Coinbase signs agreement with ICE worth $1.36M

Coinbase signs agreement with ICE worth $1.36M

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has signed an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) branch of the U.S. Homeland Security Department in an undisclosed use case for its blockchain analytics software.

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Taliban control of Afghanistan gives boost to underground crypto economy

Taliban control of Afghanistan gives boost to underground crypto economy

With the Taliban solidifying their control over Afghanistan over the past couple of weeks, the country has plunged into a financial crisis, with a cash shortage, a currency in freefall, and rising prices of consumer goods.

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Binance crypto traders seek damages for millions lost during May outage

Binance crypto traders seek damages for millions lost during May outage

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is facing legal action over a May 19 hour-long outage that resulted in millions of dollars in traders’ money lost, claimants allege.

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Poly Network wants hacker to become chief security advisor

Poly Network wants hacker to become chief security advisor

Poly Network is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that was the target of a hack last week resulting in $600M in stolen crypto.

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Poly Network hack puts DeFi fraud under the microscope

Poly Network hack puts DeFi fraud under the microscope

In one of the biggest crypto thefts ever, nearly $600M in crypto was stolen in a cyberattack on a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform called Poly Network.

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Coinbase riding high amid $1.9B in transaction revenue and $1.6B in quarterly profit

Coinbase riding high amid $1.9B in transaction revenue and $1.6B in quarterly profit

In its second-ever earnings report as a public company, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase appears to be on a winning streak, with revenues past 1000% and profits up almost 4900%.

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Crypto firm Circle to apply for a banking license as ‘National Digital Currency Bank’

Crypto firm Circle to apply for a banking license as ‘National Digital Currency Bank’

Circle, a Boston-based crypto firm behind the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, announced plans to become a full-reserve national commercial bank, operating under the supervision and risk management requirements of the Federal Reserve

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JPMorgan Chase pitches Bitcoin fund for wealthy clients

JPMorgan Chase pitches Bitcoin fund for wealthy clients

JPMorgan Chase, whose CEO Jamie Dimon famously derided bitcoin as a fraud four years ago, is now offering an in-house Bitcoin fund to its Private Bank clients.

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Choice and Compass Mining unveil tax-free Bitcoin mining solution

Choice and Compass Mining unveil tax-free Bitcoin mining solution

IRA provider Choice and Compass Mining have rolled out a solution whereby clients can buy Bitcoin mining machines through individual retirement accounts (IRAs).

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Tether execs face criminal probe over bank fraud: report

Tether execs face criminal probe over bank fraud: report

Tether, a prominent stablecoin operator, is reportedly under criminal investigation over prior actions from its early days, including whether or not the company concealed from banks that transactions were linked to crypto.

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Ethereum co-founder Anthony Di Iorio bids adieu to crypto

Ethereum co-founder Anthony Di Iorio bids adieu to crypto

Anthony Di Iorio, a co-founder of the Ethereum network, says he’s leaving the crypto world out of concern for his personal safety.

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Bitcoin slides toward $31,000 amid Fed Chair Powell remarks on stablecoins

Bitcoin slides toward $31,000 amid Fed Chair Powell remarks on stablecoins

Bitcoin slid toward $31,000 on Thursday, July 15 – its lowest level in around three weeks.

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Cryptocurrency startup Circle to go public in $4.5B SPAC deal

Cryptocurrency startup Circle to go public in $4.5B SPAC deal

Circle, a cryptocurrency infrastructure company that claims to allow “businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications,”

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UK Financial Conduct Authority imposes ban on Binance Markets

UK Financial Conduct Authority imposes ban on Binance Markets

This past weekend, the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said Binance Markets Limited, the U.K. division of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, was “not permitted to undertake any regulated activity in the U.K.”

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Iron titanium token falls to near zero amid panic-induced selling

Iron titanium token falls to near zero amid panic-induced selling

The value of the iron titanium token, the share token of a decentralized finance protocol, fell from $60 to near zero in a day. The token was part of an algorithmic stablecoin project called Iron Finance.

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