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Market Maker DWF Labs Emerges as Top Crypto Investor

[Mar 29, 2023 1:50 PM] Managing partner Andrei Grachev discussed the firm’s investment strategy – and continuing risks for the industry.

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer: There’s ‘A Lot to Unpack’ in CFTC’s Filing Against Binance

[Mar 29, 2023 1:43 PM] Paul Grewal says it’s clear the agency is undertaking a great effort to understand what is happening at the largest crypto exchange by trading volume.

Top U.S. Treasury Official Says Crypto Had No ‘Direct Role’ In Bank Failures

[Mar 29, 2023 1:19 PM] Nellie Liang, the U.S. Treasury Department's undersecretary for domestic finance, doesn’t believe that the digital assets sector should be blamed for the runs on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank that led to their quick demise earlier…

Texas Senate Committee Hears Testimony On Bill That Would Ban Certain Energy Arrangements With Bitcoin Miners

[Mar 29, 2023 12:51 PM] Pierre Rochard, VP of research at Riot Platforms testified yesterday that Bitcoin is a net positive for the state.The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce heard testimony in regards to a Texas bill that would prohibit flexible load agreements…

Controversial ‘Tiktok Ban Bill’ Sparks Concerns Among Cryptocurrency and Technology Advocates

[Mar 29, 2023 12:00 PM] Cryptocurrency and technology proponents have recently been discussing a new bipartisan bill called the “Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT)” Act. In addition to…

Paxful Announces Decision To Personally Return Lost Celsius Funds For Paxful Earn Users

[Mar 29, 2023 11:05 AM] The global bitcoin exchange will dig into its own coffers to reconcile users who lost their money as a result of the collapse of Celsius.Global peer-to-peer Bitcoin platform Paxful announced it will provide almost nine bitcoin worth ~$250,000.00 to…

Latin American E-Commerce Giant Mercado Libre Expands Crypto Trading to Chile

[Mar 29, 2023 11:01 AM] The company launched the service in partnership with Ripio, a regional crypto firm.

Bitcoin Miner Stronghold Raises Year-End Hashrate Guidance to 4 EH/s

[Mar 29, 2023 9:27 AM] Fourth-quarter revenue of $23.4 million was driven mainly by selling energy to the power grid rather than crypto mining.

AI-Focused Crypto Protocol Fetch.ai Raises $40M to Deploy Decentralized Machine Learning

[Mar 29, 2023 9:00 AM] The $40 million funding marks yet another investment by market maker DWF Labs, its fifth this month.

Crypto Exchange Beaxy Shut Down After SEC Lawsuit

[Mar 29, 2023 8:30 AM] Crypto platform Beaxy has officially closed its doors as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the company and its founder Artak Hamazaspyan with operating an unregistered exchange and brokerage, the agency said.

Open Interest in XRP Surges to $800M as Crypto Traders Hope Ripple-SEC Verdict Will Bring 'Alt Season'

[Mar 29, 2023 7:33 AM] If the court rules that XRP is a security, it would mean the same for other alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins) and subject them to stringent supervision. The market, however, expects Ripple to win after CFTC on Monday classified bitcoin as…

Dragonfly Leads $6.5M Round for Aptos Protocol Econia Labs

[Mar 29, 2023 7:28 AM] The startup offers an order book protocol for decentralized finance (DeFi) in the Aptos ecosystem.

Investment DAO Hydra Ventures Raises $10M to Fund Other DAOs

[Mar 29, 2023 7:00 AM] Web3 investors such as 1kx, ConsenSys, Collab+Currency, Wicklow Capital and Seed Club were among firms joining the investment round.

Iota Releases Shimmer Public Test Chain Ahead of Native Ethereum Virtual Machine Launch

[Mar 29, 2023 6:51 AM] The public testnet will help developers improve the resilience, performance, and security of ShimmerEVM.

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin, Up 70% This Year, Rebounds Past $28K

[Mar 29, 2023 6:26 AM] The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for March 29, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

UK NFT Dropped Over Lack of Demand, Finance Minister Hunt Says

[Mar 29, 2023 6:23 AM] The Royal Mint in 2022 had been tasked by the government with creating a project in what was then the red-hot space.

Lincoin Technologies Launches Rails Programming Tool For Bitcoin Miners

[Mar 29, 2023 6:00 AM] Lincoin Technologies introduces Rails programming tool for Bitcoin miners to optimize their operations in real-time.Lincoin Technologies, a Vancouver-based firm, has launched a new programming tool for the Bitcoin mining industry known as Rails…

Do Kwon Extradition Sought by U.S., South Korea, Montenegro Justice Minister Says

[Mar 29, 2023 5:53 AM] Marko Kovac said the Terraform Lab founder's extradition proceedings would follow a criminal case for ID document forgery

Keep Goerli Ether Alive as Ethereum Canary Network, DAO Argues

[Mar 29, 2023 5:28 AM] Much of the testing of Ethereum’s major upgrades, such as the Merge, have been conducted on Goerli.

Algorand Aims to Help Developers Transition to Web3 With AlgoKit

[Mar 29, 2023 5:00 AM] The tool suite was designed to be an easy onramp for web2 developers transitioning to web3 and developers from other chains who want to test out Algorand.

DeFi Platform Lido to Cease Staking on Polkadot, Kusama in August

[Mar 29, 2023 4:56 AM] Decentralized finance staking service Lido has passed a governance vote to sunset its staking program with Polkadot and Kusama.

British Virgin Islands Court Orders 3AC Founders to Attend Examination on May 22

[Mar 29, 2023 4:17 AM] The 3AC founders will be found in contempt of court if they fail to reply to the order.

European Banking Regulator Calls Attention to Digital Ledger Technology

[Mar 29, 2023 4:04 AM] Draft guidance from the EU banking watchdog picks out crypto technology for scrutiny and proposes vetting procedures for senior staff.

Bitcoin Heads for Best Quarter in Two Years, Outperforms Ether, Gold, Nasdaq

[Mar 29, 2023 3:30 AM] One observer said poor order book depth is primarily responsible for bitcoin's rally, while others pointed to the cryptocurrency's sound money appeal and Fed pivot speculation as bigger catalysts.

Bitcoin Regains $28K; XRP Surges for a Second Day

[Mar 29, 2023 1:58 AM] XRP led gains in major tokens on positive sentiment, but might face a sell-off in coming days.

Binance’s On-Chain Balance Stands at $64B, Nansen Data Shows

[Mar 29, 2023 1:52 AM] Tether (USDT), bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), binance usd (BUSD) and bnb coin (BNB) make up around 81% of Binance’s total balance.

FTX’s $45M Sequoia Sale Cleared, as Embed Divestment Delayed

[Mar 29, 2023 1:41 AM] A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved the sale of the bankrupt company’s assets to Abu Dhabi’s investment arm.

Safemoon LP Exploited for $8.9M; SFM Tokens Remain ‘Safe,' CEO Says

[Mar 28, 2023 11:58 PM] A publicly-available token burn function in the contract allowed attackers to manipulate the protocol, some said.

Noble Partners With Circle Financial to Integrate USDC on Cosmos Blockchain

[Mar 28, 2023 11:30 PM] According to the token protocol startup Noble, the second-largest stablecoin, USDC, will be integrated into the Cosmos blockchain, as the company has partnered with Circle Financial for the rollout. Noble details that the integration will give…

The Algorand Foundation Branches Out to India

[Mar 28, 2023 11:30 PM] Blockchain protocol Algorand (ALGO) has entered the world’s most populous country, India, with a project that aims to support the nation’s transformation from the back office of the Web2 world to the innovation hub of the Web3 world.