SBF denies stealing FTX assets, SEC charges Gemini and Genesis, and more: Hodler’s Digest: Jan. 8-14
Top Stories This Week Sam Bankman-Fried: ‘I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away.’ In a “pre-mortem...
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WonderFi Merges With Coinsquare to Create the Largest Crypto Exchange in Canada (Report)
WonderFi Technologies – a tech company that provides access to decentralized finance (DeFi) – has reportedly been mulling a merger...
Liquid Staking Platforms Surging Ahead of Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade
Crypto’s newest narrative is liquid staking, as platforms and tokens have been taking off recently. Ethereum will go through the...
5 Bullish and 2 Bearish Cases for DeFi Going Into 2023 (Opinion)
The DeFi world, along with the rest of the cryptoverse, is still in the grip of fear and dread. 2022’s...
Woo Network (WOO) Surges 20% as Project Announces Major Coin Burn
Woo Network is a DeFi liquidity provider for institutional platforms and has attracted equity investments from backers like Binance. Revamped...
CFTC Charges Mango Markets Exploiter With Market Manipulation
The Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged Mango Markets exploiter Avraham Eisenberg with violating federal commodities laws during...
OpenAI will lead to better art and narration in Web3 games — Immutable exec
The creation of smart contracts and Web3 interfaces has led to an entirely new play-to-earn or nonfungible token (NFT) genre...
SBF pleads not guilty, layoffs, and bank run on Silvergate: Hodler’s Digest, Jan. 1-7
Top Stories This Week Sam Bankman-Fried enters not guilty plea for all counts in federal court Former FTX CEO Sam...
$3.9 billion lost in the cryptocurrency market in 2022: Report
Immunefi, a bug bounty and security services platform for the Web3 ecosystem, published a report on Jan. 6 revealing that...
Magic Eden to Reimburse Users Tricked into Buying Counterfeit NFTs
Magic Eden revealed that it will refund all the users who mistakenly bought unverified NFTs that showed up on the...
Magic Eden Blames Unsavory Pics on Third-Party Breach
Solana’s largest non-fungible token marketplace Magic Eden recently found itself in a bizarre situation after the platform displayed pornographic images...
$1.5B Stolen in Top 5 Crypto Heists of 2022: Forbes
Cryptocurrency firms struggled greatly in 2022, with multiple companies facing financial issues and bankruptcy. In addition to these challenges, over...
DeFi Protocol Lido Reaches $5.9B in TVL Dethroning MakerDAO
Leading decentralized lending protocol MakerDAO has lost its dominance in the DeFi market as liquid staking protocol Lido Finance claimed...
Here’s How Crypto Traders are Converting Worthless NFTs into Tax Breaks
Crypto traders are converting worthless NFTs into tax breaks. They’re using a service started just for that purpose. Others are...
2023 will see the death of play-to-earn gaming
Play-to-earn gaming enabled by blockchain technology has grown exponentially over the few years. Gamers have embraced the opportunity to collect cryptocurrencies...
Mango Markets $110M Exploiter Arrested, Faces Charges in New York
Cryptocurrency investor Avraham Eisenberg has been arrested in Puerto Rico on charges of commodities fraud and manipulation for allegedly stealing...
The FTX Contagion Goes on: Midas Investments Closes Down
The cryptocurrency platform Midas Investments disabled deposits and swaps due to severe financial losses caused by Celsius’ bankruptcy and FTX’s...
Manchester United Accused of Copying NFT Artist For Its Own Collection
On December 28, NFT artist Lucréce reported via Twitter that he is in talks with Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos,...
Defrost Finance Recovers Stolen Funds, Will Repay Customers
Decentralized finance protocol Defrost Finance has recovered funds from the hacker involved in the V1 flash loan exploit. In the...
Defrost Finance Drained for $12M
DeFi criminals have been observed to cash in on the ‘spirit of giving.’ Decentralized finance protocol Defrost Finance became the...
1inch Network Introduces Fusion Update for DeFi Swaps
The popular DEX aggregator announced the launch of Fusion, which focuses on the 1inch Swap Engine and aims to enhance...
Nearly 60% of NFT Trading Volumes in 2022 Was Wash Trading: Report
A recent report published by blockchain analytics firm Dune revealed that nearly 60% of non-fungible token (NFT) trading volumes this...
