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India going after WazirX over its role in yet another $130M laundering scandal

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16 August, 2022

India going after WazirX over its role in yet another $130M laundering scandal

The Enforcement Directorate accuses WazirX of using an opaque management setup and poor KYC programs to allow exploitative loan apps...

California watchdog issues cease and desist order against Celsius Network

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Steve Kaaru

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13 August, 2022

California watchdog issues cease and desist order against Celsius Network

Celsius has been violating securities regulations by offering its Earn Rewards accounts in the state while also making materially false...

Canadian watchdogs join US SEC in Celsius probe: report

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Steve Kaaru

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12 August, 2022

Canadian watchdogs join US SEC in Celsius probe: report

The Quebec and Ontario securities watchdogs have joined the probe, with the former especially concerned about the fate of a...

CoinFLEX files for restructuring after Roger Ver allegedly fails to pay margin call

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Gavin Lucas

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12 August, 2022

CoinFLEX files for restructuring after Roger Ver allegedly fails to pay margin call

In a blogpost, CoinFLEX detailed how it has filed for restructuring in Seychelles, which will enable it to issue rvUSD...

Former BitMEX exec Greg Dwyer pleads guilty to BSA violation

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Steve Kaaru

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12 August, 2022

Former BitMEX exec Greg Dwyer pleads guilty to BSA violation

Greg Dwyer pleaded innocent at first and vowed to fight the charges, but having seen that the three BitMEX founders...

Coinbase shareholder sues company over ‘gross mismanagement’

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Jon Southurst

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10 August, 2022

Coinbase shareholder sues company over ‘gross mismanagement’

In a suit filed in Delaware on August 4, Donald Kocher accused former and current Coinbase officers of "breaches of...

Solana’s DeFi ecosystem was totally fake—This is why identity matters

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Gavin Lucas

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10 August, 2022

Solana’s DeFi ecosystem was totally fake—This is why identity matters

Coindesk recently published a report on how two brothers used multiple pseudonymous accounts to fake a DeFi ecosystem on Solana—showing...

US Treasury sanctions Tornado Cash mixer

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Patrick Thompson

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10 August, 2022

US Treasury sanctions Tornado Cash mixer

Tornado Cash is a digital currency mixer that obfuscates transaction history by combining ETH deposits from many users into one...

Coinbase loses $1.1 billion, stock compensation gravy train rides on

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Steven Stradbrooke

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10 August, 2022

Coinbase loses $1.1 billion, stock compensation gravy train rides on

Coinbase lost over $1 billion in the second quarter while warning investors that the digital currency exchange expects this current...

US secures extradition of BTC-e exchange founder Alexander Vinnik from Greece: report

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Wahid Pessarlay

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10 August, 2022

US secures extradition of BTC-e exchange founder Alexander Vinnik from Greece: report

Alexander Vinnik operated BTC-e exchange from 2011 to 2017, transacting over $4 billion worth of BTC, which U.S. prosecutors allege...

India investigating ‘mysterious’ transactions between WazirX and Binance

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Steve Kaaru

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9 August, 2022

India investigating ‘mysterious’ transactions between WazirX and Binance

The Enforcement Directorate says that some of the transactions between the two are “cloaked in mystery” and could possibly have...

Voyager Digital approved to refund $270M in cash to clients, rebuffs SBF’s lowball bid

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Steve Kaaru

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9 August, 2022

Voyager Digital approved to refund $270M in cash to clients, rebuffs SBF’s lowball bid

Voyager at first claimed that it had $350 million at the Metropolitan Commercial Bank, even as it called out the...

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