Category: Breaking

Patrick Gruhn, the former head of FTX Europe, has paid nearly $1.5 million for a gold pocket watch recovered from the body of the Titanic’s richest passenger, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

BTC is down nearly 9% in the last 24 hours having dropped below the $60,000 support level late on Tuesday.

Between 2022 and 2023 Crypto alongside retail banking, wholesale banking and wealth management posed the greatest risk of being exploited for money laundering, a report by the U.K. Treasury department showed.

Restaking has taken hold of the Ethereum ecosystem. With Jito and a handful of other companies building for Solana, can the trend spread?

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for May 1, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Patterns of illicit activity involving groups of bitcoin nodes and chains of transactions are described in a research paper by Elliptic and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.

He likened FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried to Luke Skywalker and Binance’s Changpeng Zhao to Darth Vader. Federal judges saw it differently.

BlackRock and Securitize last month teamed up to create the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, which may prove to be geared toward RWA tokenization.

The cryptocurrency is now trading below the average spot ETF purchase price of about $58K, and this could trigger liquidations, the report said.

The summer months, between June and September, have historically brought significantly lower investor returns than other months of the year, says André Dragosch, head of research at ETC Group.