Cointelegraph By Zhiyuan Sun
Chinese blockchain personality Justin Sun, who also serves as the de facto owner of crypto exchange HTX (formerly Huobi Global), claims that the firm posted a profit of $98 million in Q3 2023.According to the October 26 thread, Sun says that HTX generated a total of $202 million...
Ethereum decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Hope Lend has next to zero assets left in its protocol after a devastating hack.According to multiple blockchain security firms, on Oct. 18, two individuals, a frontrunner who beat the original hacker after discovering the exploit, and the original hacker itself, stole a...
Decentralized exchange Uniswap will begin charging a 0.15% swap fee on certain tokens in its web application and wallet on Oct. 17.According to a post by Uniswap founder Hayden Adams, the affected tokens are Ether (ETH), USD Coin (USDC), Wrapped Ether (wETH), Tether (USDT), Dai (DAI), Wrapped Bitcoin...
Crypto exchange Binance will stop accepting users in the United Kingdom as of 5 p.m. local time on Oct. 16.According to Binance's announcement, the move came after the country's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) imposed legally binding requirements on its partner Rebuildingsociety.com Ltd (REBS) on Oct. 10. Among other items,...
During yesterday's real-estate-backed U.S. dollar stablecoin Real USD (USDR) crisis, a trader appears to have swapped 131,350 USDR for 0 USD Coin (USDC), resulting in a complete loss on investment.According to the October 12 report by blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain, the swap occurred on the BNB Chain through...
Mastercard has completed a trial involving wrapping central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) on different blockchains, similar to wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) and wrapped Ether (wETH).According to the October 12 announcement, the trial was conducted with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the country's Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre...
Crypto data aggregator CoinMarketCap, owned by crypto exchange Binance, has created a novel plugin for the large-language model (LLM)-based AI chatbot ChatGPT.According to the Oct. 11 announcement, users can access the feature by signing in to their ChatGPT Plus account and simply enabling the plugin, allowing them to...
Just 47% of retail crypto investors in Hong Kong are aware of the Virtual Asset Trading Platform Regulatory Regime, a legislation which went into effect this June to protect the interest of retail investors in digital assets in the region.That's according to an October 11 report by the...
Crypto exchange Binance has frozen accounts linked to Hamas militants as per requests from Israeli law enforcement.According to an October 10 WeChat post by Yi He, the exchange's co-founder, the freeze is targeted towards Hamas and not the people of Palestine. As narrated by He:"Hamas is a designated...
Bitcoin application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) manufacturer Bitmain has paused employee salary payments for September and beyond.According to recent local news reports, citing multiple Bitmain employees familiar with the matter, the firm has allegedly cut all "bonuses and incentivizes" for its staff and still has not paid remuneration due...
