Ripple Keeps Pumping Funds Into MoneyGram
All in, Ripple has funded the money sender to the tune of over $52 million for providing liquidity to one of its payments products. Source
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Harvest Finance Boosts Bounty to $1M for Information Leading to Return of Exploited Funds
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Harvest Finance has upped its bounty from $100,000 to $1 million for information leading to the return of $24 million in siphoned funds taken in an exploit Monday.According to the Harvest Finance Twitter and Discord account, the anonymous Harvest Finance team is offering the bounty for
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US Bail Funds See an Uptick in Cryptocurrency Donations
For many people arrested, especially low-income citizens, bail funds are their best hope for freedom while they await trial. Now, some of those funds are accepting cryptocurrency donations.Facilitated by crypto payment processor The Giving Block, the Bail Project, the Chicago Community Bond Fund and the Nashville Community Bail Fund, for
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Hedge Funds Failures, Bankruptcies & Pandemic Fatigue
As cases rise and the U.S. settles in for a fresh wave of COVID-19, the economic fallout from round one is still being felt, from hedge funds to bankruptcies and beyond. Our main conversation is about the rise of a new wave of COVID-19 and the economic fallout we’re still trying
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Group raising funds to sue Andre Cronje over EMN hack
A group of investors is crowdfunding a lawsuit against Yearn.finance (YFI) founder Andre Cronje over the unreleased and unfinished Eminence (EMN) protocol and its hack.In a post, the group EMN Investigation said it is raising money to sue Cronje, Yearn developer ‘banteg,’ and Twitter user and Yearn supporter Blue Kirby.
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US Homeland Security Funds Anti-Forgery Blockchain Projects in Latest R&D Round
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s research and development wing, the Science & Technology (S&T) Directorate, on Friday awarded $817,712 in total to five blockchain startups in a bid to reimagine the federal government’s anti-forgery and counterfeit prevention operations. From creating digital Social Security Number alternatives to building e-commerce tracing
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Fidelity, Vanguard, Schwab Funds Have Been Loading Up on Crypto Mining Stocks
Three of the largest asset managers are diversifying their funds to hold blockchain stocks, throwing more establishment financial might behind bitcoin’s technology.Charles Schwab has begun purchasing shares of Riot Blockchain, joining Fidelity and Vanguard – already investors in Riot, HIVE Blockchain Technologies, Hut 8 and BC Group – in allocating
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Leaked Audio Suggest Babel May be Leveraging User Funds
Leaked recordings of a private conversation suggest crypto lender Babel Finance leveraged some user funds to long bitcoin and faced potential default risks during this year’s Black Thursday market crash in March.Seven audio files first emerged online on Sept. 25 that appear to be parts of a longer in-person conversation
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Ocean Protocol Hard Fork Freezes Funds From KuCoin Hack
Artificial intelligence and data service Ocean Protocol has suspended its old contract on the Ethereum blockchain and hard-forked its project, following the $150 million KuCoin hack.On Sunday at 22:00 UTC, Ocean Protocol announced it had migrated from its old token address to a new one to thwart the KuCoin hacker’s
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Pantera Crypto Funds Report 100% Returns Amid DeFi Craze
A boom in decentralized finance (DeFi) has turbo-charged returns for Pantera Capital’s bitcoin and mixed cryptocurrency hedge funds this year.From Jan. 1 to Aug. 31, Pantera’s bitcoin (BTC) fund gained 61%, its digital asset fund 168%, its initial coin offering (ICO) fund 323% and its long-term ICO fund 270%, thanks
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