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Vitalik: Metaverse ‘Is Going to Happen’ but Meta’s ‘Will Misfire’ The Ethereum creator said corporate attempts at the metaverse will fail because “it’s far too early to know what people actually want.”
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Aave DAO Approves Creating GHO Stablecoin The stablecoin will be backed by over-collateralized assets that continue to earn yield. #aave #dao #gho #stablecoin
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SEC Charges ‘Fraudsters’ in $300 Million ‘Crypto Pyramid and Ponzi Scheme’ The SEC accused Forsage of raising funds illicitly for over two years The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged 11 people for their roles in what the agency is calling a “fraudulent crypto pyramid and Ponzi scheme.” Forsage allegedly raised more than $300 million from retail investors in an illicit way, in countries across the globe including the United States, according to an SEC statement…
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Woman Behind Bitcoin Murder for Hire Plot Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison Jessica Sledge sought out a hitman on the darkweb to kill her husband, the DOJ says. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the sentencing of Jessica Leeann Sledge of Pelahatchie, Mississippi, to ten years in prison on Monday for allegedly attempting to hire an assassin through a darkweb website using Bitcoin. Sledge was sentenced to the statutory maximum of 120 months in prison for "using…
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Binance US Delists Cryptocurrency SEC Claimed Is a Security Crypto exchange Binance US is delisting one of the cryptocurrencies the SEC identified as a security "out of an abundance of caution." #binance #delist #cryptocurrency #SEC. #AMP
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Yani bu olsa olsa olsa ancak bizim ülkemizde olur türünden bir şey, TÜBİTAK'ta Sahte Diplomaları Araştırmakla Görevlendirilen Kişinin Diplomasının Sahte Olduğu Ortaya Çıktı ☺️ Şaka Değil Gerçek ☺️🤣
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Solana Unicorn Magic Eden Expands NFT Marketplace to Ethereum Recently valued at $1.6 billion, Magic Eden will begin its multi-chain expansion with Ethereum in the coming weeks. Magic Eden, the most popular NFT marketplace on Solana, will add support for Ethereum beginning this month. The startup, which was founded less than a year ago, was valued in June at $1.6 billion following its latest VC funding round. #solona # sol #nft #ethereum #magiceden
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Robinhood Crypto Slapped With $30M Fine by New York Regulators The company’s crypto unit violated state anti-money laundering and cybersecurity measures. The New York Department of Financial Services has fined Robinhood Crypto $30 million for multiple regulatory violations. The department concluded after an investigation that the company had failed to maintain proper cybersecurity measures or satisfy anti-money laundering obligations. Robinhood Crypto was found in violation…
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Ethereum Name Service Domain Registrations Hit All-Time High as Merge Approaches More than 1.8 million ENS Domain names have been registered, and adoption by non-English speaking communities are rising #ethereum #dns #ens #domain
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Polkadot Parachain Astar Turns to Alchemy's Crypto API in New Tie-Up Astar Network is now the first project within the Polkadot ecosystem to let developers build apps using Alchemy Supernode crypto API. #palkadot #dot #parachain #api #crypto
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İlginç paranız yoksa hasta olmayın, Oğlumun ateşi çıktı bir calpol bir dolven şurup bir paranox fitil 3 tane de enjektöre 147 lira verdim
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Tamam su lanet soruyu bir de ben sorayım, Bir boğa sepeti yapsanız hangi altcoinleri sepete eklersiniz #altcoin
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Starbucks Teases Web3 Updates to Its Popular Rewards Program The global coffee company looks to digital collectibles and to better engage customers. Web3 will play a part in the future of Starbucks' popular rewards program, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said. "We have been working on a very exciting new digital initiative that builds on our existing industry-leading digital platform in innovative new ways, all centered around coffee and—most importantly—loyalty," Schultz said…
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Instagram Adds Flow Blockchain NFTs, FLOW Token Pumps 44% Instagram’s NFT initiative now includes more than 100 countries, including collectibles from the Flow blockchain. In brief Instagram has added support for Flow-based NFTs as it expands its NFT initiative into more than 100 total countries. FLOW has surged in price as a result, up about 44% over the past 24 hours. Instagram is expanding its NFT initiative internationally to more than 100 countries, parent company Meta…
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#fenerbahce macinida bir kez daha net bir golcü ihtiyacını jeep birlikte yeniden gördük.#ner Valencia ya da Serdar Dursun ile olacak iş değil Hep bir de Arda Güler daha fazla şans bulmalı diye düşünüyorum
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Binance and Mastercard Launch Bitcoin Rewards Card in Argentina Argentina is the first country in the region to have the card Binance and Mastercard have launched a prepaid rewards card in Argentina to help people spend crypto on everyday goods in a country where the native currency suffers from one of the world’s highest levels of inflation. The card will let users buy things and pay bills with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to a Thursday announcement by…
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Near Protocol Discloses Wallet Breach That May Have Exposed Private Keys After this week’s Solana wallet hack saga, Near shares details of a potentially similar issue that it said was fixed back in June. Near Protocol disclosed this week that it discovered a wallet vulnerability in June that could have exposed users’ seed phrases. The issue was reportedly fixed in June, but only revealed to the public this week. #near #nearprotocol #wallet
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Who's Afraid of Gary Gensler? Coinbase Braces for a Fight Coinbase is in the SEC's crosshairs again. But unlike when it shuttered its Lend product almost one year ago, it can't back down this time.
