Crypto-Sec: DeFi Saver ownership phish, iVest shuts down after attack, plus hackathon clipboard hijack

The long-timeframe chart is painting a death cross pattern, however, suggesting a selloff ahead. 303 Total views 2 Total shares XRP price rose by nearly 30% in less than a week amid positive sentiment around the court case, in which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claims that Ripple sold XRP as illegal securities.SEC vs. Ripple…

Bitcoin exposure has been added to the end of “Other Securities and Investment Strategies” sections for a dozen investment funds. 1241 Total views 15 Total shares United States investment bank Morgan Stanley has updated the prospectus of several institutional funds to reflect potential exposure to Bitcoin (BTC) through Grayscale and cash-settled futures, highlighting once again…

Accessing BTC is about to get a lot easier in El Salvador with the crypto ATM rollout. U.S. company Athena intends to supply El Salvador’s new crypto-based economy with 1500 Bitcoin ATMs, a company representative has confirmed.The rollout will start small, trialing a few dozen machines to establish a business model. The Chicago headquartered firm…

Karate Combat’s DAO will be launched as part of a three-year sponsorship deal with Hedera’s HBAR Foundation, expected to go live in December 2022. 275 Total views 31 Total shares Karate Combat, a prominent full-contact martial arts league, announced the decision to form a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) to transition its governance to fans and…

South Korea's central bank, the Bank of Korea (BOK), plans to organize a task force dedicated to central bank digital currency (CBDC) research in the new year.In its “Monetary Policy for 2020” brief, published on Dec. 27, BOK said it would continue to build on its existing research into distributed ledger technology, crypto assets, and…

Bitcoin (BTC) is still on course to hit $100,000 this year and its recent dip is “unchanged price action.”That was the conclusion of one of the industry’s best-known investors as BTC/USD recovered from its trip to near $46,000.Tapiero eyes “very rare buy signal” for Bitcoin...In a tweet on April 27, Dan Tapiero, fund manager Dan…

Congressman Davidson, in particular, sees potential Treasury action as a bad idea for everybody involved. 983 Total views 4 Total shares Several members of Congress have voiced opposition to a rumored blockade on self-hosted crypto wallets in the works at the U.S. Treasury.In a Dec. 9 letter addressed to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, four members of…

South Korea’s largest car manufacturer, Hyundai Motor Group, will use blockchain in its new tech for pairing electric vehicles (EVs) with smartphones. Sustainable mobility-focused news agency Green Car Congress reported on the development on April 22.Hyundai reportedly announced development of smartphone-EV pairing based performance adjustment technology that allows users to customize primary functions via a…

Australian indie game developer Grease Monkey Games, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, has received received financial support from video-game giant Epic Games to develop a new blockchain-based motorsport game Torque Drift 2Receiving an Epic MegaGrant from the Fortnite developers, the funding will be used to develop the motorsport title, which is based on drifting. The…