MyTrade founder Liu Zhou was fined $10,000 after admitting that his crypto market-making platform used bots to conduct wash trades for dozens of tokens. Summary Liu Zhou pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit market manipulation and wire fraud. MyTrade bots generated millions of dollars in daily wash trades for about 60 cryptocurrencies. An FBI operation
This post will provide the groundwork for a major rework of the Ethereum scripting language, which will substantially modify the way ES works although still keeping many of the core components working in the exact same way. The rework is necessary as a result of multiple concerns which have been raised about the way the
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The United States and the United Kingdom have announced a formal joint digital asset framework, marking the most significant transatlantic regulatory alignment effort in crypto history and a boost to regulation for stablecoins. The plan targets stablecoins, tokenized securities, and cross-border capital markets, sending a clear signal that the world’s two largest English-speaking financial centers
My previous post introducing Ethereum Script 2.0 was met with a number of responses, some highly supportive, others suggesting that we switch to their own preferred stack-based / assembly-based / functional paradigm, and offering various specific criticisms that we are looking hard at. Perhaps the strongest criticism this time came from Sergio Damian Lerner, Bitcoin
Optimism published its Year 4 budget update and Year 5 outlook on Aug. 6, forecasting that circulating supply will reach 2.504 billion OP by April 2027. Summary Optimism forecasts circulating supply reaching 2.504 billion OP, or 58.3% of total, by April 2027. Year 5 forecasts include 200 million ecosystem tokens and 47.6 million contributor tokens
There have been a number of very interesting developments in cryptography in the past few years. Satoshi’s blockchain notwithstanding, perhaps the first major breakthrough after blinding and zero-knowledge proofs is fully homomorphic encryption, a technology which allows you to upload your data onto a server in an encrypted form so that the server can then
Inflows into Hyperliquid (HYPE) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have largely ground to a halt after surging in May and June, reflecting growing concerns over the protocol’s competitive outlook, according to Wall Street bank JPMorgan (JPM). The bank said Hyperliquid ETFs led non-bitcoin crypto funds in inflows relative to assets under management in May and June, though
Ethereum price moved back above $1,900 on Aug. 6 as renewed spot demand and short liquidations helped buyers defend the latest recovery. Summary Ethereum price was trading near $1,908 on Thursday after reaching an intraday high of $1,920. The daily chart places the next major resistance at $1,965, followed by $2,000. 4-hour Supertrend support has
Bitcoin developer Gregory Maxwell writes the following on Reddit: There is a design flaw in the Bitcoin protocol where its possible for a third party to take a valid transaction of yours and mutate it in a way which leaves it valid and functionally identical but with a different transaction ID. This greatly complicates writing
