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As part of the agreement, debtors will sell roughly $95 million worth of preferred stock back to Mysten Labs in addition to $1 million in SUI tokens. On Thursday, March 23, debtors of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX filed a motion in the bankruptcy court seeking a $95 million stake in the Delaware-based Web3 firm Mysten Labs. Crypto exchange FTX has been surviving to pay its customers impacted by the collapse of the exchange last year in November 2022. Before it fall, FTX had paid $101...

Amid rising global inflation and fear of a worldwide banking crisis, the demand for risky assets, including Bitcoin, has significantly spiked in the recent past. Crypto exchanges have been outlawed in mainland China since 2017, while digital assets like Bitcoin were banned in 2021. However, mainland China residents are eager to participate in the global financial revolution by all means. According to a report by media outlet CNBC, some Binance employees have been showing mainland China...

Klarna will leverage the best technology and data to help people discover new products. Payments and shopping service Klarna may be the latest company to partner with OpenAI to use ChatGPT. According to a recent announcement by the firm, the ChatGPT Plugin has now been integrated and will serve as a personal shopping assistant to Klarna users, ushering in a new era of personalized shopping experience. That is, users may now ask Klarna for shopping advice or product recommendations, and...

Block said it is working with the SEC on how to “explore legal action against Hindenburg Research for the factually inaccurate and misleading report”. American multinational financial technology giant Block Inc (NYSE: SQ) is currently under intense pressure following a damning report from short seller, Hindenburg Research. According to the report, Hindenburg Research accused Block of running a fraudulent operation that takes advantage of the demographics it claims to serve, the unbanked....

Bitcoin cash started a decent increase above the $120 and $122 levels against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below the $130 zone and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a key declining channel forming with resistance near $129 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair must clear $129 and $130 to continue higher in the near term. Bitcoin cash price is consolidating above $120 against the US Dollar, similar to...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen suggested that her department might be willing to further backstop bank deposits if needed, only one day after seemingly ruling out the possibility. Her comments were followed by brief fluctuations in bank stocks, which then continued their downward daily trend. Are Deposits Backstopped or Not? In her prepared testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday, Yellen reiterated comments from the day prior explaining that the...

Telegram has added a new feature enabling users to send each other the world’s largest stablecoin, tether (USDT). USDT runs on several blockchains, but for now, Telegram has added support for the stablecoin only on Tron. According to an update on March 22nd, USDT-TRON – TRC20 – has been added to the popular messaging app’s wallet function, thereby expanding its payment capabilities for buying and selling crypto. USDT is the third crypto-asset joining Bitcoin and The Open...

Republican congressman Tom Emmer has introduced more crypto-related legislation – this time to help blockchain developers from unreasonable financial reporting requirements.  The new bill may help to correct controversial language within the Biden Administration’s infrastructure bill in late 2021, which could theoretically label a swath of the blockchain network participants as digital asset “brokers.” Clearing the Air on Crypto Reporting Shared over Twitter on Thursday,...

The news has already stirred the crypto ecosystem with many of the affected holders of LUNA yet to recover their losses. Do Kwon, the co-founder of Terraform Labs has been reportedly arrested in Montenegro, months after he vanished after the implosion of Terra (LUNA) and its algorithmic stablecoin UST. The arrest of Do Kwon was shared through a Tweet from Filip Adzic, the country’s minister of interior. At a time over the past year, Do Kwon was declared one of the most wanted men in the...

The Bank of Zambia has announced it’s considering adopting digital currency legislation so that it can test the technology behind crypto to see about its viability as a payment method. Zambia Sees Crypto in a Whole New Light Felix Mutati – the technology and science minister in Zambia – stated in a recent interview: The testing of the technology on regulating cryptocurrency will be upscaled in due course as part of deliberate measures to achieve an inclusive digital...