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Binance to Launch Regulated Bitcoin Exchange in Thailand

Binance cooperates with FSB and Rosfinmonitoring

The news is being updated The regional representation of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange agreed to share information about clients from Russia with Rosfinmonitoring and the FSB in exchange for assistance in doing business in the state. Writes about it Reuters with reference to former employees of the company and other informed sources. ForkLog sent a request for...

Twitter to Test USDC Payments from Stripe

Twitter to Test USDC Payments from Stripe

Online business financial infrastructure provider Stripe has added support for USDC stablecoin payments on the Polygon blockchain. The first user of the solution will be Twitter. Introducing crypto payouts: https://t.co/xJnpLmsBKn. pic.twitter.com/PJQ2oTaU7J — Stripe (@stripe) April 22, 2022 The company implemented a new feature in Stripe Connect, a system for integrating payments into online marketplaces. Check Also: Polygon Crypto Price...

Uniswap Labs announced the blocking of sanctioned addresses at the frontend level

Uniswap Labs announced the blocking of sanctioned addresses at the frontend level

Uniswap Labs, the company behind the development of the leading Ethereum exchange Uniswap, started blocking at the frontend level, addresses associated with illegal activity. Blockchain data monitoring is implemented in conjunction with the TRM Labs platform. The latter marks crypto wallets that may be associated with hacker attacks, fraud, terrorist financing, ransomware, human trafficking, as well...

MetaMask warned Apple users about the risk of losing funds

MetaMask Users Crashed Due to Infura Issues

MetaMask developers have reported Web3 wallet crashes due to malfunctions in the Ethereum infrastructure provider Infura. If you’re currently experiencing issues with MetaMask, it may be because of the outage that @Infura_io is actively combating: https://t.co/lZGMg4RaaI — MetaMask 🦊💙 (@MetaMask) April 22, 2022 Problems arose with calling some functions with APIs on the main Ethereum network, as well...

Robinhood to acquire British financial app Ziglu

Robinhood to acquire British financial app Ziglu

Robinhood, an investment and trading app company, announced on the acquisition of startup Ziglu. He develops a crypto wallet with a bank card attached to it. “Ziglu and Robinhood share a common goal of lowering barriers to a new generation of investors. By becoming part of Robinhood, we will strengthen the company's expansion process in Europe...

Lido Finance will expand the number of validators to increase the decentralization of Beacon Chain

Lido Finance allocates $6 million to develop the Ethereum ecosystem

Members of Lido Finance staking service approved allocation of 2 million LDO (~$6 million) to support Ethereum under the Protocol Guild. The framework supports autonomous mechanisms for recruiting, retaining, and remunerating developers. As an added bonus to the start of @EFDevconnect, we're pleased to say the proposal for Lido to pilot the Protocol Guild has passed,...

Former head of the Central Bank of El Salvador: the legalization of bitcoin “killed” relations with the IMF

El Salvador has been unable to find common ground with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and negotiations with it are "practically dead." This opinion was expressed by the former head of the country's central bank, Carlos Acevedo, writes ElSalvador.com. We are talking about an agreement with the IMF on the allocation of financial assistance. According to...

A group of mining companies BitRiver fell under US sanctions

A group of mining companies BitRiver fell under US sanctions

US Treasury imposed sanctions against the BitRiver group of companies engaged in cryptocurrency mining in the Russian Federation. According to the agency, BitRiver, an operator of mining data centers founded in 2017, currently has three offices in Russia. In 2021, BitRiver transferred ownership of its assets to the Swiss holding BitRiver AG. In addition to it, ten...

Mining company Crusoe raised $350 million

Mining company Crusoe raised $350 million

Crusoe Energy Systems Inc, a bitcoin-mining company, has closed a $350 million Series C funding round. It was led by G2 Venture Partners. Participants include: Valor Equity Partners, Lowercarbon Capital, Polychain Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Founders Fund, MCJ Collective, Winklevoss Capital and others. One of Crusoe's new investors is Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr.'s FootPrint Coalition Ventures. In...

Goldman Sachs offered FTX cooperation

Goldman Sachs offered FTX cooperation

According to sources FTin March, the head of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon, offered FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried help in organizing an IPO for the bitcoin exchange and dialogue with the CFTC. In August 2021 FTX US acquired LedgerX, a regulated exchange specializing in cryptocurrency derivatives. At the same time, the head of the American division, Brett...