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This Week in Coins: Companies Report Big Bitcoin Impairment Charges but Markets Mostly Shrug Elsewhere, the need to enact clearer crypto regulations bridges party divides in both the U.S. and in the U.K While long-term crypto holders are, broadly speaking, likely to be slightly down on their investments since last weekend, the reality is that markets barely moved the last seven days. As of this writing, leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin had lost about 5% over the week to land…
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Beanstalk Celebrates Anniversary With ‘Safe Replant and Unpause’ Months After $182M Exploit The credit-based stablecoin was deployed to the Ethereum mainnet exactly one year ago today.
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Core Scientific Sold More Bitcoin Than It Mined for Second Consecutive Month The firm has 1,205 Bitcoin left on hand, down from 1,959 coins in late June. #bitcoin #miners
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Dogecoin Has More Potential Applications Than Cardano: Mark Cuban The billionaire investor shared his view on Cardano's lack of adoption, market caps, and Dogecoin on a recent podcast. Mark Cuban, billionaire entrepreneur and star of ABC's “Shark Tank,” joined the Altcoin Daily Podcast for a wide-ranging, hour-long conversation about crypto. Cuban mused on the differences between decentralized application platform Cardano and Dogecoin, and which has the most potential.…
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#fenerbahce parantezi açalım hafta başı itibariyle.cogunuzun bildiği üzere yaş nerdeyse 50.Bu elli yılın 35 yılını dolu dolu Fenerbahçe taraftarlığı ile tüketmiş biri olarak şunu söyleyebilirim, takımın maglupsa o hafta çok kötü geçiyor bir sonraki maça kadar Bende ki durum malesef bu.Berabere kalmış olması ya da bu futbolla galip gelmiş olması benim açımdan maglubiyete eş değer. Ümraniye takımını tebrik ediyorum #fenerbahce #fb
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Binance Shutters ‘Off-Chain Fund Transfer’ Path to WazirX Exchange Amid an investigation into WazirX, Binance and its CEO have continued to distance the firm from the India-based crypto exchange The industry’s largest crypto exchange Binance published a blog announcement on Monday stating that it would be “removing the off-chain fund transfer channel between WazirX and Binance.” Binance said that from August 11, it will terminate support for the function with WazirX…
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Magic Eden Wants to Build an ApeCoin NFT Marketplace Just for Bored Apes—Here’s Why As the top Solana NFT marketplace pushes into Ethereum, it wants to build a trading platform for Bored Apes—with benefits for holders. Leading Solana NFT marketplace Magic Eden only announced its entry into the Ethereum market one week ago and already it’s gunning to serve the best-known community in the space. Magic Eden today unveiled a proposal to build a Bored Ape Yacht Club marketplace…
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Sağlık çalışanlarına emekçilerine yönelik şiddet eylemlerine toplum olarak malesef alıştık.Artik bizler açısından son derece sıradan olağan bir şeye dönüştü. En son Elazığ da bir doktora yönelik saldiri yurdum insanının halı purmelalini tüm çıplaklığı ile gözler önüne serdi. Neymiş efendim kafasında olduğunu düşündüğü çip i çıkartmasını, cikartmazsa belinde bulunan silahla ağzını kurşunla dolduracagini söylemesi akıl almaz bir şey Her anlamda akıl sır ermez bir vaka.Olmaywn…
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Bitcoin and Ethereum Rise Following Flat Inflation Reading The recent CPI report suggests that inflation in the U.S. may have peaked after rising at its fastest pace in four decades. Costs for consumers held flat according to the Consumer Price Index report (CPI) released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics on Wednesday, indicating inflation is at 8.5%. Analysts predicted previously that the index, which tracks price movements across a broad range of goods and…
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Ethereum Up 14% as Goerli Testnet Merge Goes Live Ethereum has just completed the network’s final dress rehearsal before the Merge event slated for September. Ethereum is entering the final stages of preparations for the much-anticipated Merge event after Goerli, the network’s third and final testnet, successfully switched over to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus algorithm on Wednesday evening. ETH was up 14% in 24 hours at the time of writing, buoyed by anticipation of the…
