Threats Fly As Fight Over $200 Million Siacoin’s Crypto Code Intensifies

Frax Finance's core team is considering a proposal to share protocol revenue with stakers of its veFXS token. It will be up to the community to approve the proposal, Frax's CEO said.If submitted, the proposal would follow a similar one last week by the leading decentralized exchange, Uniswap.The core team behind decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol

Looking for a Job in Crypto? Here Are 5 Skills You NeedSo, you’re trying to get a job in crypto. Do you need a degree to showcase your mastery of blockchain technology?“No,” said Columbia University adjunct professor Omid Malekan, “because that almost doesn’t exist.”This story is part of the CoinDesk U series about blockchain at…

Social Engineering: A Plague on Crypto and Twitter, Unlikely to StopThe teenager arrested for allegedly masterminding the recent Twitter hack comes from a community that’s been targeting crypto users for years. The group’s attacks have one big thing in common: They take advantage of human fallibility rather than code vulnerability. These so-called social engineering attacks…

Let’s start with a few basic facts. Fact one: Despite a recent rally, the price of bitcoin is still far below the bullish heyday of 2021, when many bitcoin miners bought their hardware.Fact two: Much of the hype (and capital) in the startup space has shifted from Web3 to AI.Fact three: Both cryptocurrency mining and…

A lawsuit brought by a trio of venture capital firms against the CEO of decentralized finance giant Curve Finance, Michael Egorov, was rejected by a California judge partly because the defendant didn’t live in the state when the alleged misdeeds took place.ParaFi Capital, Framework Ventures and 1kx had accused Egorov of engaging in a “brazen”

Ripple will add Ethereum-compatible smart contracts via a new sidechain to XRP Ledger, expanding its functionality beyond basic transactions. This development includes using the Axelar network for cross-chain token transfers, with wrapped XRP (eXRP) acting as the primary token on this sidechain. Ripple is enhancing the XRP Ledger by integrating Ethereum-compatible smart contracts via a

Bitcoin's (BTC) "taker buy-sell ratio" recently surged on several crypto exchanges, signaling a renewed bullish sentiment around $29,000.The ratio surged to 1.36 on Aug. 1 on ByBit, reaching the highest in at least a year, according to data tracked by South Korea-based blockchain analytics firm CryptoQuant. Values above 1 indicate that takers' buy volume is…

Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Jack Schickler is a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He…

Binance Australia’s office was searched by the country's financial regulator, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC), on Tuesday, according to a report in Bloomberg.The report, citing anonymous sources, comes after the company’s derivatives license was canceled in April, following an investigation into how it classified clients as professional wholesale investors, as they can get…