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One year after crypto exchange FTX collapsed, a group of ex-executives at the firm has teamed up to launch a new but similar platform, aiming to fix the issues that led to the company’s implosion. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, former FTX general counsel Can Sun and ex-employees Armani Ferrante and Claire Zhang have unveiled the Backpack Exchange. Zhang is Ferrante’s wife and Sun’s ex-deputy. Ex-FTX Execs Launch New Exchange Sun founded Trek Labs, a...

Bitcoin mining firm Core Scientific filed a disclosure statement for its third-amended bankruptcy recovery plan on Monday, which incorporates key terms from its Restructuring Term Sheet filed in late October. The new filing features a concrete timeline for how the firm will gain support for the plan from key stakeholders and emerge from bankruptcy before January 15. Final Stages of Bankruptcy Per the Monday filing, the debtors plan to “move forward expeditiously” with...

A longtime Bitcoin investor and his father discovered last week that they were robbed of ~25 BTC ($919,000) in September that the family had held in a personal wallet since 2012. The online Bitcoin community is now coming to their aid, with the victim proposing a 23 BTC bounty to anyone who can recover the funds. Insecure Private Keys In a video from X user @RMessit (aka Rick) on Saturday, the victim said that his Bitcoin wallet’s private key was kept in a self-hosted...

Digital asset investment products saw inflows amounting to $293 million over the past week. This extended a seven-week streak of inflows surpassing the $1 billion milestone. Year-to-date inflows now stand at $1.14 billion, marking the third-highest annual inflows on record. Ethereum witnessed a massive turnaround in sentiment, welcoming its largest inflow since August 2022 of $49 million. According to CoinShares’ report, the last two weeks signified a “real turn” around in...

Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, is planning to launch five new projects in 2024, further expanding its reach beyond stablecoin issuance. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino hinted at the new projects in a recent tweet, saying the company is “quite close” to adding “another extremely powerful piece of the puzzle” to its ecosystem. Tether CTO Hints at 5 “Mind-Blowing” Projects for 2024 According to Ardoino, a couple of these upcoming projects are designed to...

Binance’s dominance over the centralized crypto exchange market has weakened over the past year, according to a new report from 0xScope. Estimates from the blockchain analytics firm suggest that Binance’s trading volume and other indicators are “around 10% lower overall,” while competition from OKX and other “second-tier exchanges” grows stiffer. Binance’s Second Tier Competitors Per the report, Binance is still the clear leader in terms of global crypto volume, accounting...

New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed a civil forfeiture action against Christopher Castelluzzo and two other members of an unnamed drug trafficking group based in New Jersey. According to the filing, the other two members of the group are Luke Atwell – a friend and business partner of Castelluzzo’s who is currently serving a similar sentence – and Brian Krewson, another friend of the two who reportedly manages their estate for the time being. Attempts to Move Crypto...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is struggling to recruit and retain crypto experts due to internal hiring restrictions, according to a new report from the agency’s Inspector General. The statement comes at a time when the SEC is highly focused on reigning in the blockchain industry, which its chairman Gary Gensler has described as “largely non-compliant.” Experts Won’t Sell Their Crypto Per the Inspector General’s Statement on the SEC’s Management and...

Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital has continued its international expansion by launching a 27-megawatt Bitcoin mining project powered by renewable hydro energy near Paraguay’s Itaipu Dam. According to a press release, Marathon Digital launched the project in partnership with Penguin Infrastructure Holding, which aims to transform energy into human potential in Paraguay. The project’s first miners are already on site and are being prepared for installation and energization....

Ethereum scaling network Polygon’s native crypto (MATIC) has been leading altcoin gains. Over the past week, MATIC surged by approximately 20%, briefly hitting a 5-month high of $0.86. This increase is fueled by a growing level of trade activity and a more positive overall sentiment in the broader crypto market. The upcoming developments, particularly Polygon 2.0, could potentially drive the rally further. Polygon: Key Metrics Q3 According to Nansen’s latest quarterly report...