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Although the usage of cryptocurrencies as a trustworthy store of wealth has grown over time, their inherent volatility has made this problematic. Tokens
Although the usage of cryptocurrencies as a trustworthy store of wealth has grown over time, their inherent volatility has made this problematic. Tokens
As it looks to expand its blockchain efforts into sports and entertainment, Exaion, a subsidiary of France’s state-owned energy company EDF, joined one
Bill Qian, the chairman of Cypher Capital and the former global head of fundraising at Binance Labs, claims that Wall Street corporations and
Crypto exchange OKX notified clients in India that they have until the end of April to wind up their positions because it is
A British individual was found guilty of laundering large sums of bitcoin (BTC) for a Chinese fugitive linked to an alleged $6 billion investment fraud, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.A London jury determined that Jian Wen, who rejected the allegations, assisted her former employer in laundering monies between 2017 and 2022.The jury was unable to reach a resolution on two more accusations. The 42-year-old had already been cleared of additional money laundering allegations in a separate trial. In a 2018 operation, U.K. police confiscated more than 1.7 billion pounds ($2.2 billion) in bitcoin tied to the alleged scam.Jian Wen was accused of laundering Bitcoin on behalf of her former employer, Yadi Zhang (actual name Zhimin Qian).Zhimian is accused of duping over 130,000 investors in China in an investment fraud that prosecutors say netted nearly $6 billion.Jian will be sentenced on May 10.
The Ethereum Foundation, the Swiss non-profit at the heart of the Ethereum ecosystem, is being investigated by an unspecified “state authority,” according to the group’s GitHub repository.As of press time, the investigation’s scope and focus were unknown.According to a GitHub commit dated February 26, 2024, “we have received a voluntary enquiry from a state authority that included a requirement for confidentiality.” The probe comes at a pivotal moment for Ethereum’s technology and its native asset, ETH, which many American finance firms are looking to provide as an exchange-traded fund.Despite recently authorizing a succession of Bitcoin ETFs, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been slow to go further.Following the publishing of this article, Fortune reported that the SEC is attempting to classify ETH as a security, a move that would have significant repercussions for Ethereum, an ETH ETF, and cryptocurrency as a whole.According to Fortune, the financial regulator has sent investigating subpoenas to U.S. corporations in recent weeks. Previously, the Ethereum Foundation’s website contained the following disclosure: “The Ethereum Foundation (Stiftung Ethereum) has never been contacted by any agency
Genesis Global Capital, a bankrupt cryptocurrency lender, has consented to a final judgment requiring it to pay $21 million to settle allegations with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for breaching securities laws in connection with the now-defunct Gemini Earn program, the SEC reported on Tuesday.The settlement comes only days after a New York judge dismissed Genesis and cryptocurrency exchange Gemini’s attempts to halt the SEC action filed in January 2023 from proceeding.Genesis and two affiliates filed for bankruptcy immediately after the SEC allegations. Genesis said in court records in February 2024 that it had reached an agreement with the SEC to settle the accusations for $21 million, and the arrangement appears to have been concluded.Critically, the SEC would not collect any “portion of the penalty until after payment of all other allowed claims by the bankruptcy court,” according to the release. “Today’s settlement builds on previous actions to make clear to the marketplace and the investing public that crypto lending platforms and
Coinbase Inc. (COIN) has gained allies in its legal battle against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to force the agency to reconsider its refusal to write specific rules to govern the cryptocurrency industry, with Paradigm, the Crypto Council for Innovation, and others filing outside arguments with the circuit court. Paradigm’s lawyer said in a friend-of-the-court brief on Monday that the SEC is attempting to treat cryptocurrency as if it is a product of the old financial system, in which a company issues a security and is responsible for telling the public about it.That is a difficult undertaking for a cryptocurrency project without a base of operations, a dedicated team, or a central source of management, according to the crypto investment firm. “As long as the SEC’s registration process requires a centralized issuer, it will be incoherent for crypto assets, meaningful disclosures will
