Commonwealth Bank executive James Roberts cited a huge scale of “investment scams” involving crypto exchanges. Commonwealth Bank (CBA), the largest bank in Australia, has said it will decline or temporarily hold certain payments to cryptocurrency exchanges, citing the risk of scammers. The move comes amid two major global exchanges facing a lawsuit from the United States securities…

Ether could eventually run afoul of the SEC, but at the moment, key data points suggest ETH is poised to hold the $1,800 level. Ether’s price retested $1,780 after the news of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suing cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Coinbase, but it’s not preposterous to suggest that Ether bulls…

Cryptocurrencies are challenging the status quo of remittance services. Will they also shape the future of cross-border payments? In this era of global economies, where cross-cultural exchanges and international transactions are increasingly common, the demand for efficient and accessible cross-border money transfers has reached new heights of importance. Whilst traditional remittance providers have long dominated the market,…

“Every major player has been sued by the SEC except for FTX,” several members of the crypto community have noted. The United States securities chair has hinted at “parallels” between crypto exchange Binance and collapsed exchange FTX — namely their alleged use of sister firms to move funds. Speaking to Bloomberg on June 6, the…

Brian Armstrong and CZ have seen respective net worth losses of 11.8% and 5.1% since the SEC sued Coinbase and Binance. The net worths of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) have suffered heavy blows due to recent lawsuits by the United States securities regulator. Armstrong’s net worth was slashed by…

The upgrade is part of a series of reforms meant to increase modularity in the OP Stack, allowing developers to spin up their own networks using the software. The Optimism network concluded its “Bedrock” upgrade on June 7, reducing deposit times, lowering layer-1 fees and enacting additional security features, according to an announcement from network…

Total daily trading volumes on decentralized exchanges have surged by nearly $800 million over the past two days. The median trading volume across the top three decentralized exchanges (DEX) jumped 444% in the past 48 hours as crypto investors reeled from the United States securities regulator’s recent legal actions against cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Binance….

The SEC lawsuit against Binance led to outflows of over $750 million on Ethereum in the past 24 hours, with outflows still exceeding inflows. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) lawsuit against Binance — accusing the crypto exchange of violating various securities laws — has directly impacted the crypto market and the exchange’s…

Besides Ethereum, Bitcoin’s meme frenzy via Ordinals has steeply declined from its high in May. The average gas fee — transaction fee — on the Ethereum network has cooled substantially in the first week of June after reaching a multimonth high in May, owing to the memecoin frenzy and much maximal extractable value (MEV) bot…

The tech giant finally dropped details of its new pricey mixed-reality headset during the Worldwide Developers Conference, though it made no mention of the word “metaverse.” Apple’s newly revealed mixed-reality headset, the Apple Vision Pro, has both turned tech-enthusiast heads and raised eyebrows after its unveiling at the WWDC on June 5. There was however,…