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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reportedly after the owner of a crypto scheme, which misled over a thousand of its investors and clients. It seeks $572 million in financial penalties and restitution.$270M Worth Of BTC Stolen From More Than A Thousand CustomersАs per a recent report, the alleged Bitcoin trading pyramid Control-Finance has reportedly defrauded more than a thousand clients of the firm “since at least May 1, 2017”. Its owner Benjamin Reynolds is included in the...

Yearn Finance continues to make headlines and to exceed expectations within the field of decentralized finance (DeFi).After becoming the first altcoin after ZEC’s early days of trading to flip Bitcoin’s price convincingly, the protocol achieved yet another milestone today – it has over $1 billion in total value locked within its ecosystem.Yearn Finance Hits $1 Billion TVLIn a Twitter announcement shared about an hour ago, yEarn.Finance officially disclosed that the protocol has received more...

The US Department of Justice has alleged that Joseph Sullivan, the former Chief Security Officer of Uber, has covered up a 2016 hack on the company that compromised data of millions of users and drivers. According to the DOJ, Sullivan paid the hackers $100,000 in Bitcoin.Uber Former CSO Covers Up A Hack?The announcement from the DOJ informed about a recently filed complaint against Sullivan, who served as Uber’s CSO from April 2015 to November 2017. It charged him with “obstruction of justice...

The DeFi space continues to surge in popularity as the total value locked in protocols quickly approaches $7 billion. One of the protocols leading this increase is Aave.But it’s definitely not the only thing that’s capturing the market’s attention. Elsewhere, in the field of traditional finance, the price for Tesla stocks is up more than 360% since the beginning of the year.With this, the CEO at Aave, Stani Kulechov, has made an interesting suggestion to the chief at Tesla, Elon Musk.Tokenize...

The cryptocurrency market has recovered from some of the losses it registered in the past few days. Bitcoin is up by 1%, while some altcoins are marking impressive double and even triple-digit gains with OMG Network leading the pack.Altcoins With Massive MovesThe altcoin market became accustomed to significant fluctuations, and the past 24 hours don’t disappoint. One alt stands above all – OMG Network. OMG has exploded in value in the past few weeks and especially since yesterday, when the...

The UK Financial Conduct Authority has granted operational licenses to two cryptocurrency exchanges. Those are the UK-based digital security exchange Archax and the UK branch of the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini.Archax Regulated By The FCAAs announced yesterday, the UK Archax platform became the “first-ever FCA regulated digital securities exchange and custodian” in the country. Consequently, digital issuances from across the world will be able to trade on an FCA authorized secondary market....

Hackers pulled off a successful ransomware attack on COVID-19 researchers from the University of California in San Francisco and received 116 bitcoins.Now, recently surfaced transcripts reveal how the entire operation played out.Phase One: The HackAlthough the name of the group was initially a mystery, the Bloomberg report said that the organization had a history of targeting health-care entities. Later on, a group dubbed Netwalker claimed credit for executing the ransomware attack on the...

CEO and Founder of BlockFi, Zac Prince, announced that his company had closed a Series C funding round for $50 million. As part of the investment round led by Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano’s Morgan Creek Digital, Pomp will join BlockFi’s board of directors.BlockFi Raised $50MPrince initially announced the fundraising in Pompliano’s latest podcast episode earlier today. The two specified that apart from Morgan Creek Digital, other prominent co-investors participating in the round included Valar...

Ethereum’s network is on the brink of its highest congestion rate, while the transaction fees are still particularly high.Amid all of this, Tether has moved over 1 billion USDT from Tron’s network to Ethereum.Tether Moving 1 Billion USDT to EthereumEarlier today, Tether, the company issuing the most popular stablecoin, USDT, announced that it plans to move 1 billion USDT to Ethereum’s ERC20 protocol.“In a few hours, Tether will coordinate with a 3rd party to perform two chain swaps...

Early traders of Polkadot’s new DOT token have come in for an unfortunate surprise, as two prominent exchanges decided to list the token ahead of its “redenomination” despite warnings from the project.The redenomination, due to take place on August 21, will see the new DOT denominated at one-hundredth of the value of the DOT (old), following a community vote. However, the project hasn’t sanctioned any exchange listing before the event on August 21 due to the risks involved.DOT’s Road So...