DeFi Bankruptcy Expert: FTX Is Worse than Enron The Bankruptcy expert who let Enron through bankruptcy says FTX is worse than anything he's seen in his career...
DeFi Billions Flow Out of Crypto Exchanges in Wake of FTX Collapse Investors withdrew ~$20B in crypto from centralized exchanges (CEXs) over the last two weeks in response to the collapse of FTX and Alameda.
DeFi FTX Contagion Spreads to Genesis Global, Gemini, and GOPAX The Gemini Earn yield farming program halted withdrawals last week following a bank run on lending services provider Genesis Global Capital.
DeFi FTX was Solana’s Biggest Backer. What now? Solana's entire ecosystem was built, propped up, and in part reliant on FTX and Alameda Research. What now?
DeFi Where In the World is Sam Bankman-Fried? There are rumors that Sam Bankman-Fried has been trying to flee his home in the Bahamas, and is under local authority supervision.
DeFi FTX Dies Following Bank Run & Collapse of Its Infinite Money Printing Scheme The FTX exchange collapsed because SBF allegedly stole funds from its depositors to fund his insolvent hedge fund, Alameda Research.
DeFi FTX Was Hacked and Now Its Apps are Viruses FTX was hacked last night, and over $600M left customer accounts. It's unclear how much was stolen.
DeFi MakerDAO Co-Founder Dead at 29 The Co-Founder of MakerDAO was found dead at the age of 29 after some concerning tweets.
DeFi Coinbase Q3 Report: Subscriptions Up, Users and Revenue Down Coinbase's Q3 report came in, and it was largely bad. The positive side is that their subscription revenue is up.
DeFi Solana Is Taking Pre-Orders for Its Crypto Phone Solana is now taking $100 refundable pre-orders for the $1k Solana Saga crypto phone, which is expected to ship in early 2023.
DeFi The Aptos Launch Went Poorly The Aptos main net launch resulted in a massive token dump, low network usage, and horrible tokenomics.
DeFi Polkadot's Gavin Wood Steps Down As CEO Gavin Wood stepped down as CEO of Parity Technologies, the company that makes Polkadot (DOT). Wood will assume the role of Technical Architect.
DeFi The ETH Third-Party Risk Currently Censoring 50% of All Blocks Third party Ethereum staking tool MEV-Boost from Flashbots is currently censoring nearly half of all transaction blocks.
DeFi Centralization Saves the Day After the Binance Smart Chain Hack The Binance Smart Chain's cross-chain bridge was hacked for ~2M BNB tokens ($570M), but it looks like they only got away with about $50M.
DeFi Binance Is Delisting Most of Its Helium (HNT) Trading Pairs Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange by almost all metrics, is delisting most of its Helium (HNT) token trading pairs.
DeFi The SEC Thinks All of Ethereum Is Under US Jurisdiction According to a new federal filing by the SEC, it appears that Gensler and the SEC believe all Ethereum transactions are in US jurisdiction.
DeFi Solana Suffers First Mainnet Outage Since June 1 Solana (SOL) suffered another outage on September 30 after a pair of nodes took down the entire network.
DeFi Wintermute Hack Shows a Foundational Risk Wintermute, a crypto native market maker, was recently hacked for $160M. Many are concerned of the consequences of a market maker going under.
DeFi Where Lambo? Canada Seizes $2M in Assets from Crypto King Canada's self-described "Crypto King," 23 year old Aiden Pleterski, is facing more legal trouble as his investors seek to recover their losses.
DeFi Why Is ETH Down After a Successful Merge? Ethereum transitioned from "proof of work" (PoW) consensus to "proof of stake" (PoS), completing the long-awaited Merge. So why's it down?
DeFi South Korea Issues Arrest Warrant for Terra's Do Kwon The South Korean Supreme Prosecutors Office issued an arrest warrant for Terra co-founder Do Kwon and five others associated with Terraform Labs.
DeFi The SEC is Making Dedicated Offices to Regulate Crypto The SEC is building a dedicated office to handle crypto disclosure and regulation.
DeFi Algorand Loses $35M in Hodlnaut Withdrawal Freeze Algorand disclosed this week that it has $35M frozen on Hodlnaut after the centralized exchange/lender halted all trading.
DeFi Reddit MOON Crypto Trading Goes Live on Gate.io & MEXC Two major exchanges now offer trading pairs for r/CryptoCurrency Moons (MOON), the crypto earned by posting on the CryptoCurrency subreddit.
DeFi Six Americans Sue US Treasury to Lift Tornado Cash Sanctions Six Americans are suing the US Treasury Department for sanctioning crypto mixing service Tornado Cash.