Actor Adam DeVine appears in new Bitget exchange ad

American actor and comedian Adam DeVine has appeared in a new paid advertisement created by crypto exchange Bitget. “Now it’s time to make our wildest dreams come true. Trade crypto from the comfort of your race car bed at 2:00 am. I don’t give a care. Business hours? Thing of the past,” says DeVine in a newly released clip, titled “Crypto and Chicken Nuggets.” Actor Adam DeVine in the new Bitget advertisement. Source: Bitget Throughout the video, the actor can be seen holding a smartphone and making jokes regarding the…

Curve Offers Hackers 10% Bounty in Exchange for Return of Crypto

“You will have no risk of us pursuing this further, no risk of law enforcement issues, etc,” Curve, Metronome and Alchemix wrote in an on-chain message sent to a hacker’s Ethereum address. The trio gave a deadline of August 6 at 0800 UTC, at which point their bounty will become a vigilante payout to whomever provides information that leads to the hacker’s arrest and conviction. Source

Upbit exchange overtakes Coinbase and OKX in trading volume

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit overtook both Coinbase and OKX in terms of spot trading volume in July for the first time, according to data published on Aug. 3 from CCData.  Spot trading volume on Upbit rose in the month of July by 42.3%, up to $29.8 billion. Coinbase and OKX, on the other hand, saw their own volumes fall by 11.6% and 5.75%, bringing them in at $28.6 billion and $29.0 billion, respectively. This latest shift in the market now places Upbit after Binance as the second-largest exchange by…

Combined Crypto Spot and Derivative Exchange Volumes Sink to Yearly Low

The total volumes generated from spot and derivatives trading activities on centralized exchanges (CEXs) slumped by 12% to $2.36 trillion in July, hitting the lowest monthly trading volume recorded this year, so far. The figures are based on the latest exchange review report by CCData, a digital assets data provider. Discover StealthEX.io – the future of cryptocurrency. Swap instantly across 1000+ coins, no sign-up, secure, and private. Dive into the new age of crypto! Specifically, spot trading volume sank by 10.5% to $515 billion, the second-lowest volume generated since March…

Justice Department May Charge Crypto Exchange Binance With Fraud: Report

A legion of Twitter bots pumped the price of crypto tokens traded by Sam Bankman-Fried’s quant trading firm Alameda Research shortly after FTX listed the tokens, according to a report from the Network Contagion Research Institute. NCRI, an institution that studies cybersecurity and social-media threats, published a report on Wednesday that shows that “inauthentic chatter” on Twitter, now X, heavily influenced the prices of five FTX-listed tokens traded by Alameda insiders. The coins were BOBA, GALA, IMX, RNDR and SPELL. Fake tweets regarding the coins surged — by as much…

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange to offer crypto services via Fireblocks pact

Israel is set to introduce more regulated cryptocurrency opportunities, with the country’s only public stock exchange preparing to offer new crypto services. Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has signed an agreement with the digital asset platform Fireblocks to jointly offer a range of new digital asset products and services. Announcing the news on Aug. 1, TASE noted that the new partnership will enable the stock exchange to provide institutional-grade digital asset solutions for regulated entities. The collaboration is designed to combine TASE’s experience and presence in the Israeli market with…