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Binance may face Department of Justice fraud charges, though prosecutors are considering alternatives given the risk of an FTX-style bank run, according to Semafor. Josh Sterling, Jones Day partner and former CFTC division director, discusses the specifics of the report and the potential outcomes.

3 авг. 2023 г.

Attorneys for Sam Bankman-Fried are pushing back against the DOJ’s motion to jail FTX founder ahead of his trial over allegations that Bankman-Fried has tampered with witnesses. CoinDesk's global policy and regulation managing editor Nikhilesh De breaks down the defense team's arguments.

2 авг. 2023 г.

Crypto traders lost over $300 million in exploits and hacks in July, according to security audit firm CertiK. The report comes after roughly $52 million was drained from Curve Finance. CertiK CEO and co-founder Ronghui Gu discusses the state of crypto attacks and the vulnerabilities of open finance, sharing insights into the future of the DeFi ecosystem.

2 авг. 2023 г.

Crypto exchange Kraken will place non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the back of British F1 team Williams Racing's cars competing in the U.S. Grand Prix this October. Kraken CMO Mayur Gupta shares insights into the ongoing partnership and the state of crypto marketing amid crypto winter.

2 авг. 2023 г.

Crypto investors suffered $303 million of losses from exploits and hacks last month, according to CertiK. Ronghui Gu, CEO and co-founder of CertiK, said July was a really "dark month" for the blockchain industry.

2 авг. 2023 г.

Kenya's Ministry of the Interior suspended the operations of Worldcoin, the identity crypto protocol co-founded by OpenAI's Sam Altman, citing the legitimacy and privacy concerns of the project. "First Mover" hosts discuss the suspension and European countries' investigations into the Worldcoin project.

2 авг. 2023 г.

A new report from the Wall Street Journal says Binance users traded $90 billion of crypto-related assets in China in just one month, making the country Binance's largest market by far. CoinDesk Executive Director of Global Content Emily Parker unpacks the details, shedding light on China's role in the global crypto scene.

2 авг. 2023 г.

Microstrategy's latest earnings report reveals the software company posted an impairment charge of $24.1 million on its bitcoin holdings in the second quarter. ProChain Capital President David Tawil discusses the implications for the crypto markets. Plus, Tawil's outlook for the ETF landscape.

2 авг. 2023 г.

Koray Caliskan, author of "Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains," argues that nothing could be more wrong than avoiding a central bank digital currency, emphasizing that “the public needs to have" CBDCs to follow the movement and discuss the nature of uses of a multi-money universe in our new economies.

1 авг. 2023 г.

Stablecoin issuer Terraform Labs' motion to dismiss a lawsuit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was denied by a federal judge on Monday. The judge also said he rejected the use of a ruling from Judge Analisa Torres who ruled that Ripple did not violate securities law in selling XRP to retail investors through an exchange intermediary. CoinDesk's global policy and regulation managing editor Nikhilesh De shares the latest developments.

1 авг. 2023 г.