Toncoin open interest surges 32% following Pavel Durov's arrest

A paper recently published by the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford examines the legal risks of depositing cryptocurrency with custodians in the event of insolvency. The paper, featured in a June 1 blog-post by the faculty, also suggests ways that regulation and practice can help to mitigate this risk.Disintermediation failedCryptocurrencies were initially created…

The leaders of two tech giants are using nationalism to win back the governments of their respective home countries after stumbling over crypto launches. 1171 Total views 19 Total shares Two icons of tech — one American, one Russian — are hard at work trying to win back the jilted governments of their home countries…

County authorities captured the cryptocurrency during a 2018 drug bust in Long Branch. 745 Total views 8 Total shares A county in the state of New Jersey has announced the liquidation of cryptocurrency assets seized in 2018.On Monday, the prosecutor’s office in Monmouth County announced that the confiscated crypto —initially valued at $57,000 at the time…

Mainland Chinese citizens will not be able to purchase Bitcoin and Ether ETFs in Hong Kong because mainland China banned crypto transactions years ago.

Bitcoin’s (BTC) fundamentals received a boost as the U.S. Senate passed the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill on March 7. If traders react to this bill in the same way as they had done to the first stimulus package in April 2020, then the crypto markets may witness a strong rally.The stimulus package also intensifies the…

A source familiar with the matter said the SEC is looking into whether certain NFTs from Yuga Labs could be “more akin to stocks.” 169 Total views 8 Total shares

A full day of interviews and coverage related to the Bitcoin halving. As the Bitcoin halving approaches, Cointelegraph is throwing a live Bitcoin halving party starting today at 10 AM EDT on our YouTube channel!Join us for live panels with our own globally distributed editors, who will be speaking with some of the biggest names…

Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network is planning to file a motion that would extend the deadline for users to submit their claims by another month.The crypto community has started to grow impatient, noting that Celsius’ lawyer fees have continued to stack up and are eating away at the lender's estate.In a Dec. 29 Twitter post,…

Yam is gearing up for its V3 release later this week after undergoing a security audit from PeckShield. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Yam Finance is relaunching on September 18.Yam Finance V2, a fork of Compound (COMP) featuring a native token with an elastic supply, burst onto the DeFi scene last month — garnering more than…