A report from app provider De.Fi showed losses from theft down in Q1 2023 compared to last year, along with recovery of funds; Euler accounted for a huge share of both. Crypto hackers and scammers made off with $452 million in the first quarter of 2023, according to a report released by antivirus and app...Continue Reading

Binance handles fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) surrounding its business future following a lawsuit from U.S. authorities. Regulators in the United States have a fresh target on their radar: Binance. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued the world’s biggest crypto exchange by trading volume for regulatory violations. Accusations range from insider trading to...Continue Reading

The top 100 DeFi tokens had a mixed week, with little changes and a majority of the tokens trading in green. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. The ongoing downturn in the crypto market hasn’t...Continue Reading

The CFTC-linked self-regulatory organization (SRO) has disclosure rules for members engaging in activities with BTC and ETH; now, standards of conduct are being added. The National Futures Association (NFA), the United States self-regulatory organization for derivatives markets, has issued a new compliance rule addressing members’ conduct. The new rule complements requirements issued in 2018. The...Continue Reading

An unprecedented number of BTC margin longs recently closed at Bitfinex, leaving analysts searching for explanations. Since May 2022, the Bitcoin (BTC) margin markets on the Bitfinex exchange have been plagued by an unusually high open interest of over $2.7 billion. This information alone should raise a red flag, especially in light of Bitcoin’s price...Continue Reading

An active-duty United States Space Force astronautical engineer is proposing to the Pentagon a new cybersecurity tool: Bitcoin. An active-duty United States Space Force astronautical engineer is proposing to the Pentagon a cybersecurity tool capable of transforming the country’s national security and even the base-layer architecture of the internet: Bitcoin (BTC). In an academic thesis,...Continue Reading

The Kraken logo on the car includes the entirety of the abstract and introduction of ‘Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System’, and has its next race in Australia. The Formula 1 car for the Williams Racing team will feature an excerpt from the Bitcoin white paper, as a result of a sponsorship deal with United...Continue Reading

Cointelegraph analyst and writer Marcel Pechman explains if there is a housing crisis underway and why crypto investors should be paying attention. The show Macro Markets, hosted by crypto analyst Marcel Pechman, which airs every Friday at 12 pm ET on the Cointelegraph Markets & Research YouTube channel, explains complex concepts in layman’s terms and focuses...Continue Reading

Artificial intelligence is going to be a key component in cracking down on the growing number of counterfeit non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Beyond all the good a permissionless internet promises, it also makes it convenient for anyone to freely mint pirated nonfungible tokens (NFTs). There are in fact over 90 million fake copies of NFTs. Because...Continue Reading

Most altcoins posted a below-par performance in March, but XRP, XLM, CFX, XDC and MASK defied the trend by posting double-digit gains. Bitcoin’s dominance over the crypto market, which represents its share of market capitalization relative to the total cryptocurrency market capitalization, rose steeply from around 44% to highs of 48% in March.  While Bitcoin’s...Continue Reading