Ryan Salame seeks to void guilty plea, says fed didn’t keep promise

Decentralized finance, or DeFi, has established itself as a force capable of disrupting traditional systems. While DeFi still mostly keeps opposing itself to traditional finance, the centralized operators are actively looking for ways to integrate into the established system. The institutional interest pushes both decentralized and centralized participants to ask questions about DeFi, its role…

Robinhood’s reputation has taken a battering lately but it hopes to regain credibility among the crypto community by introducing cryptocurrency transfers. 1554 Total views 27 Total shares The controversy laden trading platform Robinhood announced today it intends to implement cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals. While customers have been able to buy and sell cryptocurrency via the…

SEC chief accountant Paul Munter said agency staff views on a divisive rule curtailing banks from offering crypto custody services “remain unchanged.”

United States-based asset management firm Fidelity Investments released the results of a survey showing that 22% of institutional investors already own digital assets, in a press release published on May 2.The release claims that the firm surveyed 411 U.S. institutional investors among which 40% of respondents said that they are open to future investments in…

Kris Marszalek, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has become the latest crypto company promising to publish "audited proof of reserves," amid the downfall of rival exchange FTX. "We share the belief that it should be necessary for crypto platforms to publicly share proof of reserves," said Marszalek, adding that his company "will be publishing our audited proof…

Blockchain platform Tron’s founder, Justin Sun, sparked fresh controversy this week after he first posted and then deleted an online apology in an ongoing PR debacle. Cryptocurrency-focused news outlet Cryptoslate reported the events, providing their own translation of comments Sun wrote and later removed from Chinese social media platform Weibo on July 25.Sun was due to…

“I think that the days when folks believed that there’s only going to be Bitcoin, I think, are over,” said Asheesh Birla. 293 Total views 2 Total shares In a podcast for Lend Academy recorded Nov. 5, Asheesh Birla called Bitcoin (BTC) a “pretty innovative alternative to gold,” but added that 2020 had shown there…

Kenyan authorities want to ensure that Worldcoin poses no risks to the security of citizens before it allows the project to gather iris data. The new cryptocurrency and digital identity project, Worldcoin, is facing a rough start in Kenya, with the government halting all local activity associated with it.Kenya’s minister of internal security took to…