Nigeria puts faith in new crypto-friendly regulator

The World Bank has become the latest source of criticism over blockchain technology, this time urging caution over its role in land rights, Reuters reported on March 27.Speaking at the ongoing 20th Annual Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington, D.C. this week, Aanchal Anand, a Land Administration Specialist in the bank’s Global Land and…

Ahead of the imminent Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard fork, mining giant Bitmain has rushed to deploy around 90,000 Antminer S9 machines to the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, Chinese blockchain news source DeepChain reports Nov. 8.As reported, the BCH network will hard fork on Nov. 15, and Bitmain is reported to be strategizing its role…

The Kyber Network is set to float a $30 million liquidity mining program on both Ethereum and Polygon pools. 2484 Total views 6 Total shares Decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity hub Kyber Network (KNC) is set to become the next DeFi protocol to enter the expanding Polygon (MATIC) ecosystem.In a statement issued on Wednesday, Kyber announced…

On Oct. 25, 2022 — about two weeks before the collapse of the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX — prominent DeFi architect Andre Cronje published a foreboding article with a chilling warning on the state of centralized cryptocurrency exchanges:“Remedies under the current regulatory regime are ineffective. Most investors sign away their rights to their crypto…

Eisenberg claimed his actions on the DeFi platform were legal and negotiated a “white hat” bug bounty after making off with over $100 million; the government is unconvinced. 55 Total views 1 Total shares Ho-ho-ho! Get Limited Holiday Trait!Collect this article as an NFTThe United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed suit against self-described…

The Web3 platform will focus on expanding its team globally and onboarding several more blockchains in the upcoming months. 130 Total views 7 Total shares

Having been granted the opportunity to enjoy Christmas and the New Year with his family, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has very few reasons for optimism in 2023. 222 Total views 8 Total shares Ho-ho-ho! Get Limited Holiday Trait!Collect this article as an NFTAlthough having been granted the opportunity to enjoy Christmas and the New…

Brian Brooks has worked as Coinbase's chief legal officer, Acting Comptroller of the Currency, CEO of Binance.US, and CEO of Bitfury. 6 Total views 1 Total shares Brian Brooks, former Acting Comptroller of the Currency for the United States government, has joined the board of directors for crypto-focused asset manager Hashdex.In a July 20 announcement,…

CEO of global payment giant Visa Al Kelly stated that cryptocurrency does not pose a challenge to the company’s dominance in the payment sphere in the “short to medium-term,” in an interview on CNBC's Mad Money Oct. 25.When asked if “crypto [is] a real challenge to Visa’s hegemony in this business,” Kelly told Mad Money…