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FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) posted a draft of a set of standards to create clarity and protect customers as the US awaits full federal regulatory regimes. While highlighting the significance of regulatory oversight and customer protection, SBF said there needs to be an open economy where peer-to-peer transfers, code, validators, etc., are presumptively free. He believes establishing standards is necessary until regulation hit the scene to help inform and protect...

After Binance became the second-largest entity by voting power in the Uniswap DAO, the CEO of the popular DEX, Hayden Adams, took it to Twitter to describe the situation as “unique” while adding that “UNI technically belongs to its users.” He accused Binance of using user funds to pile up governance votes. Hayden Adams on Binance Adams claimed that it was unclear how the crypto exchange intended to engage with the decisions of the DEX and argued that Binance users would...

The German-based crypto bank – Nuri – revealed it will terminate its operations due to the harsh consequences of the crypto winter and the negative macroeconomic environment. It informed that customers have until December 18 to withdraw their funds from the platform, while trading will be possible until November 30. The Bear Market’s Latest Victim Over the past several months, Nuri has been seeking venture capitalists and potential acquirers who could fix the company’s...

Grayscale’s lawsuit against the SEC has started gaining traction as prominent names from the crypto industry rallied behind the asset manager. The latest one to chime in is Coinbase. The cryptocurrency exchange has filed an amicus brief backing Grayscale Investment’s lawsuit against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for disapproving the company’s proposal for a spot Bitcoin ETF application earlier this year. “Double Standards” In its battle against...

Binance announced updates to the deposit and withdrawal fees for LUNC and USTC on the Terra Classic network. This comes after the community passed proposal 5234, first presented by Akujiro, to lower the tax burn from 1.2% to 0.2% and take 10% of the collected seigniorage and add it to the community pool at the end of the epoch. The proposal received 75% votes in affirmation as validators and other members of the community supported it based on Binance CEO CZ’s recommendation...

A day after Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke about her plans to work towards a tech-driven regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies under the aegis of G20, industry leaders offered mixed reactions to her statements.     Sitharaman spoke about crypto regulations to reporters on the sidelines of the fall meetings at IMF, World Bank, and G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governor (FMCBG) in Washington last week, media reports said.  Positive but...

Curtis Warren – a British drug lord who was found guilty of smuggling cannabis – is due to be released from prison next month. The authorities, though, will supposedly put him back behind bars for five years if he uses WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or interacts with cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin. Strict Measures to Stay on the Loose Warren (also known as “Britain’s Pablo Escobar”) has been a problematic figure for the European authorities for the past decades. In 1996,...

Mike McGlone, a senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, believes Bitcoin is at its most discounted price on a 100-week and 200-week moving average. He also predicted that the crypto asset would trade 5x its current price in five to ten years. During a recent interview with Stansberry Research, McGlone opined that Bitcoin is getting pounded by the Federal Reserve and so is at its most discounted price.  Bitcoin Will Trade at $100k  The Bloomberg strategist is...

Crypto wallet provider BitKeep Wallet has become the latest victim of an endless wave of DeFi hacks this month. Blockchain security firm PeckShield first raised the alarm on Twitter late Monday, and BitKeep published an update on the incident in the early hours of Tuesday.  After alerting the public, the security firm asked users to follow some steps to ensure the safety of their funds. The steps included connecting their wallet to a revoke.cash site and revoking their...

Terra’s collapse is one of the most high-profile events in the crypto industry in recent times. With South Korean authorities and Interpol involved, the once crypto titan, Do Kwon, has opened up about the allegations against him. The Terraform Labs co-founder maintained that Terra was never really about money or fame, or success. However, Kwon thinks that he got “carried away” while interacting with other people on crypto Twitter. The Humbling of Do Kwon Kwon was branded as a...