The influx of investor funding into crypto’s “real world assets” sector shows no signs of slowing, with MANTRA Chain, a planned network for transferring tokenized real estate and other assets, raising $11 million. MANTRA, a Middle East-focused project, is nearing completion on obtaining licenses from Dubai’s crypto regulator VARA, according to founder John Patrick Mullin.These approvals will be critical to MANTRA’s efforts to develop and host a suite of compliance-focused solutions for issuing and trading RWAs.Many companies in the industry and beyond believe RWAs will become a multibillion-dollar business by the end of the decade.For this to happen, much of the trade in “traditional” asset classes that are widely popular among investors (real estate, stocks, and possibly even art) will have to shift to blockchains. It hasn’t happened yet. Nonetheless, organizations such as MANTRA have amassed funds to corner this industry before it takes off.Part of that entails determining who may engage in RWA trading, whether it is a free-for-all (like meme coin trading) or more structured (like the stock market). The vision Mullin described to CoinDesk is a more restrictive or “permissioned” environment. “You do have to go through
The pharmaceutical sector plays a critical role in maintaining and enhancing public health. It is in charge of researching, creating, manufacturing, and distributing
Despite a significant misstep, one of the newest tokens coming from the Solana meme coin presale tale has amassed numerous exchange listings, a $1.7 billion trading volume, and thousands of unique holders in just a few hours of going live. Slerf, a sloth-themed meme coin on the Solana network, raised $10 million in its presale on Monday.The token is one of dozens that have appeared as presales – or fundraising sales before the official release – in recent days, following the popularity of Book of Meme (BOME) earlier this month. However, the project’s creator lost all collected funds after unintentionally transferring the tokens to a burn address, which is one that no one has authority over. “I burned the LP and the tokens that were set aside for the airdrop,” @slerfsol wrote on X. “Mint authority
Coti, an Ethereum-based confidentiality layer, will deliver $10 million in Coti v2 tokens via airdrop to holders of its native Coti (COTI) token. Coti v2 is an Ethereum layer-2 protocol that focuses on privacy and is designed to securely communicate sensitive data between Web3 apps.The company announced a planned community rewards project in which it will airdrop 40 million Coti v2 tokens to existing native and ERC-20 COTI holders. According to the notification made to Cointelegraph, the Coti v2 airdrop campaign will begin on March 25.However, the distribution of Coti v2 tokens will begin in the fourth quarter of 2024, immediately following the token production event.In addition to existing COTI token holders, all treasury participants are instantly eligible for airdrop incentives.Coti added that the airdrop is in addition to all annual percentage yield awards for tokenholders. The announcement reads. “Users simply need to have a deposit in the Treasury to participate, but those who have made deposits before
ETHFI, the governance token of Ether.Fi, the largest liquid restaking protocol, debuted at $4.13 following an airdrop and distribution to Binance Launchpad participants.Since then, the token has lost more than 20% of its value.At the time of writing, ETHFI was trading at $3.60 on Binance with a trading volume of more than $118 million in the first 45 minutes.The token has a fully diluted value (FDV) of $3.6 billion, which is the market worth of a token if its entire supply is put into circulation.Over $2 billion in FDUSD stablecoin and 17.3 million BNB ($10 billion) were staked on the Binance Launchpad.Launchpad stakeholders receive an allocation of ETHFI proportional to the amount they staked. Several of the freshly launched tokens on Binance’s launchpad plummeted in price after their release: ARKM fell from 90 cents to 30 cents, and PORTAL plunged from $3.60 to $2.08 three days later. The maximum supply of ETHFI is one billion tokens, with 20 million given to the Binance Launchpad and 60 million reserved for “season one” of the token airdrop, which ended on March 15.An additional 50 million tokens will be issued following “season two.” Investors will receive 32.5% of the token’s total supply during a two-year vesting period, with core contributors receiving 23.26% over three years. There will be an initial circulating supply of 115.2 million tokens. Ether.Fi’s total value locked (TVL) has risen 117% in the previous 30 days, with total deposits surpassing $3 billion, according to DefiLlama.Restaking is a tactic employed by those who stake ether (ETH) and seek to increase their yield.By employing a protocol such as Ether.Fi, stakers obtain a liquid restaking token (LRT) that can be used on other protocols, as well as loyalty points that can be turned into a token airdrop.
