Binance, Coinbase, Bitfinex, Gemini, Kraken and KuCoin were targets of one senator’s probe into protections the firms had in place if a failure similar to FTX’s occurred again. Ron Wyden, chair for the United States Senate Finance Committee, has requested information from six crypto firms on consumer protection following FTX’s liquidity issues and bankruptcy. In...Continue Reading

The constituent coins that make up the indices have not yet been released, but it does include performance data for the first three quarters of 2022. FTSE Russell, creator of the FTSE100 stock index, has released a series of indices whose constituents are digital assets, according to a press release released via its website on Nov....Continue Reading

Taran’s death is the third to shake the crypto world in recent weeks, following Amber Group’s Tiantian Kullander and MakerDao’s Nikolai Mushegian. Russian billionaire Vyacheslav Taran, president of Libertex Group and founder of Forex Club, died Nov. 25 in a helicopter crash in France while en route from Lausanne to Monaco, Switzerland. He was 53....Continue Reading

Sergey Vasylchuk, the CEO of Everstake, said individuals behind Russian propaganda used the fall of FTX “to spin yet another tale about money laundering.” Everstake, a blockchain firm that partnered with the Ukrainian government to launch a donation website amid the country’s war with Russia, has pushed back against online rumors and conspiracy theories that...Continue Reading

On-chain activity suggests that the hacker has sent at least 225 BTC (4.5 million) to OKX so far. Hackers who drained FTX and FTX USA of over $450 million worth of assets just moments after the doomed crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, continue to move assets around in an attempt to launder...Continue Reading

The project shared that “a community-wide effort to fork Serum is going strong,” however. The Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) has notified its community that the collapse of its backers — Alameda and FTX — has rendered its program “defunct”.  The team behind the project shared that “there is hope”, in spite of its ongoing challenges,...Continue Reading

Expectations of stringent regulation and further contagion from FTX continue to weigh on ETH price, but derivatives are showing a modest improvement in sentiment. Ether (ETH) rallied 5.5% in the early hours of Nov. 29, reclaiming the critical $1,200 support. However, when analyzing a broader time frame, the 24% negative performance in the past 30...Continue Reading

Bullish on Bitcoin but afraid of futures liquidations? Here is how pro traders use options to cast safer bets. Bitcoin (BTC) bulls were hopeful that the Nov. 21 dip to $15,500 would mark the cycle bottom, but BTC has not been able to produce a daily close above $17,600 for the past eighteen days.  Traders...Continue Reading

On this week’s episode of The Market Report, Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss if Bitcoin can actually drop all the way down to $12,000 or $14,000 and how the markets could potentially react. On this week’s The Market Report show, Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss the possibility of a $12,000–$14,000 Bitcoin (BTC) price and what that would...Continue Reading

BNB Chain’s integration into the Seaport Protocol aims to provide BNB Chain creators with multiple creator payouts, real-time payouts and collection management. Crypto collectibles and nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea announced plans to integrate BNB Chain on Seaport Protocol by the end of Q4 2022. The integration will allow users to buy, list and trade...Continue Reading