Author: Tony Pearce
MicroStrategy Buys Another 1,045 Bitcoins
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn April 5, MicroStrategy, declared that it had purchased an additional 1,045 Bitcoin for around $29.3 million, averaging $28,016 per BTC.
Crypto Exchange Beaxy Shuts Down Due to Pressure from SEC
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBeaxy ceased operations on March 28 due to the “uncertain regulatory environment.”
Marathon Digital Mined 2,195 Bitcoin in Q1
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMarathon Digital, a Bitcoin mining company, has achieved a quarterly mining record by mining 2,195 BTC in the first quarter of 2023, which is currently worth approximately $62 million.
FTX Lawyers Raise Objections to Sam Bankman-Fried’s Request to Get Legal Fees Reimbursed
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSam Bankman-Fried’s petition to be reimbursed for his legal expenses has been met with strong opposition from lawyers.
Fetch.ai Raises $40M and Hits a $250M Valuation
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFetch.ai, a British company that develops technology for autonomous economic agents (AEAs), has recently announced a $40 million funding round.
Bankman-Fried Pleads Innocent to Bribing a Chinese Official
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSam-Bankman-Fried has reportedly plead not guilty to the new criminal charges against him.
Terraform Labs Former CEO Do Kwon Will Stand Trial in Montenegro
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDo Kwon, the co-founder and CEO of Terraform Labs (TFL), will be convicted in Montenegro before any extradition process.
Disney Shuts Down its Metaverse Division
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Walt Disney Company has closed its metaverse division.
ConsenSys Opens Access to zkEVM Testnet
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn March 28, the ConsenSys team announced that the zkEVM testnet for Ethereum scaling had gone public and been given a new name – Linea.
CFTC Files Lawsuit Against Crypto Exchange Binance and its CEO
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a lawsuit against Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao in the Northern District of Illinois.
Greenpeace Creates Talisman to Fight Crypto Mining
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGreenpeace has introduced a new mascot, “Satoshi Skulls,” to represent the “dangerous amounts of pollution” created by BTC mining.
Montenegro’s Authorities Charge Do Kwon
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMontenegrin authorities have charged Do Kwon, co-founder and CEO of Terraform Labs (TFL), with forgery.
Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon is Arrested in Montenegro
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Minister of Internal Affairs of Montenegro, Filip Adzic, has announced the detainment of Do Kwon.
SEC Sends Wells Notice to Coinbase
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCoinbase General Counsel has announced in a blog post that the notification they received from the SEC does not constitute a formal accusation or initiation of a lawsuit.
MetaMask Institutional to Launch a Staking Marketplace
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMetaMask has unveiled a marketplace to make it simpler for customers to connect to staking services.
OpenOcean Integrates with Cross-chain Swaps
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDEX aggregator OpenOcean has recently announced it has integrated with Symbiosis Finance’s multi-chain liquidity protocol.
Game Developer CCP Games Raises $40M
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCCP Games, with seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and other investors including Makers Fund, Bitkraft, Kingsway Capital, Hashed, and Nexon, have raised $40 million.
Crypto Exchange OKX Abandons Canada
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOKX will no longer provide services to Canadian users and prevent the registration of new accounts from March 24, 2023.
Fireblocks Explains How Recent Vulnerability in BitGo Wallets Was Fixed
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFireblocks, a crypto-custodial service provider, has revealed that a vulnerability was discovered in BitGo wallets in December 2022.
US Senator Criticizes Banks for Ties with Crypto Industry
Reading Time: < 1 minuteColorado Senator Michael Bennet has expressed his opinion that banks working with the crypto industry are being reckless, as digital assets are incredibly unstable.
Messari CEO: Bitcoin Will Hit $100K
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRyan Selkis, the founder and CEO of the analytical company Messari, has predicted that Bitcoin’s price would reach $100,000 within 12 months.
Ethereum Developers Will Implement Shapella Hard Fork on April 12
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Ethereum team has announced April 12 (epoch 620.9536) as the date of the Shanghai-Capella (Shapella) hard fork on the mainnet.
Crypto Exchange KuCoin Invests in Yuan-Based Stablecoin Issuer
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKuCoin Ventures has announced it has led a funding round for the issuer of the stablecoin CNHC, pegged to the value of the offshore yuan.
US and German Authorities Seize Servers of Crypto Mixer ChipMixer
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Europol has reported that German and US authorities have disabled the infrastructure of cryptocurrency mixer ChipMixer.
Circle Reduces USDC’s Supply by 4.5 Billion Coins in Less Than a Week
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCircle, the co-issuer of the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, has redeemed approximately 6.2 billion coins since March 10.
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