BDO Italia accounting firm to conduct attestations for Tether’s dollar reserve
Tether Holdings Limited has hired BDO Italia a member of the BDO Global accounting organization to carry out routine (Monthly) assessments and attestations of its dollar reserves. According to information released by the firm on Thursday, Tether, which manages the USDT stablecoin, started collaborating with BDO Italia in July. To make sure that each unit […]
OTR begins accepting crypto across its 175 fuel outlets
On The Run (OTR), a chain of gas stations and convenience stores has begun accepting cryptocurrency payments at all 175 of its locations in Victoria, South Australia (SA), and Western Australia (WA). As was previously mentioned, the action is a result of a partnership between DataMesh, a Sydney-based provider of payment solutions, and OTR, a […]
Monochrome obtains license to offer crypto ETF
Monochrome Asset Management, an Australian asset manager has obtained the nation’s first Australian financial services license (AFSL) for operating a spot cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF). Jeff Yew, CEO of Monochrome Asset Management, said that the AFSL clearance is noteworthy because, up until now, approved crypto ETFs in Australia have only been able to operate under […]
Suspected DNS hijacking forces Celer Network to shut down bridge
Due to a suspected DNS hijacking, interoperability protocol Celer Network (CELR) has shut down its cBridge asking its customers to rescind the approval for a number of contracts in several blockchains, including ETH and BSC. The project’s initial research revealed that some unusual DNS activity occurred on August 17 at around 7 PM (UTC). At […]
Three cloud providers host over two-thirds of Ethereum nodes -Analysis
According to a post dated August 15, Ethereum nodes are hosted on three large cloud providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hetzner, and OVH with each contributing over 50%, 15%, and 4.1%, respectively. According to crypto analytics platform Messari, the bulk of the 4,653 active Ethereum nodes are held by centralized web service providers like […]