Blame it on the Bahamas.
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of the FTX crypto exchange, won’t be prosecuted for a campaign finance violation, as part of a case involving embezzlement and fraud involving the company.
Tag: cryptos
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HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSES TWO SIGNIFICANT CRYPTO BILLS
The House Financial Services Committee marked a historic first this past week, approving several crypto focused bills that will now be considered by the full House.
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COMPETITION OR COMPLEMENTARY? SURPRISING DATA SURROUNDING CRYPTO EXCHANGES
Large Crypto exchanges are serving to complement, and not just compete with smaller crypto exchanges in ways that have proven mutually beneficial.
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
Japan envisions web3 technology as the next wave of economic empowerment and inclusion.
The country has been formally focused on providing legal clarity and friendliness to development and infrastructure for web3 since January of 2022.
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
To say it was a good day for crypto doesn’t quite get it right.
It was a day that crypto likely avoided the hardest road to greater adoption.
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THE NEW CHOKEPOINT TIGHTENS: COINBASE DEFENDS CRYPTO STAKING SERVICES
In a 14 July blog post, Coinbase gave an in depth defense of their platform’s crypto staking services.
That follows a lawsuit brought in June by the SEC and 10 states filed against the exchange, alleging that its staking services constitute an offering of “securities.”
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
Always use two-step verification, and never give either verification codes or passwords to anyone, even someone claiming to be a Coinbase employee.
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WHY WEB3 SEARCH WILL CHALLENGE CURRENT SEARCH ENGINE SUPER PLAYERS
A recent research paper posted on SSRN detailed a web3 search engine that would use decentralized storage, PoS (Proof of Stake) and new PoL (Proof of Learning) crypto mechanisms to power and ensure the integrity of the decentralized network and service.
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CRYPTO ADOPTION CONTINUES TO RISE IN DEVELOPING REGIONS AND CUTTING EDGE TECH HUBS
As The Trends Journal has been forecasting and chronicling crypto adoption is happening most rapidly in emerging markets and regions that are either (1) generally friendly to tech innovation, and / or (2) areas where governments and financial systems are most badly failing their citizens.
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
On the surface, it has seemed a (sort of) positive development: the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, one of the largest U.S. based banks, Bank of New York-Mellon, and the largest U.S. crypto exchange, Coinbase, all working together to gain the greenlight for a Bitcoin Spot ETF.