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On Tuesday, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)’s first long-form interview since FTX’s bankruptcy was published to YouTube by citizen journalist Tiffany Fong. On November 16th, the former CEO offered his perspective on a number of claims made about him since the bankruptcy, and the state of FTX US clients. He also reflected on FTT, the exchange’s native token which he maintained holds more intrinsic value than most other cryptos. What Caused FTX and FTT to Collapse Wong began by...

India’s largest and most advanced government-run hospital, more popularly known by its acronym AIIMS (The All India Institute of Medical Sciences), suffered a hack of its servers on November 23.  Even as they remained out of order for the sixth consecutive day, a new twist emerged in the ongoing multi-agency investigation and restoration effort.  A leading news agency on Monday claimed that Rs 200 million ($25 million) in ransom has been asked by the attackers to restore...

OpenSea – the world’s largest NFT marketplace – is bringing NFTs based on BNB Chain to its platform.  The network’s collectibles will soon be available for listing and sale on OpenSea’s standard core marketplace.  OpenSea Meets BNB Chain Per a press release shared with CryptoPotato, OpenSea’s Seaport protocol will launch BNB Chain starting in Q4 2022. Benefits to BNB NFT creators will include real-time payouts, creator payouts, collections management, and other things.  “The...

Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi announced the launch of the world’s first national token, DMC (Dominica Coin) and Dominica DID, under the authorization of the government of the Commonwealth of Dominica. For the project, Huobi tapped Tron Network and DMC Labs. According to the official press release, both Dominica DID and DMC were originally issued on the Tron Network. Support cross-chain interaction with Ethereum, BSC, and other public chains via the BitTorrent Chain protocol...

According to recent data, projects on the Cosmos ecosystem surpassed that of Cardano by a small margin. Cosmos, with 603 commits, currently trails only behind Ethereum, with 806 commits. GitHub activity essentially indicates which projects are receiving attention from devs and are being meticulously developed. Given the tepid market conditions, Cosmos’ increased activity hosting service is a good sign. The ongoing bear market can be viewed as a builder’s market. This is due...

On-chain sleuth ZackXBT has tracked down some of the mixed Bitcoin funds stolen by the mysterious FTX hacker this month.  The analyst found that $4.1 million worth of Bitcoin (255 BTC) has ended up on OKX, a cryptocurrency exchange.  As explained on Twitter, the hacker initially deposited the stolen funds to CoinMixer – an anonymous Bitcoin mixing service designed to make on-chain Bitcoin transfers harder to track.  The first CoinMixer deposit was made on November 20th after...

Serum (SRM) – the Solana-based DEX protocol launched in part by FTX – is seeking a fresh restart after FTX’s fallout left the project’s security permanently compromised.  The new project – called Openbook – will be community-led, and may or may possibly discard the SRM token entirely.  Serum’s New Beginning In a Twitter thread on Tuesday, Serum explained that the collapse of FTX and Alameda has left its program effectively “defunct.”  “As upgrade authority is held by FTX,...

A significant outflow of funds belonging to Binance set off alarms in the cryptocurrency community today. According to a Tweet from Whale Alerts, the exchange pulled out more than 127,000 BTC in a single transaction, depositing the coins in an anonymous wallet address. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 127,351 #BTC (2,062,504,721 USD) transferred from #Binance to unknown wallethttps://t.co/zNYPuJuoRe — Whale Alert (@whale_alert) November 28, 2022 Of course, it was to be expected that,...

The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has made it clear that it will keep imposing fines on cryptocurrency exchanges for alleged violations of the U.S. sanctions system. This time it was the turn of Kraken, one of the oldest crypto exchanges in the U.S. Who will be next? Kraken, a well-known American crypto exchange, agreed to pay a fine of more than $362,000 to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for “apparently” violating U.S....

Following Sam Bankman-Frieds’ speedy exit, authorities in the Bahamas began investigating the collapse of the collapsed crypto exchange. One measure taken was to freeze the assets of FTX Digital Markets – the Bahamian subsidiary of the company. Speculation Not Welcome In an address to the nation conducted via Facebook Live, Bahamas Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Ryan Pinder praised the swift actions taken by the local regulators. He also cautioned would-be...