Tag: fraud

Offchain Labs co-founder Ed Felten said there were one or two fraud challenges submitted on a version of Arbitrum running on the Ethereum proof-of-work fork after the Merge, which was defeated. Not a single fraud proof has been submitted on Arbitrum since it first launched its mainnet with the built-in security feature in August 2021,…

“Fake” regulatory and dispute resolution entities are being used to make some crypto providers look legitimate, warns the Canadian Securities Administrators. Canadian citizens are being advised to double-check crypto trading service providers, as the platforms may be using “fictitious” regulatory bodies to boost their credibility. According to a June 20 Investor Alert from the Canadian Securities Administrators,…

Gensler argued that securities laws helped prevent stock market scams once they were passed in the 1930s and can benefit the crypto market of today. In a June 8 speech at the Piper Sandler Global Exchange & Fintech Conference, United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler compared the current crypto market to the 1920s…

The Terraform Labs CEO is now facing fraud charges in South Korea, the Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors in New York. Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon has been charged with fraud by United States prosecutors in New York, just hours after he was reportedly arrested in Montenegro. In a court filing signed by United…

French police arrested two individuals in connection with the Platypus exploit in the month of February. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. DeFi will be in focus during the inaugural Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) tech advisory…

According to the Department of Justice, Forsage employed smart contracts that were coded in ways consistent with a Ponzi scheme. The founders behind the alleged $340 million “global Ponzi” scheme Forsage have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Oregon. The four Russian founders — Vladimir Okhotnikov, Olena Oblamska, Mikhail Sergeev…