Sam Kazemian, founder of Frax Finance, has alleged that an inside job at X was responsible for the hack of the project’s official account. The breach, which occurred on June 1, led to the decentralized stablecoin protocol behind FRAX USD losing access to its X account. Frax Finance Hack In a Telegram post dated June […]
Matter Labs, the developer behind the ZkSync Ethereum Layer 2 network, has decided to abandon its efforts to trademark the term “ZK.” In an update on June 3rd, Matter Labs said its decision to abandon its efforts to trademark the term “ZK” stems from the reasoning that it is “impossible to agree on a group […]
Australian investment management firm Monochrome Asset Management will launch a first-of-its-kind spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the country on Tuesday, May 4, 2024. According to an announcement, the Monochrome Bitcoin ETF (IBTC) will be the first fund to hold BTC directly in Australia. Appropriate measures have been put in place to list the ETF […]
Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya recently predicted that Bitcoin will reach $500,000 per coin by the end of this year, based on he trajectory of previous halving cycles. The billionaire venture capitalist’s prediction blows past those of bank analysts at firms like Standard Chartered and Bernstein, who believe the halving will be a significant but […]
Polygon has witnessed a remarkable surge in its stablecoin market capitalization this quarter. According to the latest report from Messari, the Ethereum Layer 2 solution’s stablecoin market cap soared to a whopping $1.5 billion, reflecting a significant 19% increase on a quarter-over-quarter basis. Stablecoin Adoption on Polygon Soars Tether’s solidified its position as the dominant stablecoin […]
In a high-profile case involving a massive cryptocurrency fraud, a British-Chinese woman, Jian Wen, has been sentenced to six years and eight months in prison for her role in laundering Bitcoin proceeds from a $6 billion investment scam in China. Wen, aged 42, was found guilty in March of laundering Bitcoin on behalf of her […]
Mastercard has launched its Mastercard Crypto Credential, facilitating the first peer-to-peer (p2p) pilot transactions that simplify and secure blockchain transfers. The latest offering will enable users on the Bit2Me, Lirium, and Mercado Bitcoin exchanges to send and receive cryptocurrency using easy-to-remember aliases instead of cumbersome blockchain addresses. This new capability is designed to enhance transaction […]
With the broader market recovery this year, the network activity XRP Ledger (XRPL) also surged across nearly all metrics, with active addresses and transactions increasing by 37% and 113% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ), respectively, according to Messari’s latest report. A significant portion of this activity stemmed from a concentrated group of approximately 45,000 accounts, which collectively sent […]
Rashawn Russell, a former investment banker, has been sentenced to 41 months in jail for wire fraud related to a cryptocurrency and access device fraud. Russell’s sentencing took place at the Eastern New York District Court in Brooklyn after his September 2023 guilty plea. Former Banker’s $1.5 Million Crypto Fraud Prosecutors detailed that Russell began […]
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated 30 ETH, valued at around $113,000, to support the legal defense of Tornado Cash developers Alexey Pertsev and Roman Storm through the decentralized fundraising platform Juicebox. According to the on-chain data, the transaction from an address linked to Buterin, named vitalik.eth, was made at 1:58 am EST on May 30 […]