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Brazilian stock exchange B3 is gearing up to launch its first official product targeting the crypto market. A report unveiled this news today, citing B3’s Chief Financial Officer, Andre Milanez. He announced this bullish news during a conference call on Monday. Specifically, Milanez said B3 seeks to roll out Bitcoin (BTC) futures trading within six months. According to the report, Milanez did not share how the product offering would work. It remains unclear whether B3 will team up with another…

Report claims Terraform scammed over 1000 Singaporeans. A “concerned” Singaporean citizen has reported Do Kwon, creator of the ravaged LUNA coin to the police. According to a post made on Reddit, the reporter claims to have filed the complaint on behalf of all Singaporeans affected by the crash of Terra's Luna. The post made in the early hours of today, contained a picture of the said report. In it, the complainant claimed that they knew over 1000 of their countrymen…

Over the past few days, Terra’s stablecoin UST has depegged from the  $1 dollar mark, in a series of almost impossible events. The now failed UST coin had many backers, many believers. One of these was Kava Labs, developers of Kava network’s stablecoin USDX. On Wednesday, following UST’s collapse, the USDX followed suit, crashing to depths of $0.47. Nearly 24 hours later, the stablecoin had made some recovery to $0.89 before swinging low again to $0.56.  While Terra USD’s implosion…

Earlier this month, Terra co-founder Do Kwon claimed that there is “entertainment” in watching companies die. In an interview with the chess streamer Alexandra Botez, Kwon stated confidently that 95% of today’s crypto startups are “going to die”. While laughing it off, the co-founder also claimed that there is “entertainment in watching companies die too”. As of today, Do Kwon is under fire due to the de-pegging of TerraUSD – the dollar-pegged stablecoin of the Terra blockchain. The fallout has…

The backlash of the recent abrupt decline of Terra's Luna continues as Binance delists it from its futures trading.  The Binance derivative arm made the announcement earlier this morning. The exchange prompted all traders with currently opened positions to close them no later than 8:30 am (UTC)  today when the delisting officially took place. Once the delisting happened, they would automatically settle all USDT-Margined LUNA perpetual contracts. Furthermore, the exchange reviewed the LUNA perpetual contracts’  leverage and margin tiers. It…

The international hacktivist collective known as “Anonymous” is now sourcing funds from the crypto community to help fight Russia and other governments alike. It has partnered with an organization “CultDAO”, which has already agreed to donate 13 ETH to the cause. Understanding CultDAO Anonymous announced its support from CultDAO over Twitter on Wednesday. It promised to ramp up its cyber-warfare efforts after declaring war on Russia’s government for invading Ukraine in March. This included allying with CultDAO, which it claims…

Increased minting capacity leads Terraform CEO's grand plans. In response to Terra’s devastating decline this Monday, co-founder, Do Kwon promised to work alongside users in resolving the crisis.  Since Bitcoin’s accelerated dip began on Monday, UST has dropped to $0.7, then $0.48. Its present price is less than half its originally designated price peg. LUNA in turn has tanked by more than 90% in the past day.  Holders of the beleaguered digital asset hurried en masse to liquidate UST in…

On Monday, the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) temporarily emptied its entire Bitcoin wallet of 42,530.82 BTC. Due to crypto market volatility, the foundation says it's trying to preserve TerraUSD (UST)’s peg to the dollar. According to on-chain data, the LFG’s Bitcoin wallet sent out all of its Bitcoin at 14:34 EST, only to recover 28,205 BTC just 2 hours later. Terra co-founder Do Kwon explained yesterday that the Guard voted to deploy $1.5 billion from its reserves to maintain UST’s…

CULT DAO is one of the projects pushing for a faster decentralization of the financial world. To reach its goal, the blockchain-based DAO has announced the upcoming release of a Revolt 2 Earn token. While the concept is fascinating itself, the fact that it attracted the attention of hacktivist group Anonymous is even more intriguing. Does Anonymous Support Decentralization? In recent years, Anonymous has often proven its support for a more decentralized world where individuals would be free from society’s…