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Arbitrum – a leading Layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum – started distributing its governance token (ARB) on April 25th. The airdrop is part of the platform’s roadmap, which designated 1.13% of the overall 10 billion token supply for qualified DAO projects. According to the latest data, Arbitrum has distributed over 90 million ARB worth $120 million to 125 DAO wallets. Treasure DAO was the top receiver with 8 million ARB, while 60 other DAOs pocketed at least 75k ARB...

Last September, the SEC took the Hydrogen Technology Corporation and its CEO, Michael Ross Kane, to court for the alleged price manipulation of the firm’s proprietary token, HYDRO. Proven Manipulation Of Market Value According to the charges, Kane used services offered by Moonwalkers Trading Ltd, a South African company, without a clear legitimate business purpose in order to conduct bogus trades using the HYDRO token. We announced charges against The Hydrogen Technology...

On April 23, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) said the gold-backed digital asset will be used as legal tender in the African nation. The move is part of an effort to stabilize the country’s economy and local currency’s continued depreciation against the U.S. dollar. According to reports in local media, the move will allow those holding small amounts of Zimbabwean dollars to exchange their money for digital tokens. This will help them store value and hedge against currency...

Leading cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Gemini are parts of the two consortiums set to bid for bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network’s assets at an auction scheduled for Tuesday, the 25th of April, 2023, according to a court filing and report from Fortune. The court document revealed that the auction would be held at the New York offices of Kirkland and Ellis, the law firm handling Celsius’ bankruptcy, from 2 pm EPT. Coinbase and Gemini to Bid for Celsius’ Assets One...

A South Korean District Court has declared that LUNA, the native token of the Terra ecosystem, is not a security. The court also dismissed prosecutors’ requests to confiscate properties belonging to Singapore-based Terraform Labs co-founder Shin Hyun-Seong, and also arrest him along with other executives of the Singapore-based project. LUNA Is Not a Security Token The Seoul Southern District Court categorically stated that LUNA is not considered a security, according to a...

By quoting Portfolio Shield’s inventor, Steven Van Metre, Robert Kiyosaki warned that gold prices could be heading toward a massive correction that could slash the value in half. At the same time, he reaffirmed his stance that “cash is trash” and his belief in the yellow metal as well as bitcoin. Gold to Drop Hard? The precious metal has been long praised as the go-to safe haven investment tool, given its history and positive performance in times of economic uncertainty. The...

A wallet that participated in Ethereum’s initial coin offering (ICO) in 2016, which remained dormant since then, has finally woken up after seven years and seven months. According to a tweet by on-chain analysis firm Lookonchain, the address transferred one ether (ETH) to a new address about 13 hours ago, marking its first transaction. The crypto community speculates that it is a test transaction. However, the ICO wallet has not made any other transactions since. At the time...

KuCoin’s Twitter account was briefly compromised, causing the platform’s users to lose over 22,000 USDT to hackers through fake activity. The crypto exchange was able to recover its account and promised to reimburse affected users. KuCoin revealed that hackers took over its Twitter account for 45 minutes to promote a fake activity on Monday, April 24. While the incident was brief, the company said that it identified 22 transactions in connection with the fraudulent activity,...

Faruk Fatih Özer – the founder of crypto exchange Thodex – has been extradited to his home country, Turkey, where he faces charges of fraud and operating a criminal organization. Thodex was one of the largest crypto exchanges in Turkey. It later turned out to be an exit scam, with Özer disappearing with $2.6 billion worth of crypto funds leaving around 400K users high and dry. According to the latest report by state media, the 27-year-old founder was detained by police upon...

In a landmark ruling, Hong Kong’s High Court declared crypto as property that can be held in trust. This marks the first time such a decision regarding asset class has been made in the city-state. The ruling, which was handed down in liquidation of a case involving the now-defunct crypto exchange Gatecoin, essentially puts crypto on par with other intangible assets such as stocks and bonds. Cryptocurrencies Constitute Property The judgment was revealed by London-based law...