FTX Japan Customers Can Begin Withdrawing Fiat, Crypto on Feb. 21
The announcement meets a promise made in December by the ring-fenced exchange. Source
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France’s top museum to display NFTs: Nifty Newsletter, Feb 8–14
In this week’s newsletter, read about how France’s top contemporary art museum will display nonfungible tokens (NFTs). Find out why a founder of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) copycat project, RR/BAYC, is opposing trademark applications from Yuga Labs. Check out how NFTs based on Ethereum lost 60% of their
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Regulation comes for crypto staking: Law Decoded, Feb. 6–13
Last week, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reached an agreement with cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. The latter will stop offering crypto staking services to American customers and pay $30 million in disgorgement, prejudgment interest and civil penalties. While the sum of fines could hardly get an entity like Kraken
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YouTuber baits MMA fighter to promote fake NFTs: Nifty Newsletter, Feb. 1–7
In this week’s newsletter, read about how Yuga Labs settled a lawsuit with one of the creators of a copycat nonfungible token (NFT) collection. Learn how the Bitcoin Ordinals creator fixed the first instance of porn uploaded to the protocol and how YouTuber Coffeezilla tricked MMA fighter Dillon Danis into
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Binance to temporarily suspend bank transfers in US dollars beginning Feb. 8
Binance has announced that it is temporarily suspending bank transfers in United States dollars (USD) beginning Feb. 8. No other trading methods will be affected, the exchange said in a tweet on Feb. 6.The news came with no explanation, although the company, which is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, added
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US Congress to hold ‘crypto crash’ hearing on Feb. 14
United States lawmakers with the Senate Banking Committee have scheduled a second hearing exploring the impact of a crypto market crash.In a Feb. 3 announcement, Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown said senators would convene on Feb. 14 in a hearing titled “Crypto Crash: Why Financial System Safeguards are Needed
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Ethereum staking withdrawal testnet Zhejiang to go online Feb. 1
According to a Jan. 31 post by Ethereum Foundation developer Parithosh Jayanthi, the “Zhejiang” public withdrawal testnet will launch on Feb. 1 at 3:00 pm UTC. Six days after Zhejiang, the Shanghai and Capella testnets will also be triggered at epoch 1350. Jayanthi noted:“This is also a great opportunity for
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