Customers of Bittrex Global are now able to trade Circle’s USDC and EUROC without trading fees, after the exchange announced a partnership with the stablecoin issuer. No-fee transactions will be available via the Bittrex Global exchange until the end of the summer on USDC, the Circle-issued U.S. dollar stablecoin, as well as its Euro counterpart EUROC, and all pairs. The…
Crypto exchange Coinbase has tested Openai’s Chatgpt as a token verification tool comparing it with its standard security procedure. In over half of the cases, the AI platform produced the same results as the manual review, but it also failed to recognize some high-risk assets. Chatgpt Approves 5 High-Risk Tokens, Coinbase May Use It for Secondary Control Digital asset exchange…
The collapse of major banks highlights the need for Bitcoin (BTC) and self-custody according to Pascal Gauthier, the CEO and Chairman of hardware wallet provider Ledger. In an interview with Cointelegraph reporter Joseph Hall at the Paris Blockchain Week, Gauthier spoke about how recent events show how BTC can be a safe haven against the threat of central authorities. He…
Web3’s pervasiveness into mainstream industries has begun to raise questions about the ethics needed to operate in the space. During the second day of Paris Blockchain Week (PBW) 2023, a group of professionals from the ecosystem took the Venus de Milo stage to discuss the “Ethics of Web3.” The panel kicked off with moderator Moojan Ashghari, co-founder of Thousand Faces…
The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) is inching closer to fully launching its central bank digital currency (CBDC) — the digital dirham — for domestic and cross-border payments. According to an announcement on March 23, the CBUAE signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi’s G42 Cloud and digital finance services provider R3 to be the infrastructure and technology providers of…
The ongoing crisis and uncertainty around the global banking system could push the cryptocurrency market into a more gray area in terms of regulation, Circle chief executive believes. Jeremy Allaire, CEO of the USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle, took to Twitter on March 23 to share his reflections regarding the market dynamics in the aftermath of the Silicon Valley Bank…
On the evening of Jan. 7, Anatoly Legkodymov, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato, was arrested in Miami. The following day, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed a complaint in federal court charging him with “conducting a money transmitting business that transported and transmitted illicit funds.” According to the DOJ, Bitzlato failed to meet U.S. regulatory safeguards, including…
According to an unconfirmed post from Filip Adzic, minister of the interior of Montenegro, an individual suspected of being Terra Luna co-founder Do Kwon has been arrested within the territory of the Balkan nation on Mar. 23. Since the announcement was first made, local news outlet Vijesti has confirmed that the account is from the minister of the interior of…
Just as Arbitrum opened the gates to its ARB token, the project’s landing page crashed. The homepage reports a 429 error, indicating that it is being overwhelmed by user traffic. The site was also the primary mechanism by which eligible users could claim their airdropped ARB tokens. Alongside the homepage, Arbiscan has also crashed, with a note that reads: “The…
In the United States, crypto reform legislation isn’t the province of a single political party, and that’s why a former U.S. Congressman, who also played a prominent role in the Trump administration, believes that passage of a federal “digital assets” law this year is a real possibility. “Democrats aren’t all on one side; Republicans aren’t all on the other side,”…
