Euler Finance, a lending protocol in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, which has witnessed several losses of funds through network exploits, has fallen victim to the largest exploit so far in 20...
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UK Banks Blocking Crypto Access Given Fraud, Volatility, Lawmakers Told
“We’re very supportive of the regulation and the regulators looking at regulation of crypto, our focus will always be about customer outcomes in that context,” said Charlie Nunn, CEO of Lloyds B...
FBI Infiltrated Hive Network, Blocking Over $130 Million in Crypto Ransomware
The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday the results of a months-long operation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation that actively disrupted the activities of the Hive ransomware group, whic...
Ukraine’s Financial Watchdog Reports Blocking Russian Crypto Exchanges – Bitcoin News
The financial monitoring agency of Ukraine has restricted access to a number of online crypto exchangers operating out of Russia. Some of the coin trading platforms are working with sanctioned Russian...
Is Crypto Blocking The Advance of CBDC? This MP Thinks So
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The HM Treasury Economic Secretary Andrew Griffith has said that a consultative paper on a UK central bank digital currency (CBDC...
These 6 Holdouts Are Blocking McCarthy From Becoming Speaker
Topline Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made monumental progress Friday in his bid to become house speaker, winning back 15 Republicans who opposed him in earlier rounds, but a small group of hardliner...
Arizona County Blocking Election Certification Must Certify Votes By Thursday Night—As Conspiracy-Fueled Refusal Keeps House Race Hanging In The Balance
Topline An Arizona judge has ordered rural, Republican-leaning Cochise County to certify its election results by 5 p.m. Mountain time Thursday, saying a local board overstepped its authority when it r...
Investors Sue Nexo For Blocking $126 Million in Funds in March 2021
Nexo is being sued in London by a family of fintech entrepreneurs who allege that it froze their ability to withdraw up to £107 million ($126 million) of their assets and then intimidated them into se...
Crypto Giant Nexo Sued For Blocking $126M User Funds
According to a recent report, a group of investors is suing crypto lender Nexo in the London High Court on the grounds that the crypto firm prevented them from withdrawing over $126 million in cryptoc...
Santander’s UK Branch to ‘Protect Customers’ by Blocking Crypto Exchange Deposits
The latest bank to clamp down on crypto in the UK is Santander. Over the weekend, it was reported that the retail bank is planning to block real-time payments to crypto exchanges in 2023. The bank is ...
OpenSea Unveils Auto-Detect and Blocking of Stolen NFTs Feature
11 mins ago | 2 mins read NFT News OpenSea monitors for suspicious contract functionalities and behaviors. This tool will automatically check any user-entered links on the marketplace. Because of the ...
SEC Doubles Down on Bid Blocking Ripple From Obtaining Evidence in XRP Lawsuit
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is doubling down on its bid to block Ripple Labs from obtaining critical evidence in the lawsuit filed against the payments firm alleging they sold XR...
FDIC Accused of Blocking Crypto Companies’ Access to Banks
Whistleblowers in Senator Pat Toomey’s office have accused the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) of stifling banks in their efforts to expand on crypto work. Federal regulators may have tak...
TRM Labs ‘does not engage in any’ blocking of sanctioned addresses, only provides ‘risk data’
TRMIn the wake of dusting attacks following the Tornado Cash sanction, TRM Labs issued a statement clarifying how DeFi platforms leverage its data to block affected wallet addresses. DeFi protocol Aav...
USDT supply up almost $2B over 30 days, USDC supply falls after blocking Tornado Cash linked wallets
Tether’s CTO Paolo Ardoino has identified an increase in USDTs market supply over the last 30 days compared to its rival USDC, which declined over the same period. Why no one is talking about it? ? pi...
Aave Responds to Blocking Addresses Over Tornado Cash Clampdown
DeFi lending protocol Aave Protocol said the TRM API on its app was responsible for blocking addresses that received ETH from unknown sources through Tornado Cash. In a Twitter thread on Saturday, the...
Is DeFi In Trouble? Aave Blocking All Addresses Linked To Tornado Cash
The DeFi has faced a setback after the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash. Several Twitter users today revealed that DeFi lending g...
DeFi Exchange dYdX Blocking Addresses Associated With Tornado Cash
Decentralized crypto exchange dYdX announced it had begun blocking users that had interacted with the recently-sanctioned Tornado Cash. “Many accounts were blocked because a certain portion of the wal...
dYdX confirms blocking user accounts tied to Tornado Cash
Derivatives protocol dYdX confirmed on Thursday morning that it blocked user accounts that previously interacted with Tornado Cash, in line with new US sanctions. dYdX added in a blog post that it is ...
Florida Supreme Court Asked To Consider Blocking 15-Week Abortion Ban After Appeals Court Lets It Stay In Place
Topline Abortion rights advocates and providers asked the Florida Supreme Court to decide whether the state’s 15-week abortion ban should be blocked in court, after an appeals court allowed the ban to...
dYdX Confirms Blocking Accounts Linked to Tornado Cash
Just days after the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) barred American citizens from transacting with Tornado Cash, dYdX has revealed blocking accounts that had previously engaged with the coi...
ECB to discuss blocking banks from multibillion-euro windfall as rates rise
The European Central Bank is looking at ways to stop banks earning billions of euros of extra profit from the ultra-cheap lending scheme it launched during the pandemic once it starts to raise interes...
House Democrats push for repeal of rule blocking SALT cap workaround
Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference announcing the State and Local Taxes (SALT) Caucus outside the U.S. Capitol on April 15, 2021. Sarah Silbiger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Three ...
Regulator Doubles Down On Blocking Hinman Memos
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has come forward to file another reply to protect the controversial Hinman speech. This letter is a reply to Ripple Defendants’ opposition filed over ...
New York State Assembly Passes Bill Blocking New Cryto Mines That Use Non-Renewable Power
However, advocates of the bill noted that existing facilities would remain unaffected by the bill, as well as any facilities that tap renewable resources. The bill itself specifies that the New York D...
dYdX is not blocking users with Russian IP addresses
CORRECTION (12:10 PM ET): dYdX confirmed to the The Block that it isn’t taking any steps to block Russian users. DeFi trading app dYdX said it’s not geoblocking Russian users after Yearn ...
Decentralized Finance Crypto Exchange Uniswap Starts Blocking Addresses Linked To ‘Blocked Activities’ – Defi Bitcoin News
Uniswap, one of the main decentralized finance exchanges in the cryptocurrency world, is now taking measures to ensure illegal funds cannot be transacted using its platform. The company has already st...
Ukraine Blocking Bitcoin Buys in Local Currency
Share this article Citizens are now limited to buying up to UAH 100,000 worth of crypto using foreign currency per month. Ukraine Bans Hryvnia Crypto Buys Ukrainians can no longer use the Hryvnia to...
Tornado Cash Blocking Sanctioned Addresses Shows Privacy Is a Myth
The announcement from Tornado Cash that it has started to block addresses sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) likely indicates the direction that the cryptocurrency industry...
ETH Mixer Tornado Cash Reveals Blocking OFAC Sanctioned Ethereum Addresses via Chainalysis Oracle Contract – Coinotizia
According to the project’s official Twitter account, Tornado Cash, the ethereum mixing service that allows participants to shuffle ether, is blocking flagged ethereum addresses listed on the Office of...
NFT Creator Tells the Reason for Blocking Chinese Twitter Comments
Creator of Mimic Shhans, popular nascent non fungible tokens (NFT) collection, SHHAN showed up to his followers. In a tweet from December 11, SHHAN, the maker of the Mimic Shhans series of black cats ...