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CFTC charges residents of Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas for crypto fraud

The regulatory body asserts that the defendants managed to entice over 14,000 individuals by creating false weekly returns.

Curve Finance vows to reimburse users after $62 million hack

The platform further emphasizes its current priority, which revolves around assessing the proportional portions of each impacted user.

DeFi tries to recover from Curve hack, but exploits continue: Finance Redefined

Binance jumped in with a $5 million Curve token investment to help with efforts to minimize the risk of contagion.

Victim of 90 ETH exploit set to claw funds back after hacker was blacklisted

The hacker’s wallet with more than $100K worth of USDT was blacklisted and frozen, while the Victim had been drained for almost $170K worth of NFTs and other assets.

FC Barcelona secures $132 investment for blockchain and NFT venture

The football club has been keen on creating nonfungible token collections for much of the past year.

Grails’ lucky dip of famous NFT artists, new hope for PFP holders: NFT Collector

Pudgy Penguins CEO reveals why PFT holders aren’t doomed, Grails offers a blind tasting to buy famous NFT artists, and free Amazon Prime NFTs.

Binance applies for Taiwan AML compliance: Report

The world's leading crypto exchange by trading volume has reportedly applied to register in Taiwan under the new AML compliance.

Worldcoin opens up WLD reservations for unverified users

Worldcoin project has remained controversial right from its announcement and currently facing regulatory trouble in multiple jurisdictions that it has launched.

Visa explores crypto gas fees payments through cards

Visa’s innovative solution employs Ethereum's ERC-4337 standard and the "paymaster" smart contract, enabling off-chain gas fee settlement.

‘XRP is not a security. Period’ — Crypto lawyers on Ripple’s case amid SEC appeal

Lawyer Oscar Franklin Tan believes that if the appeal is allowed, whoever wins will build momentum in the main case.

Coinbase layer-2 network Base hits 136,000 daily active users

Around 30% of Base's users on Aug. 10 were new to the blockchain which launched only a day prior.

Aave DAO opens voting on proposals to reduce CRV exposure

Aave tokenholders are voting on three proposals that could reshape the protocol’s exposure to the Curve DAO token.

Cross-chain wallet BitKeep changes name to Bitget Wallet after acquisition

The exchange follows the likes of Binance, KuCoin and OKX in running self-custody wallets parallel to CeFi operations.

Newly discovered Bitcoin wallet loophole let hackers steal $900K — SlowMist

A series of attacks drained the wallets of BTC users by exploiting a faulty random seed generation algorithm.

Chinese police to crackdown on crypto and deepfake AI

The move comes as several prominent Chinese blockchain executives have been arrested this year.

FTX debtors and UCC clash over asset control in restructuring

FTX strongly criticized the UCC's pursuit of asset control, as it recommended that debtors allocate nearly $2.6 billion from cash reserves into short-term Treasuries.

AI Eye: Apple developing pocket AI, deep fake music deal, hypnotizing GPT-4

Apple developing AI to run locally on your phone, researchers ‘hypnotize’ GPT-4 to turn it evil, and Google negotiates a deep fake music deal.

Hashing It Out podcast: What does the future hold for BNB Chain?

Arno Bauer, the senior solution architect at BNB Chain, denies the “Ethereum killer” tag in a discussion highlighting new BNB Chain updates.

US bank reveals $170M in crypto holdings: Q2 earnings report

Sofi started offering crypto services even before it became a bank and its banking license might change the way it hodl crypto.

India plans to use crypto tokens in upcoming native web browser

Feature is envisaged in the project of national web browser, cherished by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.

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