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21Shares submitted the spot Bitcoin ETF application with Ark Investment Management in June 2021 for listing on the Cboe BZX Exchange. 382 Total views 12 Total shares The United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, has officially disapproved the application for the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).In a Thursday filing, the SEC rejected…

While critics have been busy writing eulogies for Meta’s metaverse dream over the last few years, Mark Zuckerberg’s latest demonstration of its photorealistic avatars shows it could be pretty far from dead after all.Appearing on a Sept. 28 episode of the Lex Fridman podcast, Zuckerberg and the popular computer scientist engaged in a one-hour face-to-face

A local report from South Korea claims that the country's prosecutors have obtained evidence to suggest Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon had onceordered an employee to manipulate the price of Terra Luna Classic (LUNC).A report by Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) on Nov. 3 quotes an official from the South Korean Prosecutors Office, who said they…

Current, an online bank that allows app-controlled prepaid debit cards and personal checking accounts supervised by parents, has secured $20 million from a group of investors, including Galaxy Digital EOS VC Fund.Reaching $45M in fundraisingCurrent announced the news in an Oct. 24 blog post, detailing that it had raised $20 million in a Series B…

A group of major global banks, trading firms, and a leading energy company have launched a joint venture that will oversee a new blockchain-based platform for financing the trading of commodities, Reuters reports September 19.The Swiss-based venture, dubbed komgo SA, has been established by a host of international financing, trading, and production institutions that include…

The Hong Kong-based company will join the likes of Binance, Crypto.com, OKX and FTS, who’ve also opened offices in the UAE. 158 Total views 9 Total shares A Hong Kong-headquartered crypto investment platform, Q9 Capital, received provisional virtual asset approval from Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA). The company announced its expansion to the UAE…

Murakami to wind back from NFTsAcclaimed Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami says he may not release anymore nonfungible tokens moving forward, after first jumping into the market in late 2021. Murakami is a world-renowned artist that has a career spanning back to the late 1980s. He has released two NFTs collections to date, firstly with

After setting the record for having the largest initial coin offering in history, the EOS network suffered various setbacks, including fines and allegations of market manipulation. 262 Total views 3 Total shares Celebrating the 5th anniversary of the EOS Network, the team behind the protocol highlighted the importance of the community as it looked back…

Arbitrage bots are being widely used for manipulative profit-making strategies on decentralized exchanges (DExes), a study from researchers at Cornell Tech has claimed. The news was reported by Bloomberg on April 15.The paper documents and gauges the breadth and specific characteristics of bot-executed market manipulation, which the researchers argue has developed blockchain-specific elements that undermine…