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Nov 22, 2024 | 
decential.io | Matt Leising |Matthew Leising
And it’s not just in crypto, Lunglhofer was keen to point out. This type of crime occurs to bank customers or investors who trade on the New York Stock Exchange. “It doesn’t matter” where investors are trading, he said. “They’re going where the money is, because that’s what these guys do.” So how can you protect yourself from someone who has your entire financial history at their fingertips? “If a company calls you, and wants to talk about money or security, hang up the phone!” Lunglhofer said.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
decential.io | Matt Leising |Matthew Leising
The second prong of acceptance has come from some of the largest financial institutions -- such as BlackRock, Fidelity and Goldman Sachs – embracing digital assets, Chainalysis said. In one example cited in the report, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with $11.5 trillion in assets, partnered with Coinbase in 2022 to begin offering its customers access to Bitcoin and Ether in its Aladdin trading platform.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
decential.io | Matt Leising |Matthew Leising
“Contacts in the region explained to us that users were still able to access these exchanges if they had previously downloaded the apps and that certain apps were still accessible for new downloads,” Chainalysis said in the report.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
decential.io | Matt Leising |Matthew Leising |Amanda Smith
Exchange-traded funds based on spot Ether have been changing hands for only six weeks, but already the continued adoption of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency is raising interesting questions about the future of Ethereum.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
decential.io | Matt Leising |Matthew Leising
So, it may not seem obvious, but these huge price swings influence hackers and thieves. Or think about it this way, a bank robber who gets away with $10 million can’t sit around and hope that he now has $100 million because the dollar has skyrocketed. Conversely, with inflation, that $10 million is going to lose value over time.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
decential.io | Matt Leising |Matthew Leising
It's much harder to track real-world money laundering than in crypto due to blockchain’s inherent transparency. Spotting instances when off-chain dirty money comes on chain is likewise tricky, Chainalysis noted, unless investigators use other means to know where the money came from.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
decential.io | Matt Leising |Matthew Leising
Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency meant to accompany OpenAI artificial intelligence products, has chosen Alchemy to create and support its new blockchain substrate. Known as World Chain, the blockchain aims to prioritize human users over the bots that have come to dominate some aspects of on-chain activity. The web3 infrastructure provider Alchemy will give Word Chain developers access to its dev community and tools that are needed to build decentralized applications.
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May 28, 2024 | 
decential.io | Matt Leising |Matthew Leising
Ethereum Name Service, the decentralized application the blockchain’s inventor Vitalik Buterin has called its most-important non-financial use, is planning an overhaul that would allow it to operate on so-called L2 blockchains. The change, which must be approved by a vote of ENS DAO members, promises to cut fees and give users more flexibility in how they manage the naming structure.
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May 13, 2024 | 
decential.io | Stephen Laddin |Matt Leising |Matthew Leising |Amanda Smith
Gaming is oh so hot right now. Regardless of whether it's web2 or web3, the gaming industry is sizzling with big budgets and bigger revenues, and other sectors are taking notice of the lucrative reward-based gaming model. One company positioning itself as a pioneer in the “Play to Earn” (P2E) educationspace is the Swiss-based Metable—the first ever metaverse focused on education that employs a “Learn to Earn” model that allows anyone to earn rewards for studying or teaching.
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May 10, 2024 | 
decential.io | Amanda Smith |Stephen Laddin |Matt Leising |Matthew Leising
The legitimacy of the recent election in Russia, where polls reported President Vladimir Putin won 88 percent of the vote, is being challenged by the blockchain-powered app Russia2024, according to opposition activist Mark Feygin. The app will allow citizens to cast votes declaring whether the results are legitimate or not, three days after Putin’s inauguration, Feygin, who previously served as the lawyer to the opposition punk band Pussy Riot, Feygin said in a release today.
