“Illegal or criminal activities are likely to flourish in the darkverse since it will be difficult to track and monitor,” Trend Micro said.

Daniel Roberts, Iris Energy co-founder, said the firm had energized the facility on time “despite the current market backdrop and ongoing international supply chain challenges.”

The Barstool Sports founder panic-sold Bitcoin in 2020 and has expressed fleeting interest in digital assets ever since.

Stablecoin issuers can blacklist interactions with the Tornado Cash DApp on the Ethereum smart contract level.

OFAC issued a statement implying prohibited transactions with Specially Designated Nationals could include "downloading a software patch from a sanctioned entity."

Both plaintiffs claim that Coinbase made fraudulent and deceptive representations regarding the company’s business.

The cross-chain bridge was drained of its assets in less than three hours.

Bitcoin price aims to break from its current range and flip $24,000 to support, while altcoins are following the upside move by attempting to confirm their bottoming patterns.

“You would be able to eg. send an NFT to vitalik.eth without anyone except me (the new owner) being able to see who the new owner is,” said the Ethereum co-founder.

As the global economy moves into a recession in the second half of 2002, Bitcoin will likely rally alongside gold and treasury bonds, according to Mike McGlone, a senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg.

Investors avoid risk assets during a crisis, but excessive cash sitting in financial institutions could also be good for the cryptocurrencies.

Binance denied any equity ownership in the India-based crypto exchange after the latter came under regulatory scrutiny.

The protocol was at the center of some recent hacks and exploits in decentralized finance, including the alleged theft of $455 million by the North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group.

Optimism and expectations increase around crypto markets, but U.S. inflation data looms large this week.

The virtual real estate market is crashing despite a McKinsey report predicting a $5 trillion market by 2030.

The Office of Government Ethics reminded federal agency ethics officers of current law and extended its interpretation of the law to mutual funds.

A valuable CryptoPunk NFT is to be fractionalized as more than 56,000 addresses sign up for a share of ownership.

As the Ethereum Name Service edges closer to 2 million domain registrations, its founder reflects on the parallels with the internet’s Domain Name Service.

Hodlnaut avoided 3AC exposure and earlier denied ever buying UST, but several reports and on-chain data have shown that the lending firm at one point owned over $150M worth of UST.

Web traffic on FTX surged 123% YoY, while major exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance were down 46% and 40% traffic-wise, respectively.

Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik said that while many chains will become ghost towns after the Merge, some will be able to find their own niches.

The Google trends data for the popular search terms in 15 countries showed that “Ethereum” searches outscored “Bitcoin” in 14 of them.

The Chainlink protocol will continue operations on Ethereum after the upcoming Merge to the proof-of-stake consensus layer.

deBridge Finance survives an attempted phishing attack, points a finger at the North Korean Lazarus Group, and warns the wider community to be on guard.

Matt Corallo urged the Bitcoin community to drop the us-versus-them culture, which leads to attacking projects other than BTC.

The first day of the main stage event included a keynote presentation from Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin, 1inch Network's Sergej Kunz, and Klaytn Foundation’s Sam Seo.