According to Trezor, the crypto hardware wallet manufacturer, owners of the Trezor T model can now use a Coinjoin feature to preserve their privacy. Trezor had announced the Coinjoin feature’s impending arrival on the hardware wallet seven months ago, and the feature went live on April 19. Trezor Adds Coinjoin to Software Suite Owners of the Trezor T model can…
On Wednesday, Sotheby’s, one of the world’s largest brokers of fine and decorative art, announced its plans to auction a number of non-fungible token (NFT) assets that were previously owned by the now-defunct crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC). The auction, called the “Grails” NFT collection, will take place during Marquee Sale Week at the firm’s New York location.…
Societe Generale, a major French banking and financial services firm, is launching an Ethereum-based stablecoin through its dedicated digital asset arm. Societe Generale-Forge (SG-Forge) announced the launch of EUR CoinVertible, the euro-pegged stablecoin targeting institutional clients, on April 20. The EUR CoinVertible stablecoin will be traded under the ticker symbol EURCV. The new digital asset will be only available to…
Plaintiffs seeking damages from Silvergate’s collapse have joined forces with their respective lawsuits. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/public/index.php/news/multiple-silvergate-lawsuits-over-alleged-ftx-ties-combined-by-judge
An anonymous Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) bot operator has cashed in well over $1 million this week by executing “sandwich attacks” against buyers and sellers of two new meme coins. The wallet address, linked to the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain “jaredfromsubway.eth” made $950,000 from the sandwich attacks on April 18 and profited about $300,000 and $400,000 on April 17…
Bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital Holdings has sealed a deal with the United States Federal government that moves forward a $1 billion plan allowing Voyager to sell its assets to the U.S. arm of Binance. An April 19 filing in a New York District Court saw Voyager, the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors and the U.S. government agree that the…
A California judge has combined three investor lawsuits against defunct crypto bank Silvergate Bank involving the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. On April 19, United States District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the Northern District of California ruled that the three lawsuits would be consolidated. Each accuses Silvergate of helping to facilitate investor fraud by the collapsed crypto exchange FTX. The…
According to the latest Coingecko crypto industry report, during the first quarter of 2023, bitcoin became the best-performing asset after it saw its U.S. dollar value go up from just under $17,000 observed on Dec. 31, 2022, to just over $28,000 by March 31, 2023. The report attributes the crypto asset’s resurgence to “increased volatility from the banking crisis” and…
A series of cryptic tweets depicting orange balls were revealed to be building up hype for a new rollup client for Optimism (OP) called “Magi” from the crypto arm of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (A16z). An April 19 Tweet from a16z engineer Noah Citron explained Magi is written in the programming language Rust and will “help improve the client…
Microsoft has been threatened with a suit from Tesla and Twitter chief Elon Musk who claimed the Big Tech firm “illegally” trained its artificial intelligence (AI) on Twitter data. On April 19, Musk tweeted that it was “lawsuit time” in response to a post reporting that Microsoft would cease supporting Twitter on April 25 across its online social advertising tools,…