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Celsius Creditors Move to Block Company From Selling Mined Bitcoin Celsius creditors have also filed a statement calling CEO Alex Mashinsky's assurances to customers "empty and false promises." Celsius Network’s unsecured creditors have been pressing the company on “potential misconduct by Celsius and its insiders.” During a hearing in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding today, the committee moved to block Celsius’s attempts to sell some of its mined cryptocurrency.…
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Ethereum Classic Hits 4-Month High as Merge Approaches The upswing in ETC’s price coincides with the upswing of ETH. With anticipation building for the Ethereum merge next month, the price of Ethereum Classic (ETC) hit a four-month high of $42.29 per coin today, an increase of 15 percent in 24 hours, before settling slightly lower for the day, according to CoinMarketCap. Ethereum Classic is a hard fork of the Ethereum blockchain co-founded by Vitalik Buterin and Gavin Wood.…
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Tornado DAO Grapples With Arrests as Discord, Governance Forum Go Dark Before the governance forum was taken down, the community approved a proposal to switch to a 4 of 6 multisignature on its $22 million treasury. The Discord server and Tornado DAO governance forum linked to the recently sanctioned crypto mixing service Tornado Cash appear to have been disabled. Tornado Cash is an Ethereum-centric mixing tool which was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign…
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Bitcoin’s Privacy Problem—And What Cypherpunks Are Doing to Solve It Bitcoin transactions are easily traced. Here’s what’s going on behind the scenes to change that. As the U.S. government ramps up its crypto regulatory efforts, it is targeting privacy-protecting projects like never before. The crypto community is worried—especially the cypherpunks—and users are currently grappling with the implications of the Tornado Cash ban and how it may be enforced in practice. But…
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SHIB Spikes 30% On Sunday, Dogecoin Climbs With $3.41 billion in trading volume over the last 24 hours, SHIB hit highs not seen since May. Crypto's top "meme coins" didn't take the weekend off, with both Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Dogecoin (DOGE) seeing notable gains on Sunday. Shiba Inu jumped more than 30 percent by midday, according to CoinMarketCap, rising from $0.00001516 in the early morning to as high as $0.00001774. Trading volume over the previous 24 hours is $3.41…
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Brother Bing’s Guide to Surviving the Crypto Bear Market Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as “productive capitulation.” Here's how to get realistic and efficient about bearing this bear market. Brother Bing had planned to write a self-help-ish piece on surviving the crypto bear market when ETH sank to 3 digits. But writing takes a long time, especially when you are having fun at your day job. And now that I've finally pieced together my thoughts, ETH is riding the Merge…
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Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Posts $142M Loss in Q2 as Rising Energy Prices Bite The company acquired 9,000 new mining rigs and increased its hash rate, but lagging Bitcoin prices still hurt its bottom line. Publicly traded Bitcoin mining company Bitfarms saw a $142 million net loss in the second quarter, the company reported today. During the quarter, Quebec-based Bitfarms sold 3,357 Bitcoin for $69.3 million, in part to pay down the outstanding balance on a loan from Mike…
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Brazilian Brokerage XP Launches Bitcoin, Ethereum Trading XP’s new XTAGE platform will allow 3.5 million customers to buy, sell, and trade Bitcoin and Ethereum via a tie-up with Nasdaq. On Monday, one of Brazil’s largest brokerages XP launched its crypto trading branch XTAGE via a new partnership with Nasdaq. The launch of XTAGE opens up new investment avenues to over 3.5 million customers, allowing customers to buy, sell, hold, and trade Bitcoin and Ethereum, according to…
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Acala Stablecoin Edges Back to Dollar Peg After Burning 1.29B aUSD After a smart contract exploit that plummeted the token’s value, a new governance vote looks to bring aUSD back to its peg. Polkadot-based DeFi platform Acala’s native stablecoin aUSD is edging back to its dollar peg following the community’s vote to destroy 1.29 billion aUSD. These tokens were minted following an exploit of a “misconfiguration” in one of Acala’s liquidity pools. Once attackers exploited the…
