Binance founder CZ receives support from crypto community as jail term starts
    02 Jun 2024
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    Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has reported to a low-security federal prison in Lompoc, California, to begin serving his sentence. According to a CNBC report, the information was verified with his legal team at Latham and Watkins. Crypto community applauds Members of the crypto community have expressed their admiration for the…

    US SEC is ‘bent on choking’ the crypto industry — Coinbase
    02 Jun 2024
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    The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will continue its regulation-by-enforcement approach to the cryptocurrency industry for as long as it can to satisfy its goal of “choking” the industry, according to crypto exchange Coinbase. “The SEC is serious about the destruction of digital assets,” Coinbase declared in a May 31 filing with the U.S Court…

    EOS Network approves new tokenomics, promises ‘new era’
    01 Jun 2024
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    The EOS ecosystem has reached a consensus to approve a new tokenomics model, promising a “new era” for EOS tokenholders and developers. According to an announcement on May 31, EOS will transition from an inflationary token supply with a maximum of 10 billion EOS tokens to a fixed supply of 2.1 billion tokens. According to the…

    Spot Ethereum ETF ‘fee war’ begins as Franklin Templeton discloses fees
    01 Jun 2024
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    American multinational investment firm Franklin Templeton has filed an amended S-1 application for its proposed spot Ether exchange-traded fund (ETF) product, and is the first among the applicants to disclose fees to investors. “The fees of the Sponsor accrues daily at an annualized rate equal to 0.19% of the net asset value of the Fund,” Franklin…

    Tornado Cash sentence ‘radically unfair and unreasonable’ — Nym CEO
    31 May 2024
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    Harry Halpin, the CEO of Nym, a privacy-focused project, recently shared his thoughts on the sentence handed down to Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev. During an interview with Cointelegraph’s Jonathan DeYoung at Consensus 2024, Halpin characterized the sentence as “radically unfair and unreasonable” and provided these analogies: “The punishment is not proportional either. Years in…

    McHenry urges Senate to pass FIT21 crypto bill before election
    31 May 2024
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    Outgoing United States Republican lawmaker Patrick McHenry has pressured the Senate to pass a key crypto-regulating bill before the November presidential election. The Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT21) passed the House on May 22 with 71 Democrats and 208 Republicans in favor. “This should be a wake-up call for the Senate that…