Bitcoin had an incredible week, hitting a new all-time high of $73,777 before swiftly losing all of its gains and plunging close to
In the Massachusetts Senate election, pro-XRP attorney John Deaton has declared himself prepared to challenge Senator Elizabeth Warren, a vocal opponent of cryptocurrencies,
Bitstamp data reported a new BTC price low of $64,522, After reaching new all-time highs this week, Bitcoin encountered significant sell-side pressure, with
Loneliness is a quiet plague that looms large as a societal concern worth billions of dollars, but it is rarely addressed or even recognized in Asia’s $10 trillion consumer market.As we drift away in our increasingly digitized lives, our desire for friendship, connection, and love grows stronger. However, the current landscape of digital companionship, which is dominated by static, one-way interactions with chatbots, fails to meet this deep-rooted need for genuine connection, highlighting a significant gap and opportunity for innovation in how we interact with technology to fulfill our most human desires. While gamifying personal connection is not a new concept, traditional “Waifu” games — a term used to describe interactive encounters with digital love partners — are time-consuming to create and are typically bound by platform constraints.In contrast, AI Waifu is a future Web3 game with a circular and player-driven economy that can be accessed as a progressive web application from any browser. The game tries to directly address the age-old issue of loneliness by allowing for virtual relationships in a gamified setting. The game depicts a Digital Bangkok in which the player “lives” alongside their Waifu. It will allow users to interact fully in a shared place using all of their senses. Consider a world of Waifus, which includes celebrities and social media influencers such as Irene Zhao, Sydney Sweeney, and Marin Kitagawa. AI Waifu combines elements of Tamagotchi, anime, cryptocurrency, and AI to allow people to experience different stages of their relationship with their Waifu and participate in a dynamic game about love and mystery.While most AI companions provide repetitious content, AI Waifu enhances gamers’ experiences with hyper-personalized modal inputs and outputs. Each Waifu in the game is a visual 3D model that reacts to speech and text with emotions and animations. Each Waifu has a unique personality, thanks to a level system that switches character cards. The game incorporates meta, financial, and flirt skill-based games that are related to the primary loop.Players will be able to flirt with other Waifus to gain love points and make their own Waifus jealous. The game contains NSFW content for people looking for an adult-oriented experience. AI Waifu is being developed by Virtual Protocol, an artificial intelligence-focused protocol with a treasury of over $18 million.The Web3 game has completed its liquidity bootstrapping pool (LBP) event on the Fjord Foundry platform, raising $6.4 million from more than 1,500 participants, making it one of the fairest LBPs ever held on Fjord. Waifu’s in-game coin, WAI, is set to be generated on March 16 at 12 p.m. UTC, with twin liquidity pools on the Ethereum and Blast networks. LBP is a good technique to fairly develop a new token’s liquidity pool and set its market price.AI Waifu employs LBP to ensure a fair launch for WAI, its in-game token, by removing the typical dump pressure found in traditional VCs and presales. The game is set to premiere in the last week of March. The game tries to differentiate itself from other Blast decentralized applications (DApps) with its gamified AI companion experience. The developer’s plan includes virtual reality (VR) and wearable compatibility to fully immerse all human senses. Following its release, the game will focus on bringing digital Waifus to life through augmented reality and VR with Apple’s Vision Pro headset. AI Waifu intends to use well-known IPs, including collaborations with iconic characters and brands such as Genshin Impact, to increase the game’s appeal and replayability through new challenges, modes, and customization choices.AI Waifu is excited for its live premiere on March 25. The launch will also signal the beginning of WAI powering the in-game economy, laying the door for a thriving ecology. Web3 and artificial intelligence emerge as powerful instruments for combating society’s pervasive loneliness.Technologies like AI Waifu, which enable dynamic, individualized relationships that transcend typical digital borders, provide a look into a future in which virtual companionship satisfies our fundamental craving for connection. With Web3’s decentralized ethos providing equitable access and AI’s developing skills enriching connections, the technical revolution is leading to a societal shift aimed at bridging the loneliness gap through innovation and empathy.