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Another Crypto Exchange Signals Support for Miner-Led Ethereum Hard Fork Singapore-based Bitrue joins a growing list of exchanges that will list ETHW and associated tokens and contracts. As Ethereum’s much-anticipated move to proof of stake finally approaches, crypto exchanges are weighing whether or not to support a growing effort to resist the transition. Today, another exchange has decided the move may be worth it. #ethereum #eth #pos #hardfork
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SEC Sues Dragonchain for $16.5 Million Dragon Token ICO The agency alleges Dragonchain's founder raised millions in unregistered crypto asset securities offerings in 2017. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has further broadened its crusade against the cryptocurrency industry, announcing charges against John Joseph Roets, chief architect of Dragonchain, for allegedly raising $16.5 million in unregistered "crypto asset” securities offerings. The Tuesday filing…
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What Is Dogechain? The So-Called Dogecoin 'Layer-2' for DeFi, NFTs and Games Dogechain lets users bridge over Dogecoin (DOGE) to tap into DeFi services, along with potential future NFT marketplaces and apps. Dogechain is a newly-launched blockchain platform that lets users bridge over Dogecoin (DOGE) and use it for DeFi, NFTs, and more. It’s not a traditional layer-2 scaling solution for Dogecoin, as billed, nor are Dogecoin’s developers or creators involved in the project.…
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Crypto.com Earns Regulatory Approval to Operate in the UK Crypto.com’s approval allows the exchange to offer services to UK customers in compliance with local laws and regulations. Crypto.com today announced regulatory approval from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to act as a crypto business. According to the FCA filing, the exchange is registered under FORIS DAX UK LIMITED. With this approval in hand, the firm also meets local anti-money laundering (AML)…
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Coinbase CEO: We'd Shut Down Ethereum Staking If Threatened by Regulators Asked if he would choose to censor transactions or get out of the ETH staking business, Brian Armstrong said he'd choose the latter. sanctioning coin mixer Tornado Cash earlier this month, and the long-awaited Ethereum merge quickly approaching, blockchain technologists are increasingly concerned that government regulations could impact the fundamental operation of Ethereum and its post-merge…
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Ethereum Fork ETHW Plummets 62% Just Weeks Before Merge The miner-led Ethereum fork ETHW appears to already be losing its appeal among traders—before it's even really launched. Earlier this month, a group of crypto miners launched a campaign to resist Ethereum’s impending merge—an event that will end the practice of ETH mining—by forking the Ethereum network and creating an alternate, still-minable form of ETH in the process. The new token proposed by these miners, ETHW, at…
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Gnosis Safe To Airdrop 50 Million Ethereum Tokens to Wallets At least 400 SAFE tokens will be sent to 21,935 of 45,000 eligible addresses To ensure the successful launch of its DAO (decentralized autonomous organization), Gnosis Safe announced plans Thursday to airdrop 50 million SAFE tokens to thousands of Safe wallets. Gnosis Safe uses smart contracts to support its multi-signature wallet. A multi-signature or multisig wallet requires more than one person’s signature to…
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ApeCoin, STEPN Drop 15% as Gaming, Metaverse Tokens Plunge Amid wider crypto market turmoil, major gaming and metaverse tokens are bleeding harder than most. Several gaming and metaverse tokens have posted double-digit declines today. ApeCoin (APE) and STEPN (GMT) have seen sizable losses today, each falling at least 15% It’s a bright red day across much of the crypto market as Bitcoin and Ethereum losses have sent shockwaves throughout the ecosystem. And it’s gaming and…
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Crypto Winter Freezes Have Turned Investors Onto Hardware Wallets Ledger says sales blew up 4.5x in the wake of the Celsius bankruptcy. Trezor and SafePal have also reported hefty sales figures. There has been no shortage of crypto casualties this summer. On August 8, Singapore’s Hodlnaut joined fellow lenders Vauld and Celsius and Singaporean exchange Zipmex in suspending user crypto withdrawals because of “recent market conditions.” The measure was ostensibly taken to…
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This Week in Coins: Bitcoin and Ethereum Drop By Double Digits Despite good news here and there, the crypto industry took a massive hit this week, with most of the major cryptocurrencies slumping. It was a very red week for crypto, with most leading cryptocurrencies depreciating over the seven days as heavyweights like Bitcoin and Ethereum posted double-digit percentage losses by the weekend. Bitcoin is currently down 13% and sells for $21,309, according to data from…
