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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed that the company has most of the compromised funds and is ‘narrowing down’ the identity of the hacker.Crypto exchange Binance is reportedly narrowing down the identity of the hacker behind its $570 million crypto attack. This development comes after the company’s CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed that Binance received a tip from law enforcement. As Zhao put it:“We’re still actually chasing … helping [authorities] to chase the bad players, working with law...

Last week, Mango Markets lost $115 million worth of crypto due to a “profitable trading strategy” employed by Avraham Eisenberg and his team. While technically an exploit of the Mango Markets platform, no hacking was used in the operation, which, so far, seems to have been strictly legal. Eisenberg went on to pay back $67 million to ensure that the platform users would be reimbursed. Bots Beaten at Their Own Game However, Eisenberg’s mischievous streak didn’t go anywhere –...

It appears millennials are no longer interested in investing in crypto. At least not most millennials. A new survey suggests that the number of young investors seeking to put their money in assets like bitcoin and Ethereum has fallen from about 50 percent in 2021 to 30 percent in 2022. That’s a dip of about 20 percent – a big figure in just over a year. Millennials and Crypto Are No Longer a Match Much of this can likely be attributed to the idea that 2022 has been a...

Tesla has been facing growing challenges in China due to strict COVID-19 rules as well as growing competition from local electric carmakers like BYD.The world’s largest electric carmaker Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) has decided to cut the price of its cars in one of its most-competitive markets China. As per the latest development, Tesla has cut the price of its Model and Model Y vehicles.Tesla Cars PriceThe price of the Model 3 sedan in China has been reduced to 265,900 Chinese yuan ($36,615)...

According to recent reports, the US Court has approved Voyager’s entry into a $1.42 billion agreement with FTX to acquire its virtual assets.Crypto Lender  Voyager Digital filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 4 after halting withdrawals a few days earlier. According to the company, the Three Arrows Capital default caused liquidity issues forcing them to take this decision. FTX US, therefore, submitted a bid to acquire the company in a “highly competitive” auction process pending court...

Philips posted its Q3 2022 report as the company grapples with the fallout from a medical equipment recall.Royal Philips NV reported on Monday, October 24th, its Q3 2022 earnings which surpassed analysts’ forecasts for the period. However, the Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation’s revenue fell short of expectations. During the third quarter, Philips saw earnings per share of 0.25 euros on revenue of 4.30 billion euros. Meanwhile, analysts polled by Investing.com had it at 0.24 euros...

Stock traders and investors look poised for a bountiful week of earnings as they await a major interest rate decision from the Fed. Monday morning signaled some hopeful times ahead for the European stocks market, which opened on a rising note. However, it might be safe to say that the driving force behind the sudden rise in the value of European stocks, is a recent report that claims that the Federal Reserve could throttle down on its pace of interest rate hikes.  This explains why traders...

Since the announcement, the Freeway (FWT) token has sunk to approximately eighty percent.Crypto platform Freeway has recently paused a few operations due to unforeseen instability in the foreign exchange and crypto marketplaces.In a post by the company on October 23rd, the platform revealed its plans to pause purchases and deposits. It also disclosed the company’s plans to cancel plans of buying Supercharger simulations until a new strategy is chalked out for the way forward. The...

Asides from creating its digital currency, JCB has been making forays into the world of blockchain, crypto, and Web3.Ahead of Japan’s issuance of CBDC, Japan Credit Bureau (JCB) has launched its digital currency. JCB is projecting that asking older citizens and young children to use a new payment infrastructure may limit the adoption of CBDCs in the future. As such, the firm is looking to test CBDC acceptance with its existing payment infrastructure vis, contactless payment system, merchants,...

[embedded content] 1.) A stablecoin’s rise in market share has ignited the ‘Second Great Stablecoin War’Since Binance announced it would auto-convert USDC, USDP and TUSD into BUSD on Sept. 6, BUSD’s share of the total stablecoin market has risen from 10.01% to 15.48%.https://cointelegraph.com/news/a-stablecoin-s-rise-in-market-share-has-ignited-the-second-great-stablecoin-war 2.) Change of Heart: Kraken Closes Accounts for all Russian UsersFollowing the latest package of sanctions that the...