Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse strongly criticized former United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Jay Clayton’s remarks regarding the agency’s regulatory approach. Since the first quarter of 2023, the SEC has initiated various regulatory actions against crypto exchanges and companies. During an interview with CNBC on June 29, 2023, Clayton expressed his view that
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Bitcoin (BTC) institutional investment vehicles are seeing a major volume boost as excitement over possible United States regulatory changes takes hold. Data from resources including Bloomberg showed Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and others nearing record weekly inflows. BITO, GBTC trade $2.5 billion Hints that the U.S. might soon allow a Bitcoin spot price-based ETF have
Kraken will suspend all transactions related to USDT, DAI, WBTC, WETH, and WAXL in Canada in November and December, according to multiple customer emails shared with Cointelegraph. In response to a request for comment from Cointelegraph, a Kraken spokesperson said, via email, “we constantly monitor the assets on our platform to ensure we are meeting
El Salvador can follow Singapore’s lead and become a financial center in the Americas, according to Gabor Gurbacs, strategy advisor of investment management firm VanEck. “I say often to portfolio managers and asset allocators that El Salvador has the potential to become the Singapore of the Americas,” Gurbacs explained in an Oct. 28 X post.
Top Stories This Week Sam Bankman-Fried takes the stand on FTX’s collapse Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried testified this week in his ongoing criminal trial in the Southern District of New York, denying any wrongdoing between FTX and Alameda Research while acknowledging making “big mistakes” during the companies’ explosive growth. Highlights of his testimony include denying directing
Crypto lender BlockFi announced its emergence from insolvency this week, just a few days after FTX announced that it successfully reclaimed approximately $7 billion in assets. FTX debtors, comprising FTX and affiliates, estimate that $8.7 billion has been misappropriated from customers. BlockFi has lent FTX more than $650 million, making it one of the exchange’s
Polygon Labs has launched the Ethereum contract for the new Polygon token, POL, according to an October 25 announcement. The new token is intended to replace the ecosystem’s current token, MATIC. However, the team said users presently don’t need to exchange their MATIC for POL. The POL token upgrade is now live on Ethereum mainnet.
Stuart Alderoty, the chief legal officer of Ripple Labs, as well as members of the XRP (XRP) community, have expressed their support on X (formerly Twitter) for United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce’s stance against perceived “injustice” in the LBRY lawsuit. Alderoty thanked Peirce and suggested that when ongoing injustices occur in non-fraud
Bitcoin (BTC) is due to finish 2023 as it started, on-chain analytics firm Glassnode says as October gains near 30%. In the latest edition of its weekly newsletter, “The Week On-Chain,” released Oct. 24, researchers argued that the past week “sets the foundation” for a BTC price uptrend. BTC price “convincingly” beats out resistance levels
Could Bitcoin (BTC) be headed for an imminent pullback? Some crypto market observers believe the answer could be hiding within the price action of a frog-themed memecoin. In an Oct. 27 post on X (formerly Twitter), Onchain Capital co-founder and Crypto Banter host Ran Neuner suggested that memecoin Pepe (PEPE) is a strong indicator of
Hester Peirce of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a dissenting opinion on the regulator’s lawsuit against blockchain firm LBRY. In an Oct. 27 statement, Peirce described feeling “unsettled” following the SEC’s enforcement action against LBRY in March 2021. In November 2022, a judge ruled in favor of the SEC, stating
Bitcoin (BTC) surfed $34,000 at the Oct. 27 Wall Street open as attention turned to BTC price performance against macro assets. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView Bitcoin range faces weekly, monthly close Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD holding steady, preserving its early-week gains. The largest cryptocurrency avoided significant volatility as the
A new bridged token from cross-chain protocol LayerZero is drawing criticism from nine protocols throughout the Ethereum ecosystem. A joint statement from Connext, Chainsafe, Sygma, LiFi, Socket, Hashi, Across, Celer, and Router on October 27 called the token’s standard “a vendor-locked proprietary standard,” claiming that it limits the freedom of token issuers. Today, we’re announcing
The Chainlink’s (LINK) token surged by a substantial 61.3% from Oct. 20 to Oct. 25, reaching a peak of $11.78 and marking its highest point since May 2022. LINK price then stabilized around $10.50, prompting investors to question the sustainability of this new price level. Chainlink (LINK) token price, 12-hour, USD. Source: TradingView It’s worth
Researchers from Florida Atlantic University and the University of Mississippi recently published research indicating that blockchains with “full” blocks — especially when there’s a transaction queue — appear to have an added layer of protection against nefarious actors, money launderers and would-be fraudsters. Dubbed “Bitcoin Blocksize, Custodial Security, and Price,” the team’s paper takes a
Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading above $33,600 for the past two days, indicating that the bulls are not rushing to the exit. After a sharp rally, if the price does not give up much ground, it may cause FOMO and ignite another round of buying. That could push the markets further into overbought territory. However,
The jury overseeing the criminal trial of Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried listened to the former FTX CEO’s testimony for the first time, which involved largely denying knowledge of fraudulent activities at the crypto exchange. According to reports from the New York courtroom on Oct. 27, Bankman-Fried suggested Wang, the former chief technology officer at FTX, had
Cryptocurrency infrastructure firm Fireblocks has identified and assisted in tackling what it describes as the first account abstraction vulnerability within the Ethereum ecosystem. An announcement on Oct. 26 unpacked the discovery of an ERC-4337 account abstraction vulnerability in the smart contract wallet UniPass. The two firms worked together to address the vulnerability, which was reportedly
Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider Trezor is investigating a recent phishing campaign, as users have reported receiving phishing emails. The anonymous blockchain sleuth ZachXBT took to his Telegram channel on Oct. 26 to alert users to a phishing attack targeting Trezor customers. ZachXBT referred to an X (formerly Twitter) post from the account JHDN, which alleged that Trezor
Bitcoin’s (BTC) rise to as high as $35,000 this week has also lifted a number of memecoins, including Floki (FLOKI), which has beaten its top rivals in percentage gains. FLOKI price up 140% amid Bitcoin ETF hype, TokenFi launch As of Oct. 27, FLOKI had surged over 140% to $0.00004261, its highest level in five
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