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SHIB Up 4.5%, Defying Wider Crypto Market Slump The dog-themed meme coin has been on a tear over the last week, even as the wider crypto market crashed amid a wave of liquidations. While the broader crypto market remains in the doldrums following this week's sell-off, some cryptocurrencies are defying the bearish trend. Among them is meme coin Shiba Inu (SHIB), which is up by around 4.5% on the day and over 7% on the week, and is currently trading at $0.0000135, per…
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CryptoPunk Ethereum NFTs Floor Price Flips Bored Apes for First Time in 5 Months The Bored Apes have been sitting pretty all year, but the CryptoPunks may be seeing a second wind. For a brief, shining moment Sunday morning, the CryptoPunks flipped the Bored Ape Yacht Club, the floor price of the veteran NFT collection topping that of the celebrity-coveted primates for the first time since March, according to NFT Price Floor. As with the last short-lived flip, the Bored Apes…
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Mark Cuban Slams SEC Chair Gensler's Stance on Crypto Billionaire investor Mark Cuban took aim at SEC chair Gary Gensler, urging him to publish 'bright line guidelines' for crypto firms to follow. Billionaire investor Mark Cuban has lambasted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler for the agency’s unclear regulations, claiming they make it “near impossible” for crypto investors and businesspeople to get clarity from the regulator. Cuban was…
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Coinbase CEO Says Exchange Is Cutting Costs, Focusing on Subscriptions Brian Armstrong wants Coinbase to shed its “U.S. lens” and be “the most regulated” in crypto. Badly battered by the crypto bear market, Coinbase is cutting costs and shifting its revenue model, says CEO Brian Armstrong. In Q2 of this year, Coinbase saw a 60% drop in revenue and reported a $1.1 billion net loss. In an interview with CNBC published Tuesday, Armstrong reflected on the crypto exchange’s…
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Coinbase Announces cbETH Wrapped Ethereum Staking Token Undeterred by an SEC probe, the exchange launches a new utility token before the merge. As the crypto world prepares for the Ethereum merge next month, popular crypto exchange Coinbase announced on Wednesday the launch of cbETH, its new wrapped and staked Ethereum ERC-20 token. #coinbase #eth #stake #cbeth
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FTX CEO Calls Alameda VC Merger Report a 'Big Misrepresentation' Sam Bankman Fried asserts that FTX and Alameda's venture investing divisions remain separate. Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman Fried is disputing reports that two of his companies — FTX and Alameda Research — are merging their venture capital investing operations. The news, reported by Bloomberg, came a day after Alameda co-CEO Sam Trabucco stepped down from his role, leaving Caroline Ellison as the sole CEO. The…
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Solana Now Has a Beer—With DeGods, Okay Bears and Other NFTs on the Can A product of barrelDAO, Solana Summer Shandy beer features NFT avatars from the biggest projects on SOL. Solana Summer Shandy is a new beer from barrelDAO, a community-governed brewery. The cans feature imagery from numerous Solana NFT projects, and the packs are sold through redeemable NFTs. There’s a Solana smartphone, and a Solana IRL store—and now a Solana beer. Solana Summer Shandy just dropped…
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Bitcoin, Ethereum Drop as Traditional Markets Skid into New Week Several cryptocurrencies fall 3% on Sunday, revisiting lows not seen in more than a month. Several key cryptocurrencies fell dramatically Sunday evening as traditional markets dropped heading into a new trading week. Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), XRP, Cardano (ADA), Solana, and meme coin Dogecoin (DOGE) all saw values fall sharply within a two-hour window as the sun set on the U.S. East Coast, many logging…
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Founder of Turkish Crypto Exchange Thodex Arrested in Albania Turkish authorities said that Faruk Fatih Özer was arrested today, with previous reports seeking jail time for the Thodex founder of up to 40,564 years. The wanted CEO of crypto exchange Thodex has been caught in Albania, the Turkish Ministry of the Interior said in a statement. Faruk Fatih Özer was the subject of an Interpol red notice, a worldwide request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally…