Tether reserve attestations to be conducted by major European accounting firm BDO Italia, a member of the BDO Global accounting organization, will begin producing monthly attestations of Tether’s USDT backing.Aug 18, 2022Sam Bourgi
Bitcoin price heads above $23.5K after highest EU inflation in historyInflation surprises keep coming, while the European Central Bank refuses to rule out even higher numbers in the future.Aug 18, 2022William Suberg
Ripple CTO lashes back at Vitalik Buterin for his dig at XRPDavid Schwartz compared crypto miners in the Ethereum and Bitcoin ecosystems to shareholders of eBay, which he believes makes BTC and ETH securities as well.Aug 18, 2022Prashant Jha
Celer Network shuts down bridge over potential DNS hijackingThe platform asked users to revoke token approvals for smart contracts on several blockchains, including Ethereum and BSC.Aug 18, 2022Ezra Reguerra
Law enforcement should give up trying to access everyone’s data, says legal expertAhmed Ghappour explained that sanctioning ideas can lead to criminalizing harmless associations with no ties to other criminal conduct.Aug 18, 2022Ezra Reguerra
3 cloud providers accounting for over two-thirds of Ethereum nodes: DataThe data suggests that DeFi apps running on mostly centralized cloud providers may make Ethereum vulnerable.Aug 18, 2022Brayden Lindrea
Aussie asset manager to offer crypto ETF using unique license variationThe CEO of Monochrome Asset Management says their license approval represents a significant step forward for both the advice industry and retail investors.Aug 18, 2022Stephen Katte
Crypto ad spending may be down, but awareness remains critical: ExpertsThough crypto television ad spending is down, crypto firms continue to see ad spending as important to keep their brands relevant during a down market.Aug 18, 2022Brian Newar
Aussies buy fuel and chips with crypto across 175 fuel outletsCommenting on the rollout, Crypto.com’s Karl Mohan tipped the adoption of an AUD-backed stablecoin as being the catalyst to make crypto payments mainstream in Australia.Aug 18, 2022Brian Quarmby
Aid for Ukraine’s $54M crypto fund buys vests, scopes and UAVsThe crypto donations have played a “significant role in Ukraine’s defense,” a Ukrainian government official wrote.Aug 18, 2022Brayden Lindrea
CBDCs only solution to ‘smooth continuation’ of the monetary system: ECBThe European Central Bank working paper sought to identify issues and consensus regarding CBDCs, as well as to identify gaps in the research — such as what users want.Aug 18, 2022Derek Andersen
Ontario crypto exchanges impose $30K CAD annual limit on altcoin buys The new buy limits are intended to better “protect crypto investors” and make them “more aware of the risks” associated with crypto assets, according to one of the exchanges.Aug 18, 2022Brayden Lindrea
AFL’s first limited-edition NFT drop sells out in under 12 hoursThe limited edition digital packs came at a retail price of 34.39 USDC each, raising over $130,000 after it sold out in the first drop.Aug 18, 2022Stephen Katte
Korean police seize crypto for unpaid traffic fines in trialLocal police in a suburb of Seoul have the authority to seize crypto in order to clear the balance of delinquent fines from traffic violations.Aug 18, 2022Brian Newar
Solana wallet fires up the grill to burn spam NFTs out of existenceThe Phantom wallet app has launched a new Burn Token feature, allowing users to remove spam NFTs sent by scammers.Aug 18, 2022Brian Quarmby
Senator asks FDIC about allegations it discourages bank relations with crypto companiesSen. Pat Toomey says he has information from whistleblowers that the FDIC, without a legal basis, is discouraging banks from dealing with companies that have crypto links.Aug 17, 2022Derek Andersen
‘There’s a lot less land to go around’ — Why White Rock established off-the-grid mining in Texas“The U.S. is where the action is in terms of markets, so we plan to be in at least another couple of states as well as Texas with some diversified offering,” said CEO Andy Long.Aug 17, 2022Turner Wright
European Central Bank addresses guidance on licensing of digital assetsSpecifically, the ECB will consider crypto firms’ business models, internal governance, and “fit and proper” assessments which apply to licensing other companies.Aug 17, 2022Turner Wright
Fed adds a new layer of bureaucracy for US banks engaging in crypto asset activitiesThe U.S. Federal Reserve Board has issued new instructions for banks engaging in crypto asset activities that include running their plans past their Fed supervisor.Aug 17, 2022Derek Andersen
Quebec Pension Fund loses almost entirety of its Celsius investment in less than ten months“For us, it is clear, when we look at all this, we arrived too soon in a sector which was in transition,” says CEO Charles Émond.Aug 17, 2022Zhiyuan Sun
3 strategies investors might use to trade the upcoming Ethereum MergeInvestors have been crafting their strategies for navigating the volatility that could arise as the Ethereum Merge takes place. Here are a few to consider.Aug 17, 2022Ray Salmond
Celebrities called out for shilling NFTs: Nifty Newsletter, Aug 10–16A Polygon executive highlighted that NFT games have an advantage over traditional “money in, no money out” gaming business models.Aug 17, 2022Ezra Reguerra
Economic design changes will affect ETH’s value post-Merge, says ConsenSys execLex Sokolin said that post-Merge, DeFi projects will have to compete with the returns offered by the core ETH protocol.Aug 17, 2022Ezra Reguerra
Price analysis 8/17: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, SOL, DOGE, DOT, SHIB, AVAXCrypto and stock markets corrected as traders grew nervous ahead of August 17’s FOMC minutes, but the real stress point is whether traders will “buy the dip.”Aug 17, 2022Rakesh Upadhyay
Tornado Cash sanctions will undermine the US and strengthen cryptoLike any aging empire, America is reacting to its competition. But with Tornado Cash, its reaction is likely to backfire.Aug 17, 2022Omid Malekan
Study: Insider trading occurs in 10% to 25% of cryptocurrency listingsThe study found abnormal levels of return in a sample of tokens just before their listing announcement on Coinbase.Aug 17, 2022Zhiyuan Sun
Another crypto CEO steps down as Genesis Trading restructures leadershipIgnite CEO Peng Zhong, MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, and now Genesis Trading CEO Michael Moro — top executives have departed crypto firms or stepped into advisory positions.Aug 17, 2022Turner Wright
Ethereum Foundation clarifies that the upcoming Merge upgrade will not reduce gas feesThe Merge will still reduce the network's energy consumption by an estimated 99.5%.Aug 17, 2022Zhiyuan Sun
Pushing Bitcoin to become more scalable with zero-knowledge proofsCointelegraph Research explains the EC-STARKs technology and discusses what this means for the cryptocurrency market.Aug 17, 2022Nick M
Bitcoin price dives pre-FOMC amid warning $17.6K low was not the bottomThe bottom "is not in" for either stocks or crypto, one analyst believes, as alarming data shows copycat moves from 2008 by the S&P 500.Aug 17, 2022William Suberg