Articles from www.theblock.co

Articles from www.theblock.co

Immunefi: crypto users lost $1.8B in hacks and scams in 2023, down 54% YoY, as single incidents grew 90% YoY to 319; Lazarus remained the most prolific attacker (www.theblock.co)
2023-12-29

Bulgaria ends criminal proceedings against crypto lender Nexo, finding no evidence of money laundering, tax crimes, computer fraud, or other criminal activity (www.theblock.co)
2023-12-23 Tax

Prometheum says it received the first-ever FINRA approval to offer digital asset securities clearing services through its special purpose broker dealer license (www.theblock.co)
2023-12-22 Asset

A US appeals court finalizes a mandate for the forfeiture of 69,370 BTC and other crypto connected to Silk Road, handed over by a hacker named “Individual X” (www.theblock.co)
2023-12-21 Hacker

Mt. Gox to start repaying creditors in cash 'shortly' this year, trustee says (www.theblock.co)
2023-12-18

SafeMoon filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection on December 14 after the US SEC charged the firm for selling unregistered crypto securities on November 1 (www.theblock.co)
2023-12-15

Filing: FTX asks the US IRS to substantiate its claim worth $24B against FTX in unpaid taxes; the IRS lowered the amount from $44B in April to $24B in November (www.theblock.co)
2023-12-12 Tax

Tether freezes wallets of those sanctioned by the US Treasury's OFAC to prevent “potential misuse” of Tether tokens, the first significant move by its new CEO (www.theblock.co)
2023-12-10

Web3 developer platform thirdweb discloses a major vulnerability in its open-source library affecting many NFT collections; Thirdweb became aware on November 20 (www.theblock.co)
2023-12-5

A US court says FTX Trading and affiliated debtors can start selling $744M worth of Grayscale and Bitwise shares; GBTC accounts for 22.3M units worth $597M (www.theblock.co)
2023-11-30

DefiLlama: Binance's 24-hour outflows reached $1B as of 2:30AM ET on November 22 and seven-day net outflows were $703.1M, after Changpeng Zhao pled guilty (www.theblock.co)
2023-11-22

Email: Mt. Gox plans repay some creditors “within the 2023 calendar year”, likely extending into 2024, marking the first step in repayments for all creditors (www.theblock.co)
2023-11-22

Coinbase updates Coinbase Commerce with its new open source Onchain Payment Protocol, which offers instant settlement, low fees, and broad asset support (www.theblock.co)
2023-11-17 Asset Coinbase

Paxos gets in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to issue a USD-backed stablecoin; Paxos claims it is the only company to get approval (www.theblock.co)
2023-11-16 Monetary Singapore

The CFTC says 47 of its 96 enforcement cases brought in 2023 were related to digital assets, including against SBF, Binance, CZ, Celsius, and Alex Mashinsky (www.theblock.co)
2023-11-9 Asset CFTC

Binance releases a self-custody crypto wallet within its app, letting users “swap thousands of tokens across” more than 30 networks (www.theblock.co)
2023-11-8

The Bank of England and UK FCA seek feedback on proposals for regulating stablecoins, aiming to evaluate the potential benefits for consumers and retailers (www.theblock.co)
2023-11-7

Coinbase announces that eligible US retail customers can now access bitcoin and ether futures contracts through Coinbase Financial Markets (www.theblock.co)
2023-11-2 Bitcoin Retail Coinbase

Blockaid, which offers Web3 security tools for fraud, phishing, and hacks and claims to have prevented 1.3M+ attacks, raised a $6M seed and $27M Series A (www.theblock.co)
2023-10-23

The Worldcoin Foundation plans to pay orb operators, who scan people into the Worldcoin network, in WLD rather than USDC in December and has issued ~134M WLD (www.theblock.co)
2023-10-23

SynFutures, a decentralized derivatives exchange for trading crypto perpetual futures, raised a $22M Series B led by Pantera, after a $14M Series A in June 2021 (www.theblock.co)
2023-10-20 Decentralize

Chainalysis says recent media reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses” (www.theblock.co)
2023-10-19 Terrorism

Uniswap plans to start implementing a 0.15% fee for certain crypto trades on its web app and wallet from October 17, generating an estimated $1M per day in fees (www.theblock.co)
2023-10-17

SolanaFM: the FTX estate staked 5.5M SOL, valued at $122M, from a principal wallet, delegating the coins to network validator Figment; FTX has $1B+ in SOL (www.theblock.co)
2023-10-16

Tether promotes long-time CTO Paolo Ardoino to CEO, starting in December, and envisions becoming a “tech-centric organization”; current CEO will be an advisor (www.theblock.co)
2023-10-13

CFTC charges Voyager Digital co-founder Stephen Ehrlich with fraud, saying he and Voyager lied to customers and hid the crypto lender's true financial health (www.theblock.co)
2023-10-13 CFTC

Caroline Ellison's well-prepared testimony painted Sam Bankman-Fried as the ultimate decision-maker at FTX and a corrupting influence on his subordinates (www.theblock.co)
2023-10-12

As the UK FCA widens its crypto marketing rules, Coinbase, OKX, Binance, and others partner with UK companies, expecting to continue serving UK customers (www.theblock.co)
2023-10-10 Coinbase

Elliptic: the total value of crypto laundered via decentralized exchanges, bridges, and coin swaps hits $7B; Lazarus Group is the top culprit, laundering $900M+ (www.theblock.co)
2023-10-9

THORSwap moves to “maintenance mode” after criminals linked to the FTX hack in 2022 used the decentralized exchange to convert $38M worth of ether to bitcoin (www.theblock.co)
2023-10-9

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