Articles from www.theblock.co

Articles from www.theblock.co

a16z crypto unveils Lasso and Jolt, a pair of new tools based on Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge, or SNARK, to help enable scalable ZK-rollups (www.theblock.co)
2023-8-12

Coinbase's Base mainnet opens to the general public, with 100+ dApps and service providers as part of the ecosystem, following a launch for developers in July (www.theblock.co)
2023-8-10 Coinbase

Revolut plans to start shutting down its US cryptocurrency service from September 2, citing regulatory uncertainty, impacting <1% of its crypto users globally (www.theblock.co)
2023-8-4 Cryptocurrency

Coinbase plans to open Base, its layer-2 blockchain built on Optimism's OP Stack, to the public on August 9 and launches an Ethereum bridge (www.theblock.co)
2023-8-3 Blockchain Ethereum Coinbase

3AC co-founder Kyle Davies tells a US court he is not subjecting himself to or accepting the jurisdiction of US courts since he renounced citizenship in 2020 (www.theblock.co)
2023-8-2

Tether reports a $850M net profit in Q2, vs. $1.5B in Q1, with ~$3.3B in excess reserves, up from $2.44B in Q1, and $86.5B+ in total assets as of June 30 (www.theblock.co)
2023-7-31 Asset

A look at nine under-the-radar lobbying firms helping influence US crypto legislation in 2023 on behalf of Binance, Crypto.com, Coinbase, and others (www.theblock.co)
2023-7-31 Coinbase

The SEC's Paul Munter warns that the accounting firms working with crypto companies could be held liable for misleading public statements made by their clients (www.theblock.co)
2023-7-28

Flashbots, whose service proposes blocks for validators running the Ethereum blockchain, raised a $60M Series B led by Paradigm at a $1B valuation (www.theblock.co)
2023-7-26 Blockchain Ethereum

Coinbase will fully close its bitcoin-backed loan program Borrow for retail customers and says loan holders have to pay outstanding dues by November 20, 2023 (www.theblock.co)
2023-7-23 Bitcoin Retail Coinbase

Binance completes integration of the Bitcoin Lightning Network, enabling faster and cheaper bitcoin transactions, after setting up Lightning nodes in June (www.theblock.co)
2023-7-17 Bitcoin

Multichain ceases operations after the crypto bridging protocol's CEO Zhaojun and his sister, who held ~$220M of user assets, were detained by Chinese police (www.theblock.co)
2023-7-14 China Asset

Gemini sues DCG and its founder Barry Silbert, accusing Barry Silbert of being the architect and mastermind of the DCG and Genesis fraud against creditors (www.theblock.co)
2023-7-8

Report: Binance GC Han Ng, Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillmann, and compliance SVP Steven Christie are leaving Binance over CZ's response to the DOJ's probe (www.theblock.co)
2023-7-7

Report: FTX's talks with investors on reboot proposals, due this week, include a joint venture, a rebrand, and stakes for certain existing customers (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-29

A US judge denies Sam Bankman-Fried's motion to dismiss or sever most of the criminal charges he faces; Bankman-Fried faces 100+ years in prison if convicted (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-28

Binance begins running nodes on the Bitcoin Lightning Network, part of a plan to use the service for deposits and withdrawals to alleviate network congestion (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-20 Bitcoin

Filings: FTX paid $121.8M in legal, consulting, and financial services fees between February 1 and April 30, as some former clients push to reboot the exchange (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-20

How kids are using hacked Discord servers or Twitter accounts and “NFT drainers” for phishing attacks to steal millions of dollars' worth of NFTs and tokens (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-20 Twitter

Filing: the SEC says it anticipates it will take 120 days to potentially respond to Coinbase's request for clearer rulemaking on digital asset trading (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-14 Asset Coinbase

The developer of Damus, a Nostr-based social media app, says Apple has threatened to delist it from the App Store if it doesn't remove a bitcoin tipping feature (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-14 Bitcoin Apple

SDNY releases documents in which an ex-SEC director suggested ether and bitcoin were not securities in 2018, which crypto advocates say undermines the SEC (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-13 Bitcoin

Sources: MoonPay gifted celebrities BAYC NFTs at the height of the crypto craze in late 2021; MoonPay claims it charged celebrity clients the NFTs' full price (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-10

A US judge ruled in favor of the CFTC after Ooki DAO failed to respond to an enforcement action, setting a precedent that DAOs are liable for legal violations (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-10 CFTC

Robinhood says it will end support for Solana, Polygon, and Cardano on June 27, following a review in light of the SEC lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-10 Coinbase

Hong Kong-based Taiko Labs, which is focused on scaling Ethereum, raised a $10M seed led by Sequoia China and a $12M pre-Series A led by Generative Ventures (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-9 China Hong Kong Ethereum

Court documents: the SEC accuses Binance and Binance.US of redirecting $12B+ in customer assets to entities controlled by Changpeng Zhao between 2019 and 2021 (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-8 Asset

Binance plans to delist 12 privacy coins, including Zcash and Monero, in France, Italy, Poland, and Spain on June 26, citing “ongoing compliance processes” (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-2 France Italy Spain Poland Monero

Crypto bridging protocol Multichain says it suspended service for multiple chains after being unable to contact its CEO to get server access amid tech problems (www.theblock.co)
2023-6-1

Paradigm appears to have removed crypto and web3 mentions from its website's home page, as sources say the VC is expanding its focus to “frontier” tech like AI (www.theblock.co)
2023-5-26 AI

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