After two consecutive delays, the European Parliament has finally held a final vote on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Act (MiCA). The regulation, originally proposed in 2020, now needs to be approved by the European Council to become an official...
A Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) bot has earned over $1 million this week by conducting "sandwich attacks" on buyers and sellers of two new meme coins, Pepe (PEPE) and Wojak (WOJAK). Sealaunch, a non-fungible token (NFT) data platform, reported...
Bankrupt crypto lender, Voyager Digital, has reached an agreement with the US government, allowing the sale of its assets to Binance US for $1 billion. The agreement, documented in an April 19 filing in a New York District Court,...
Former Thodex cryptocurrency exchange CEO Faruk Fatih Ozer has been extradited from Albania to Turkey to face fraud and money laundering charges. According to a report by Anadolu Agency, Ozer left Tirana, the capital of Albania, and arrived in...
BitGet, a cryptocurrency trading platform headquartered in Seychelles, has officially registered as a virtual asset service provider (VASP) in Lithuania, allowing the company to conduct operations within the European nation. The Baltic state is regarded as one of Europe's...
According to a report, Silvergate Bank, which is no longer operational, is facing three lawsuits from former investors who allege that the bank aided FTX, a now-bankrupt crypto exchange, in defrauding investors. The lawsuits have been consolidated by California...
LootMogul, an AI-driven Web3 Gaming and E-commerce platform designed by athletes for athletes, has partnered with SuperWorld to empower athletes and fans in the metaverse. SuperWorld is a virtual world that is mapped onto the physical world, allowing athletes...
Twitter CEO, Elon Musk, has announced that he intends to sue Microsoft, alleging that the company has "unlawfully" trained its artificial intelligence using Twitter data. On April 19, 2023, Musk responded to a post announcing that Microsoft would be...
On April 19, 2023, the Bank of England and the Innovation Hub London Center of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) published a report on Project Meridian, a successful joint pilot project. The project tested a distributed ledger technology-based...
The European Commission has created a new research unit to investigate the effects of algorithms used by prominent online platforms and search engines such as Facebook and Google. On April 18, 2023, the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT),...
