Arcane Research: Banking on Bitcoin – The State of Bitcoin As Collateral

North Korean attackers linked to a recent crypto exploit could be behind the latest crypto business security causality, according to data cited by blockchain sleuth ZachXBT and verified by CoinDesk.CoinEx exchange was hacked for an estimated $27 million on Tuesday – a figure that later ballooned to $54 million worth of tokens drained from the

Coinbase (COIN) shares are "uninvestable" in the near term, investment bank Berenberg said in a research report Thursday.The company was already expected to report weak second-quarter 2023 trading volumes before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against the crypto exchange on Tuesday, the report said.This weakness may now persist and intensify…

U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has tapped a former Morgan Stanley executive for its operations in Asia.Andy Meehan will act as the firm's chief compliance officer for the Asia Pacific, overseeing strategic compliance and regulatory relationships within the region.Per a Thursday press release, Meehan will be responsible for ensuring Gemini's alignment with regulatory guidelines, shaping strategy,…

feature Most crypto companies avoid comparisons to traditional banks. But Chad Cascarilla, CEO of the stablecoin issuer Paxos, welcomes the analogy. “It’s akin to a bank account,” Cascarilla said, describing the new integration of Paxos wallets to the sister company itBit, a crypto exchange. “It has the look and feel in part of a bank…

Vice President Kamala Harris is now the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States, after President Joe Biden abruptly announced he was withdrawing from the race. With her assent to the top of the party ticket comes questions about how a potential Harris Administration might differ from the Biden Administration's approach to

Apr 16, 2020 at 20:30 UTCUpdated Apr 16, 2020 at 21:00 UTCThe  Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) consortium, which is charged with helping develop the protocols for a privacy-focused European Union contact tracing system, has removed any mention of the decentralized protocol proposal Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP3T) from its website. Contact tracing is the process…

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Jun 29, 2020 at 12:54 UTCUpdated Jun 29, 2020 at 13:33 UTC(Sundry Photography/Shutterstock)A German shareholder body has accused “Big Four” auditor Ernst & Young (EY) of failing to spot a $2.1 billion black hole in Wirecard’s books soon enough. Shareholders’ association SdK filed criminal damages against EY Friday for not flagging Wirecard’s accounting practices earlier,…