Hamster Kombat creators: marketing geniuses or modern satirists?

Maksim Zaslavskiy, a computer programmer from Brooklyn and the first person in the United States to be convicted of running a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) has been sentenced to a year and a half behind bars.As Law360 reported on Nov. 18, the Brooklyn businessman received a prison sentence of 18 months for running two…

Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have seen their fair share of controversy, but now they have found their way into the midst of the battle between multi-billion dollar corporations and workers trying to unionize their workplaces in the United States.On his first day back as the CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz promised additional worker benefits to workers…

According to a letter penned by seven U.S. lawmakers, ERCOT was "intimately connected" with the growth of crypto mining in Texas. 147 Total views 28 Total shares

South Africa emerges as a leading digital asset hub, driving growth in crypto with proactive regulations and expanding platforms like VALR.

Dynamic fees will improve capital efficiency on the new DMM. 2545 Total views 22 Total shares Decentralized exchange Kyber has launched a Dynamic Market Maker, or DMM, in what it claims is a world first.The new platform, which was announced on April 5, has been designed to optimize fees and enable extremely high capital efficiency…

They’re following other central banks, including the European Central Bank, into studying virtual currencies. 2333 Total views 1 Total shares The Estonian central bank, Eesti Pank, announced the launch of a research program to study how to build a digital currency infrastructure.According to a statement, Eesti Pank partnered with technology companies SW7 Group and Guardtime…

Nobuaki Kobayashi, trustee of the now-defunct Bitcoin (BTC) exchange Mt. Gox, has announced he has concluded the processing of creditors’ rehabilitation claims and that they will be notified of the results within days. The announcement was published in an English translation on March 19.As previously reported, roughly 24,000 creditors are thought to have been affected…

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) are focusing on understanding and regulating distributed ledger technology (DLT) and its related components. The Canadian securities regulatory agency included a section on DLT and crypto assets in its Business Plan 2019–2022 that was published on July 13. The CSA’s business plan for 2018–2022 was approved on May 28, and represents…

The  blockchain trade finance solution of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) processed over 30 billion yen ($4.36 billion) in foreign exchange transactions, local finance news outlet SINA reports on July 8.Per the report, the platform is supported at 483 branches of 28 banks in Shenzhen and is currently operating normally. Still, due to an…