FTX’s European subsidiary, FTX Europe, has launched a new website, ftxeurope.eu, for users to withdraw funds from the now-defunct cryptocurrency platform. Withdrawal requests must be submitted through the new website and will be “subject to customary know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering checks.” FTX’s European Arm Opens Withdrawals to Customers According to a press release published on Friday, another division of FTX will…
press release PRESS RELEASE. Zurich, Switzerland, April 1st, 2023 – Since its launch at the end of 2021 by founders Cristian Andrei, Shailesh Rajput, and Alexandru Badoi, IXFI has attracted nearly 9 million unique visitors and over 350,000 active platform users. The IXFI app has ranked among the top 15 most downloaded finance mobile applications in Eastern Europe. This performance…
According to a court document filed on March 31, 2023, regarding the sentencing of James Zhong, who stole over 50,000 bitcoin from the Silk Road marketplace, the U.S. government plans to liquidate 41,490 bitcoin “over the course of this calendar year.” U.S. Government Discloses Strategy for Selling Confiscated Bitcoin The U.S. government, one of the largest holders of bitcoin, plans…
Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and CryptoPunks NFT collections, has a new CEO: Daniel Alegre. The executive resigned as president and chief operating officer of the gaming giant company Activision Blizzard to join the NFT startup on April 1. “Couldn’t be more excited for this next chapter,” he wrote on Twitter. Alegre was a key…
According to statistics, 4,498 blocks have been mined in the last 30 days, creating 28,112 new bitcoins over the past month. Bitcoin’s network hashrate has been around 341 exahash per second (EH/s) during the last 2,016 blocks or the last two weeks. This month, the mining pools Foundry USA and Antpool dominated the pack, accounting for 52.87% of the global…
The exchange shared that all customer funds are safe but advised U.S. customers to withdraw their funds by April 30, 2023. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/public/index.php/news/crypto-exchange-bittrex-to-wind-down-operations-in-the-us
About the author Mo Shaikh is the Co-Founder & CEO of Aptos Labs, based in Palo Alto, California. He is a three-time founder with over a decade of experience in multinational financial services and blockchain/crypto. There’s no cheat code for creating games that people actually want to play, and marketing them on a global scale. Whether you’re a billion-dollar publishing…
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. The news earlier this week that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is suing the largest crypto exchange in the world, Binance, and its CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, could have rocked crypto markets. Instead, the prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum briefly wobbled after the news broke on Monday, then recovered.…
Hearthstone, but make it crypto? It’s not a completely new concept, but Raini Studios’ debut game The Lords of Light fits the bill—and then some. And it differentiates itself from card-battling rivals by leaning into the culture (and memes) of its crypto heritage. Raini shared the open beta of its turn-based card strategy game—with NFTs available across Avalanche, Ethereum, and…
Dogecoin rose to its highest point in over a week, as Elon Musk requested that a lawsuit filed against him by investors in the meme coin be dropped. The suit claims that Musk operated a pyramid scheme, following his endorsements of dogecoin. Litecoin was another token to climb on Saturday. Dogecoin (DOGE) Dogecoin (DOGE) climbed higher on Saturday after lawyers…
