The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned crypto wallets allegedly connected to individuals and companies involved in the production of fentanyl. The U.S. Justice Department announced indictments against several China-based chemical manufacturers and their employees, who allegedly used crypto transactions to conceal their identities and the movement of […]
Binance, a crypto exchange, has recently joined forces with the Royal Thai Police in an investigation that led to the arrest of several suspects behind fraudulent activities. The investigation was assisted by Binance, the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB), and the US Homeland Security Investigation (HIS). The law enforcement agencies and the crypto exchange managed […]
Ardana Labs, a project that aimed to provide an innovative stablecoin platform for the Cardano network, raised $10 million from investors in 2021. However, the project suddenly closed up shop in November 2022, citing “funding and project timeline uncertainty.”Web3 risk-management platform Xerberus has now suggested that Ardana executives likely transferred 80% of the project’s funds […]
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is facing a criminal trial in the United States Justice Department. During jury selection on Oct. 3, Assistant U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon revealed that former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison, FTX co-founder Gary Wang, former FTX engineering director Nishad Singh, and former FTX chief operating officer […]
Alex Mashinsky, the former CEO of Celsius, will stand trial in September 2024 for multiple counts of fraud, including wire fraud, securities fraud, commodities fraud, and conspiracy to manipulate the value of the company’s native crypto token, CEL. His lawyers will make a case based on the ambiguity surrounding the legal status of cryptocurrencies. The […]
Celsius, a troubled cryptocurrency network, is currently in court seeking approval to initiate customer repayments by year-end and gain complete approval for its reorganization plan. The repayment to creditors will involve a combination of $2.03 billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum and shares in the newly established company following the reorganization. The new company, NewCo, will […]
Chainlink, a leading blockchain oracle ecosystem, has launched Chainlink Data Streams, an all-in-one data solution for decentralized applications (Dapps) and decentralized financial ecosystem (DeFi) developers. The Data Streams combine low-latency data delivery and automated trade execution to help developers scale in a secure and sustainable ecosystem. Leading DeFi protocol GMX has already integrated with the […]
Crypto and Web3 projects experienced a 153% increase in attack incidents from July to September 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, according to a report from blockchain security platform Immunefi. In Q3 2022, there were a total of 30 attack incidents, but this number rose to 76 in Q3 2023. Nearly $686 million […]
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has successfully completed a cross-border trading experiment using central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and decentralized finance (DeFi) technology. The experiment, dubbed “Project Mariana”, was conducted in collaboration with the central banks of France, Singapore and Switzerland. The test used hypothetical euro, Singapore dollar and Swiss franc wCBDCs, as well […]
Alex Mashinsky, former boss of the now-defunct crypto lending firm Celsius, is set to begin his criminal fraud trial on September 17, 2024. US District Judge John Koeltl confirmed the news during a hearing on Tuesday, adding that there will be three pretrial conferences in March, July, and September. Mashinsky is currently free on $40 […]
