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Research from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and the Ethereum Climate Platform (ECP) reveals that the Merge – the upgrade that switched the ETH consensus mechanism from a proof-of-work protocol to a proof-of-stake system – ensured that Ethereum now has a much lighter greenhouse gas footprint than other high carbon-emitting blockchains.
01 December 2023
Cristiano Ronaldo has been hit with a $1 billion-plus class action lawsuit over his promotion of an NFT collection with controversial crypto exchange Binance.
29 November 2023
Private cryptocurrencies have failed the basic test of digital money and are likely to be in decline in the near future
No fan of crypto investing, ECB president Christine Lagarde has revealed that her son ignored her warnings about the risks associated with trading in virtual currencies and consequently lost a significant chunk of his earnings in the market.
27 November 2023
South Korea is preparing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot that will involve 100,000 people, according to local press reports.
Terraform Lab’s former CEO Do Kwan is to be extradited to either South Korea or the USA following approval from a Court in Podgorica, Montenegro.
24 November 2023
Binance has agreed to pay $4.3 billion to settle a long-running investigation by the US Department of Justice, with the crypto exchange's founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao also stepping down as CEO and pleading guilty to violating anti-money laundering requirements.
21 November 2023
A group of former Revolut, Coinbase and Spotify staffers have unveiled Zeal, a digital wallet for managing crypto and interacting with web3 and decentralised finance apps.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Kraken, accusing the crypto trading platform of operating as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, dealer, and clearing agency.
A filing suggesting that BlackRock was preparing to launch a spot XRP exchange-traded fund briefly sent the token's price soaring this week before the asset manager confirmed that the paperwork was fake.
15 November 2023
Commerzbank has become the first full-service commercial bank in Germany to be awarded a crypto custody licence.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore is to commence a new series of asset tokenization pilots in collaboration with 17 international banks.
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