Crypto news

Dante Disparte, the chief strategy officer and head of global policy of the second-largest stablecoin issuer Circle, has blasted crypto firms that create counterfeits of the U.S. dollar. According to a Bloomberg report, Disparte called for relevant federal legislation around stablecoins to protect consumers and prevent investors from companies with fake USD. Circle CSO Criticizes Firms That Counterfeit USD Disparte said the several bank failures in the U.S. earlier this year...

Updated filings show that former President Donald Trump owns $2.8 million worth of cryptocurrency in his Ethereum wallet – a far higher amount than disclosures from earlier this month appeared to suggest. The disclosures paint a different picture of Trump’s views on crypto than his public pronouncements about the asset class would seem to suggest. Trumps Crypto and NFT Earnings As submitted to the Office of Government Ethics, entry 24 under Trump’s “Employment Assets and...

The second-largest decentralized exchange on the newly released Base blockchain – RocketSwap – announced eliminating any existing high risks and vulnerabilities a day after sustaining a “brute force hack of the server” where the platform stored its private keys. The RocketSwap team confirmed relinquishing minting rights, which is part of its recovery plan. In a new update, the protocol said it has retained only low-risk rights to allocate new pools. The locked initial...

PayPal announced that it will temporarily suspend crypto purchases on its platform for its U.K. based users beginning in October. The move comes in response to evolving regulatory guidelines provided by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) – Britain’s chief market regulator. PayPal Pauses Crypto Buys Per an email received by certain U.K. users on Wednesday, the suspension will take effect on October 1, and is expected to last until early 2024. “Your crypto remains safe,”...

The cryptocurrency industry had a number of noteworthy events in the first half of 2023, reaffirming its status as a top global risk asset. Investors sought solutions to handle the highly unpredictable market and secure larger returns in the face of the hurdles offered by significant market changes. As a result, many people began trading high-leverage contracts, exposing themselves to potential liquidation and trading failures owing to a lack of experience and...

Matrix Port – a provider of crypto and blockchain services – is confident that in a year and a half from now (at the end of 2024), the price of bitcoin will rise to a whopping $125,000. Matrix Port: Bitcoin Is Going to Rise, Rise, Rise The company is basing its hypothesis on historical data, which includes former bullish trends and significant increases in market value. Matrix Port believes that these little points will repeat themselves and ultimately bring the...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is leaving securities enforcement up to the CFTC when it comes to cryptocurrency. While the commission rushes ahead of Congress to write the entire federal crypto policy by lawsuit, the CFTC is going for more clear-cut violations. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission took the lead late last week and filed charges of securities fraud against a cryptocurrency business in Florida. It filed the charges in the U.S. District Court for...

Bittrex reached a $24 million settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Under this arrangement, Bittrex and Bittrex Global have settled with the federal regulator, agreeing to make payments totaling $14.4 million for disgorgement (repayment of unjust profits), $4 million for prejudgment interest, and $5.6 million in civil penalties to resolve the legal conflict. Even though both parties were able to avoid the effort and cost of litigation, Bittrex CEO...

[PRESS RELEASE – San Francisco, USA, August 16th, 2023] Linera reaches a total of $12M in seed funding. The new round of funding was led by Borderless Capital with contributions from a16z crypto, Laser Digital Ventures, Matrixport, Flow Traders, GSR Markets, and more Linera, the first blockchain network scalable via microchains, has successfully closed an additional $6M round, led by Borderless Capital. Founded by Mathieu Baudet, former Meta researcher on the Novi digital...

Michael Burry, one of the Tradfi banking industry’s most notorious bears, just put a $1.6 billion hit out on the U.S. stock market. What happens to bitcoin while the grownups are fighting? The Scion Capital founder, who famously shorted mortgage-backed securities before the 2007 housing crisis, just gave the stock market a $1.6 billion shove of puts in SPY and QQQ! Michael Burry Bets $1.6B on Stock Market Crash Steve Anderson writes at TipRanks: “Michael Burry made a name for...