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Binance to Offer $500 Million Worth of Loans to Crypto Mining Industry

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has set out to support crypto miners through a lending program established by its mining pool. Presenting the initiative this week, the coin trading platform also unveiled that Binance Pool intends to launch cloud mining products. Leading Exchange Binance Looking to Help Bitcoin Miners in Difficult Times for Crypto Business Binance, the…
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Texas authorities object to Voyager’s disclosure statement in its current form

The Texas state authorities, SSB and DOB, argued that Voyager fails to explain the methodology used to calculate the average coin prices, among others. The Texas State Securities Board (SSB) and the Texas Department of Banking (DOB) raised an objection in court against Voyager Digital’s disclosure statement, questioning the various methodologies and calculations used to…
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DefiLlama founder moves to NFT lending to tackle liquidity constraints

The anonymous creator, 0xngmi, has developed a new protocol allowing users to become liquidity providers for their nonfungible token collections. According to a recent Twitter post by 0xngmi, the anonymous creator of decentralized finance (DeFi) project aggregator DefiLlama, the smart contract code for a novel nonfungible tokens (NFT) borrowing and lending protocol dubbed “LlamaLend” is…
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Scammers Are Targeting Cryptocurrency Scam Sites to Hijack Their Targeted Audience

Cryptocurrency scam sites are being targeted by other scammers to hijack their traffic and their possible earnings. A recently detected threat actor, named Water Labbu, is manipulating the users that are drawn to these sites as a source of revenue, injecting a malicious script as a tool for interacting with the wallet that, depending on…
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The Post-Terra Era: Incentivising Innovation and Longevity Through Regulation

Vincent Chok is the CEO of First Digital Trust, a Hong Kong-based technology-driven financial institution powering the digital asset industry and servicing financial technology innovators including blockchain clients, payments companies, and virtual banks.__________… Read More: The Post-Terra Era: Incentivising Innovation and Longevity Through Regulation  Read more »Sign up for e-EUR – the progressive stablecoin

FTX reportedly considers bailing out Celsius via asset bid

Acquiring the assets of Celsius would imply FTX’s intent to save the lending firm, similar to what FTX US did for Voyager by securing the winning bid of approximately $1.4 billion. Crypto exchange FTX, led by crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), is reportedly considering bailing out Celsius Network by bidding on the bankrupt lender’s assets.…
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Nexo acquires stake in US chartered bank

By acquiring a stake in the holding company that owns Summit National Bank, Nexo plans to expand its financial product offerings in the United States. Digital asset lending platform Nexo has purchased a stake in a holding company that owns a federally chartered bank in the United States — a move Nexo said will enhance…
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Merchant Crypto Payments: Clever Marketing or Signs of Real Adoption?

Andrey Diyakonov is the Chief Commercial Officer at Choise.com, a MetaFi (CeFi/DeFi) ecosystem based on Crypterium CeFi solutions and Charism DeFi protocol.__________ Earlier this year, all the news about digital assets was about the ongoing crypto winter, the bankruptcy of lenders and other projects, and major black swan events like Axie Infinity’s Ronin bridge hack…
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Crypto Biz: DID you see what Africa is doing with Web3?

Decentralized identity services could play a vital role in promoting Web3 payments in emerging markets like Africa. This week’s Crypto Biz has the latest. If you’ve spent any time reading about blockchain and Web3, you know that this industry is filled with big buzzwords and half-baked concepts. But, concepts such as decentralized identity services, or…
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Alameda Research ‘happy to return’ $200M loan to Voyager Digital

The trading company will pay back the debt, which has fallen almost twice in dollar estimate, by the end of September. Quantitative trading company Alameda Research will return an estimate of $200 million to Voyager Digital, which is proceeding through bankruptcy. Alameda borrowed the funds in cryptocurrencies in September 2021. At that time, the sum was…
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