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Top Stories This Week US officials announce $4.3B settlement with Binance, plea deal with CZ Binance and its co-founder, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, have reached a settlement over criminal and civil cases with the United States Department of Justice. CZ will
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The United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion received an education in the uses of blockchain technology in a hearing titled “Crypto Crime in Context: Breaking Down the Illicit Activity in Digital Assets.” The meeting began with a discussion of Hamas’s use of crypto
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Top Stories This Week Sam Altman ousted from OpenAI, CTO Mira Murati named interim CEO ChatGPT developer OpenAI removed founder Sam Altman from his CEO position on Nov. 17. Chief technology officer Mira Murati is now serving as interim CEO.
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Top Stories This Week CME overtakes Binance to grab largest share of Bitcoin futures open interest Bitcoin’s futures market is showing an interesting shift as global derivatives marketplace the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has surpassed Binance in terms of Bitcoin
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A coalition of Aave contributors and web3 developers put forth a proposal to address vulnerabilities discovered in two versions of defi’s largest lending protocol which prompted a halt on select markets. The proposal from BGD Labs suggested changes to Aave’s v2 deployment on Ethereum and Aave v3 on Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism,
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Sam Bankman-Fried is found guilty of fraud, other crimes; PayPal
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Millions of dollars worth of crypto assets have been moved out of official wallets linked to FTX and its trading firm Alameda in the past 24 hours, according to Spotonchain, as the bankrupt exchange labors under court supervision to salvage value and maximize its token holdings. Source
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s testimony concluded on Oct. 31 as prosecutors outlined inconsistencies in his statements and defense lawyers pointed to erroneous management decisions taken by other executives like FTX co-founder Gary Wang and ex-Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison. Prosecutors fielded multiple exhibits detailing Bankman-Fried’s media run in the wake of FTX’s collapse.
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Zero knowledge-proof (ZK-proof) scalability solutions have grown in prominence in the crypto ecosystem in recent years, making way for several ZK-focused conferences and events. A marquee ZK conference dedicated to the growing community will take place on Nov. 13 in Istanbul, Turkey. ZkDay is hosted by zero knowledge layer-1 platform,
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