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Thailand’s main opposition party is promising an airdrop of about 500 billion baht (around $15 billion) in cash within months of its coming to power. The party official said that the move is expected to help recover the country’s struggling economy and provide relief to those battling “neck-deep debt.” According to a Bloomberg report, a Pheu Thai-led government plans to distribute 10,000 baht each to about 55 million citizens who are 16 years and above if it wins the general...

The efforts to expand Bitcoin development and adoption in Africa and Central America continue. So the market is looking pretty comfortable with BTC after the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and others with crypto exposure. After shocking customers, markets, and regulators earlier last month, their effect on BTC’s market value seems priced into the momentum. While crypto yield scheme crashes and bank runs haven’t been able to keep down bitcoin’s price, something’s pushing it...

The speculations about whether Elon Musk purposefully inflated Dogecoin’s price by changing Twitter’s logo so that he can dispose of his holdings continue on social media. According to data from Lookonchain, two of the five largest DOGE whales sold over $120 million worth of the memecoin amid its massive price rally this week. Twitter’s new owner is known as a keen proponent of the original memecoin, having pushed its price higher numerous times in the past through various...

After severe turbulence in the Bitcoin mining industry last year, there seems to be a significant resurgence since the start of 2023. While it has become even harder to mine BTC, miner revenue has also increased in a much-needed respite for such entities. Bitcoin’s network hash rate, which has been on a steady uptrend, has climbed to another record high of 342.16 EH/s. Foundry USA and Antpool have been dominating the hash rate with 33.9% and 18.7%, respectively. Closely...

The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) joined a multi-state settlement with Robinhood, which will pay approximately $10.2 million in fines for registering operational deficiency that negatively affected investors during the COVID-19 crisis. The crypto-related company was slapped with another $30 million penalty last summer by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) for violating anti-money laundering and cybersecurity...

The launch of the exchange project, OPNX, earlier this week managed to attract significant backlash from the community. A new development has emerged regarding the funds received for the development of OPNX, which is backed by the founders of the bankrupt hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC). BitMEX’s Arthur Hayes cited an anonymous source and claimed that the founders of the controversial project, Zhu Su and Kyle Davies, received a “lot of money” from the sovereign wealth...

Scott Chamberlain – a former US lawyer and co-founder of EvernodeXRPL – thinks the main obstacle that stops XRP’s price from surging is the SEC’s claim that the token classifies as security.  On the other hand, Ripple – the entity which issues the coin – has maintained that XRP should be treated as a commodity. In a recent Twitter post, Chamberlain opined that XRP’s price suppression is not caused by the US SEC’s allegation that Ripple sold assets worth more than $1 billion...

On April 6, Charli3 was launched on Cardano as its first oracle integrator. The platform’s oracles have been integrated by Liqwid, a leading DeFi project on Cardano. Charli3 provides a decentralized node network with the framework for projects to supply secure, accurate, and safe data to their platforms and users. It could be viewed as the Cardano version of Chainlink. Liqwid is an algorithmic liquidity market protocol built on Cardano for lenders and borrowers. The...

Singapore authorities are doubling down on efforts to unveil a set of guidelines for banks on vetting crypto clients. As such, the banks in the city-state have been working with the authorities for the last six months to establish uniform standards for screening potential customers from the crypto industry. According to a Bloomberg report, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has also joined the collaborative approach led by banks and police involving fine-tuning the...

Poor cybersecurity practices within the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry present a threat to crypto, consumers, and national security, according to a new report from the United States Treasury Department.  The first-of-its-kind document argues that DeFi’s peer-to-peer nature presents new illicit finance risks that require extra legal supervision to address.  The Risks of DeFi Released on Thursday, the 2023 DeFi Illicit Finance Risk Assessment details how cybercriminals,...