Wallet Tied to Euler Exploit Sends 100 Ether to Lazarus Group

Oct 30, 2020 at 19:14 UTCBequant CEO George Zarya (Bequant)Bequant is adding New York-based Solidus Labs’ surveillance tools to its digital asset services business.Solidus Labs serves several crypto exchanges, including New York-based BlockQuake and Hong Kong-based AAX. Bequant will be one of its first prime broker clients. The London-based Bequant has been rapidly adding features…

news A powerful intergovernmental organization devoted to combating money laundering and terrorism financing has finalized its recommendations on regulating cryptocurrencies for its 37 member countries. As expected, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards released Friday include a controversial requirement that “virtual asset service providers” (VASPs), including crypto exchanges, pass information about their customers to one…

news The cryptocurrency markets fell sharply on July 10 after bitcoin (BTC) suffered another $1000 sell-off, denying a bullish breakout that looked primed to test its recent 2019 highs. At 14:00 UTC On July 10, BTC shed $962 from its price tag in a little over an hour, landing just above the $12,000 psychological support…

Fijian archipeligo (NASA, modified by CoinDesk)The Digital Archipelago: How to Build an Internet Where Communities ThriveThe internet of today isn’t the independent territory it was originally imagined to be. For ordinary people “the internet” is just a bunch of apps made by giant companies. These companies do whatever they want with your data, disappear when…

So, there was a deal resolving the U.S. debt ceiling battle in Washington, D.C. Now what? First, let’s look at where we are.The words “crypto” and “cryptocurrencies” don’t appear at all in the initial version of the deal. I wrestle with whether that’s good or bad. The Digital Asset Mining Energy (DAME) excise tax wasn’t…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged three decentralized finance (DeFi) operations – Opyn, Inc., ZeroEx (0x), Inc. and Deridex, Inc. – with offering illegal derivatives trading, according to a Thursday statement from the agency.The three firms face a number of accusations based on their use of blockchain-based protocols and smart contracts to function

Jun 25, 2020 at 16:02 UTCUpdated Jun 25, 2020 at 16:10 UTCBitcoin News Roundup for June 25, 2020Bitcoin options have a big day coming up, New York City-bornrapper Ja Rule teams with Ethereum-based Roll and more in this edition of Markets Daily, from CoinDesk. For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases, subscribe…

Bitcoin (BTC) futures logged the lowest liquidations since April on Tuesday, a sign of sudden waning interest among futures traders, data shows.Just under $9 million worth of bitcoin futures were liquidated, Coinglass data shows. Bitcoin made up for a large share of the total $28 million of crypto-tracked liquidations on Tuesday – among the lowest…

news Liquid, a second layer tech for bitcoin created by Blockstream, just onboarded another crypto partner. The sidechain for faster BTC payments now has around 30 members, including Bitfinex, BITMex, OKCoin, and other exchanges, with the total of $900,000 moving around on the network, Blockstream’s chief strategy officer Samson Mow told CoinDesk. Now Canadian bitcoin…