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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a motion requesting permission to appeal a federal court ruling last month claiming that secondary sales of Ripple’s XRP token are not securities. The agency argued that there are still “substantial grounds for difference of opinion” regarding how securities laws apply to crypto, making frequent reference to a similar case involving Terraform Labs where the judge ruled differently. Ripple Case Not Over? The motion,...

A United States judge has ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can seek assistance from the South Korean government in interviewing Daniel Shin, co-founder of Terraform Labs, along with Do Kwon. US District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled on Thursday that the SEC is permitted to utilize a procedure outlined in a 1970 treaty that regulates international evidence-gathering requests. Despite denying any misconduct, Kwon did not contest SEC’s request. As part of the...

The fervor that surrounded Bitcoin Ordinals seems to have waned, with sales volume dropping more than 97% from its all-time high in May 2023. However, some community members believe Bitcoin Ordinals are not dead, some others state that the earlier hype was a major cause of its crash, arguing that Bitcoin is better off maintaining its primary function as a store of value. A 97% Crash Within 3 Months Bitcoin Ordinals have seen a sharp decline in sales volume from its peak of...

As crypto mining firms rapidly expand infrastructure ahead of the 2024 Bitcoin halving, the industry is also branching out into another growing tech frenzy: artificial intelligence. A report from JP Morgan on Thursday explained how mining businesses are now repurposing their infrastructure to provide high-performance computing services. Miners Pivot to AI As led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, the analysts wrote that miners are partly funding their shift to AI by selling BTC...

[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, August 18th, 2023] Crypto Exchange Huobi announced a strategic partnership with TradingView on data and trading integration services. Users will now be able to directly view the real-time prices of cryptocurrencies on Huobi with TradingView. They can also create accounts and trade on Huobi without having to switch between platforms. With more than 50 million traders and investors globally, TradingView is a premier financial chart...

It’s believed Gen Z will make a huge difference in how bitcoin works and operates in the coming years. Gen Z Are the Real Crypto Hounds This makes sense given the digital currency industry has been taken to largely by young people. Most of the time, it’s standard financial tools – such as stocks and precious metals – that are enjoyed by older generations, though it’s Gen Z and millennials that largely grew up during the days of the Great Recession. They likely saw...

A crypto wallet connected to the October 2022 BNB Chain $600 million exploit has lost roughly $63 million on the decentralized lending platform Venus Protocol due to liquidation that resulted from the massive bloodbath in the market yesterday. According to a series of tweets by blockchain security firm PeckShield, the exploiter’s wallet was first liquidated of 1.1 million Venus BNB (vBNB) worth around $9.9 million with the asset’s price as $9.4. The second liquidation was...

The cryptocurrency market is going through hard times. It’s been a complete disaster for the past seven days, and the worst took place today. Bitcoin’s price plummeted by a whopping 7.6% in the past 24 hours alone, bringing its total losses to above 11% for the week. The crash also led to a massive wave of liquidations worth over $1 billion in terms of leveraged positions. The volatility wiped off both short and long open interest, and the market is left crumbling. BTC is far...

Changpeng Zhao – the man behind Binance, the world’s largest and most popular digital currency exchange – has announced that he thinks 2025 will likely be the year in which bitcoin reaches a new high and goes through a bull run like nobody has ever seen. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on BTC’s Future This is very similar to an article that Live Bitcoin News recently published. In that article, it was suggested (as an opinion, of course) that 2024 would be the year in...

Optimism network-based decentralized credit market Exactly Protocol became the target of exploitation on August 18th. The breach resulted in a significant drop in the platform’s total value locked (TVL). Meanwhile, Exactly’s recently-announced native token – EXA – slumped by more than 27% over the past day. The protocol was halted temporarily. Another DeFi Project Hacked Blockchain security firm PechShield was the first to alert Exactly Protocol of the attack and warned users...