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An Oct. 10 class-action lawsuit filed against iFinex Inc., the parent company of Bitfinex and Tether, was refiled on Jan. 8 in New York’s Southern District. The lawsuit by Young et al. was followed on the next day by a similar class-action filing by Bryan Faubus.The original lawsuit alleges that iFinex manipulated the cryptocurrency market…

The crypto exchange has applied for a license under the EU’s new Markets in Crypto-Assets with the Central Bank of Ireland and, if successful, will be able to "passport" its services across EU states. 63 Total views 1 Total shares The United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is strengthening its presence in Europe and has officially

Web3, the third iteration of the internet, is rapidly approaching the consumer mainstream with the promise of disrupting the status quo of digital interactions and creating a new paradigm for democratic engagement. Lens Protocol is a decentralized social graph built by Aave with the vision of cultivating a Web3 environment in which creators are the primary…

Tron (TRX) is set to feature zero knowledge-based privacy through the work of the TRONZ team. A trusted setup ceremony is set to be conducted soon, which Tron claims in a Jan. 17 blog post will “set a new Guinness World Record.”TRONZ is a privacy initiative that is set to integrate Zk-SNARKs, the core privacy…

The scheduled launch date for these futures contracts is set for July 31, pending regulatory review. On June 29, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group announced its plans to introduce Ether/Bitcoin Ratio futures. The launch of these futures contracts is slated for July 31, subject to regulatory review.Efficiently capture the relative value of ether and bitcoin in…

Michelle Bowman told a university audience that financial innovation should be justified by need and be properly regulated. 88 Total views 3 Total shares Federal Reserve Board governor Michelle Bowman shared her views on financial innovation in a speech at Harvard Law School on Oct. 17. Bowman has spoken several times on the topic, and

A hacker took over CoinDCX's official Twitter account and has constantly been tweeting XRP scam links. 373 Total views 5 Total shares The official Twitter account of India-based crypto exchange CoinDCX has been hacked and used by the exploiters to post fake XRP promos partnered with phishing links in an attempt to scam the exchange’s…

In the past 48 hours, Bitcoin's (BTC) price has dropped by $13,360 and more than $2.6 billion worth of futures contracts have been liquidated. When including altcoins, the total sum of liquidations equaled $5.9 billion.After marking a record-high open interest at $19.5 billion on Feb. 21, the metric has stabilized at $16.5 billion. This means…

Libra is a “recipe for more corporate power over markets and over consumers,” according to U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee. Senator Brown’s recent comments came by way of an official video tweet by NowThis News on July 16, posted hours after the Senate Banking Committee hearing on Facebook’s Libra.Brown appeared…