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January 31, 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried Allegedly Planned to Restart FTX Abroad

FTX Co-founder Gary Wang said Sam Bankman-Fried wanted to transfer funds and restart FTX abroad. That’s according to a filing made Monday (Jan. 30) by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ),...


January 30, 2023
Bad News for Fraudsters as US Boosts Crypto-Crime Toolkit

The U.S. Treasury Department is flexing its cryptocurrency enforcement muscles as industry attention grows. The turbulent crypto sector has historically suffered from the perception that its anonymous and decentralized technical...


January 18, 2023
Crypto Industry Continues Balancing Contagion With Cleanup Post-FTX

Crypto continues battling through a historic shock to its system, while industry lessons accumulate. In just the past two weeks alone, bitcoin (BTC) has risen 30% on the year hitting...


November 23, 2022
Partnerships Take the Guesswork out of Merchants’ Crypto Acceptance

With FTX dominating digital currency headlines and bitcoin and stablecoin prices gyrating, Daniel Escobar, chief technology officer of crypto tax service provider ZenLedger, said it’s important to look beyond the...


November 09, 2022
User Experience Must Improve for Crypto to Gain Cross-Border Payments...

Whether you’re talking about remittances sent home by migrant workers or other larger sums moving from one country to another, cross-border payments are the part of finance that crypto companies...


November 07, 2022
Feds Seize Record $3.3B in Crypto in Silk Road Fraud...

Federal authorities say they have seized a “historic” $3.36 billion in bitcoin stolen by a convicted fraudster from the Silk Road dark web marketplace. According to a Monday (Nov. 7)...


October 31, 2022
Chainalysis Sees Growing Push for Crypto Regulation Amid Record Hacks

Crypto, which was born during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, is about to see how it handles the next one. That is something Michael Gronager, CEO of blockchain data firm Chainalysis,...


October 12, 2022
Today in Crypto: Fraudster Takes $100M in Solana Heist; Fed’s...

A European Central Bank (ECB) study found that retail central bank digital currencies (rCBDCs), which would be used for everyday retail transactions, will see difficulties in terms of being accepted,...


October 07, 2022
What Are Cross-Chain Transactions and Why Are They Being Hacked?

With the cross-chain payments bridge of top global exchange Binance’s BNB Chain blockchain the victim of a $570 million cryptocurrency hack — the latest in a series of mega-thefts that...