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The CEO of crypto exchange Kraken, Jesse Powell, says U.S. regulators “let the bad guys get big and blow up because it serves their agenda.” The executive explained: “Bad guys operate with huge competitive advantages. They suck up users, revenue, and venture capital that would otherwise have gone to good
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Jesse Powell, the current CEO of crypto exchange Kraken, has called out United States financial regulators for letting “the bad guys” win to suit their agenda.In a Feb. 19 Twitter thread, Powell speculated that U.S. regulators — seemingly including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — were allowing crypto firms
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But there’s little point whining about the SEC’s post-facto virtue-signaling – the agency has the power, and seems unlikely to change its stripes any time soon. There’s more alpha in engaging with the realpolitik of its operative logic than in grousing about how unfair it is. That’s especially true because,
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The lending platform AAVE has been enjoying positive news lately. According to reports, AAVE has passed a governance proposal that would eradicate all bad debt it accumulated when Avraham Eisenberg, orchestrator of the Mango Markets exploit, targeted the platform’s Ethereum V2 liquidity pool back in November 2022. However, the governance token
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The maneuver comes ahead of the activation of a major tech upgrade of the protocol called Aave v3. Source
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According to a new post on Jan. 26, Marc Zeller, integrations lead at decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Aave, stated that the firm purchased 2.7 million Curve (CRV) tokens, which would clear “excessive remaining bad debt” within the next 15 hours over a dozen transactions. The move follows the community
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Money-making associations with cryptocurrencies misrepresent them as just currencies and fail to acknowledge the diverse applications of the technology. Original Source
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Bitcoin (BTC), the leading cryptocurrency by market value, traded in stasis at around $21,000, exhibiting a 0.7% gain on a 24-hour basis after the Genesis news hit the wires. The second-largest cryptocurrency, ether (ETH), changed hands near $1,545, up 1.2%, CoinDesk data show. Original Source
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Klaas Knot called the appealing localities with lax restrictions "sunny places for shady people." Original Source
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That doesn't necessarily mean Bitzlato was not “the China-based money laundering engine that fueled a high-tech axis of cryptocrime,” as the FBI alleges. After all, darknet transactions are supposed to be secretive. But at its height, the exchange only held $6 million in funds – a remarkably miniscule amount. Likewise,
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