Author: Chris Smith
Arbitrum Starts Distribution of Tokens Among DAOs
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Arbitrum second-tier solution development team has distributed governance tokens among 125 decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).
Bitfarms Will Increase its Bitcoin Mining Capacity in Argentina to 100 MW
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bitfarms has been granted the necessary permits to ramp up the power consumption of its Rio Cuarto (Argentina) facility to 100 MW.
Korea Blockchain Week Will Return This Year Following Success of 2022’s Edition
Reading Time: < 1 minute Korea Blockchain Week has announced it is returning for 2023 following the success of last year’s edition.
Hedge Fund Founders 3AC Unveil Name of Main Investors in New Project
Reading Time: < 1 minute The co-founders of the now-bankrupt 3AC hedge fund, Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, have announced the list of top investors in their new cryptocurrency exchange, OPNX.
ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos: The ECB Will Not Be Returning to Forward Guidance Policy for a While
Reading Time: < 1 minute It is unlikely the European Central Bank will resume providing insight into their future policy decisions due to the current uncertain outlook.
User Turns $260 Into $2M Thanks to PEPE Token
Reading Time: < 1 minute User dimethyltryptamine.eth earned over $2 million in less than a week by buying the PEPE meme token.
Deutsche Bank to Downsize its Workforce
Reading Time: < 1 minute Deutsche Bank plans to reduce its executive board from 10 to nine members and cut some jobs in infrastructure and private banking in order to save costs.
US Crypto Exchange Kraken Gets Licensed in Ireland
Reading Time: < 1 minute Kraken, a US-based cryptocurrency exchange, has completed registration of its subsidiary Payward Europe Solutions with the Central Bank of Ireland as a Virtual Asset Services Provider (VASP).
Coinbase CEO: The Exchange Might Leave the US
Reading Time: < 1 minute The CEO of Coinbase has expressed concern that the lack of regulatory clarity in the US could lead the company to consider withdrawing from the market.
Unchained Attracts $60M
Reading Time: < 1 minute Unchained, a company focused on Bitcoin, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round.
Kyber Network Urges to Withdraw Funds Due to a Vulnerability
Reading Time: < 1 minute Kyber Network has advised liquidity providers to withdraw funds from their Elastic product after a potential vulnerability was discovered.
Binance Updates the Deposit Addresses of Some of its Users
Reading Time: < 1 minute Binance has updated the deposit addresses for some of its users in order to enhance security. Affected customers will be notified by email of the necessary changes.
Institutional Shareholder Services Recommends Barclays Investors Re-elect All Board Members
Reading Time: < 1 minute ISS has recommended that Barclays investors re-elect all board members at its annual meeting in May, despite questions surrounding the board’s decision to support former CEO Jes Staley between 2019-2021.
Major Crypto Exchanges Announce Listing of SUI Token
Reading Time: < 1 minute KuCoin will launch on April 22 a token sale using a subscription mechanism.
ConsenSys Experiences Incident with Third-party Service Provider
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A recent blog post from ConsenSys has reported a cybersecurity incident involving a third-party service provider that provides customer support services.
Crypto Miner Riot Says NYT Article About Mining is Politically Motivated
Reading Time: < 1 minute Riot has denounced The New York Times (NYT) Bitcoin mining article, “The Real Costs of the Bitcoin Digital Race,” as “full of distortions and outright lies.”
Swiss Parliament Rejects Credit Suisse’s Rescue Package
Reading Time: < 1 minute Switzerland’s parliament rejected on Wednesday the government’s proposed 109 billion Swiss francs ($120.82 billion) aid package for the merger of Credit Suisse and UBS.
Bitfinex Becomes First Exchange to Receive Trading License in El Salvador
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bitfinex Securities El Salvador received on April 11 a service provider license from the National Commission for Digital Assets of El Salvador.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Calls on World Bank to Undertake Additional Reforms
Reading Time: < 1 minute Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will call today for the World Bank to make further reforms this year.
USDT Issuer Tether Blocks $3M Address Linked to Attack
Reading Time: < 1 minute Tether, the issuer of the stablecoin USDT, has recently blacklisted an address associated with a MEV bot hack that had approximately $3 million of digital assets.
US Users Seem to Be More Interested in Bitcoin Than in Donald Trump
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ahrefs research has revealed that the amount of Google searches related to the original cryptocurrency has reached 1.9 million in the US.
More Than Half of Bitcoins Haven’t Moved in 2 Years: Report
Reading Time: < 1 minute The proportion of Bitcoins that have not been moved in the past two years has risen to a record 53%.
dYdX Shuts Down Operations in Canada
Reading Time: < 1 minute Decentralized exchange dYdX announced on April 7 that it would cease registering new users from Canada.
US and South Korea Request Extradition of Terraform Labs Co-founder Do Kwon
Reading Time: < 1 minute Justice Minister Marko Kovač announced on March 29 at a press conference that both the United States and South Korea have requested the extradition of Terra co-founder Do Kwon.
Short Guide to Ethereum
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ethereum is a blockchain platform developed by Vitalik Buterin that was launched in July 30, 2015.
