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Do Kwon is unlikely to face prison time for  billion UST crypto wipeout — fines and lawsuits are more likely
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Do Kwon is unlikely to face prison time for $60 billion UST crypto wipeout — fines and lawsuits are more likely

Do Kwon, co-founder and chief executive officer of Terraform Labs, leaves the company’s office in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Woohae Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Do Kwon, the 30-year-old South Korean founder of a $60 billion stablecoin project that imploded last month, has a knack for convincing people to buy […]

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Solana suffered its second outage in a month, sending price plunging
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Solana suffered its second outage in a month, sending price plunging

The logo of cryptocurrency platform Solana. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto via | Getty Images Solana, one of the largest cryptocurrencies after bitcoin and ether, fell more than 12% on Wednesday as its blockchain suffered its second outage in the last month. Validators in the network were not processing new blocks for several hours. Applications built […]

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Former OpenSea employee charged in first-ever NFT insider trading case
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Former OpenSea employee charged in first-ever NFT insider trading case

U.S. prosecutors are now going after insider trading in the crypto industry. On Wednesday, prosecutors in New York’s Southern District charged and arrested Nathaniel Chastain, a former product manager at the online marketplace OpenSea. The 31-year-old faces one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering, in connection with a scheme to commit […]

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Top crypto firms go on the hunt for acquisition targets as market crashes
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Top crypto firms go on the hunt for acquisition targets as market crashes

Two top cryptocurrency companies, Ripple and FTX, told CNBC that they’re on the lookout for acquisitions as the industry hopes to drive growth through buying other firms. It is a sign that some crypto firms feel that they’re large enough and well capitalized to splash the cash on acquisitions. Brett Harrison, president of cryptocurrency exchange […]

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The luna cryptocurrency has been resurrected after its  billion collapse. It’s already crashing
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The luna cryptocurrency has been resurrected after its $40 billion collapse. It’s already crashing

Cryptocurrency markets have seen a steep sell-off after the collapse of controversial blockchain project Terra. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images A new version of the collapsed luna cryptocurrency is already live on major exchanges — and it’s gotten off to a bad start. Last week, supporters of the Terra blockchain project voted to revive luna […]

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South Korea is betting on the metaverse — and it could provide a blueprint for others
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South Korea is betting on the metaverse — and it could provide a blueprint for others

An attendant with the Meta Oculus Quest 2 headset on a virtual reality tour during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in March, 2022. South Korea is betting on the metaverse as the next big thing, but there are still questions over the shape the industry will take in the coming years. Joan Cros | […]

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Some investors got rich before a popular stablecoin imploded, erasing  billion in value
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Some investors got rich before a popular stablecoin imploded, erasing $60 billion in value

WASHINGTON — In May, the collapse of one of the most popular U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin projects cost investors tens of billions of dollars as they pulled out in a panic that some have compared to a bank run. But before that, the stablecoin known as terraUSD (or UST, for short) and its sister token luna, […]

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 billion collapse of major cryptocurrency is not the industry’s Bear Stearns moment — senators and regulators explain why
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$60 billion collapse of major cryptocurrency is not the industry’s Bear Stearns moment — senators and regulators explain why

WASHINGTON — It’s been a brutal few weeks for the crypto market. Half a trillion dollars was wiped off the sector’s market cap as terraUSD, one of the most popular U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins, imploded virtually overnight. Meanwhile, digital coins such as ether continue to take a beating on the price charts, as the sell-off keeps […]

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JPMorgan sees upside for bitcoin after recent washout
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JPMorgan sees upside for bitcoin after recent washout

Bitcoin investors have been swept up in the market carnage this year, but those still holding on should expect at least 30% upside to the cryptocurrency from here, according to JPMorgan strategist Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou. He reiterated in a note this week that bitcoin’s fair value is at the $38,000 level, which implies upside of about […]

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SEC’s Hester Peirce says the U.S. has dropped the ball on crypto regulation
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SEC’s Hester Peirce says the U.S. has dropped the ball on crypto regulation

WASHINGTON — The U.S. has dropped the ball on crypto regulation, according to Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester Peirce, and she says the knock-on effects of that failure keep her up at night. “There’s a lot of fraud in this space, because it’s the hot area of the moment,” Peirce told CNBC on the sidelines […]

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