USD trading pairs from Coinbase Exchange, Advanced Trade, and Coinbase Prime on October 16, 2023. The delisting is intended to “improve overall market health and consolidate liquidity.” Coinbase Advanced Trade users in eligible regions can still trade these coins using USDC balances. […]
Sygnum Singapore, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based cryptocurrency bank Sygnum, has been granted a license to offer crypto brokerage services to accredited investors and institutions in Singapore. The Major Payment Institution Licence (MPIL) was granted by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Sygnum Singapore also plans to expand its regulated offering to the Asia–Pacific (APAC) markets, […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the first Ether-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the US, making the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization more accessible to institutional investors. However, the products come with some drawbacks, as evidenced by the low trading volume. Two years ago, the crypto industry celebrated a milestone when the […]
Recent advancements in Hong Kong’s crypto space could provide a potential boost to the East Asian region, which has been largely affected by a China-wide ban on crypto trading activities since 2019. According to a report from Chainalysis, East Asia’s share of crypto transaction value dropped from around 30% in 2019 to less than 10% […]
