Assessing the Q3 performance of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, CoinShares found that while the total value locked (TVL) of DeFi protocols increased by just 3% within the 3-month period, r...
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Green Groups Seek To Thwart Biden’s Renewable Energy Goals, To The Detriment Of State Coffers & Job Creation
President Joe Biden makes remarks during a press conference on the grounds of National Renewable … [+] Energy Laboratory in Arvada, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The De...
Bottom Formation in Play? Glassnode Looks at State of Bitcoin As Whales Accumulate Over $300,000,000 in BTC
Several metrics indicate Bitcoin (BTC) could be establishing a bear market floor, according to leading crypto analytics firm Glassnode. Glassnode notes in a new analysis that Bitcoin’s accumulation tr...
North Korean Missile Tests Were Simulated Nuclear Attack To ‘Wipe Out’ South Korea, State Media Says
Topline North Korea on Monday said its latest volley of missile tests were designed to simulate a nuclear strike on South Korea, according to state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), escalating te...
NYC Mayor Adams Declares State Of Emergency Amid Migrant Busing Crisis
Topline New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency Friday as the city—as well as several other Democrat-led cities including Washington D.C.—grapple with an influx of tens of thousan...
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Speaks on State of Binance Smart Chain After $564,000,000 Cross-Bridge Exploit
The CEO of the largest crypto exchange by trading volume is updating Binance Smart Chain (BSC) users on yesterday’s cross-bridge exploit. In a tweet accompanied by a more detailed Reddit post, Binance...
Three Reasons Biden’s Marijuana Policy Is Good For The Economy
Hundreds of pro-cannabis demonstrators march in New York City. Getty Images This week, President Biden announced plans to pardon thousands of people who have federal convictions for marijuana possessi...
EPA Rule Change Expected To Trigger Additional State Regulation, Exacerbate Inflation
Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters Building in Washington DC getty Eleven states have passed legislation banning PFAS chemicals in food packaging and other consumer products. In three of tho...
Calls mount for Louisiana state to buy Bitcoin following BlackRock divestment
Bitcoin advocates have called for the Louisiana State Treasury to buy BTC after its announcement to divest roughly $794 million held with BlackRock. It’s reported that Louisiana Treasurer John Schrode...
State Bans Have Forced Over 60 Clinics To Stop Performing Abortions—Affecting 22 Million Women, Analysis Finds
Topline State abortion bans enacted after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade have so far forced at least 66 clinics across 15 states to stop performing the procedure, according to new data from ...
Have We Bottomed? FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Weighs In on State of Crypto Markets As Prices Consolidate
The chief executive of digital asset derivatives exchange FTX is naming one catalyst that he thinks could have the biggest impact on the current state of the crypto markets. In a new interview on the ...
‘Live At Yankee Stadium’ Brings Billy Joel’s New York State Of Mind To Big Screen
Billy Joel’s Yankee Stadium concert, June 1990 photo courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment Billy Joel fans will have an opportunity to catch the Grammy-winning artist’s iconic 1990 Yankee Stadium...
Nexo co-founders address recent cease and desist orders from US state regulators
Nexo co-founders Antoni Trenchev and Kalin Metodiev hosted an AMA on Oct. 4 in which they addressed recent cease and desist orders issued by several U.S state regulators. Given the turmoil of the last...
State Street Says Crypto Trading Could Damage Its Reputation
Alex Dovbnya Second oldest American bank does not want to risk its reputation by venturing into cryptocurrency trading at this level Global banking giant State Street does not have any cryptocurrency ...
State of Scaling Issue 7: Reviewing Shard Chain Ecosystems
October 4, 2022, 11:02AM EDT • 5 min read Quick Take In this bi-weekly series, we look into some of the most interesting data and developments across the various sharded blockchains Near and Aurora re...
US State Delaware freezes compromised crypto accounts to protect victims of Pig Butchering scam
The pig butchering scam is not the usual romance scam. Victims are contacted randomly and lured into high-paying investments. Losses run in billions of USD; crypto one of the conduits of funds transfe...
Ukraine Egg King Faces $1 Billion Fraud Case in the Cowboy State
(Bloomberg) — Tucked below news of the Vienna zoo’s newborn orangutan, Austria’s top-selling newspaper carried a notice in June this year that would have been easy to miss. Most Read from Bloomb...
The State of NFTs: Key Trends During the Bear Market
The recent bear market has had telling effects on every crypto sector, and new data suggests that the NFT sector has also been affected. Dune Analytics data shows that the trading volume for NFTs is ...
US State Issues Order Freezing Crypto at Exchanges in Pig Butchering Scam Crackdown – Regulation Bitcoin News
The Delaware Department of Justice’s Investor Protection Unit has issued a cease and desist order against 23 entities and individuals involved in a popular cryptocurrency scam known as “pig butchering...
Celsius: Multiple state regulators move to stop stablecoin sale, details inside
Court filings made by the states of Texas and Vermont have become the latest developments in the Celsius bankruptcy saga. State regulators from both states have filed separate motions, objecting to t...
State Securities Regulators Object to Celsius’ Court Motion to Sell Stablecoins – Coinotizia
As Celsius’ bankruptcy proceedings continue, the court’s trustee William Harrington appointed an examiner on Thursday in order to review the company’s finances, according to a filing submitted on Sept...
State Securities Regulators Object to Celsius’ Court Motion to Sell Stablecoins – Bitcoin News
As Celsius’ bankruptcy proceedings continue, the court’s trustee William Harrington appointed an examiner on Thursday in order to review the company’s finances, according to a filing submitted on Sept...
Nexo ‘surprised’ by state regulators’ actions, says co-founder
Kalin Metodiev, the co-founder and managing partner of crypto lender Nexo, stated his firm was “surprised” by the way in which eight state regulators publicly took action against it for securities vio...
NBA Japan Games 2022 Tips Off With Golden State Warriors, Washington Wizards Practices And A Tokyo Hotel Reception
Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors speaks to the media at practice in Tokyo, Japan, September … [+] 29, 2022. Photo by Joel Rush The NBA has returned to Japan for its first time since 2019...
Celebrate Dallas Mavericks History At The ‘Mavs Vault’ During The State Fair Of Texas
The Larry O’Brien Trophy and the Dallas Mavericks 2011 NBA Championship banner on display at the … [+] Mavs Vault. Doyle Rader The State Fair of Texas has a new attraction this year. NBA f...
Crypto Loan Platform Nexo Responds to Enforcement Actions From Multiple State Regulators
Crypto lender Nexo has issued a statement regarding the enforcement actions it’s facing from eight different states pertaining to its Earn Interest Product (EIP). Earlier this week, state regulators i...
Golden State Warriors, Washington Wizards Meet In Japan, Continuing NBA’s International Push
Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (30) celebrates as Brooklyn Nets’ Patty Mills (8) walks away … [+] during the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021 in New...
Multiple State Financial Regulators Allege Crypto Loan Platform Nexo Violates Securities Laws
Cryptocurrency lender Nexo is facing regulatory actions in eight US states for allegedly offering an investment product that violates securities laws. State regulators in California, New York, Washing...
California files order against Nexo interest account, says it’s 8th state to take action
The California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation (DFPI) has filed a desist and refrain order against crypto lending platform Nexo as part of its ongoing investigation of companies of...
State & Federal Officials Increasingly Seek Policy Change Through Litigation Instead Of Legislation
President Joe Biden & North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Someone at the IRS criminally leaked confiden...