Bitcoin Market Impact From Mt. Gox Repayments Will Be Limited: Matrixport

Nov 19, 2020 at 10:13 a.m. UTCIrish Man Gets 3 Years in Prison for Stealing $2.5M in Crypto Through SIM HacksA Dublin man involved in the theft of more than $2 million in cryptocurrency through SIM-swap attacks has been sentenced to almost three years in prison.Conor Freeman, 21, was handed down a two-year and 11-month…

332 million SAND tokens will be unlocked Monday, worth $133 million.SAND’s 24-hour trading volume at press time stands at $74.9 million, per CoinGecko.60 million SAND tokens were transferred out of the multisig Sandbox Genesis smart contract one week ago, according to block explorer Etherscan, a sign that the unlock had already begun.Metaverse platform Sandbox’s SAND…

Hong Kong asset management company Metalpha has secured $5 million for its Grayscale-based fund from Bitmain, according to a source close to the company.Metalpha is looking to raise $100 million for the Next Generation Fund I, which it has formed in partnership with NextGen Digital Venture Limited. As of the end of March, Metalpha has…

Oct 15, 2020 at 13:53 UTCUpdated Oct 15, 2020 at 14:12 UTCNYDFS Superintendent Linda Lacewell(NYDFS)New York’s Financial Regulator Puts Focus on Crypto Firms for Digital Reporting InitiativeThe New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) is seeking ways to digitize financial reporting in a new tech initiative that will initially focus on cryptocurrency companies.NYDFS Superintendent Linda…

The funding round, led by Three Arrows and DeFiance Capital, was also joined by Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital and Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam.dYdX team(dYdX)Jan 26, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 26, 2021 at 3:41 p.m. UTCBig Guns Back $10M Investment in DeFi’s dYdXTrading venue dYdX has raised $10 million in a Series B funding…

A recent study on the state of the NFT art market points to some of the lasting gender disparities in the world of cryptocurrency, and suggests the industry still has a long way to go.The study, conducted by a research agency called Art Tactic and reported on by Bloomberg and The Art Newspaper, claims at…

The head of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Rostin Behnam, had a lot of contact with Sam Bankman-Friend, the disgraced former CEO of FTX, but lawmakers suggest he hasn't been fully forthcoming about those interactions. So, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are demanding more.Warren and Grassley sent Behnam a letter

Nov 28, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. UTC(Alex Wong/Getty Images News)What Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary Means for Bitcoin and MarketsNLW looks at price action in crypto, the ETH 2.0 Beacon chain launching Dec 1, the Dow at 30,000 and Janet Yellen’s nomination as Treasury secretary.For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern…

Six engineers calling themselves the “Six Samurai” are proposing a Terra Classic ecosystem revival plan for the blockchain as some community members try their best to break away from the shackles of disgraced founder Do Kwon and rebuild the project.Terra Classic is the original network created by Terraform Labs. It has continued as an independent…