A Nigerian court has postponed the decision on the bail application for detained Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan until Oct. 9. Judge Emeka Nwite issued the ruling on Sept. 4 after hearing arguments from both Gambaryan’s lawyer, Mark Mordi, and the prosecuting counsel, Ekele Iheanacho, who opposed the bail request. New bail application On Sept. 2, Gambaryan’s […]
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Bitcoin miner Bitfarms issued a statement addressing what it called misleading claims by rival Riot Platforms amid ongoing tensions over the latter’s amended acquisition proposal. In the Sept. 4 press release, Bitfarms emphasized that Riot’s proposal is not about corporate governance but rather an attempt to acquire it at a discounted price. The firm further […]
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Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas revealed that Vice President Kamala Harris‘s campaign is using Coinbase Commerce to accept crypto donations, Fortune reported Sept. 4. Haas made the revelation during a conversation with Citigroup‘s director of payments, Peter Christiansen, at the lender’s 2024 Global TMT Conference in New York. According to Haas: “[Kamala] is accepting crypto donations. She’s […]
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Yield protocol Penpie got exploited for $27 million on Sept. 3 after a malicious agent explored a vulnerability in the protocol’s smart contracts. Penpie is a yield protocol on Pendle that aims to boost rewards for users on the network. Reentrancy exploited In a Sept. 4 breakdown, blockchain security firm Hacken explained that the attacker […]
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Onchain Highlights DEFINITION: The number of unique entities holding at least 1,000 coins. Bitcoin’s price has seen fluctuations alongside the number of entities holding over 1,000 BTC throughout 2024. According to Glassnode data, whale activity surged in the first half of the year due to the Bitcoin ETFs, with over 1,600 entities accumulating large BTC […]
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World Liberty Financial (WLFI) — a DeFi project tied to members of former President Donald Trump’s family — responded to a wave of speculation on Sept. 4 with a series of tweets clarifying its DeFi strategy and confirming its collaboration with Aave. In the posts, WLFI announced the partnership aims to develop a platform that will […]
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Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger voiced strong opposition to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) decision to impose a $175,000 fine on Uniswap Labs for its illegal digital asset derivatives trading. In her dissent, Mersinger criticized the agency’s reliance on “regulation through enforcement,” arguing that the approach risks stifling innovation in DeFi and driving developers out […]
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