UN report highlights cybercrime surge in Southeast Asia, Telegram's role

Coming every Sunday, the Hodler’s Digest will help you to track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions, and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This WeekKPMG Report Notes That Crypto Is a Big Deal, But…

Vitalik Buterin advocates for zero-knowledge “Likes” on social media in pursuit of combatting preference falsification.

If approved, the deal would see a capital injection of nearly $30 million worth of FLEX tokens into Hodlnaut to partially cover creditors' payout and outstanding claims. 136 Total views 1 Total shares Crypto lender Hodlnaut appears to have found a white knight investor to exit its bankruptcy proceedings. According to a Bloomberg report, OPNX…

Uniswap’s dominance over the Ethereum DEX sector continues to grow, with the exchange representing more than half of the sector’s combined weekly volume. 1626 Total views 13 Total shares The amount of collateral on decentralized exchanges is nearing a milestone high of $10 billion, with Uniswap still sitting at the top of the heap.Volumes and…

Brian Armstrong, the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, is confident that the United States will achieve regulatory cryptocurrency, “even if it takes a while.” However, he believes this is the vital component to luring entrepreneurs back to the country.Armstrong sat down for an interview with Wall Street Journal on June 11, just days after the…

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The quadrennial block reward halving for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has come and gone, with miner rewards dropping from 12.5 BCH to 6.25 BCH. The event marked a pivotal moment for the fifth-ranked cryptocurrency by market capitalization, as it was its first 50% block reward reduction since emerging as a hard fork of Bitcoin (BTC) back…

The Telegram founder was arrested at Le Bourget airport north of Paris on Aug. 24.