Fake Coinbase website leads to $20M fraud, 5-year sentence

Securitize, a Coinbase-backed token issuance protocol, raised $14 million in a funding round led by the venture capital (VC) wings of major commercial banks. The San Francisco-based startup has conducted an extension of its Series A round to continue developing its technology platform.According to a press release on Sept. 24, three major investor banks included Santander’s…

“We just have to be brave... But not too brave or else Matt Damon will come and take all our money," said characters on the animated series, hinting at the crypto market downturn. 408 Total views 6 Total shares More than three months after its release, the ad from crypto exchange Crypto.com featuring Hollywood star…

Terra's recent collapse has been repeatedly singled out as the main source of weakness affecting crypto assets, but it's much more likely that a combination of factors are behind the start of this current bear market.At the same time that the market was reeling from the Terra saga, the 2-year mark for the next Bitcoin (BTC)…

GAMI, a Web3-focused Venture Builder, hosts a variety of products tailored to the web3 and blockchain world, with partners like Gerard Lopez, a globally renowned entrepreneur and investor. 276 Total views 7 Total shares Cointelegraph Accelerator, the startup booster leveraging Cointelegraph’s media capabilities, has announced GAMI — a Web3 Venture Builder — as its new…

Bitcoin (BTC) faced a sharp correction on Dec. 11 plummeting as much as 8% to a four-month low at $40,150, wiping out the gains of the past seven days. This drop in BTC’s price has triggered a market-wide re-evaluation, prompting a debate on the potential for altcoins to spearhead the next significant rally in the cryptocurrency

The trader was both lying to investors and using an unregistered derivatives strategy on BitMEX. 1249 Total views 8 Total shares United States authorities have brought criminal charges against a crypto trader whom they say defrauded investors out of over $5 million. The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that it had arrested Jeremy Spence. Between 2017 and…

The DAO previously proposed a lawsuit against Azuki creator Zagabond over a dilutive $39 million NFT minting that took place in June. 143 Total views 4 Total shares Azuki DAO, an unofficial community decentralized autonomous organization surrounding the namesake nonfungible token collection, has announced its rebranding to “Bean" as it drops a proposed lawsuit against

Bitcoin’s (BTC) options markets are finally taking off at CME. This week Cointelegraph reported that the combined volume traded over the last ten days surpassed $140 million, as institutional investors delved in call options.The buyer of a call option can acquire Bitcoin for a fixed price on a predetermined date. For that privilege, this investor…