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Keith Comito on the benefits of blockchain tech and decentralization in longevity research

Lifespan.io President and co-founder Keith Comito was into longevity before longevity was cool.“We started our nonprofit back in 2014,” Comito said. “Back then, few credible researchers would be caught dead saying they were working on aging. It was still kind of a scientific backwater. So, we wanted to emulate what

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Circle, Uniswap Research Says DeFi Can Solve $2 Trillion FX Risk Problem

Every day, about $2.2 trillion in foreign-exchange (FX) transactions carry a risk that the yet-to-be settled side of an agreement won’t meet obligations. But a new paper from Circle Internet Financial and decentralized exchange Uniswap Labs finds that a distributed ledger could solve that problem with simultaneous settlement. Original Source

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FTX Attorney Reveals SBF Ordered Co-Founder to Open $65B Secret Line of Credit for Alameda Research

The CFTC claimed that the FTX co-founder created a “virtually unlimited” secret line of credit” for Alameda. FTX attorney Andrew Dietderich has dropped a bombshell testimony that Sam Bankman-Fried ordered co-founder Gary Wang to open a credit line for Alameda Research. Alameda Research is the crypto exchange’s crypto company, which was at

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Alameda Research had a $65B secret line of credit with FTX: Report

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) reportedly ordered Gary Wang, co-founder of the crypto exchange, to open a $65 billion "secret backdoor line of credit" for Alameda Research, according to FTX attorney Andrew Dietderich. The attorney disclosed the information during a Delaware bankruptcy court hearing on Jan. 11, the New York

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Alameda Research liquidators lost $72K during fund consolidation attempt

The liquidators of Alameda Research continue to encounter obstacles in their efforts to recover funds for creditors. Crypto analytics firm Arkham disclosed on Twitter that the liquidators lost $72,000 worth of digital assets on the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Aave while trying to consolidate funds into a single multisignature wallet.

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Crypto Exchange Binance Controlled 92% of Bitcoin Spot Trading Volume at End of 2022: Arcane Research

Chatter about the solvency of Binance increased significantly after the collapse of FTX, and the exchange did suffer some outflows for a short period, though things have stabilized since. A market share this high could become problematic for the industry if Binance were to encounter any issues, whether regulatory or

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