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) After the shocking collapse of FTX, other centralized crypto exchanges are under the microscope, and Crypto.com customers are concerned after CEO Kris Marszalek acknowledged that his exchange accidentally sent 320,000 ETH, around $400 million at the time, to a public address… : 3 : 0
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) In an extraordinary panel organized at the end of the first day of LaBitConf 2022 in Buenos Aires, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and Bitcoiners Jimmy Song and Samson Mow discussed the state of the industry and the FTX debacle, and the contradictions between these widely used… : 4 : 0
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) Los Angeles, United States, Nov. 8, 2022, Chainwire Key Takeaways Salil Shah, former Meta and Pinterest executive, has joined DeSo, a new blockchain platform that has raised $200 million from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, CAA and Coinbase. The announcement comes in the wake of… : 2 : 0
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) he FTX crisis appears to have concluded. In a press release shared on Twitter, the crypto exchange announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy "to begin an orderly process to review and monetize assets for the benefit of all global stakeholders.… : 4 : 0
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) he crypto market is deep in the red Thursday morning as the industry continues to reel from the fallout of Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire and Binance's decision to walk away from the earlier announced plan to purchase the troubled FTX exchange. Bitcoin (BTC) fell as low… : 2 : 0
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) When Universal Music Group’s 10:22PM label revealed its virtual band Kingship last November, the premise felt truly novel: a group made up of Bored Ape Yacht Club and Mutant Ape NFT characters, born from decentralized IP and built for the metaverse. A Gorillaz for the Web3 era… : 2 : 0
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) Amid today’s industry-shaking news that cryptocurrency exchange Binance has agreed to acquire FTX after the latter exchange encountered a liquidity crisis, questions are flying about what it will mean for FTX’s many broader Web3 initiatives—including around NFTs and gaming… : 5 : 0
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) UK bank Santander is set to block real-time payments to crypto exchanges next year. According to an email to customers first reported by Reuters, the move is intended to protect consumers from scams. Santander has not said when in 2023 the change will take… : 4 : 0
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) Google's cloud computing division Google Cloud announced on Saturday that it’s now running a validator on the Solana blockchain, and will soon add features aimed at welcoming Solana developers and node runners. Solana ( SOL) rose 12% on the news, changing hands at… : 0 : 0
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) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today hit four people with charges for allegedly swindling investors out of nearly $300 million in a “fraudulent crypto Ponzi scheme.” In a Friday announcement, the SEC said Trade Coin Club raised 82,000 in Bitcoin—worth $295… : 0 : 0
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) The European Union is set to be the first major jurisdiction in the world to agree how to regulate the digital asset sector, via its Markets in Crypto Assets regulation (MiCA). Under the recently agreed text, providers of crypto services – which means anything from… : 1 : 0
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) Credit card giant Mastercard today announces that it’s welcoming seven new startups into its global startup engagement program, Mastercard Start Path. Since its inception in 2014, Mastercard Start Path has fielded applications from over 1,500 startups every year and… : 0 : 0
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) Theft has become a major issue in the NFT space, especially with so-called “wallet drainer” exploits ripping millions of dollars’ worth of assets from unsuspecting collectors—and there’s no way to reverse those transactions on the blockchain. When stolen assets are then… : 0 : 0
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) Crypto exchange Binance has plunged $500 million into Elon Musk’s takeover of social media platform Twitter, with a view to giving crypto a “seat at the table.” Now, Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao appears to be mulling a deeper integration of the exchange and the social media… : 0 : 0
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) Web3 is unlocking a new set of tools that enable artists to build compounding online support around shared values. “We raised $30,000 in minutes,” said CowgirlDAO founder Molly Dickson of her inaugural NFT drop Computer Cowgirls. That kind of immediacy, said Dickson, would not… : 1 : 0
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) Blockchain.com has partnered with Visa to launch a crypto card that allows users to pay using their crypto balances. Blockchain.com revealed that this card will be available to only US residents initially, and that there would be no sign-up or annual fees, no transaction fees… : 2 : 0
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) Euro-area inflation surged to a fresh all-time high, while the bloc’s economy lost momentum -- reinforcing fears that a recession is now all-but unavoidable. Consumer prices jumped by 10.7% from a year ago in October, far exceeding the 10.3% median estimate in a Bloomberg… : 0 : 1
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) There have been three times as many NFT trademark applications filed so far this year in the U.S. than in all of 2021. In a striking counterpoint to the heightened crypto skepticism during the current bear market, financial services giants Visa, PayPal, and Western Union were… : 3 : 0
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) The Web3 and cryptocurrency space is seeing a significant amount of smart contract scams proliferating, with blockchain risk monitoring firm Solidus Labs saying it has detected on average 15 newly deployed scams every hour. Solidus Labs said on Oct. 27 that it had been… : 1 : 0
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) Social media giant Twitter was officially acquired by Elon Musk on Oct. 27 in a deal that saw a war of words, a court battle and some firings right away. Musk acquired the social network platform at $54.2 per share price, bringing the total value of the deal close to $44 billion… : 1 : 0
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) Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, confirmed its participation as an equity investor in Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter. “We're excited to be able to help Elon realize a new vision for Twitter. We aim to play a role in bringing social media and… : 1 : 0
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) “There has been much speculation about why I bought Twitter, and what I think about advertising. Most of it has been wrong,” Musk said on Twitter on Thursday. Musk said his primary motivation for buying the company is to ensure the “future of civilization.” He said the goal is… : 1 : 0
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) South Korea continues to harness blockchain technology to create unique applications. As soon as 2024, South Korean citizens will be able to use blockchain-based digital identification instead of physical cards. The government has a plan to embed digital IDs within an app on… : 0 : 0
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) Recent data shows that the value of Dogechain has spiked more than 300 percent in the last seven days. Also, it rose over 10 percent over the previous 24 hours, according to the same data. Dogechain is Dogecoin’s EVM-compatible proof-of-stake blockchain. The Dogecoin community… : 0 : 0