Israeli authorities have arrested three individuals suspected of defrauding the French state treasury. The undercover investigation was carried out jointly by the Israel police and the Israel Tax Auth...
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WeWork’s Adam Neumann secures millions in funding for his new company Flow
Adam Neumann is back. The billionaire businessman who founded office-sharing company WeWork Inc. WE, -4.70% is back with another company called Flow, a residential real estate company attempting to ad...
Sri Lankans Scammed out of Millions by Fake Crypto Schemes
Ponzi scammers are compounding the economic misery of Sri Lankans by swindling them out of their savings with bogus crypto schemes. Crypto investor Harshana Pathirana told Al Jazeera: “I invested 2.2 ...
DAO Raises Millions to Save Congo Forest – Trustnodes
A Decentralized Autonomous Organization, RedemptionDAO, has bid to become a key player in saving the Yasuní National Park, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, and the Virunga National Par...
Millions Of Young People Worldwide Remain Unemployed Because Of The Pandemic, UN Says
Topline The number of unemployed young people around the world is set to hit 73 million in 2022, a slight improvement from the year before, but still well above global youth unemployment rates before ...
Grain Is Starting To Ship From Ukrainian Ports But It Might Be Too Late For Starving Millions
For six months, ships filled with grain have been sitting idle in ports along the Black Sea, victims of Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine. Now some of those ships are moving, navigating the perils...
Iran makes the first-ever import of goods using cryptocurrency worth millions
This week, Iran registered its first official order for the importation of goods worth a total of $10 million paid for in cryptocurrency. Indeed, an official from Iran’s Ministry of Industry, Mine, an...
BBBY gains 140% in a month as short sellers lose millions in August
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) skyrocketed over 30% in premarket trading on Monday, August 8, extending the gains the shares made for the ninth consecutive day, gaining over 75% during that...
Lightning Network payment rail, DeFi trading platform and blockchain security firm raise millions
Even with the onset of crypto winter, 2022 has been a watershed year for venture capital funding. Crypto and blockchain companies collectively raised $30.3 billion in venture capital in the first half...
Solana and Nomad bridge fall prey to exploits losing millions
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. This past week, the D...
Solana Wallet Exploit Cleans Out Millions in Seconds
The Solana ecosystem is in the middle of a security emergency as over 7000 wallets were drained by and ongoing hack, and the figure seems to be rising. Cointelegraph reported on Tuesday that an ongoin...
Ongoing Solana-based wallet hack seeing millions drained
An ongoing, widespread hack has seen as much as $8 million in funds drained so far across a number of Solana-based hot wallets. At the time of writing, Solana (SOL) is currently trending on Twitter as...
CEO of now-bankrupt Voyager made millions offloading firm’s stock months before insolvency
New details have emerged regarding insider trading activity at cryptocurrency lending platform Voyager Digital months before the recent bankruptcy filings that resulted in users losing their investmen...
Hundreds of Millions of XRP Transactions Pop Again as Ripple Address Raises Stakes
Gamza Khanzadaev Enormous XRP transactions continue directly from Ripple address The new week continued with fresh multimillion-dollar XRP transfers around and near various on-demand liquidity (ODL) h...
Axie Infinity CEO Denies Rumors of Moving Millions of Dollars in AXS During Massive $600,000,000 Ronin Attack
The chief executive of blockchain gaming platform Axie Infinity is debunking reports that he moved millions of dollars in AXS as the protocol’s sidechain was hacked to the tune of $600 million. A rece...
Ripple Purchased Millions of XRP Under Buyback Program in Q2
Altcoin News The XRP buyback program is intended to be sold to On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) firms. The use of Ripple’s ODL solution has increased significantly in the last quarter. When Ripple released i...
Someone Won The $1.28 Billion Mega Millions Jackpot—Here’s How Much They’ll Take Home After Taxes
Topline A single winning ticket was sold in Illinois in the Mega Millions lottery drawing Friday to claim the $1.28 billion prize, the second-largest jackpot in the lottery’s history, Mega Millions sa...
Ripple Buyback Millions of XRP Off Secondary Market As ODL ‘Gains Global Momentum’
– Advertisement – As ODL adoption spikes, Ripple said it would continue to purchase XRP from secondary markets. Leading blockchain company Ripple disclosed in its recently-published Q2, 20...
What’s Your $1.28 Billion Mega Millions Lottery Ticket Worth?
You wish (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto) NurPhoto via Getty Images There’s a buying frenzy for the tickets to the July 29 lottery drawing. That’s making the jackpot bigger. It’s also m...
4 key considerations if you hit $1.28 billion Mega Millions jackpot
1. Breathe Instead of impulsively rushing to lottery headquarters to claim your prize, take a deep breath. You have some time to claim your prize — anywhere from three months to a year, depending on w...
How To Calculate Odds Of Winning $1.1 Billion And The Value Of A Mega Millions Ticket
Looks like each $2 ticket is worth $3.60. But it isn’t. Losers (Photo Illustration by Scott Olsons) Getty Images Likely jackpot for the July 29 Mega Millions drawing: $1.1 billion. Odds your ticket wi...
NFT Projects Lost $22 millions to the Same Hackers on Discord
Hackers are targeting Bored Ape Yacht Club and other NFT projects are part of a wider network Cyber attacks against NFT collections have steadily risen NFT community lost over $22 million in May Two...
Pelosi Unloads Millions In Nvidia Stock At A Loss Before Senate Passes Massive Tech Subsidies
Topline House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) revealed in regulatory filings Tuesday her husband Paul Pelosi sold millions worth of stock in chipmaker Nvidia at a loss a day before the Senate passed a...
Mega Millions jackpot is $790 million. If it’s won, here’s tax bill
Scott Olson | Getty Images If you manage to beat the odds and land the next Mega Millions jackpot, don’t forget that Uncle Sam will snatch a slice of the windfall. The top prize has surged to $7...
Bankman-Fried says his firms may deploy ‘hundreds of millions’ to backstop struggling crypto industry
In an interview with CNBC today, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said that he would be willing to spend “hundreds of millions beyond what we have thus far and in some cases more than that” to backstop firms...
FTX CEO Comes Forward To Help Voyager’s Customer; Also Ready To Deploy Millions For Ailling Crypto Firms
Looks like someone already knew crypto firms such as Celsius will go bankrupt. On June 28, in a conversation with Forbes author Steven Ehrlich, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried warned about incoming insolven...
FTX to Help Voyager Customers, CEO Says Firm Willing to Deploy ‘Hundreds of Millions’ to Help Crypto Industry – Bitcoin News
The founder and CEO of the leading exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried has offered to give early liquidity to Voyager Digital’s customers, according to an announcement FTX published on July 22. Furthermor...
XRP Worth Millions of Dollars Continue to Flow into Exchanges and Wallets, Now Directly from Ripple Address
Gamza Khanzadaev Suspicious activity around XRP continues, but this time Ripple wallet has been spotted Suspicious activity with XRP tokens, first spotted on Friday, July 15, continues to this day. As...
Goldman Sachs settles first security lending deal on blockchain worth ‘hundreds of millions’
Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) in collaboration with the distributed ledger-based tokenization platform HQLAx has announced the execution of the first agency securities lending tran...