So far 2023 has been a seismic year for crypto. The New Year saw an end to a difficult bear market, and February has seen an onslaught of moves by global regulators.
It's opening morning at London's Blockchain Economy Summit, the UK's largest gathering of crypto and blockchain companies, and centralized exchanges are a hot topic.
Indonesia aims to launch its much-anticipated state-backed crypto exchange by mid-2023, according to the country's Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency (Bappebti), which currently oversees digital assets.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of FTX, is currently facing additional criminal charges, including allegations of concealing information from banks.
Ai-powered Web3-focused search engine Kaito just raised $5.3 million in a seed fundraising round, according to a recent TechCrunch report. Kaito says the funds will be used to increase the size of the team and speed up product development.
A top South Korean financial regulator has launched a probe into domestic crypto staking services. And crypto exchanges are concerned this means new staking-related regulations could be incoming.
Back in 2021, amid the best of the bull run and the worst of the Covid-19 Pandemic, Vitalik Buterin made a now legendary donation of $1bn in SHIB to support Covid-19 efforts in India.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it is investigating the bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital for “deceptive and unfair marketing of cryptocurrency to the public.”