Crypto Platforms

Crypto platform WazirX, which lost a staggering $234 million worth of digital assets in a cyber breach, on Sunday announced $23 million in bounty to recover the stolen funds.

While WazirX’s team started to investigate its wallet breach, Gadgets360 reached out to multiple crypto exchanges to inquire about the status of users on their respective platforms. Given that the WazirX hack has stirred chaos in India’s crypto community, fears about other exchanges seeing many quick withdrawals had arisen among industry inside...

US regulators have issued an official warning against an emerging category of crypto scams, where scammers pose as professors or academicians. Social networking platforms including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Telegram are being exploited by cyber miscreants to find and communicate with potential victims.

Binance is adding more security to the services and features it offers. To ensure its account features are not being misused, Binance claims to have enhanced the monitoring of all account usage and related activities from a technological standpoint. It is also offering rewards to vigilant users for reporting potentially suspicious activity.

A total of 43 new cryptocurrencies have been listed on the Giottus crypto exchange. Cryptocurrencies related to decentralised finance (DeFi) protocols, real world assets (RWA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and memecoins have made it to Giottus’ refreshed list. The exchange is said to have around 300 tokens currently listed for trading. It claims...

"Gemini marketed its Earn program as a way for investors to grow their money, but actually lied and locked investors out of their accounts," James said. "Today's settlement will make defrauded investors whole."

The Bharat Web3 Association (BWA) has urged FM Nirmala Sitharaman to provide a level playing ground for Web3 startups and businesses to thrive in. The BWA said it is of high importance that Web3 platforms get access to the provision of banking services. The advisory body has further urged the government to encourage investment and growth in the Web...

Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) will inspect all firms linked to the cryptocurrency sector. The platform have been informed about compliance audits in the coming weeks. Hong Kong authorities had imposed a deadline up to June 1 for existing crypto firms to get their licencing and other documentation work in order.

Alexey Pertsev, the developer of controversial crypto mixer Tornado Cash, has reportedly been found guilty of laundering unlawful funds via the platform. Prosecutors have blamed the developer for not doing enough to restrict crypto criminals from exploiting the Tornado Cash platform.

The Coinbase app and website are experiencing an outage. In a message being displayed on the platform, Coinbase has claimed that its users need not worry about their funds because of this outage.

Mudrex has teamed up with ClearTax to help users file their crypto taxes. As part of this partnership, the trader and investor communities using Mudrex will get an access to the tax computing solutions offered by ClearTax at a nominal fee.

The concept of SocialFi is to bridge the gap that exists between existing social networking platforms and Web3. It gives users more control over their content, more freedom of speech, and also lets them monetise their content.

Bitget crypto exchange and Alchemy Pay have entered a collaboration. The aim is to make crypto buying on international exchanges more accessible in India while also diversifying the number of platforms to do so for the nationals.

Jack Dorsey, through his payments firm Block, has announced that the creation of its Bitcoin mining chip has been completed. Following months of research and development, Block has managed to create a 3nm Bitcoin mining chip.

Hong Kong has approved the trading of spot BTC and ETH ETFs on Monday, April 15. The final approval was signed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). Spot ETFs track the current price of commodities and allow traders to get exposure to the current price of BTC without having to purchase and hold the asset.

Crypto platform WazirX, which lost a staggering $234 million worth of digital assets in a cyber breach, on Sunday announced $23 million in bounty to recover the stolen funds.

While WazirX’s team started to investigate its wallet breach, Gadgets360 reached out to multiple crypto exchanges to inquire about the status of users on their respective platforms. Given that the WazirX hack has stirred chaos in India’s crypto community, fears about other exchanges seeing many quick withdrawals had arisen among industry inside...

US regulators have issued an official warning against an emerging category of crypto scams, where scammers pose as professors or academicians. Social networking platforms including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Telegram are being exploited by cyber miscreants to find and communicate with potential victims.

Binance is adding more security to the services and features it offers. To ensure its account features are not being misused, Binance claims to have enhanced the monitoring of all account usage and related activities from a technological standpoint. It is also offering rewards to vigilant users for reporting potentially suspicious activity.

A total of 43 new cryptocurrencies have been listed on the Giottus crypto exchange. Cryptocurrencies related to decentralised finance (DeFi) protocols, real world assets (RWA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and memecoins have made it to Giottus’ refreshed list. The exchange is said to have around 300 tokens currently listed for trading. It claims...

"Gemini marketed its Earn program as a way for investors to grow their money, but actually lied and locked investors out of their accounts," James said. "Today's settlement will make defrauded investors whole."

The Bharat Web3 Association (BWA) has urged FM Nirmala Sitharaman to provide a level playing ground for Web3 startups and businesses to thrive in. The BWA said it is of high importance that Web3 platforms get access to the provision of banking services. The advisory body has further urged the government to encourage investment and growth in the Web...

Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) will inspect all firms linked to the cryptocurrency sector. The platform have been informed about compliance audits in the coming weeks. Hong Kong authorities had imposed a deadline up to June 1 for existing crypto firms to get their licencing and other documentation work in order.

Alexey Pertsev, the developer of controversial crypto mixer Tornado Cash, has reportedly been found guilty of laundering unlawful funds via the platform. Prosecutors have blamed the developer for not doing enough to restrict crypto criminals from exploiting the Tornado Cash platform.

The Coinbase app and website are experiencing an outage. In a message being displayed on the platform, Coinbase has claimed that its users need not worry about their funds because of this outage.

Mudrex has teamed up with ClearTax to help users file their crypto taxes. As part of this partnership, the trader and investor communities using Mudrex will get an access to the tax computing solutions offered by ClearTax at a nominal fee.

The concept of SocialFi is to bridge the gap that exists between existing social networking platforms and Web3. It gives users more control over their content, more freedom of speech, and also lets them monetise their content.

Bitget crypto exchange and Alchemy Pay have entered a collaboration. The aim is to make crypto buying on international exchanges more accessible in India while also diversifying the number of platforms to do so for the nationals.

Jack Dorsey, through his payments firm Block, has announced that the creation of its Bitcoin mining chip has been completed. Following months of research and development, Block has managed to create a 3nm Bitcoin mining chip.

Hong Kong has approved the trading of spot BTC and ETH ETFs on Monday, April 15. The final approval was signed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). Spot ETFs track the current price of commodities and allow traders to get exposure to the current price of BTC without having to purchase and hold the asset.