Category: News
Latest news on blockchain, cryptocurrencies and the crypto world in general.
UAE Regulator Starts Granting Licenses to Crypto Service Providers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAll Crypto Service Providers (VASPs) operating within the UAE must apply and register with the SCA
Morgan Stanley’s Q1 Profits Exceed Expectations
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMorgan Stanley’s first-quarter profit exceeded expectations.
Coinbase CEO: The Exchange Might Leave the US
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe 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.
PancakeSwap Devs to Transfer CAKE Token to Deflationary Model
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe PancakeSwap team has proposed changing the tokenomics of the DeFi project in order to move away from its current high-inflation model of the CAKE utility token to emission-neutral or deflation “with real returns and utility.”
Unchained Attracts $60M
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUnchained, a company focused on Bitcoin, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round.
ExLatham M&A Co-chairman Gerstein Joins PJT Partners as Senior Adviser
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMark Gerstein,, who left Latham & Watkins in December, has joined Paul Taubman’s investment bank, PJT Partners Inc, as a senior adviser.
Kyber Network Urges to Withdraw Funds Due to a Vulnerability
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKyber Network has advised liquidity providers to withdraw funds from their Elastic product after a potential vulnerability was discovered.
Bank of Israel Reveals Conditions for Launching a CBDC
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Central Bank of Israel has outlined the main conditions for the potential launch of a national digital currency, known as SHAKED.
Binance Updates the Deposit Addresses of Some of its Users
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBinance 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 minuteISS 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 minuteKuCoin will launch on April 22 a token sale using a subscription mechanism.
Arthur Hayes: The Alt Season Will Return
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArthur Hayes, co-founder of crypto exchange BitMEX, has predicted the arrival of another “alt season.”
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.
London Stock Exchange Will Clear BTC Derivatives
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA division of the London Stock Exchange is set to begin offering clearing services for futures and options on Bitcoin indices.
Crypto Miner Riot Says NYT Article About Mining is Politically Motivated
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRiot 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.”
Kraken Accounts for 86.6% of Total Amount of ETH Waiting to Be Withdrawn from Staking
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe queue for withdrawing ETH from the deposit contract has grown to 890,980 ETH ($1.78 billion).
Swiss Parliament Rejects Credit Suisse’s Rescue Package
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSwitzerland’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.
Hong Kong Bank Intends to Add Support for Cryptocurrencies
Reading Time: < 1 minuteZA Bank, Hong Kong’s largest virtual bank, will act as an intermediary for deposits and withdrawals from cryptocurrency trading platforms.
Bitfinex Becomes First Exchange to Receive Trading License in El Salvador
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBitfinex Securities El Salvador received on April 11 a service provider license from the National Commission for Digital Assets of El Salvador.
Ren Protocol Will Transfer All Remaining Assets to FTX and Alameda Research
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRen Protocol will transfer all remaining assets to the cold wallets of the owners – FTX and Alameda Research.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Calls on World Bank to Undertake Additional Reforms
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTreasury Secretary Janet Yellen will call today for the World Bank to make further reforms this year.
Winklevoss Twins Give $100M Loan to Gemini
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTyler and Cameron Winklevoss have reportedly loaned Gemini trading platform $100 million.
USDT Issuer Tether Blocks $3M Address Linked to Attack
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTether, 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.
Two-thirds of US Users Are Suspicious of Cryptocurrencies: Study
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMost US citizens lack confidence in the safety of digital assets due to a series of bankruptcies and regulatory uncertainty.
Indian Bank HDFC Bank Intends to Raise $6 Billion
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHDFC Bank Ltd announced on Tuesday that it is planning to raise 500 billion rupees (approx. $6 billion) in debt over the next year.
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