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Controversial Australian Olympic Breakdancer Raygun's Brother Charged for Crypto-Linked Fraud

Brendan Gunn is the director of an Australian firm that facilitates investment in crypto and other overseas investments.

Raygun of Team Australia competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

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Zerocap Launches Australia’s First Tailored Crypto Product Linked to CoinDesk 20 Index

The new offering facilitates tailored and diversified exposure to digital assets

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Monochrome’s First Spot Ether ETF to Go Live on Tuesday

The launch of Monochrome Ethereum ETF follows the crypto investment firm's spot bitcoin ETF, which went live in August.

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Australia's Police Confiscates Crypto Worth $6.4M in Crackdown on 'Ghost' Messaging App

Operation Kraken has nothing to do with the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, the company said.

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Circle Signals Plans to Bring USDC to Australia With Venture Capitalist Mark Carnegie

The partnership appears set to cover the Asia Pacific region since Carnegie's company has offices in Australia and Singapore.

Circle Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte (left) and CEO Jeremy Allaire (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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A Fire Alarm Interrupted an Aussie Crypto Summit. The Symbolism Wasn't Missed by a Concerned Industry

A regulator's comment at a crypto summit sparked industry concerns that companies may look to move abroad.

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Australia to Prioritize Wholesale CBDC Over Retail

The Reserve Bank of Australia made a strategic commitment to prioritize work on a wholesale CBDC.

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Cash-to-Crypto Industry Dominated by ATMs Is a Law-Enforcement Concern: TRM Labs

Since 2019, the cash-to-crypto industry– which is dominated by crypto ATMs – has processed at least $160 million in illicit trades, TRM Labs said.

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TON Back Online After Near Six Hour Outage; Trump Releases Fourth Drop of His NFT Trading Cards

"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines in the crypto industry today, as the TON blockchain resumes producing blocks after a nearly six-hour outage caused by a surge in network traffic. Plus, Australians lost $122 million of crypto to investment scams in just 12 months, and Trump is out with another collection of digital trading card NFTs.

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Australians Lost $122M Worth of Crypto to Scams in 12 Months: Police

AFP Assistant Commissioner Richard Chin said the data revealed that it was a misnomer that only older people were victims of scams.

Sydney Opera House in Australia (Stanbalik/Pixabay)

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