Billionaire Changpeng Zhao and leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal charges in a watershed moment designed to bring order to the often-lawless crypto …
The Crypto Exchange Moving Money for Criminal Gangs, Rich Russians and a Hamas-Linked Terror Group
The U.S. last year sanctioned a Moscow-based crypto exchange to stymie Russian efforts to evade the financial blockade imposed after the invasion of Ukraine. A year on, the exchange is …
CoinEx exchange drained of $27M worth of crypto in suspected hack
On Sept. 12, crypto exchange CoinEx experienced abnormally large outflows to an address with no prior history, leading security experts to suspect the exchange was hacked. Blockchain security platform …
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Wall Street-Backed Cryptocurrency Exchange EDX Goes Live
EDX Markets – a cryptocurrency exchange that received support from behemoths in the finance sector, such as Fidelity Digital Assets, Charles Schwab, and Citadel Securities – went live. Initially, the …
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How This Scammer Stole Over $15M Worth of Crypto
A hacker has stolen over $15 million from crypto wallets by imitating the website of the HitBTC exchange. The hackers cloned the exchange’s user interface to lure victims into connecting their wallets …
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Crypto Exchanges Sell Coins Deemed Illegal by SEC
U.S. cryptocurrency exchanges list more than a dozen digital coins outlawed by regulators. That’s according to a Monday (May 8) Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report, which also notes that the number of …
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Why the FTX Collapse Was an Identity Problem
The romance with cryptocurrency is over. After years of growth and investment gains, things came tumbling down with the collapse of the FTX Trading exchange in November 2022. The carnage was …
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Five Security Tips for Crypto Investors: You Can’t Afford Not to Take Precautions
Fraud was involved in approximately 40 percent of all cryptocurrency-related complaints according to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) analysis published this past fall. And in an …
Coinbase International Exchange launches amid SEC crypto crackdown in the US
As the cryptocurrency industry faces regulatory challenges in the United States, public crypto exchange Coinbase is moving forward with a global derivatives platform. On May 2, Coinbase announced the …
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Binance Faces Mounting Pressure as U.S. Crypto Crackdown Intensifies
For years, the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance has had a reputation for dodging regulators and skirting financial rules, all without significant consequences. Now the world’s largest crypto …
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