Hamas Has Raised Millions in Crypto Donations, WSJ Reports
Bodies of Hamas militants in body bags near the border with Gaza on October 11, 2023 (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
Bitcoin Sinks Nearly 3% to $26.7K; Bulls Ponder How Low It Can Go
After failing again at $28,000 resistance over the weekend, bitcoin has retreated to its weakest level since late September.
DeFi Protocol BarnBridge Prepares for SEC Action, Fines
The decentralized autonomous organization is holding a vote on how to respond to securities regulators.
The Protocol: Bitcoin Might Get Ethereum-Style Smart Contracts Under ‘BitVM’ Plan
ZeroSync’s Robin Linus has ignited excitement in the Bitcoin community by introducing the “BitVM” paper, proposing a straightforward method for incorporating smart contracts into the original blockchain, a feature predominantly associated with Ethereum and its numerous derivatives.
Crypto Bills May Depend on U.S. House GOP Battle Over Scalise Speaker Pick
The U.S. House of Representatives won’t get back to work on crypto legislation if Republicans can’t unify behind majority choice Steve Scalise – or some alternative – after the party’s ousting of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) derailed the congressional agenda.
Sam Bankman-Fried Wanted to Close Alameda in 2022, Unpublished Posts Show
He had hoped to continue Alameda as an investment firm and infrastructure developer, but claimed in the posts that Alameda wouldn’t actively trade.
SBF’s Lawyers Want to Ask Caroline Ellison About FTX’s Anthropic AI Stake
Sam Bankman-Fried’s attorneys asked Judge Lewis Kaplan, who’s overseeing the case, to grant them permission to ask former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison about whether she deleted Signal messages at FTX lawyers’ advice and what Anthropic AI’s recent fundraise means for FTX creditors.
U.K. Group Calls for NFT Copyright Infringement Safeguards and Code of Conduct
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee, which includes representatives from several political parties, started an inquiry into non-fungible tokens in November.
Tokenized RWA Platform Untangled Goes Live, Gets $13.5M Funding to Bring Private Credit On-Chain
Tokenized real-world asset (RWA) marketplace Untangled Finance went live Wednesday on the Celo network after securing a $13.5 million venture capital boost to bring tokenized private credit to the blockchain, the company told CoinDesk.
Bitcoin Hovers Over $27.5K, Crypto Bulls Face $100M Liquidations as Altcoins Drop
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East impacted prices of riskier assets, such as bitcoin, on Monday.