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Polkadot announced that Deloitte Switzerland is integrating the former’s parachain KILT blockchain technology for issuing reusable digital credentials to support KYC and KYB processes. With this move, Deloitte has become the latest major enterprise partner to come to the Polkadot ecosystem. The digital credentials in question will have extensive use cases such as regulatory compliance for banking and decentralized finance (DeFi), age verification for e-commerce, private...

Brian Armstrong, the co-founder and chief executive officer of major American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, revealed that the company is still 100% committed to the US market, despite the lack of regulatory clarity in the country. The CEO’s disclosure came as a response to a question from shareholders, who were curious about Coinbase’s plans to move operations out of the US and the implications of such for customers, during an earnings call for Q1 2023 on Thursday....

Technology entrepreneur, philanthropist, and co-founder of multinational technology giant Apple, Steve Wozniak, has criticized Elon Musk, billionaire CEO of Tesla and also owner and CEO of Twitter, for failing to fulfill the promise to launch self-driving cars. Wozniak also said Tesla could kill, referring to the car model as an example of artificial intelligence (AI) “gone wrong.” Wozniak Slams Musk on Failed Promise In a recent interview with CNN, Steve Wozniak was asked...

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX missed the potential to own billions of dollars worth of SUI tokens after it sold its warrant rights to the native token of the nearly launched layer-1 blockchain too early. Following the much-anticipated launch of the Sui mainnet, the price of the SUI token rose to over $3 before dropping in value. At SUI’s current price, FTX’s SUI tokens would have been worth around $1 billion. FTX Loses out on Gains on SUI After Selling its Token Warrants FTX’s...

The Casablanca Court of Appeals ruled that the 21-year-old Frenchman – Thomas Clausi – will serve an 18-month prison sentence for orchestrating a crypto scheme. The defendant must compensate the victims of his scam and pay a fine of 3.4 million euros ($3.7 million) to customs authorities.  Crypto fraudsters have been quite inventive recently, draining significant sums from investors. Fortunately, law enforcement agencies have arrested and sent to jail some of them.  For...

The government of Kenya plans to impose a 3% tax on cryptocurrency transfers to narrow the fiscal deficit of the country and boost its domestic revenues. Kenya is among the leaders on the African continent in terms of crypto adoption. Patrick Njoroge – Governor of the Central Bank – has previously suggested that bitcoin could solve the nation’s problems with its depreciating official currency. Crypto Included in the New Bill As reported by Bloomberg, Kenya’s lawmakers might...

Payment giant Stripe announced the launch of a fiat-to-crypto onramp to streamline process the for Web3 companies to enable US-based customers to purchase crypto. The company will also be opening the onramp to all Web3 users, in addition to the ones who joined the waitlist over the last few months. The onramp, whether embedded on a company’s site or hosted by Stripe, focuses on optimizing conversion and authorization rates. Such a mechanism in place makes it more likely that...

A US court has ordered the Securities and Exchange Commission to respond to Coinbase’s complaint about clarity on whether the securities regulator would allow the industry to be regulated using existing frameworks. The latest development emerges amidst escalating tensions between the SEC and Coinbase, with the former ramping up enforcement actions and warnings against crypto firms, including the US crypto giant. SEC’s 10-Day Deadline Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal...

Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana called banks “sophisticated Ponzi schemes” while discussing the US banking crisis that’s claimed multiple crypto-supportive financial institutions in the past two months.  The politician also spoke on the state of inflation, which he believes the Federal Reserve will need to bring to at least 8% to cool down.  Banks Are Ponzi Schemes? In an interview with CNBC that aired in full on Friday, Kennedy stressed that banks “exist on the...

The authorities of Israel have reportedly seized around 190 cryptocurrency accounts at Binance since 2021, saying some of those were tied to the terrorist groups – Hamas and Islamic State. The exchange claimed that Reuters (the media outlet that informed about the confiscation) is “deliberately leaving out critical facts to fit their narrative.” It asserted that anti-money laundering and preventing terrorist activities remain a key focus for the company. The Reuters/Binance...