Blockchain Research Institute Report Calls for Crypto Regulation Clarity

news Problems with Amazon’s cloud service, AWS, are disrupting services at some cryptocurrency exchanges on Friday. The Binance exchange is seeing problems internationally, according to its CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, who tweeted: It’s causing some 500 error messages on APIs and affecting some withdrawal processing — CZ Binance (@cz_binance) August 23, 2019 The KuCoin cypto exchange…

The blockchain project EigenLayer didn't go live on Ethereum's mainnet until Tuesday, but it had already become one of the network's biggest-ever protocols, with $12 billion worth of user deposits – a hot ticket partly because of its highly touted innovation of "restaking," a new technology that could usher in dramatic changes in the way

news Japanese financial services giant SBI Group has invested $15 million in Swiss startup Tangem, maker of a slimline hardware wallet for cryptocurrencies. Tangem describes its crypto storage product as a “smart banknote for digital assets.” Designed to be used like a bank card, the product allows off-chain physical transactions to be used, for example,…

The developers behind a crypto project inspired by Netflix’s mega popular show “Squid Game” say they’ve left the project, as the price of its affiliated token crashed to nearly zero.The latest development shows just how risky it can be to invest in a new and hyped token in the crypto market.As CoinDesk reported last week,…

Magnus Resch has been called many things: an art collector, a storyteller and at least once, by CNN, “the world's leading art market economist." He’s run galleries, taught in the Ivy League and has tried to quantify the often opaque world of art collecting.In his new book, “How to Collect Art,” which will be published

NEWS Bitcoin cash’s ongoing war of words is set to reach a conclusion tomorrow. That’s when a planned technical update (and an ongoing disagreement over the proposed code changes) may lead two major bitcoin cash implementations – Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV – to split into separate blockchains. In the days prior to the activation, rising contention…

From SIM Swaps to Home-Invasion Threats, Ledger Leak Has Cascading ConsequencesAs soon as he learned he was among the thousands of Ledger customers whose personal information leaked online Sunday, JimboChewdip, as he’s known on Twitter, acted fast. Not fast enough.JCD, as we’ll call him, spent Monday morning changing his passwords, only to soon get a…

U.S. authorities have identified Russian national Dmitry Khoroshev as the mastermind behind the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, and are offering a $10 million reward for information that leads to his arrest.In a sprawling 26-count criminal indictment unsealed Tuesday morning, prosecutors allege that Khoroshev, 31, developed, promoted and oversaw the LockBit software, recruiting “affiliates” on cybercriminal

Multiple bridge contracts operated by Multichain saw major outflows of a litany of popular tokens Thursday. There was no immediate explanation for the outflows.The unannounced moves stripped Multichain’s Fantom bridge of nearly its entire holdings in wBTC, USDC, USDT and a handful of altcoins. Together, the assets were worth over $120 million. On-chain sleuths described…