Former FTX executive Ryan Salame’s prison sentence reduced by 1 year

Japanese crypto exchange Bitpoint has suspended all services after losing $32 million in a hack involving XRP, Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies.In an official announcement on July 12, Bitpoint revealed that it had lost around 3.5 billion yen (~$32 million) — 2.5 billion yen (~$23 million) of which belonged to customers and 1 billion (~$9.2…

Parity CEO Jutta Steiner has said that the new controversial Create2 Ethereum (ETH) function would have prevented the Parity multisig freeze. Steiner spoke on the subject during an interview with Fortune published on March 5.As Cointelegraph reported in November 2017, a user “accidentally killed” the Parity multisig library by activating a vulnerability to become the…

Of the 450 million new USDT tokens, more than 185 million have been distributed with 126.9 million USDT going to Binance alone The Tether (USDT) Treasury has minted almost half a billion new USDT tokens and distributed more than 185 million tokens to exchanges and other addresses in the last 36 hours. As shown by blockchain…

Shinhan Bank plans to use Hedera’s infrastructure to bolster the efficiency of many of its internal processes. 2262 Total views 12 Total shares Shinhan Bank, South Korea’s largest financial institution by total assets, has joined the governance council overseeing the Hedera network.In an April 14 announcement, Shinhan announced it had become the latest member of…

The pandemic is not stopping Peru's lawmakers from testing ways of regulating the crypto industry. 1417 Total views 21 Total shares A Peruvian regulator authority said on October 26 that studies currently performed on local crypto exchanges will keep on going despite the COVID-19 pandemic, as the country is looking to find ways to regulate…

A platform has launched a leveraged bitcoin contract-for-difference (CFD) product, enabling traders to speculate on the cryptocurrency’s price movements against the Japanese yen and United States dollar.Liquid says demand for crypto derivatives is rising and believes these financial products have the potential to enhance awareness about the many hundreds of coins and tokens in the…

A new startup wants to change the way freelance talent and respective clients find each other through a community-run platform. To accomplish this, the project will feature its own governance token.The core premise of the platform, known as Braintrust, is to remove middlemen from the process of hiring highly skilled talent for contract and freelance…

Exodus CEO JP Richardson says the firm’s security team reviews all engineers’ code to prevent malicious actions.