Despite customer dissatisfaction and persistent queries regarding the firm’s plans to provide Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), Vanguard Group CEO Tim Buckley has maintained his strong stance.Buckley warned against adding Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs in retirement investment plans in a recent Vanguard video, citing the asset’s volatility. “We don’t believe it belongs, like a Bitcoin ETF belongs in a long-term portfolio of someone saving for their retirement. It’s a
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of FTX, was found guilty of fraud and conspiracy charges related to the demise of one
Blockchain layer 1 based on Cosmos Canto introduced its “Cyclone Stack,” which is designed to increase performance and scale. Additionally, it is going
Self-reported MicroStrategy (MSTR), a bitcoin development company, has priced a $525 million convertible debt offering and plans to add to its 205,000 bitcoin
The emergence of blockchain technology has made safe and decentralised transactions possible. A distributed ledger technology called blockchain is used to securely and
As of March 14, the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has been added to the warning list of Hong Kong’s Securities & Futures Commission (SFC).“The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today warns the public of an unlicensed virtual asset trading platform (VATP) known as Bybit,” the agency stated, “which offers trading services in crypto-related products in a number of jurisdictions.”Eleven items (Bybit Futures, Bybit Options, Bybit Leveraged Tokens, Dual Assets, Bybit Lending, Bybit Wealth Management, and others) that are provided by the Bybit exchange are included as warnings. “The SFC is concerned that these products have also been offered to Hong Kong investors and wishes to make it clear that
According to a finding by Judge James Mellor in the United Kingdom on March 14, Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous founder of the Bitcoin network.On March 12, closing arguments began in London in the lawsuit filed by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) against Wright, an Australian computer scientist who has claimed to be Nakamoto since 2016.COPA was seeking injunctive relief to prevent Wright from falsely claiming to be Nakamoto.Wright has been accused of significant document falsification to back up his claim to be the pseudonymous Bitcoin creator.According to COPA’s last submission. “Dr. Wright has been shown to have lied on an extraordinary scale. […] He has invented an entire biographical history, producing one
North Korean hackers affiliated with the infamous Lazarus Group have utilized the coin mixing service Tornado Cash to launder $12 million in ether (ETH) during the last 24 hours.According to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, Lazarus Group transmitted over 40 transactions to Tornado Cash on March 13 and 14.Elliptic also blamed the Lazarus Group for a $100 million Heco Bridge and HTX attack in November last year. According to a report by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, Lazarus is responsible for attacks totaling more than $3 billion over the last six years.Tornado Cash faced US sanctions in August 2022.This prompted the Lazarus Group to utilize another mixer, Sinbad, to conceal their ill-gotten gains.However, once Sinbad was taken by US officials in November, Lazarus returned to Tornado Cash, according to Elliptic’s blog post.Roman Storm, one of Tornado Cash’s founders, was arrested last year and is currently facing trial on money laundering accusations.Another, Roman Semenov, has been charged but not detained. Despite being sanctioned twice, Tornado Cash continues to operate via decentralized smart contracts that cannot be confiscated or taken down. “The change in behavior and return to the use of Tornado Cash likely reflects the limited number of large-scale mixers
On March 13, at 1:55 PM UTC, the Dencun update was successfully deployed on the Ethereum mainnet.The most anticipated hard fork since the Merge, Dencun is projected to improve Ethereum’s overall scalability and drastically lower layer-2 network transaction fees.According to Arthur Breitman, co-founder of the Tezos blockchain, while the Dencun improvement is a positive move, it won’t completely address the drawbacks of layer-2 solutions.He stated to Cointelegraph. “The Dencun upgrade does the bare minimum to extend the data usable by rollups on Ethereum, which should lower transaction costs in
