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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Attempts to Influence Witnesses Show He Must Be Jailed Before Trial: DOJ

"The defendant’s leaking of Ellison’s private writings is yet another instance of the defendant trying to intimidate and corruptly persuade Ellison with respect to her upcoming trial testimony, as well as an effort to influence or prevent the testimony of other potential trial witnesses by creating the specter that their

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NFT-styled debit cards the future of Web3 — Animoca founder on $30M hi investment

Animoca Brands co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu sees significant potential in the personalization of Web3-based services as his firm earmarks $30 million for the neobank platform hi.Siu’s investment firm plans to invest in the Web3 app that combines a cryptocurrency exchange, digital banking services and a customizable nonfungible token

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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Won’t Face Campaign Finance Charge, U.S. DOJ Says

"The Government has been informed that The Bahamas notified the United States earlier today that The Bahamas did not intend to extradite the defendant on the campaign contributions count," the DOJ letter said. "Accordingly, in keeping with its treaty obligations to The Bahamas, the Government does not intend to proceed

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Binance CEO warns of phishing scams as Uniswap founder gets hacked

Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao is the latest figure in the cryptocurrency industry to warn against the increasing number of phishing attacks.CZ took to Twitter on July 21 to warn his readers about phishing and other social engineering scams. He also recommended cryptocurrency exchange users rely on hardware devices for

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US DoJ accuses FTX founder of leaking private diary of Caroline Ellison

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a complaint against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), accusing him of leaking the private papers of Caroline Ellison, who was once his business ally and romantic partner.In a new complaint filed on July 20, the DoJ accused Bankman-Fried of an attempt to

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Digitex Founder Ordered to Pay $16M to Resolve U.S. CFTC Action, Banned From Trading

“This order resolves yet another action against an individual and digital asset exchange illegally offering futures contracts to U.S. customers,” said Ian McGinley, the CFTC’s enforcement director, in a statement. He noted the court also found that Todd had “attempted to manipulate Digitex’s native utility token, DGTX, by allegedly ‘pumping’

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Connext founder proposes ‘Sovereign Bridged Token’ standard after Multichain incident

An Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) made on July 7 seeks to standardize how tokens are bridged between networks. The “Sovereign Bridged Token” standard, or EIP-7281, allows token issuers to create canonical bridges across multiple networks.The proposal was co-authored by Arjun Bhuptani, founder of the Connext bridging protocol. In a July

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