eToro Secures Crypto Registration in Cyprus For EU Expansion
According to Hedva Ber, eToro’s deputy CEO, Europe is “hugely important” to the company, as the majority of eToro’s users are located there. eToro, a brokerage firm that supports cryptocurrencies, is expanding its crypto services globally after receiving regulatory sanctions in Europe. EToro has been registered as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) by the […]
Balancer Recovers from DNS Attack, Warns of .fi Domain Risks
Balancer has recovered its domain after a DNS attack that compromised its website and led to the loss of $240,000 in crypto. The attack resulted from a social engineering attack on EuroDNS, the domain registrar for .fi domains. Balancer is considering moving to a more secure registrar and warns other projects to do the same. […]
Coinbase Announces Support for Vara Token
Vara Token (VARA) will now have more support on the Vara network, Coinbase said in a post on X (previously Twitter) on September 20. Coinbase anticipates trading to start later on September 20 and only expects liquidity conditions to change. A VARA-USD trading pair was mentioned in the listing announcement; it will gradually go live. […]
Stanford University to Return Crypto Donations From FTX
According to a Bloomberg report, the Californian university Stanford University intends to return all funds it received from the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX running into millions. Between November 2021 and May 2022, Stanford received $5,500,000 in donations from FTX-affiliated entities. September 19 email statement from a university spokesperson: “We have been in discussions with attorneys […]
Hong Kong’s JPEX Exchange Suspected of RugPull
In response to allegations of fraud at the KJPEX exchange, Hong Kong regulators announced that they would tighten regulatory rules. In a recent development, the blockchain analytics firm Bitrace mentioned the possibility of RugPull activity at the Hong Kong exchange JPEX. More than 190 million TRC20-USDT tokens have passed through the exchange’s platform in the […]