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BlackRock CEO Reveals Company’s $24M Investment in FTX

BlackRock is definitely not the last company to talk about the impact of the FTX collapse. Investment management company BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) CEO Larry Fink has revealed that the company is also one of the many affected by the FTX incident. According to Fink, BlackRock invested $24 million in the crypto exchange before its crash. It is no longer news that FTX has totally crumbled and is now under investigation by financial watchdogs. The crypto company’s collapse also affected many- including individual and institutional investors. The BlackRock CEO spoke about…

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Says Firm Invested $24M in FTX: Reuters

CryptoX – Cryptocurrency Analysis and News Portal Speaking at the New York Times Dealbook conference, Fink also said it looked like there were misbehaviors in FTX, but wouldn’t speculate on whether BlackRock and venture-capital firm Sequoia, which had invested $214 million in FTX and has since marked that amount down to zero, were misled by FTX, Reuters reported. Source The post BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Says Firm Invested $24M in FTX: Reuters appeared first on CryptoX. CryptoX Portal

Telegram CEO Durov Plans to Build Crypto Wallets, Decentralized Exchange

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The statement is the first confirmation of Telegram’s direct involvement with integrating TON blockchain into the messenger. Earlier, Durov spoke of the blockchain development as a community project Telegram was just happy to watch. The system, earlier known as Newton and Toncoin, is one of two rival projects that grew out of the initial TON concept developed by Telegram; both were developed by the community of supporters, however, only one ended up with Telegram’s official recognition. Source

Crypto Services Firm Prime Trust Has Fired CEO Tom Pageler

The abrupt firing marks the latest shakeup in crypto this month after FTX and Alameda Research’s market-shattering collapse. It was not immediately clear whether Prime Trust, which supports crypto custody and transaction processing, had any exposure to FTX or other recently bankrupt crypto companies, such as BlockFi. Source

Binance proof-of-reserves is ‘pointless without liabilities’: Kraken CEO

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The collapse of the crypto exchange FTX revealed the importance of proof-of-reserves in avoiding situations involving the misappropriation of users’ funds. While exchanges have proactively started sharing wallet addresses to prove the existence of users’ funds, several entrepreneurs, including Kraken CEO and co-founder Jesse Powell, called the practice “pointless” as exchanges fail to include liabilities. According to Powell, a complete proof-of-reserve audit must include the sum of client liabilities, user-verifiable cryptographic proof that each account was included in the sum and signatures proving the custodian’s control over the wallets. While…

Turkey Investigates Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried for Fraud, Seizes Assets – Exchanges Bitcoin News

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The Turkish government has launched an investigation on the former chief executive of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried. According to local media, the authorities in Ankara have also seized assets belonging to the founder of the troubled coin trading platform. Turkey’s Financial Intelligence Unit Initiates Another FTX-Related Probe Financial regulators in Turkey have started to investigate the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), for alleged fraud. The move follows the initiation in mid-November of a probe into the collapse of the company, which also…

Block Earner CEO calls for licensing clarity after being sued for crypto products

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The CEO of fintech firm Block Earner has lashed out over the “lack of clarity” in Australia’s financial licensing regime after his company was sued by the country’s financial services regulator for providing unlicensed crypto-based investment products. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) announced on Nov. 23 local time that it started civil legal proceedings against the company because it offered three crypto-linked fixed-yield earning products without an Australian Financial Services (AFS) license. ASIC stated that the products should have been licensed as they were “managed investment schemes” where…