Articles from www.theblock.co

Articles from www.theblock.co

A profile of FTX co-founder and CTO Gary Wang, who sources say doesn't talk much, is hard to contact, and was one of the few with “root access” to the code base (www.theblock.co)
2022-11-15

London-based Archax, the UK's only digital asset exchange licensed by the Financial Conduct Authority, raised a $28.5M Series A led by investment firm abrdn (www.theblock.co)
2022-11-13 Asset London

Binance shares addresses for its wallets and details its holdings: 475K BTC, 4.8M ETH, 17.6B USDT, 21.7B BUSD, 601M USDC, 58M BNB, and a $1B SAFU fund (www.theblock.co)
2022-11-10 ETH

Crypto payments startup Ramp raised a $70M Series B co-led by Mudabala Capital and Korelya Capital at an estimated $450M+ valuation (www.theblock.co)
2022-11-10 Startup

Nansen: over the past 24 hours, around $1B in ether, $950M in USDC, $400M in tether, and $195M in BUSD have been withdrawn from exchanges (www.theblock.co)
2022-11-9

The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control adds a designation to Tornado Cash, tying the crypto mixer to North Korea's nuclear weapons program (www.theblock.co)
2022-11-9 Korea Asset

The SEC wins a lawsuit against decentralized publishing platform LBRY, saying its token is subject to regulatory oversight, in a blow to crypto token issuance (www.theblock.co)
2022-11-9 Decentralize

On-chain data: FTX appears to have stopped processing withdrawal requests, starting at 6:37am ET (www.theblock.co)
2022-11-9

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried insists the exchange is “fine” after Binance begins selling FTX's FTT; a recently leaked Alameda balance sheet showed $8B in liabilities (www.theblock.co)
2022-11-8

SEC filing: Coinbase Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee leaves, as the company plans to restructure its product team into four divisions (www.theblock.co)
2022-11-3 Coinbase

BitMEX CEO Alexander Höptner steps down as CEO of the crypto exchange with immediate effect, replaced by CFO Stephan Lutz; Höptner joined BitMEX in 2021 (www.theblock.co)
2022-10-25

Research: Binance had a 55.1% market share in spot crypto trading in the past 24 hours and 54.4% of derivatives trading, easily surpassing FTX and others (www.theblock.co)
2022-10-24

Telegram will launch auctions for its usernames via TON blockchain, following a TON auction for wallet usernames, some of which sold for $200K+ (www.theblock.co)
2022-10-21 Blockchain

DeFi proponents criticize Sam Bankman-Fried for a regulatory proposal suggesting websites facilitating trading on decentralized exchanges should be regulated (www.theblock.co)
2022-10-21 Decentralize

Celestia, which is building a modular blockchain architecture, raised $55M, a source says in a Series A and a Series B held earlier this year at a $1B valuation (www.theblock.co)
2022-10-20 Blockchain

Hacker behind the Mango Markets exploit keeps $47M and returns $67M to the DeFi platform after a Mango community vote; he claims his actions were legal (www.theblock.co)
2022-10-16 Hacker

US policy nonprofit Coin Center sues the Treasury Department, saying the Department overstepped its authority when it sanctioned Tornado Cash in August (www.theblock.co)
2022-10-13

Crypto exchange Bittrex agrees to a $29.3M settlement with the US Treasury Department over potential liability for sanctions violations between 2014 and 2017 (www.theblock.co)
2022-10-12

DeFiLlama: Circle has burned a record ~$9B of its USDC stablecoin in the past 90 days, decreasing supply from $55.55B to $46.57B, as DeFi yields decline (www.theblock.co)
2022-10-6

An interview with Sky Mavis co-founder Aleksander Larsen on staying play-to-earn after the hack, unfair criticisms, improving security, raising funds, and more (www.theblock.co)
2022-10-5 Interview

Golden, which is building a Web3 data protocol that is expected to fully launch in Q2 2023, raised a $40M Series B led by a16z, bringing total funding to $60M (www.theblock.co)
2022-10-4

OneKey, which claims only its hardware wallet has a certified secure chip and 100% open-source code, raised a ~$20M Series A led by Dragonfly and Ribbit Capital (www.theblock.co)
2022-9-29

Coral, which is building a wallet called Backpack for so-called xNFTs in DeFi apps, raised $20M co-led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto (www.theblock.co)
2022-9-28

FTX US President Brett Harrison says he plans to step down in the coming months after joining in May 2021 and overseeing huge growth (www.theblock.co)
2022-9-28

NY, CA, and several other states take action against crypto lender Nexo, from sending cease and desists to suing, with interest-bearing accounts a main focus (www.theblock.co)
2022-9-27

Sources: crypto derivatives exchange Deribit raised ~$40M from existing investors at a $400M valuation; source: it raised $100M in 2021 at a $2.1B valuation (www.theblock.co)
2022-9-27

Immunefi, which helps crypto services create bug bounty programs, raised a $24M Series A led by Framework Ventures (www.theblock.co)
2022-9-23

Web3 bug bounty platform Immunefi raises $24 million in Series A funding (www.theblock.co)
2022-9-22

Coinbase announces Node, a set of APIs to build on multiple blockchains, including support for NFTs; the free plan offers up to 120K daily Ethereum requests (www.theblock.co)
2022-9-21 Ethereum Coinbase

MoonPay helps Universal Studios create a “Halloween Horror Nights” NFT scavenger hunt in its Orlando and Hollywood theme parks, minting up to 7M NFTs (www.theblock.co)
2022-9-21

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