Apple silicon chip technology will be integrated into the recently created decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) io.net for its machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.In order to support ML and AI computation, Io.net has created a decentralized network based in Solana that sources graphics processing unit (GPU) computing capacity from geographically dispersed data centers, cryptocurrency miners, and decentralized storage providers. The business, which had recently struck a cooperation with Render Network, announced the introduction of its beta platform during the Solana Breakpoint conference in Amsterdam in November 2023.With its most recent update, Io.net claims to be the first cloud service to offer machine learning applications using Apple silicon chip clustering.For ML and AI computing, engineers can cluster Apple chips from any location in the world. As discussed in-depth by Cointelegraph earlier, io.net offers inexpensive GPU processing resources for use in AI and ML applications.The platform makes payments to GPU and central processing unit compute providers easier by utilizing Solana’s blockchain. Tory Green, the chief operational officer of io.net, claims that Solana’s infrastructure is specifically designed to handle the volume of transactions and inferences that io.net will enable.In order to leverage the hardware, the infrastructure gathers GPU processing power in clusters through hundreds of inferences and related microtransactions.Users of io.net can now contribute processing power from a variety of Apple Silicon chips thanks to the update.The M1, M1 Max, M1 Pro, and M1 Ultra; M2, M2 Max, M2 Pro, and M2 Ultra; and M3, M3 Max, and M3 Pro models are all included in this broad range. The 128 megabyte memory architecture of Apple’s M3 chips outperforms the capabilities of Nvidia’s flagship A100-80 GB graphics cards, according to Io.net.Additionally, according to Io.net, Apple’s M3 CPUs have an improved neural engine that powers them 60% quicker than its M1 series. The chips’ unified memory architecture also makes them suitable for model inference, which involves putting real-time data through an AI model to solve problems or provide predictions.The incorporation of Apple chip compatibility, according to Io.net founder Ahmad Shadid, may enable hardware to keep up with the increasing demand for AI and ML processing resources. “This is a massive step forward in democratizing access to powerful computing resources, and paves the way
India’s stock market will soon have a quicker trade settlement system in place to better compete with investors’ rising preference for cryptocurrency exchanges.Madhabi Puri Buch, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), declared on March 11 that a T+0 transaction settlement cycle would be implemented by March 28.Trades can choose to use this optional service, which is designed to meet the needs of those seeking same-day settlement.Since 2021, the Indian stock market has been using a T+1 settlement cycle, meaning that every stock trade is resolved the next day.The T + 1 settlement cycle was implemented gradually, just like T + 0. Buch claims that in order for the Indian stock market to compete with cryptocurrencies, a shift to T+0 is necessary.Investors, in her opinion, anticipate quick settlements, and they will go to an area that already provides them if a “well-regulated market cannot compete with the crypto world” in the near future. SEBI claims that T+0 and the rapid settlement cycle will benefit investors by enabling them to get monies and securities instantly. Additionally, same-day settlements will provide the investor more control over their money and assets and remove the possibility of a settlement deficit. A notice of noncompliance was recently issued by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), a division of the Indian Ministry of Finance that collects financial intelligence regarding violations under the nation’s Prevention of Money Laundering Act.On December 28, 2023, Binance, HTX, Kraken, Gate.io, KuCoin, Bitstamp, MEXC Global, Bittrex, and Bitfinex received notifications for operating unlawfully in India.Twelve days were granted to the exchanges to comply with Indian requirements regarding Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering. Even though India has consistently rejected cryptocurrencies, the country is nevertheless implementing blockchain technology in a number of national projects.The nation recently disclosed that it is home to more than eight million official government papers spread across five distinct blockchain systems. Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Sawtooth, and Ethereum are the three main blockchain systems that India employs to produce its goods.At present, India uses five blockchain products: the certificate chain, document chain, medicine logistics chain, judicial chain, and property chain.
The security of smart contracts is absolutely crucial. Digital assets, sensitive data, and sometimes whole decentralised apps (dApps) can be transferred more easily
Two of Binance’s senior executives are allegedly still being held in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, even after the company announced last week that it was leaving the country.According to a March 12 Wired story, two executives from Binance, Tigran Gambaryan, a former federal agent from the United States specializing in cryptocurrencies, and Nadeem Anjarwalla, another executive, had been detained in Abuja for two weeks without passports.Since February 26, 2024, Anjarwalla, the regional manager for Africa based in Kenya and Gambaryan, the head of Binance’s criminal investigations team, have been held at a government facility. According to Gambaryan and Anjarwalla’s families, Nigerian prosecutors have not provided information on whether the two face criminal charges. “There’s no definite