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America’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is supporting a legal challenge against the U.S. Treasury Department following its sanctions against the privacy protocol Tornado Cash. The lawsuit’s plaintiffs include 6 individuals who have personally used the mixer, some of which include Coinbase employees. Defending Tornado’s Use Cases As reported by CNBC, Coinbase’s senior security risk analyst said he used Tornado Cash to anonymize his cryptocurrency donations to Ukraine, for...

UK-based asset management company Brevan Howard has revealed details of its $1-billion crypto hedge fund that has been in the news lately. $1 Billion Crypto Fund   In a statutory filing with US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Braven Howard, a global asset manager with $25 billion in assets under management (AUM), provided details of two sub-entities that together raised over $210 million towards its planned $1 billion crypto hedge fund. Digital Asset Multi-Strategy...

In an attempt to fight the galloping inflation, the European Central Bank, similar to its counterparty overseas, raised the key interest rates by 75 basis points. Unlike the Fed’s interest rate hikes, though, this one has had no real impact on BTC’s price, at least for now. With the skyrocketing inflation across the Old Continent, the ECB was a little slow to react at first and failed to follow the Fed’s example for a while. However, the central banking authority changed its...

Despite the dramatic sell-off of Terra ecosystem tokens, LUNC has managed to rally along with the crypto market favoring the upside. While the plan continues to revive the chain and attract investors back, the latest surge of more than 100% over the past week after its tax burn confirmation. At the time of writing, LUNC was trading at $0.00056, recording a daily rise of almost 55%. LUNCUSDT. Source: TradingViewAs per the new 1.2% Tax Parameter Change proposal, taxes will be...

Dan Morehead – Chief Executive Officer of Pantera Capital – believes the crypto winter will soon come to an end, and bitcoin’s price will head north again. He also argued that the supremacy of the two biggest digital assets by market capitalization – BTC and ETH – has started fading, and people should pay attention to other crypto projects that are “really important.” Bitcoin’s Rally Coming Soon In a recent interview for Bloomberg, the top executive and a keen cryptocurrency...

On September 7th, Binance.US announced the launch of an Ethereum Staking service, offering its users an initial annual percentage yield (APY) of 6%. According to the Binance.US blog post, this new feature will allow users to start staking ETH using a minimum of 0.001 ETH (approximately $1.62). An amount much more accessible than the 32 ETH needed to become an Ethereum validator. “While there is a 32 ETH requirement for staking directly through the Ethereum network, users can...

Blockchain Australia – an industry body representing Aussie businesses and individuals participating in the crypto industry – announced the appointment of Laura Mercurio as its next Chief Executive Officer. She has a rich experience in the financial field, working previously for BlackRock, Deutsche Bank, and Citigroup. Recently, numerous other individuals who were part of monetary institutions and even government officials moved to the digital asset space. Such an example is...

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Bybit said it is taking necessary steps to ensure that it understands the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (CVM) with respect to its services. The Brazilian watchdogs had banned Bybit from brokering securities. The CVM released a declaratory act earlier this week that ordered the suspension of the crypto platform’s security offerings and intermediation services directly or indirectly via websites,...

Crypto mining pool service provider Poolin becomes the latest casualty of panic withdrawals that left several crypto platforms with serious liquidity issues forcing them to halt withdrawals, among other services.    Poolin Suspends Withdrawals, Flash Trade  Beijing-based mining pool Poolin has announced the suspension of withdrawals, flash trades, and internal transfers in its bid to preserve liquidity amid a “dull crypto market.” The company is facing liquidity issues and...

Swiss-regulated SEBA Bank on Wednesday launched Ethereum staking for institutional investors. The development comes only days before the much-anticipated Merge that will transition the second-highest valued blockchain network to Proof of Stake (PoS) from the Proof of Work (PoW) mechanism of transaction validation.   Institutional Access to ETH Staking   The transition is likely to take place sometime between September 10 and 20, with September 15 being referred to as the...