Cointelegraph By Ana Paula Pereira
Asset manager Hashdex recently held a meeting with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to address the regulator’s concerns about its application to allow the Hashdex Bitcoin Futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) to hold spot Bitcoin, a source familiar with the matter told Cointelegraph. As per a memorandum released by the...
Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial is reaching its final stages over the next few days, with the prosecution scheduled to rest their case on Oct. 26 following the examination of almost 20 testimonies in the case.The prosecution presented a lineup of witnesses over the past three weeks, including former FTX...
Security researcher and developer Antoine Riard is stepping down from the Lightning Network’s development, citing security issues and fundamental challenges to the Bitcoin ecosystem. According to a thread on the Linux Foundation’s public mailing list, Riard believes the Bitcoin community faces a "hard dilemma" as a new class of...
Uniswap founder Hayden Adams burned 99% of the HayCoin (HAY) supply on Oct. 20, according to an announcement on X (formerly Twitter). The majority of the tokens have been removed from circulation due to Adams’ concerns about price speculation over the previous days.Adams deployed the HAY token for...
Sam Bankman-Fried instructed FTX's former general counsel Can Sun to "come up" with any legal explanation for the $8 billion hole in Alameda Research's books, according to Sun's testimony in court on Oct. 19.Sun flew from Japan to testify in the ongoing trial as part of his non-prosecution...
A new hook available on an open-source directory for Uniswap V4 hooks is sparking controversy within the crypto community. The hook enables users to be checked for Know Your Customer (KYC) before they can trade on a pool.Criticizing the hook, a user at X (formerly Twitter) noted that...
FTX estate seems to be bullish on Solana’s native token SOL (SOL), as it staked over 5.5 million in SOL coins on Oct. 13. According to on-chain data, an FTX-identified wallet sent the coins to Figment, a staking validator firm for institutional investors. The transaction was detected by blockchain...
Ethereum wallet MetaMask went offline on Oct. 14 for several hours on Apple's App Store, raising concerns about its removal. MetaMask claims to have over 30 million users. The wallet is connected to a range of Web3 decentralized applications (DApps)On Oct. 14, reports surfaced that the MetaMask app...
Caroline Ellison wasn't doing a good job leading Alameda Research in 2022, and she did not hide it. Pieces of her personal notes shared as evidence by prosecutors on Sam Bankman-Fried's trial revealed details about the trading firm's struggles and its CEO's desire to resign weeks and months...
Weeks and months before the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was “freaking out” about Alameda, buying shares in Snapchat, raising capital from Saudi royalty and getting regulators to crack down on rival crypto exchange Binance. So was written in former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison’s personal notes about...
