Representatives for Circle and Coinbase blamed traditional financial institutions — ‘TradFi’ — for instability in the digital asset sector. “What happened over the last several days...
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Marathon Digital says it has access to funds held at Signature Bank
Marathon Digital said it has access to $142 million in cash deposits held by Signature Bank, which was closed by state regulators on Sunday. The company said in a statement it has access to the...
Binance converting $1 billion in BUSD to bitcoin, ether and BNB
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced on Twitter that the foremost crypto exchange would convert the approximately $1 billion remaining from its Industry Recovery Initiative funds to native crypto asse...
The Block: Circle USDC operations will resume when U.S. banks open Monday: CEO Allaire
Circle USDC reserves are “safe and secure” and liquidity operations will resume when U.S. banks open Monday, CEO Jeremy Allaire said on Twitter. “We were heartened to see the U...
USDC will remain redeemable 1 for 1 with U.S. dollar, Circle says
USDC issuer Circle said it will resume normal operations Monday and that USDC will remain redeemable one-for-one with the U.S. dollar after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed. Circle said that in th...
Weird crypto quirk sees user turn $1.45 into $2 million
Amid the madness of the last 24 hours, with the USDC stablecoin depegging and fears over how much this will impact the wider crypto market, there was a peculiar trade that stood out. In it, one ...
USDC and DAI remain at about $0.90 following Circle’s disclosure of funds at SVB
The fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank spread overnight to the USDC stablecoin, which lost its peg to the U.S. dollar and dropped as low as $0.88. Following Circle’s disclosu...
New York sues KuCoin, claims ether is an unregistered security
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued digital asset exchange KuCoin for violating New York laws governing the trading of securities and commodities, and named ether, among other tokens, as ...
Coinbase Ventures, Brevan Howard among early backers of compliant DEX Mauve
Violet, which offers compliance and identity infrastructure for decentralized finance, launched its compliance-focused decentralized exchange, Mauve. Coinbase Ventures and Brevan Howard joined t...
CFTC head says stablecoins are in agency’s jurisdiction without ‘clear direction from Congress’
The head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission views most stablecoins as commodities, barring new law that could change their classification. “Not withstanding that, they are a commo...
Maverick Protocol DEX launches with Lido integration to compete with Uniswap
A new contender is challenging Uniswap for decentralized exchange supremacy. Or so Maverick CTO Bob Baxley believes. Maverick Protocol, along with Lido, Liquity and Galxe, today deployed a dece...
Crypto prices flat, Silvergate declines ahead of Powell testimony
Crypto markets traded relatively flat as the market prepares for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s Congressional testimony on Tuesday and the release of U.S. jobs data on Friday. Bitco...
FTX sues Grayscale and DCG, citing ‘exorbitant’ fees
Collapsed crypto exchange FTX filed a lawsuit against Grayscale Investment, citing mismanagement of the firm as evidence that it was in violation of Trust agreements. The FTX debtors also filed ...
Ethereum L2 Scroll reaches $1.8 billion valuation in new funding round: Source
Published 30 minutes earlier on Scroll, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that uses zk-rollups technology, raised $50 million in a new funding round. Investors in the round included Polychain Capital,...
Kraken is on track to launch bank ‘very soon’ despite regulatory ‘weird place’
Kraken is moving ahead with plans to launch its own bank despite a challenging regulatory environment and the recent shuttering of its on-chain staking services for U.S. clients to settle U.S. Securit...
Gemini says third-party incidents resulted in phishing scam targeting European users
Gemini disclosed incidents attributed to a third party that resulted in a phishing campaign targeting users in the UK and Europe, according to a client email seen by The Block. Scammers have use...
Mt. Gox creditors may finally start seeing their bitcoins this month
Mt. Gox creditors may start seeing their first bitcoin payments this month as the window for repayments is set to open. Creditors are expected to receive early repayments from March 10 onward, w...
Conflux raises $10 million from DWF Labs in token round
Conflux, a Layer 1 blockchain developer, raised $10 million from DWF Labs. The investment will help Conflux expand its technology and grow its user base, DWF Labs said Wednesday. Conflux co-foun...
Binance bites back against Forbes report claiming transfer of $1.8 billion in client collateral
Binance denied using client assets without consent after a Forbes report said the crypto exchange moved “$1.8 billion of collateral meant to back its customers’ stablecoins.” Forbes ...
Inside the Sui ecosystem with Mysten Labs CEO Evan Cheng
Episode 15 of Season 5 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Mysten Labs Co-Founder and CEO Evan Cheng. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, ...
SpankChain founder teases Tornado Cash ‘sequel’
Ameen Soleimani, the co-founder of SpankChain and Reflex Labs, has teased a revival of sorts for the controversial Ethereum transaction mixer, Tornado Cash. Soleimani’s tweet indicated the...
Speculators push price of testnet ether on Goerli network to $1.60
The price of testnet ether on the Goerli testnet spiked to $1.60 on Feb. 25 as traders speculated on a token that’s supposed to be worthless. Last week, cross-chain platform LayerZero crea...
Markets trade down after Fed chair’s comments, Grayscale recovers amid hearing
Crypto markets whipsawed throughout the day after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s delivered testimony to Congress. Bitcoin was trading around $22,070 by 4:55 p.m. EST, down abou...