Phnom Penh-based Huione Pay received the funds between June last year and February this year, according to the report, which cited blockchain data. The crypto was stolen by hackers from Lazarus from three crypto companies in June and July last year, Reuters said. Source
ICP led today’s gains in the CoinDesk 20 Index with a 26.1% rise. Source
Each share pays $1 if the prediction turns out to be correct, and zero if not. The bets are settled in USDC, a stablecoin, or cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar, and programmed into a smart contract, or software application, on the Polygon blockchain. Source
Tether has hired the chief economist from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, Philip Gradwell, to take up a similar position at the stablecoin giant, where he will be responsible for quantifying the Tether economy to regulators, the company said on Monday. Source
The asset manager is the largest public holder of bitcoin by virtue of its iShares Bitcoin Trust exchange-traded fund, which now holds more than 300,000 BTC. Source
Pertsev’s lawyers were seeking bail to allow the Russian to prepare for his appeals process but the court said “that continuing his detention does not obstruct his possibility to prepare his defense,” Keith Cheng, Pertsev’s lawyers said according to the report. Source
Still, the SNFT token has dropped by 20% to $0.024 in the past 24 hours and had a market capitalization of $565,000 at press time, according to Coingecko. Meanwhile, leading fan tokens like the Paris Saint-Germain Fan and FC Barcelona Fan tokens traded 2% to 4% higher alongside a renewed upswing in market leader bitcoin’s price. Source
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In recent months, Trump has reversed course and embraced crypto to outflank his rival, Joe Biden, and win over the supposedly single-issue crypto community, which is seeking a friendlier regulatory environment for the industry. As such, bitcoin and the broader crypto market have become bets on Trump’s victory. The former president is committed to speaking at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on July 27. Source
The former president, who was injured at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, now has a 69% chance of retaking the White House, according to traders on the crypto-based prediction market. Trump-themed Polifi tokens and crypto broadly also rose. Source