April 15, 2023 – Mahe, Seychelles The crypto market has been red-hot recently. Bitcoin ripped past $30,000 and Ethereum staking withdrawals will go live, breaking the $2,000 price point – while Bitcoin’s dominance dropped, its price climbs, which means it might be the beginning of an altcoin season. A new powerhouse DeFi project, DigiToads (TOADS), has confirmed it will list on the BitMart exchange soon. The DigiToads presale has already raised more than $1.35 million, and the lack of vesting enables holders to trade TOADS at the earliest available opportunity.…
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SEC Sues Crypto Exchange Bittrex, CEO for Operating without Registration
The US securities regulator has charged cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex and William Shihara, its Founder and former CEO, for operating as a national securities exchange, broker and clearing agency without registration. According to US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Bittrex violated registration requirements of the US federal securities law, instructed crypto issuers using its platform to delete certain information that indicated their digital assets were securities, and ran different market intermediary functions under one entity in order to maximize profits. The regulator also filed charges against Bittrex Global GmbH, a foreign…
SEC Charges Crypto Exchange Bittrex With Operating Unregistered Exchange, Broker, and Clearing Agency – Bitcoin News
After the report revealing that the cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex had received a Wells Notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the securities regulator charged Bittrex and the company’s CEO on April 17 for “operating an unregistered exchange, broker, and clearing agency.” Following the Wells Notice, SEC Charges Bittrex for Violating Federal Laws On Monday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged another cryptocurrency exchange, accusing the trading platform Bittrex of operating “an unregistered national securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency.” Since 2014, Bittrex allegedly sold crypto assets…
Crypto Exchange Bittrex Violated Federal Laws, SEC Charges in Lawsuit
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged that crypto exchange Bittrex simultaneously operated a national securities exchange, broker and clearing agency in violation of federal statutes. Former CEO Bill Shihara and Bittrex Global GmbH are also facing charges. Source
US crypto exchange Bittrex faces potential action from SEC: Report
The United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex is reportedly facing potential action from the U.S. securities regulator despite preparing to shut down local operations. The enforcement division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is inclined to recommend the agency sue Bittrex over alleged violations related to investor protection, The Wall Street Journal reported on April 16. The enforcement unit informed Bittrex about potential action from the SEC in March, Bittrex’s general counsel David Maria reportedly said. By that time, the Seattle-based crypto firm had already started the process of…
22,550,000,000 Shiba Inu and Other Crypto Assets Stolen From Bitrue Exchange in Massive Hack: PeckShield
Tens of billions of Shiba Inu (SHIB) tokens and other digital assets have been stolen from crypto exchange Bitrue in a massive multi-million-dollar exploit. In a new announcement, Bitrue says that hackers were able to exploit a hot wallet to steal about $23 million worth of crypto assets, including Ethereum (ETH), and ERC-20 tokens such as meme asset SHIB, interoperable blockchain Quant (QNT), metaverse gaming platform Gala (GALA), layer-2 scaling solution Polygon (MATIC) and decentralized application (DApp) marketplace Holochain (HOT). “We have identified a brief exploit in one of our…
SEC targets DeFi in vote to revisit proposal concerning the definition of ‘exchange’
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced it will be revisiting the proposed redefinition of an “exchange” under the agency’s rules — a move which could include crypto market participants in decentralized finance, or DeFi. In an April 14 open meeting with SEC commissioners and staff, chair Gary Gensler said the proposed rule amendments could benefit investors and markets by bringing certain brokers under additional regulatory scrutiny as well as “modernizing” rules which define an exchange. Under the proposal, an “exchange” would be more closely defined as…
Crypto Exchange Bitrue Suffers $23 Million Hack – Bitcoin News
Singapore-based crypto exchange Bitrue has lost millions of U.S. dollars’ worth of ether and other coins in a hack. The trading platform suspended withdrawals until early next week to conduct additional security checks and promised to compensate the affected users. Bitrue Exchange Loses Crypto Assets Due to Hot Wallet Exploit Cryptocurrency exchange Bitrue announced Friday on Twitter it has identified a “brief exploit” in one of its hot wallets. The breach led to the theft of around $23 million in a number of cryptocurrencies, including ether (ETH) and shiba inu…
HashKey Group to Debut Regulated Exchange in Second Quarter
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Ethereum-based Decentralized Exchange Uniswap Launches Mobile Wallet
Uniswap’s mobile wallet will allow users to swap funds on other popular DeFi platforms such as Arbiturm, Polygon, and Optimism. Ethereum-based popular decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap has recently launched a mobile wallet application in a move to promote wider DeFi adoption, as well as support the on-the-go trading on the platform. As per the April 13 announcement, the app is currently available for iOS devices in a few select countries and can be found on the Apple App store. Last month, the Uniswap team complained that Apple was blocking the…