The US DOJ charges Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with filing false tax returns and more to evade paying nearly $50M
The Justice Department announced on Tuesday it has charged Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with mail fraud and filing false tax returns.
The US DOJ charges Tornado Cash co-founders Roman Storm, of Washington, and Roman Semenov, a Russian national, with money laundering and sanctions violations
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Flashbots, whose service proposes blocks for validators running the Ethereum blockchain, raised a $60M Series B led by Paradigm at a $1B valuation
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Crypto bridging protocol Multichain ceases operations after confirming Chinese police detained its CEO, Zhaojun, and his sister, who held ~$220M of user assets
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Google plans to add E2EE to Google Authenticator “down the line”, after researchers warned that its new feature to sync 2FA codes is not E2E encrypted
On Monday, Google Authenticator launched the ability to sync 2FA codes to your Google Account.
The US Treasury warns that DeFi services that aren't compliant with AML and terrorist financing rules pose “the most significant current illicit finance risk”
US Treasury Damilola Lawrence / Cryptopolitan : U.S Treasury report reveals how North Korea and criminals use DeFi services to facilitate money laundering Florence Muchai / Cryptop...
The US Treasury warns that DeFi services not compliant with AML and terrorist financing rules pose “the most significant current illicit finance risk”
The department's first analysis of illicit finance risks associated with DeFi recommends the U.S. look at enhancements to its existing anti-money laundering regime.
After a revolt, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up its controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation
Nothing here is intended to minimize that there was very clearly a shortfalling in communication. Danny Nelson / CoinDesk : Arbitrum's First Governance Proposal Turns Messy, With $...
After a revolt, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up its controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation
Nothing here is intended to minimize that there was very clearly a shortfalling in communication. Danny Nelson / CoinDesk : Arbitrum's First Governance Proposal Turns Messy, With $...
After an uproar, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up a controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation
Arbitrum will hold a standalone vote on its 750 million token allocation. — Join the most important conversation in crypto …
After an uproar, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up a controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation
Arbitrum will hold a standalone vote on its 750 million token allocation. — Join the most important conversation in crypto …
After Oasis complied with a UK high court order and upgraded a DeFi contract, Jump recovers ~120,000 ether, worth $140M, stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit
There have recently been two high-profile cases … CoinDesk : Oasis Exploits Its Own Wallet Software to Seize Crypto Stolen in Wormhole Hack Born Bored/CK News and Updates News Lett...
The recovery of ~120K stolen ether by Jump and Oasis demonstrates the centralization of DeFi enabled by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts
Wormhole, Jump Crypto, and Oasis demonstrate the centralization threat introduced by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts.
Jump Crypto recovers ~120,000 ether, worth $140M, stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit after Oasis upgraded a DeFi contract following a UK high court order
The Chicago trading firm appears to have recovered the 120,000 ether stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit.
Uniswap token holders vote to deploy to Binance's BNB blockchain using the Wormhole bridge, with 66% in favor, a move a16z voted to oppose with its 15M UNI
their first vote was to deploy on Polygon. No surprise: Variant is an investor in Polygon, Aztec Network, Scroll, and Aptos. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
a16z used all 15M of its UNI tokens to vote against a proposal to deploy Uniswap V3 on the BNB Chain using the Wormhole bridge; voting concludes on February 10
- A16z used all 15 million of their UNI to vote against the proposal. The proposal would use the Wormhole bridge for the Uniswap V3 deployment.
a16z used all 15M of its UNI tokens to vote against a proposal to deploy Uniswap V3 on the BNB Chain using the Wormhole bridge; voting concludes on February 10
- A16z used all 15 million of their UNI to vote against the proposal. The proposal would use the Wormhole bridge for the Uniswap V3 deployment.
Crypto lender Genesis Global files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York, listing the estimated range for both assets and liabilities as between $1B and $10B
the parent company of Genesis - continue to refuse to offer creditors a fair deal. Fred Walton / @fredwalton216 : 1) Crypto thread on January 19. DCG allegedly has received offers ...
Crypto lender Genesis Global Capital files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York, listing the estimated range for both assets and liabilities between $1B-$10B
Cryptocurrency lender Genesis Global Capital filed for bankruptcy, the latest firm to collapse in the aftermath of FTX's swift downfall.
ConsenSys says it collects user data related to its on-chain wallet service MetaMask, following a similar announcement by decentralized exchange Uniswap
This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how ConsenSys Software Inc. … Tim Copeland / The Block : DEX aggregator 1inch to protect MetaMask users from frontrunning Ken Macon / Recla...