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Lawsuit Alleges $250 Million Israeli ICOs to Be Scams

May 31, 2021

Three Israeli companies, Sirin Labs, Stx Technologies Limited (Stox), and Leadcoin, are facing a lawsuit with allegations of initial coin offerings (ICO) scams involving around $250 million, The Times of Isra...

FSA Warns of Bybit Operating Unregistered Crypto Services in Japan

May 31, 2021

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has issued a warning letter to a Singapore-based major cryptocurrency exchange, Bybit, alleging that it has been running unlicensed services in the country. The Japanes...

BSC-Based ‘Belt Finance’ DeFi Protocol Exploited for $6.3 Million

May 31, 2021

The Belt Finance protocol has become the latest Binance Smart Chain-based DeFi platform to lose millions to software exploitation. According to a post on the Rekt blog, the attacker managed to drain the mone...

Ethereum Needs to Try Harder To Keep Its Dominance in a Multichain Future

May 29, 2021

Ethereum (ETH) is not the only smart contract platform in town. While it certainly has a first-mover advantage in its quest to become a decentralized universal computer, there are a growing number of other ch...

US-Sanctioned Actors Use Crypto in New Ways to Evade Restrictions

May 28, 2021

Sanctioned actors and jurisdictions worldwide are finding new ways to use crypto assets to evade restrictions and continue their illicit activities, per a recent report by blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. ...

WisdomTree Files to List an Ethereum ETF in the US

May 28, 2021

While the US financial markets regulator is still reluctant to approve a crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF), more and more applications are pouring in. WisdomTree applied on Thursday for the approval of an Ether...

Aussie Tax Agency Warns Crypto Investors to Declare Accurate Income

May 28, 2021

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) is starting to bust cryptocurrency tax dodgers after more than 600,000 Aussies invested in digital currencies recently. Talking to news.au.com, ATO’s assistant commissioner, Tim...

Ethereum 2.0 Staking Contract Now Has 5 Million ETH

May 28, 2021

Ethereum 2.0, the network upgrade of ETH, now has more than 5 million Ethereum under its deposit contract, which is the highest level on record. According to the latest data published by ETH tracking platform,...

Steve Jobs Statue In Budapest To Get A New Neighbor – Satoshi Nakamoto

May 28, 2021

A monument for Satoshi Nakamoto is set to emerge in Budapest, Hungary, as a part of a local initiative by Hungarian crypto community to raise awareness about the importance of Bitcoin (BTC) and blockchain tec...

SEC Asks Court to Let it See Evidence of Ripple’s ‘XRP Lobbying’

May 28, 2021

The epic war between Ripple (XRP) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has entered a new chapter, with the latter writing to the court to claim Ripple has been on a PR offensive in a bid to war...