Telegram's Pavel Durov is wrong about Signal — and has been for years

A Taiwanese venture studio just became the new lead investor for a Hong Kong-based crypto custodian following a multimillion dollar investment this week.Nogle announced yesterday they had given $3 million to First Digital Trust (FDT), the digital asset arm of Legacy Trust. The investment is intended for the financial custodian to develop its own crypto…

Binance CEO Richard Teng and family members have called for action, claiming Tigran Gambaryan has been unjustly detained in Nigeria since February.

Fearing that recent delistings and volatility "undermine market confidence," the U.S. securities regulator says it is looking into the Robinhood fiasco. 5092 Total views 21 Total shares The U.S. securities watchdog is looking into the affair of Robinhood and the Redditors.At least in so many words. The Securities and Exchange Commission made a joint statement…

Terra’s native staking token, LUNA, was one of the best-performing cryptocurrencies of 2021, with gains north of 13,000%. Terra has also surpassed Binance Smart Chain (BSC) in total locked value with $17.62 billion, making it the second-biggest DeFi chain just after Ethereum. Much of this growth is due to Terra’s ecosystem, with a community of developers…

Data aggregator DefiLlama showed that Binance’s crypto asset inflows have fallen by over $1 billion in the last 24 hours. 363 Total views 2 Total shares As crypto exchange Binance and the departure of its CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao hit the headlines in the last 24 hours, the digital asset space went into a rollercoaster

The Germany-based IOTA Foundation will integrate IOTA tokens with Ledger’s hardware cryptocurrency wallets, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Nov. 2.The IOTA Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports the development and standardization of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and is focused on building ecosystems around IOTA in order to facilitate its commercial adoption.As…

Bitcoin (BTC) put in fresh gains overnight into May 31 as the monthly close looked set to seal losses of around 15%.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewAsks stack up above $33,000Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD consolidating once more after a fresh burst took it to $32,200 on Bitstamp.The pair thus capped…

On Dec. 15, news broke that cryptocurrency payments firm and wallet provider FoPay had acquired Estonia-based digital currency trading platform AliExchange for 1 million of its native Foin (FOIN) tokens. If one were to go by Foin’s apparent value at the time, that would make the deal worth roughly $2.1 billion. Indeed, FoPay claimed as…

Recent reports that Chinese authorities have raided the offices of leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance, are actually quite false. Speaking to Cointelegraph on Nov. 21, a Binance spokesperson refuted media reports that Chinese police had raided and subsequently shut down the exchange’s Shanghai offices. Furthermore, the spokesperson stated that no such offices even exist:“The Binance team is…