Stakeholders urge Nigeria to adopt compliance-focused crypto regulation

Ether (ETH) options are having a fantastic year, with open interest on Deribit — the largest market for these options — having surged 315% to $158 million over the past two months, breaking the $150-million barrier for the first time ever. Even though Ether first came about only to serve the users of the Ethereum platform…

RUNE has rallied to all-time highs after Multicoin Capital revealed it has accumulated a large position. 2919 Total views 8 Total shares Thorchain’s native token RUNE gained 30% in the last 24 hours after crypto venture firm Multicoin Capital revealed that it has accumulated a large position in the asset. RUNE was trading at roughly…

Stablecoin firm Tether and its affiliate exchange Bitfinex anticipate a lawsuit alleging that Tether token (USDT) is involved in market manipulation as the result of an unpublished paper.Tether and Bitfinex to defend its positionOn Oct. 5, both Tether and Bitfinex published statements claiming that they had become aware of an unreleased paper “falsely positing that…

Phishing sites are making the private auction feature look like a way to log in, luring victims to give up their NFTs unknowingly. 194 Total views 12 Total shares Ho-ho-ho! Get Limited Holiday Trait!Collect this article as NFTAs nonfungible tokens (NFTs) became more popular, bad actors who constantly try to exploit users within the space…

DeFi crypto lending has operated as intended through the crypto winter because transparency kept it in line and business activities were siloed, according to Maple Finance’s Sid Powell. 66 Total views 28 Total shares Maple Finance co-founder and CEO Sid Powell says that transparency has been the saving grace of decentralized finance (DeFi) amid the…

Depending who you ask, NFTs are either a new and exciting way to invest, or a bearish, overhyped sector. Regardless, journalists, investors and collectors have paid significant attention to the growing NFT market in the past year. NFTs continue to be one of the most popular Web3 entry points, an opportunity for everyone from casual…

Cointelegraph is following the development of an entirely new blockchain from inception to mainnet and beyond through its series, Inside the Blockchain Developer’s Mind, written by Andrew Levine of Koinos Group.People use social applications daily, but despite all the hype around supposedly “next-gen” blockchains, none of those social applications are decentralized. Let’s unpack why, using…

Bitwise’s chief compliance officer Katherine Dowling says “fewer and fewer” issues in the S-1 filings are being pushed back and forth between the SEC and prospective ETF issuers.

Australian financial watchdog, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has issued a warning on “misleading” Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and crypto-asset funds targeted at retail investors.The document was published Thursday, September 20, on ASIC’s official website.According to the release, ASIC has stopped five different ICOs from raising capital since April 2018. This was done…