Blockchain for Europe, a major European association advocating for the balanced regulation of the blockchain industry, has welcomed the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Binance, the biggest exchange by daily trading volume globally, has joined Blockchain for Europe, the association announced on Sept. 3. By entering the group, Binance follows major industry companies like XRP-related firm Ripple, EOS developer Block.one, Fetch.ai, and Blockseed Ventures. Alongside welcoming a new member in the association, Blockchain for Europe appointed Binance’s head of operations in the United Kingdom, Teana Baker-Taylor, as a new chairman of…
Month: September 2020
Russian ministry proposes to amend law banning crypto transactions
Authorities in Russia continue the game of ping pong in regulating cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) even after passing the country’s first crypto law. Russia’s Ministry of Finance has reportedly proposed a set of amendments to the law “On Digital Financial Assets,” or DFA, which bans many operations with crypto. According to local news agency Izvestia, the proposed amendments envision a “blanket ban on any operations with virtual money for individuals and individual entrepreneurs” except for three scenarios. The ministry reportedly wants to ban all crypto transactions except the obtaining of assets through…
Coca-Cola Amatil invests in Centrapay’s seed funding round
Coca-Cola Amatil’s corporate venturing platform Amatil X has invested in digital asset and payment provider Centrepay, as part of the startup’s seed funding round. Coca-Cola Amatil, one of the largest bottlers of the Coca-Cola range in the world with over 270 million customers, already had a corporate partnership with Centrepay by allowing users to pay for items with cryptocurrencies on any of the company’s 2,000+ vending machines across Australia and New Zealand. Centrepay is now expanding its payment forms to include contactless fiat, Epay gift cards and vouchers, with Centrepay…
Yield farming frenzy pushes Uniswap daily volume over $1 billion
A dramatic spike in yield farming activity associated with SushiSwap and similar protocols has seen Uniswap become the first decentralized exchange (DEX) to exceed $1 billion in 24-hour trade volume. According to crypto data aggregator CoinGecko, Uniswap V2 is currently the third-largest exchange by normalized trade volume with $1.02 billion worth of ERC-20 tokens changing hands over the past day. CoinGecko ranks Uniswap below only Binance and OKEx, who represent $6.25 billion and $1.10 billion in daily trade respectively. The decentralized exchange is now beating out major centralized platforms like…
Indian prime minister the latest victim of crypto scam Twitter hack
Hackers took over one of the Twitter accounts linked to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and posted messages asking his followers to make crypto donations. According to a report from news outlet India Today, Modi’s Twitter account narendramodi_in, which is associated with his personal website and mobile app, was targeted by a group of hackers operating under the alias ‘John Wick.’ Several Tweets were posted on Sept. 2 telling the prime minister’s 2.5 million followers to ”donate generously to PM National Relief Fund for Covid-19.” At least two wallet addresses…
Vitalik Buterin reveals why a 51% attack on ETH 2.0 ‘would not be fatal’
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has dismissed concerns that a 51% attack on Ethereum 2.0 would be ‘fatal’. The scenario emerged as a result of the burgeoning popularity of Yearn.finance’s yETH vault which has already amassed more than 137,000 ETH on its first day. Arcane Assets’ Chief Intelligence Officer Eric Wall suggested this mean the yETH vault admins will probably end up controlling enough Ether to theoretically launch an attack on Ethereum 2.0: ITT: We come up with fun ways yETH vault strategists can take advantage of the fact that yETH…
Researchers identify 10 security flaws with SushiSwap
Blockchain security firm Quantstamp has published a security review of hyped DeFi protocol SushiSwap, identifying ten issues with the platform. The good news is the issues with the Uniswap fork aren’t likely to be fatal — unlike the critical bug that took out YFI clone YAM after 48 hours. The researchers identified two medium risk, three low risk, and five informational issues with the code. Among the concerns identified were errors failing to prevent the same liquidity provider token from being added more than once — risking disruptions to reward…
DeFi meme coin Hotdog dumps 99.9% in hours after launch
The latest high-yield, food-flavored DeFi meme project, Hotdog, appears to have crashed and burned just hours after it was launched. The latest high-yield promising food-flavored DeFi meme project, Hotdog, appears to have crashed and burned just hours after it was launched. The newly cloned DeFi protocol called Hotdog promised insane returns up to one million percent APY in order to lure liquidity providers. It is yet another doppelganger of the popular token swap and liquidity platform Uniswap, and follows in the footsteps of the recently launched Sushi and Kimchi platforms.…
Europe’s Revolut app now offers crypto trading for Aussie users
After opening its doors to Australians last month, one of the largest brokerage firms in Europe is now offering crypto trading services. U.K.-based money app Revolut announced on Sept. 3 that its tens of thousands of Australian customers are now able to buy, sell, and hold crypto assets. Users can convert their fiat into Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), XRP, and Stellar (XLM). Revolut stated that its ‘Metal plan’ customers could now transfer digital assets to other users, as well as exercise the option to round…
ETC Labs believes regulation is the key to preventing future 51% attacks
Responding to numerous 51% attacks on the Ethereum Classic blockchain, ETC Labs said that it’s time to bring regulation to hashpower rental marketplaces, citing the fact that at least two of the attacks were perpetrated by renting hash power through NiceHash — a claim that has been confirmed by both NiceHash and ETC Labs. ETC Labs CEO Terry Culver also shared with Cointelegraph that according to the information that was provided by CipherTrace, which was hired to investigate the attacks, the attackers used proceeds from the first attack to rent hashpower…