“Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump won chits from the Bitcoin community for reportedly purchasing smash burgers at a Bitcoin-friendly New York pub. But in a way, the whole episode was about damage control.”, — write: www.coindesk.com
- Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s policy is “N/A.”
- Telegram’s turnabout.
- EXCLUSIVE: Huddle01, a video-conferencing blockchain project taking on Zoom, aims to sell as much as $37 million of “media nodes.”
- Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison was sentenced to two years in prison by a federal judge on Tuesday. The judge said Ellison, 29, who will also have to forfeit about $11 billion, could serve the sentence at a minimum-security facility near Boston, where her family lives. Ellison was a key witness in the government’s trial against her former boyfriend, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was convicted on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy before being sentenced earlier this year to 25 years in prison.
- Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris made her first remarks on crypto on Sunday before
donors in New York City. (Her specific choice of term was “digital assets.”) A person with knowledge of the talks between her campaign and crypto insiders told CoinDesk that the discussions about digital-asset policy remain high-level and
aren’t likely to produce a detailed stance before the election in early November. Stand With Crypto, an advocacy group whose
industry partners include exchanges Coinbase and Gemini as well as Filecoin developer Protocol Labs, issued a rating of “N/A” on Harris’s crypto policies, for ”
not enough information.”
- Telegram, the instant-messaging app popular with crypto-industry pros,
made significant changes to its terms of service, chief executive officer Pavel Durov said in a post on the app on Monday. The app’s privacy conditions now state that Telegram will now share a user’s IP address and phone number with judicial authorities in cases where criminal conduct is being investigated.
- Crypto exchange BingX has been hacked for a “minor” amount of assets and the exchange plans to compensate users for any loss, the firm’s chief product officer (CPO) said in a message on X. On-chain data suggests
nearly $43 million was stolen from the exchange in multiple tranches, with $13.25 million ether, $2.3 million BNB, $4.4 million USDT, among other being drained.
- Former Grammy-nominated artist and entrepreneur Iggy Azalea will release Motherland, a
new online casino that uses her MOTHER token, in November. Azalea unveiled the project alongside business partner Joe McCann, founder of crypto investment firm Asymmetric, and manager Reece Pearson at her Motherland Rodeo event, at Breakpoint in Singapore last Friday.
- Daylight, a project with an API that powers personalized transaction recommendations for crypto wallets like Coinbase Wallet, MetaMask, Zerion and OKX Wallet, has raised $6 million in a seed round led by Union Square Ventures and co-led by 1kx. Examples of recommended transactions (see images, above) include token mints, claims and quests. According to a blog post: “It’s like the home tabs of Netflix or Spotify, but with things to do onchain instead of movies or music.”
partnered with Praxis, described as “the first network state,” to collaborate on real world asset tokenization, as well as DeFi services to network states, including those created on the Praxis platform. According to the team: “Praxis and Abra intend to create an on-chain database of real estate, businesses, citizenship, contracts, marketplaces and other on-chain DeFi (decentralized financial) services that interact seamlessly with both online communities and physical cities.” Balaji Srinivasan, author of “The Network State,” is one of Praxis’s backers.
live and contributing to the performance of the Solana blockchain, Jump’s Chief Science Officer Kevin Bowers said Friday. Firedancer itself is running on testnet, Bowers said, indicating it has achieved minimum viability and is getting close.
iris-scanning orbs as well as its
affiliation with OpenAI founder Sam Altman, introduced
Face Auth, a new security measure for World ID. According to the team: “Face Auth is a private 1:1 face comparison that ensures only the person who verified their World ID at an orb can use it. It provides increased security for your World ID during actions like online purchases, financial transactions, secure sign-in applications and much more.”
Filecoin Foundation are establishing an alliance to provide clients with enterprise-grade solutions to support their businesses with decentralized infrastructure, according to a
blog post: “As part of our collaboration with the Filecoin Foundation, Aethir will explore GPU leasing to Filecoin’s storage providers, thus providing Filecoin’s infrastructure network with a reliable and secure source of GPU cloud computing supplies.
- Nov. 10:
OP_NEXT Bitcoin scaling conference, Boston.
- Jan. 21-25:
WAGMI conference, Miami.