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Top Bitcoin Mining Pool Freezes Withdrawals Due to Liquidity Issues
First were the lending platforms. Then the exchanges. Could mining pools be the next to go insolvent?That’s what has Bitcoiners concerned after Poolin – a Beijing-based Bitcoin mining pool that’s resp...
Poolin Mining Pool Freezes BTC and ETH Withdrawals, Cites Liquidity Issues
Is this the beginning of the end for Poolin? Or is the mining pool just powering through some minor problems? The Beijing-based company recently announced, “Poolin Wallet is currently facing some liqu...
Binance freezes the accounts of an arms manufacturer
The exchange Binance has decided to freeze the cryptocurrency wallet of a Russian user, specifically an arms manufacturer, Vladislav Lobaev. The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has, in fact, stated ...
Protocol upgrade accidentally freezes ETH on Compound for 7 days
Compound Finance, a borrowing and lending platform, executed a governance proposal updating its Chainlink price feeds that contained a code error. This code error is causing people lending and borrowi...
Compound Finance upgrade bug freezes $830M in crypto
Listen to this article. An upgrade to DeFi lending protocol Compound Finance has introduced a bug, “causing transactions for ETH suppliers and borrowers to revert” and leaving the platform’s ~$830 mil...
Compound discovers bug in new update, freezes cETH market
DeFi protocol Compound (COMP) discovered a bug in governance proposal 117 designed to upgrade its price feeds, forcing it to temporarily freeze the Compound ETH (cETH) market. An hour ago, Proposal 11...
FTX Freezes Privacy Platform ‘Aztec Networks’ Accounts
Exchange News Aztec claims it has made improvements to discourage money laundering. This caution follows the United States government’s contentious decision. On Friday, Aztec Network, an Ethereum-base...
FTX users complain about fund freezes after interacting with privacy protocol Aztec Network
FTX has allegedly warned users against interacting with high-risk services as complaints surfaced that the exchange is blocking accounts that interacted with zk money on the Aztec network. Chinese jou...
Vauld fights back after ED freezes its $46M assets
The Enforcement Directorate of India (ED) has launched a back-to-back investigation into several digital asset exchange platforms. Vauld, a Singaporean crypto exchange, recently came under the scrutin...
Crypto Exchange Binance Freezes $450,000 From Curve Finance Hack
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao took to Twitter today to announce that the crypto exchange had managed to freeze a hefty portion of stolen funds from Curve Finance. “Binance froze/recovered (sic) $450k of...
India Freezes Peter Thiel-Backed Vauld’s Crypto and Bank Assets Worth $46 Million – Regulation Bitcoin News
India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) has frozen crypto exchange Vauld’s crypto and bank assets worth about INR 370 crore ($46,439,181). Vauld halted deposits and withdrawals last month. The Indian law...
Binance Freezes $450K Stolen From Curve.Finance (CRV)
CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao “CZ” has shared on Twitter that $450k has been recovered from the funds stolen by hackers on exchange liquidity pool Curve Finance a few days ago. The decentralized fina...
India’s ED freezes $46 million of Vauld’s funds on money-laundering charges
Singapore-based Crypto Lender Vauld is facing money laundering charges in India after $46.5 million (3.70 billion Indian rupees) was frozen from its local entity, Flipvolt Technology. India’s Enforcem...
After Wazir X India Freezes Vauld Exchange Assets Worth $46.5M
– Advertisement – India’s government has frozen $46.5 million in Vauld exchange assets. Local media in India cited anonymous sources to report that on Thursday, the country’s Enforcement...
Crypto Exchange Hotbit Suspends Service After Law Enforcement Freezes Its Funds, Subpoenas Senior Managers – Exchanges Bitcoin News
Crypto exchange Hotbit has announced the suspension of trading, deposits, withdrawals, and funding on its platform. The exchange said law enforcement has frozen some of its funds and subpoenaed some s...
Hotbit Freezes Withdrawals Following Subpoena of Senior Managers
Hotbit – a Shanghai-based cryptocurrency exchange – has indefinitely frozen all trading, deposits, and withdrawals of its users’ crypto assets. Yet unlike other firms, Hotbit said that its suspension ...
