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The Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi has provided a timeline explaining its actions during HUSD’s de-pegging event on Thursday.  The exchange confirmed that the problem began with the stablecoin’s issuer. According to a tweet from Huobi, the firm detected “unusual price fluctuations” from its namesake stablecoin at 10:05 UTC on August 18.  Within five minutes, Huobi contacted the issuer of HUSD, Stable Universe Limited.. By 10:30, both the exchange and issuer...

It has been a tough year for crypto miners who had to sell their coins to cover their costs and fund expansion as well as for the repayment of debts. But this trend appears to be continuing into the third quarter of the year for some. Bitcoin price successfully broke out before facing rejection near the $25,000 level. Since then, it has been on a downtrend. This has resulted in mounting sell pressure on Bitcoin miners. However, during the brief upswing in early August, they...

On August 18, MercadoLibre Inc, a multinational e-commerce company based in Latin America, announced the creation of a new cryptocurrency called MercadoCoin, which will be implemented in its loyalty program. As reported by Reuters, the cryptocurrency will run on the Ethereum network as an ERC-20 token priced at $0.10 each. It will be used primarily for cashback and purchases inside MercadoLibre’s platform. The developer team also hinted at opening the token to the secondary...

Analysts of prominent investment bank JPMorgan believe that Coinbase will be meaningfully benefitted from the upcoming Merge. In a note to the clients on Wednesday, analyst Kenneth Worthington said that the San Francisco-based crypto exchange has taken concrete measures in a bid to maximize the value of ETH staking for its clients. This is expected to result in higher revenue generation itself. Worthington asserted, “We see the staking revenue opportunity bigger...

Leading stablecoin issuer Tether has hired accounting firm BDO Italia to replace Cayman Islands firm MHA Cayman in overseeing its attestation reports for USDT reserves.  The USDT issuer said it plans to release its attestation reports every month, replacing the previous quarterly reporting arrangement.  Tether Hires Major European Auditor Founded in 1965, BDO Italia is an Italian financing advisory and accounting auditing firm, the world’s fifth largest public accounting...

While Ripple execs claim that the company has been unfairly treated by the SEC, Ethereum frontman Vitalik Buterin hasn’t been exactly silent either. In a fresh jibe, the latter accused the former of throwing Ethereum under the bus as “China-controlled.” The latest feud also started with a discussion of new regulatory changes in Canada with Ontario-based crypto exchanges – Bitbuy and Newton – imposing a 30,000 CAD annual “buy limit” for “restricted coins” for their users to...

Brian Armstrong – CEO of Coinbase – stated on Thursday that he would refuse to censor the Ethereum blockchain using his platform’s concentrated stake in the protocol.  If compelled by the government to do so, he’d rather shut down the service. Armstrong made his intentions clear in response to an Ethereum developer’s question concerning the centralization of staked ETH. According to Dune Analytics, 66% of ETH staked on the beacon chain is held by entities that are regulated...

Bored Ape Yacht Club saw a considerable increase in its overall sales volume and the number of traders for the past 24 hours. This happens as Bored Ape #5383 was sold for 777 ETH, worth some $1.45 million at the time of this writing. Bored Ape Yacht Club is arguably the most popular collection of non-fungible tokens and surely the one with the highest floor price. At the time of writing this article, the floor price sits at 72 ETH. Data from DappRadar shows that over the past...

Publicly-traded Bitcoin mining company Stronghold Digital Mining (SDIG) said it plans to return more than 26,000 mining rigs to New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) to reduce its debt significantly. NYDIG is a leading bitcoin firm that helps miners finance mining equipment and power infrastructure. The mining company also intends to restructure a convertible note for cash after receiving a binding commitment letter from private credit investment manager WhiteHawk Capital...

The shutdown of Tornado Cash by the US Treasury Department on August 8 has made Kraken CEO Josse Powell question the constitutionality of the decision. In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday, Powell doubted if the Treasury’s move will withstand judicial scrutiny. Tornado Cash allows users to conceal sources and destinations of funds by mixing several users’ coins before sending them to their destination addresses. Powell argued that banning Tornado Cash because it is...