The proposed class action lawsuit alleges the exchange violated privacy laws in Illinois when it collected and stored users’ fingerprints and facial scans. Coinbase violated biometric privacy laws in Illinois through its collection and storage of customer fingerprints and facial templates, a proposed class-action lawsuit alleges. A May 1 filing in a California District Court by a…

The blockchain industry is facing a massive power imbalance — just like the traditional finance industry. Blockchain technology was introduced in 2008 as a decentralized, secure, transparent system for managing digital transactions. Its primary aim was to provide a solution to major problems with traditional transactional systems, including trust, security, decentralization and efficiency. Blockchain has…

Starknet makes performance improvements a top priority in 2023, aiming to increase throughput, lower latency and reduce transaction costs. Layer-2 blockchain protocols have been in the spotlight in 2023, bringing major performance improvements to a variety of platforms and services operating in the Ethereum ecosystem. Zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs have been key in the roll-out of a variety…

Banking giant JPMorgan will take over the assets of the troubled First Republic Bank after its seizure by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. The American banking giant JPMorgan Chase is set to acquire First Republic Bank’s (FRB) assets after early efforts to rescue it failed. JPMorgan and multiple other banks submitted a…

According to ChatGPT, there’s a 15% chance that Bitcoin will “fade to irrelevancy,” with prices falling 99.99% by 2035. A Coinbase executive claims to have discovered a “jailbreak” for the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT that allows it to calculate the probability of bizarre crypto price scenarios. The crypto exchange’s head of business operations Conor Grogan,…

A survey from the United States Financial Industry Regulatory Authority indicates that new crypto investors tended to be swayed by suggestions from friends, compared to equities or bond investors. Influence from friends and the fear of missing out (FOMO) were some of the reasons investors bought crypto for the first time in 2022, according to…