On Tuesday, Marc Zeller, integration lead at decentralized finance (DeFi) borrowing and lending protocol Aave, proposed to freeze the platform’s v3 Fantom market. Created in 2018, Fantom is a directed acrylic graph smart contract platform that provides DeFi services and on which Aave is currently bridged.  Zeller explained the rationale for removing the Fantom bridge: “After the Harmony bridge event […]

Enterprise cryptocurrency custody firm Fireblocks is set to offer token minting services through a new integration with Ethereum- and Polygon-friendly platform Tokeny. The new feature allows businesses and retail customers to mint and manage permissioned tokens, digital securities, stablecoins and loyalty programs across various trading applications, payment networks and digital banks. Fireblocks and Tokeny make use of ERC-3643 security tokens […]

The social media accounts of the British Army have been hacked by someone looking to promote a cryptocurrency scam. The YouTube and Twitter accounts of the Army have been overtaken by someone who remains anonymous at the time of writing. They are simply going by the name “psssd” online. The British Army Was Being Used to Promote Crypto The scam […]

Kim Kardashian’s legal team has filed a motion to set aside a class-action complaint aimed at the businesswoman and other American celebrities. Kardashian and a handful of other prominent American social media influencers were served with a class action complaint in January 2022 over claims they had misled investors through the social media promotion of a cryptocurrency token called EthereumMax. Kardashian had […]

Barcelona-headquartered blockchain startup Peersyst has made an important announcement about the first National Land Registry system built on the open-source public XRP Ledger (XRPL). XRPL was created in 2012 by David Schwartz, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto, and its native digital asset is XRP. On July 1, Peersyst announced the launch of Colombia’s first National Land Registry on top of the XRPL blockchain, a project […]

New York Attorney General Letitia James asked New Yorkers who invested Anchor and Celsius to contact her office. Those who have been deceived or locked out of their accounts are asked to get in touch. She has also asked industry insiders to file a whistleblower complaint if they have witnessed misconduct or fraud. New York Attorney General Letitia James has […]

StreamCoin is celebrating its first anniversary by recalling what the company has achieved in the past year and sharing what it has in store for the future. While StreamCoin was established on August 1 last year to provide a more suited platform for global creators and artists amid the rapid growth of live streaming during the post-COVID-19 pandemic, it has […]