Nigerian fintech firms OPay, Kuda Bank, Moniepoint and PalmPay were directed to pause the creation of new accounts amid an ongoing audit of their KYC processes.
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CZ’s charges are serious, justified, and “sent a message” to the industry that compliance “must be taken seriously,” says lawyer and RMIT lecturer Aaron Lane.
Dogecoin’s open interest saw the steepest decline among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap, falling 64% since the start of April.
The Ethereum co-founder expects “many more improvements” in binary-field-based proving techniques in the months ahead.
The TVL across real-world asset tokenization protocols has surged almost 60% since February, says blockchain analytics firm Messari.
Fantom Foundation CEO Michael Kong hopes the blockchain can “replicate the success” of its peers by getting in on the memecoin hype.
Crypto traders are stressing that the Bitcoin price correction is “exactly what the cycle needs” right now.
CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ji said that despite a drop in Bitcoin mining revenues since the halving, Bitcoin miners haven’t shown any signs of capitulation.
It took less than six weeks for the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund to surpass Franklin Templeton’s one year old tokenized treasury fund.
Data suggests that newer investors are behind Bitcoin’s sell-off, but sell-side exhaustion will eventually mark BTC’s price bottom.
The SEC proposed that Do Kwon and Terraform pay roughly $5.3 billion in disgorgement, prejudgment interest and civil penalties, while the firm’s team suggested only $1 million.
Former Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison for violating U.S. money laundering laws.
The country has struggled with an unstable currency for years, but now it will have one backed by reserves three times larger than its issuance.
The Bitcoin DApp ecosystem has been reinvigorated by the invention of native protocols such as Ordinals and Inscriptions last year.
Bitcoin price revisits recent lows as the BTC futures premium falls to a 5-month low. Is the bull market over?
Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, pleaded guilty in November to violating U.S. money laundering laws and had been free to travel in the United States on a $175 million bond.
The early crypto investor, often called ‘Bitcoin Jesus,’ faces extradition to the U.S. after being charged with evading nearly $50 million in taxes.
The integration brings instantaneous transfers on the layer-2 Lightning Network to the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchange.