Bybit’s Notcoin listing debacle, China firm’s profits up 1100% after crypto buy: Asia Express

Privacy should be a key talking point from the beginning of CBDC development. 280 Total views 3 Total shares Robert Bench, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s director of applied research, thinks privacy should be a focus during the creation of digital money, not an afterthought. “Privacy is a question that we have learned is critical…

The rising amount of Bitcoin OTC desk balances for miners indicates “significant selling activity” among miners.

The ongoing crypto ETF outflow strike marks the 17th straight day of outflows, the longest negative streak since CoinShares started records in 2015. Cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs) continued seeing massive selling last week, recording the fifth week of outflows in a row, with $1.7 billion leaving the market.  After seeing slightly softened outflows of $876

Last week, the crypto community spotted transaction fees of up to $2.6 million featured in several transactions on the Ether (ETH) network. Vitalik Buterin has since suggested that the abnormous fees “may actually be blackmail," but some researchers have now challenged that claim. Blackmail theoryThe first suspicious transfer took place on June 10, when $2.6 million…

Opinion by: Simon McLoughlin, CEO at Uphold 2021 witnessed a fintech investment boom, with startups raising approximately $229 billion globally. Higher interest rates and tighter economic circumstances have since tempered that exuberance, but funds continue to pile into the sector. Indeed, the global fintech sector is expected to see a rebound in investment activity throughout

United States lawmakers have appealed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to hold telecoms providers to account for failing to protect consumers against SIM swap attacks.SIM-swapping — alternatively known as a port-out scam — involves the theft of a cell phone number in order to hijack online financial and social media accounts, enabled by the…

Keeping up with the latest trends in cryptocurrency is a must for projects that want to stay relevant and continue to gain market share. The hype is currently swirling around decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) — and IOST is one protocol that has been capitalizing on these growing movements to help expand its…

Project Cedar successfully used custom distributed ledger technology to settle hypothetical transactions quickly “from the perspective of the Federal Reserve.” 311 Total views 15 Total shares The Federal Reserve Bank of New York Innovation Center has released a report on the first phase of its Project Cedar wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) Nov. 4.…