Defi Attacker Siphons $570,000 From Curve Finance, Crypto Exchange Fixedfloat Freezes 112 Ethereum – Bitcoin News
Reports indicate that the decentralized finance (defi) protocol Curve was hacked for $570,000 in ethereum after people noticed that Curve’s front end was exploited. The attackers then tried to launder...
Circle freezes USDC funds in Tornado Cash’s US Treasury-sanctioned wallets
Centre, the consortium behind the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, has blacklisted wallet addresses controlled by Tornado Cash following the US Treasury sanctions against the crypto mixer. Ethereum blockch...
Circle Freezes All Blacklisted Tornado Cash A…
The USD coin (USDC) issuer, Circle, has frozen around 75,000 USDC worth of funds linked to 44 Tornado Cash addresses listed in the US Treasury Department’s sanctions against the protocol. The issue wa...
Circle freezes blacklisted Tornado Cash smart contract addresses
Crypto data aggregator Dune Analytics said that, on Monday, Circle, the issuer of the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, froze over 75,000 USDC worth of funds linked to the 44 Tornado Cash addresses sanction...
Singapore-based Hodlnaut freezes customer accounts, drops license application
Singapore-based crypto lending platform Hodlnaut announced a freeze on withdrawals citing declining market conditions. Holdnaut added that it has withdrawn its license application from the Monetary Au...
Crypto Lender Hodlnaut Freezes Withdrawals, Pulls Singapore Application
Law firm Damodara Ong is now working with Hodlnaut on a recovery plan The platform’s next update is scheduled on August 19 — two weeks from now Crypto lender Hodlnaut has frozen withdrawals, token swa...
India’s Financial Watchdog Freezes Binance-Owned WazirX’s Assets for ‘Lax KYC Norms’
India’s chief economic enforcement agency, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), announced Friday that they have frozen $8.14 million (64.67 Crore rupees) in assets from crypto exchange WazirX. The ED all...
Trouble Deepens for WazirX in India as ED Raids Director & Freezes Bank Accounts
On August 5, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) froze the bank account of one of the directors of Zanmai Lab Private Ltd, the operator of the Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX. It is reported that b...
India Freezes Crypto Exchange Wazirx’s Bank Assets — Binance Claims Acquisition of Wazirx Was ‘Never Completed’ – Exchanges Bitcoin News
A major Indian cryptocurrency exchange, Wazirx, has had its bank assets of more than $8 million frozen by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED). The exchange was supposedly acquired by Binance in 2019. ...
India freezes 64.67 crore ($8.1M) of WazirX’s funds for money laundering probe
India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) has ordered the freeze of a WazirX bank account with Rs 64.67 crore (roughly $8.1 million) in connection with a money laundering investigation, IndiaToday reported...
India reportedly freezes assets of crypto exchange WazirX
India has reportedly frozen the assets of cryptocurrency exchange platform WazirX, a Mumbai-based crypto firm Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao now says his compamy never completed an acquisition deal with, ...
Crypto Exchange Zipmex Freezes Customer Withdrawals
Key Takeaways Zipmex has frozen customer withdrawals citing volatility in the cryptocurrency market. The exchange announced the update in a tweet, confirming withdrawals would be paused “until f...
US Bankruptcy Judge Freezes Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital’s Assets – Regulation Bitcoin News
A federal judge in a New York bankruptcy court has frozen the assets of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC). “A key part of this motion is to put the world on notice that it is the liquidator...
Coinbase freezes it’s all hiring plans of this year
Coinbase, one amongst the most important and most well liked cryptocurrency exchanges within the western hemisphere, has declared that it’s halting all hiring plans over future many weeks till the cry...
Crypto lending platform Vauld freezes withdrawals and looks to restructure
The toll of crypto lenders who are feeling the pinch continues unabated. Coinbase-backed Vauld is the latest crypto lender to freeze withdrawals, as the crypto winter endures, bringing the industry to...