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By the end of 2022, PayPal held over $600 million in digital assets in crypto on behalf of its users. That included $291 million in Bitcoin (BTC) and $250 million in ETH.  According to PayPal’s annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the remainder of its $63 million in crypto was spread between Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Litecoin (LTC). In total, the firm held $604 million in digital assets. In dollar terms, that’s less than what the firm held in Q3 – when...

India’s retail CBDC pilot, launched on December 1, has onboarded 50,000 users and 5,000 merchants. In the two-month period, 0.77 million e-rupee transactions were carried out, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said. Right now, digital rupee (e-rupee) transactions are available in a closed group of banks, cities, and merchants. India CBDC Plan will Go Slow “We want the process to happen, but we want the process to happen gradually and slowly. We are in no hurry to make something...

The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology reportedly approved the launch of the National Blockchain Technology Innovation Center.  It will be based in the capital Beijing and will focus on use cases that could boost the local economy.  Unlike BTC, China is Supportive of Blockchain  According to recent coverage, the newly-formed entity will try to advance the financial network of the most populous country by implementing the use cases of blockchain technology. The center,...

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of the blockchain payment company that fights the US SEC in court over the status of XRP, believes there’s a lot of positive news in terms of crypto adoption worldwide. He made these comments following the recent crackdown from the Securities and Exchange Commission against Kraken and its crypto staking services. Step Back and Review Being the world’s largest economy, the actions undertaken by the US, its government, and the local regulatory bodies...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol dForce has suffered a reentrancy vulnerability attack leading to the loss of $3.6 million worth of crypto assets. The attacker targeted the protocol’s vault on the automated market maker (AMM) platform Curve Finance, which operates on the Arbitrum and Optimism blockchains. dForce Exploited for $3.65M  The hack was first flagged by Twitter user @ZoomerAnon who announced that dForce had lost about $1.7 million in a series of flash loan...

Following the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s crackdown against Kraken’s staking service on Thursday, one of its members is railing against her agency’s decision.  Hester Peirce – aka ‘Crypto Mom’ – issued a statement on Wednesday arguing that the SEC’s enforcement action is neither “efficient nor fair,” and that exchanges were never given a realistic pathway to registration, to begin with.  The SEC’s Enforcement Style  According to Peirce, the fundamental question...

On Feb. 9, Gary Gensler and his SEC took aim at Kraken and its staking-as-a-service products. The regulator claims that the U.S. crypto exchange is offering unregistered securities through its staking services. Consequently, Kraken suspended staking-as-a-service, and crypto markets have slumped. On Feb. 10, popular analyst and trader Alex Krüger put a positive spin on the latest regulatory crackdown by Uncle Sam. He said that a ban on staking, which the SEC is angling for,...

The long-awaited second airdrop of Ethereum’s layer-two scaling solution – Optimism – is here. The protocol distributed a total of 11.7 million OP tokens to over 300,000 addresses. The price of OP dropped after the announcement. Many have been expecting the second airdrop of the popular Ethereum layer-two scaling solution, Optimism. The first one saw around 200 million OP tokens airdropped to 250,000 early adopters, and some of them received up to $20K worth of tokens on the...

Binance said earlier today it had introduced zk-SNARKs to its proof-of-reserve system in an attempt to make it easier for users and other entities to verify its solvency. Additionally, the exchange has added four new crypto assets to its PoR system. Ever since the loud collapse of FTX in late 2022, cryptocurrency exchanges have rushed to prove the assets held on their platforms. Binance was among the first to introduce such a feature, initially utilizing only Merkle Tree....

Kraken’s generated trading volume for the past 24 hours increased by almost 15%. The surge contrasts with the company’s issues prompted by the recent SEC investigation and the consecutive termination of staking services. Data extracted from CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko revealed that Kraken’s 24h trading volume stands at around $757 million, or a 14% increase. Based on numerous factors, including average liquidity, volume, and Web traffic, the company collects a score of 7.4...