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Tully & Weiss criminal defense attorney Joseph Tully weighs in on Tornado Cash developers Roman Storm and Roman Semenov facing allegations of money laundering and sanctions violations. "This is sort of along the same lines of law that we've seen starting with Napster, BitTorrent...even Silk Road, where developers are being charged not for things that they did, but because they opened the door, so to speak, for illegal activity," Tully said.

24 août 2023

Tornado Cash developers Roman Storm and Roman Semenov were charged with violating sanctions and helping exploiters launder more than $1 billion, including "hundreds of millions" for North Korea's Lazarus Group, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office of Southern District of New York. CoinDesk's global policy and regulation managing editor Nikhilesh De discusses what the legal developments could mean for the future of crypto privacy mixers.

24 août 2023

Australia won't be introducing a CBDC for some years, according to a new report from the country's central bank. David Lavecky, CEO and co-founder of fintech firm CANVAS, which facilitated the first-ever foreign exchange transaction using an Australian Central Bank Digital Currency, shares insights into Australia's eAUD pilot. "It's really shown that there is a path forward tokenizing the economy and having a ecosystem of both CBDCs and privately-issued stablecoins," Lavecky said.

24 août 2023

Bitcoin (BTC) is paring some earlier gains after topping $26,789 in the last 24-hours. CoinRoutes CEO and co-founder Dave Weisberger discusses his crypto markets analysis and the next catalysts to watch that could move price action. "The bull market's base is being built at these levels rather strongly," Weisberger said. Plus, his AI-related tokens outlook after Nvidia posted its latest quarterly earnings results.

24 août 2023

The $70 million hack on Curve, one of the largest decentralized crypto exchanges, revealed cracks in the DeFi promise. The hack set off a Rube Goldberg-esque series of events that pushed DeFi lending to its limits – threatening to send the price of a key DeFi asset into a downward “death spiral,” and raising critical questions about whether community-driven financial platforms are equipped to manage risk. "The Hash" panel weighs in.

23 août 2023

Data tracked by Glassnode shows that nearly 90% of bitcoin short term holders have held onto their coins for 155 days or less. In other words, of the 2.56 million bitcoin ($66.5 billion) held by short-term holders, around 2.26 million bitcoin have an acquisition cost higher than the going market rate. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents "The Chart of the Day."

23 août 2023

“CoinDesk Daily” host Jennifer Sanasie dives into today’s hottest stories in crypto, as bitcoin hovers around $26,300 and XRP has lost nearly all its gains since the historic Ripple ruling. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has settled on a legal strategy ahead of his criminal trial this October. The FBI is warning North Korean hackers could try to sell millions of dollars worth of bitcoin. And, Binance.US customers now have access to MoonPay.

23 août 2023

Data compiled by DefiLlama shows that the amount of money stashed in decentralized finance protocols has dwindled to the lowest level since February 2021. "The Hash" panel weighs in on the potential reasons behind the decline of total value locked (TVL) in DeFi.

23 août 2023

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in a statement that North Korea-based hackers Lazarus Group and APT38 may attempt to cash out stolen bitcoin (BTC) worth more than $40 million. In January, the FBI named the two groups as being behind last year's Horizon Bridge hack, which resulted in the loss of over $100 million. "The Hash" panel discusses their reaction to law enforcement's latest actions against bad actors.

23 août 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried's defense team published a letter detailing a planned "advice of counsel" strategy, which argues that the FTX founder was acting in "good faith" in loaning funds to FTX and Alameda executives because he was following the advice of lawyers, including law firm Fenwick & West. "The Hash" panel weighs in on the latest developments in the case.

23 août 2023