DOJ challenges motion to dismiss Tornado Cash co-founder’s charges

The cryptocurrency markets and the United States equities markets witnessed profit-booking this week as the macroeconomic data hinted toward continued rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. Bitcoin (BTC) is down more than 4% and the S&P 500 fell 2.7% to record its worst week of the year. The CME FedWatch Tool shows a 73% probability of…

Developers cite business development opportunities, protocol expansion and the technical capabilities of the Aptos chain as the main reasons for the proposal. 279 Total views 6 Total shares On Oct. 20, developers of the popular decentralized exchange, or DEX, PancakeSwap proposed deploying its mainnet on layer-1 blockchain Aptos.Currently, PancakeSwap is based on BNB Chain and processes…

Saturday, Jan. 12 — most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate to slight losses, while some are reporting up to double-digit gains. Bitcoin’s (BTC) price is still hovering over $3,650, according to Coin360 data.Market visualization from Coin360At press time, Bitcoin is down under 1 percent on the day, trading at around $3,665. Looking…

FTX is "weeding out the competition" with its new selection of tokenized stocks. 420 Total views 3 Total shares Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX has announced it is growing its line of tokenized stock offerings, with the addition of five cannabis-related businesses.The Dec. 16 announcement, tweeted by FTX and Alameda Research CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, came in…

Cold wallet maker Ledger adds more privacy protection to its software suite Hardware wallet maker Ledger has recently upgraded its software suite to include more privacy and control over crypto transfers to help prevent ‘dusting attacks’.A dusting attack is where a malicious actor sends small amounts of Bitcoin to a wallet to break the privacy…

The Ecuador-based Sustainable Shrimp Partnership (SSP) is joining IBM's Food Trust Ecosystem, using IBM’s blockchain technology to ensure the quality of SSP shrimp products, according to a press release on May 6.By joining the Food Trust Ecosystem, retailers and consumers will have access to production and development data on the SSP shrimp products. Director of…

The sheer volume of information produced every day makes it difficult to distinguish between real and fake news, but advances in natural language processing (NLP) present a possible solution. In today’s digital era, the spread of information via social media and internet platforms has given people the power to access news from many different sources. The…