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The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) – the organization behind the Stellar network that facilitates cross-border transactions – announced becoming a minority investor in payments giant MoneyGram International. The latest investment is the first of its kind made from SDF’s treasury which includes a position on MGI’s Board of Directors. Denelle Dixon, SDF CEO and Executive Director, will occupy that role, according to the official announcement. Stellar x MoneyGram The...

On Wednesday, Shiba Inu (SHIB) developers appeared on stage at the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Toronto to discuss the “End Game” for Shibarium – the meme token’s metaverse and NFT-oriented layer 2 blockchain. The team said that the Shibarium mainnet has gone live, allowing developers to begin building apps on the blockchain. The ecosystem will include “Shibdentities,” a proof of personhood solution that lets users retain control of their data and privacy. Shibdentities...

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 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...

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...

The Board of Directors of PayPal disclosed that the new Chief Executive Officer of the payment processor giant will be Alex Chriss (an executive who runs Small Businesses and Self-Employed Group at Intuit). He will enter the new role on September 27, replacing Dan Schulman. The amendment comes a week after PayPal doubled down on its crypto efforts by launching a stablecoin pegged to the valuation of the US dollar.  PayPal With a New Boss The announcement states that the Board...