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Robinhood Wallet rolls out on iOS with Android support to follow
The full launch and removal of the 1 million waitlisted users come six months after Robinhood launched its beta version in September. Trading platform Robinhood has launched its Web3 wallet on Apple’s App Store, becoming available to iOS users in over 130 countries. Robinhood s...
Lido Finance activates staking rate limit after more than 150,000 ETH staked
Lido Finance had to activate its safety feature — staking rate limit — after over 150,000 ETH was staked in a single day. Liquid staking protocol Lido Finance activated a protocol safety feature called “staking rate limit” after more than 150,000 Ether ETH$1,638 was staked w...
BingChatGPT ‘pump and dump’ tokens emerging by the dozen: PeckShield
Blockchain security firm PeckShield on Twitter said it has found dozens of pump-and-dump tokens purporting to be related to ChatGPT. Blockchain security firm PeckShield has raised the alarm after finding dozens of tokens purporting to be related to artificial intelligence (AI) p...
Binance and Huobi freeze $1.4M in crypto linked to North Korean hackers
The North Korean-based hacker outfit Lazarus Group resorted to different privacy mixers attempting to anonymize the stolen funds, but it didn’t work. Cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Huobi have again frozen accounts linked to last June's $100 million Harmony Horizon bridge h...
Here's why India held on to older crypto reforms in national budget 2023
Experts opine that the Indian government needs more data and time to decide on rigid tax policies, given it has been only ten months since the tax laws were introduced in March 2022. Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology found no mention in India’s union budge...
Decentralized Storage Alliance seeks to bridge the Web3 gap through education and advocacy
Decentralized storage network Filecoin has partnered with Protocol Labs and other participants within the Web3 ecosystem to launch the Decentralized Storage Alliance. According to the announcement, one of the main goals of the newly formed alliance is to help Web2 enterprises tra...
North Korea’s Lazarus behind years of crypto hacks in Japan
Japan’s national police have pinned North Korean hacking group, Lazarus, as the organization behind several years of crypto-related cyber attacks. In the public advisory statement sent out on Oct. 14, Japan’s National Police Agency (NPA) and Financial S...
SWIFT action: JPMorgan and Visa team on cross-border blockchain payments
Traditional finance and payment giants JPMorgan and Visa are teaming up to streamline the use of their private blockchain solutions Liink and B2B Connect to facilitate cross-border payments. According to an Oct. 11 report from Forbes, JPMorgan’s Liink is a network specifica...
Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky resigns
According to a new press release published on Tuesday, Alex Mashinsky, CEO of troubled crypto lender Celsius Network, has resigned effective immediately. In explaining the decision, Mashinsky wrote: “I regret that my continued role as CEO has become an increasing d...
South Korean ministry recommends enactment of special Metaverse laws
The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) of South Korea revealed plans to move away from imposing traditional video gaming laws on the Metaverse. Instead, the ministry decided to issue new guidelines for incentivizing the growth of the budding ecosystem. South Korea’...