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Galaxy Digital has won the auction for GK8 – a crypto custody platform to be sold as part of bankruptcy proceedings for the insolvent crypto lender Celsius.  Galaxy will utilize GK8’s custody solution as it develops GalaxyOne – its own institutional prime offering.   As announced by Galaxy on Friday, GK8 founders CEO Lior Lamesh and CTO Shahar Shamai will remain to lead Galaxy’s custodial tech business, while providing self-custody solutions for GalaxyOne as well.  “With the...

Embattled cryptocurrency exchange Zipmex is all set to be acquired by V Ventures, a subsidiary of Thoresen Thai Agencies Pcl, for $100 million. The venture capital fund is reportedly offering $30 million in cash, and the rest will be paid in crypto tokens. According to Bloomberg, V Ventures will acquire about 90% of Zipmex. The court hearing said crypto received from the agreement will be deployed to gradually unlock customers’ frozen wallets in the platform by early April....

CroLend, presenting itself as an algorithmic, autonomous lending protocol built on top of the Cronos network, has deleted all social media pages, the website doesn’t work, and its TVL has been drained to $0. This prompted the community to argue that this is the latest example of a rug pull in the space. Citing user information, PeckShield took it to Twitter earlier to inform that all relevant posts and sites associated with CroLend have been erased. These include the Twitter...

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried may have apologized dozen times for the failure of his firm, but there’s no stopping the contagion. Another casualty came in the name of a crypto trading platform – Aurus Global – which is currently facing a “short-term liquidity issue” due to FTX insolvency. Aurus Misses Principle Payment Amount of $3M The algorithmic trading and market-making firm reportedly missed a principal repayment on a 2,400 Wrapped Ether (wETH) decentralized finance...

The latest critique came from the top leadership at European Central Bank (ECB), who stated that Bitcoin’s value “is likely to be artificially induced” while adding that the crypto-asset is on a “road to irrelevance.” In the blog post, ECB Director General Ulrich Bindseil and Analyst Jürgen Schaff went on to claim that the world’s largest cryptocurrency has “never been used to any significant extent for legal real-world transactions.” The duo even blamed Bitcoin’s “conceptual...

Sam Bankman-Fried is doubling down on his claim that FTX US should never have filed for bankruptcy.  The former FTX boss believes the US entity is still entirely solvent and could re-open for withdrawals right away. The FTX US Situation In a tweet on Thursday, Bankman-Fried reiterated his comments at the New York Times Dealbrook Summit the day prior. During the interview, he claimed that FTX US is “fully solvent” and “fully funded”, and that its financial situation is...

Hong Kong-based blockchain gaming giant Animoca Brands is all set to roll out a massive $2 billion fund, dubbed “Animoca Capital,” to invest in metaverse businesses, according to co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu. While speaking to Nikkei Asia, the exec revealed that the upcoming metaverse fund, which will make its first investment in 2023, will focus on digital property rights. It also seeks to provide opportunities to access Web3 companies. The fund’s investment...

The government of Italy is reportedly looking to enforce strict rules on the local crypto space by imposing a 26% tax on profits generated from digital asset trading.  However, residents who earn less than €2,000 ($2,090) per year from dealing with bitcoin or altcoins will be excluded from the possible upcoming legislation. Italy’s Next Crypto Step A recent coverage by Bloomberg informed that the Italian authorities are working on a crypto bill that could be implemented as of...

Rostin Benham – chairman of the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) – has walked back previous claims that Ether (ETH) and other altcoins should fall under his agency’s jurisdiction.  Speaking about the future regulation of crypto following FTX’s bankruptcy, he suggested that only Bitcoin should be viewed as a commodity. Flipping Positions on Ether As reported by Fortune magazine, the chairman aired his thoughts during an invite-only crypto event hosted by...

Pavel Durov – Founder and CEO of the messaging application Telegram – thinks the FTX crash occurred because the blockchain industry has recently deviated from its decentralized nature. He argued that a few individuals abused their power, leading to the spectacular collapse. The Russian-born entrepreneur said Telegram’s next goal is to create non-custodial wallets and decentralized exchanges so crypto traders could have maximum protection when operating in the sector. The Main...