Tag: Scams

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…

A crypto insurance provider will typically assess at least 2,000 variables across 20 risk areas before they even consider insuring a platform, according to an insurance executive. Crypto insurance providers spend enormous amounts of time judging whether to provide coverage to a crypto company, and almost none of them offer assurances to individuals, insurance and…

The executive appears to have now recovered his account. Arthur Madrid, co-founder and CEO of metaverse project The Sandbox, was the victim of a Twitter account hack on May 26, according to a post from Madrid that was apparently made after he recovered the account. The attacker allegedly used Madrid’s account to promote a fake…

Memecoins have come a long way from the early days of being joke cryptocurrencies. Memecoins, or meme cryptocurrencies, started as a cultural phenomenon with the launch of Dogecoin in 2013, inspired by an internet meme and a critique of the wild crypto market at the time. Dogecoin was developed by software developers Billy Markus and Jackson…

On-chain detective ZachXBT believes that the project has “likely exit scammed” after bridging $31.6 million to multiple addresses on Tron and Ethereum. A crypto project called Fintoch, which claimed to be backed by investment banking firm Morgan Stanley, seems to have taken off with almost $32 million of its users’ funds, according to on-chain detective…

According to ZachXBT, one alleged scammer in particular launched around 114 projects in the past 45 days alone. Crypto scammers have been ramping up the launch of spurious memecoins over the past two months, according to crypto sleuths. According to research from blockchain sleuths ZachXBT, one address, in particular, has launched “114 memecoin scams” in…