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Major exchange Binance appears unbothered by the stiff opposition it has received in its bid to expand to the Philippines. In a recent interview, the company’s Asia-Pacific executive Leon Foong expressed their eagerness to start operations in the region.  Binance Isn’t Focused on “Lobbying Bodies” Earlier this month, the Philippine Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) issued a warning about Binance to the public. The regulators advised residents against using the platform’s services. This came as a response to complaints from policy…

Trung Nguyen, the CEO, and co-founder of Axie Infinity is facing allegations of insider trading after recent data shows he transferred $3 million worth of tokens shortly before disclosing the March hack. At the time, the attack saw the P2E blockchain game lose $622 million worth of assets. Sky Mavis, the game studio behind Axie Infinity, debunks the accusations, claiming the founders transferred the assets to create more flexibility in response to the Ethereum sidechain attack. Moreover, Nguyen says the…

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) announced it will host a virtual reality class connecting with its upcoming Guangzhou campus in the Metaverse on September 1. The event is the first step in HKUST’s mission to build a virtual campus in the virtual universe, MetaHKUST. According to South China Morning Post, the launch will feature a mixed reality experience, allowing users to attend it both physically and in the virtual world. Pan Hui, chair professor of computational…

Following heated attention on Tornado Cash this week, the Ethereum founder spoke on the mixer’s recent sanction, revealing he used the blacklisted mixer not long ago. Tornado cash is a decentralized protocol that provides users with a platform to perform untraceable transactions. The protocol, built on the Ethereum blockchain, is a transaction mixer that hides and deletes links between transacting accounts. This makes it impossible for transactions performed through it to be traceable, giving its users full anonymity. Vitalik Prompts…

An unknown Ethereum user is sending tiny batches of ETH to numerous doxxed cryptocurrency wallets that celebrities use. The ETH recently contacted Tornado Cash – the Ethereum mixer sanctioned by the US Treasury Department on Monday.  According to data from Etherscan, the wallet has sent portions of 0.1 ETH to Shaquille O’Neal and Jimmy Fallon addresses. Other figures include NFT artist Beeple, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, and Ben Horowitz from a16z. The parties receiving the tiny ETH donations may be…

Circle and Tether – issuers of the two largest stablecoin, USDC and USDT – have confirmed that they will only support redemptions on Ethereum’s proof of stake chain, post-merge. By contrast, any possible Ethereum forks that emerge in the aftermath will be left behind by both firms.  Rejecting the Miner Revolt Per Circle’s announcement on Tuesday, the company can only viably support a single version of the Ethereum state. “Our sole plan is to fully support the upgraded Ethereum PoS…

New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing for investors to blow the whistle on crypto companies they consider deceiving or misconducting. The AG's intervention comes after a series of debacles that led to people losing their crypto investments. Projects like Terra, Celsius, Voyager, Anchor, and Stablegains have crashed, affecting millions of investors in the process. James believes people have the power to prevent such losses by signaling suspicious activities in crypto projects they support. In a recent tweet, she…

ApeCoin is expanding its suite of community services with the Bored Ape Gazette, a newsletter reporting relevant news for members of the extended Yuga Labs family. The publication will receive $150,000 to launch, pay freelancers, and overhaul its website from ApeCoin DAO’s treasury. Moreover, these funds should last for one year. The AIP-70 proposal, detailing the Bored Ape Gazette’s development, underwent voting earlier last week. Over 1.1 million members of the ApeCoin DAO approved it. Meanwhile, only around 149,000 members…

Shark Tank star Mark Cuban recently aired his thoughts on Ethereum’s upcoming “Merge” upgrade. He pointed out how Ethereum’s utility as a smart contract platform and as a deflationary asset are at odds.  In an interview with Altcoin Daily on Sunday, Cuban explained that there is an inverse relationship between deflation and utilization of Ethereum. “If utilization goes up, and the value of a token goes up, then the cost to do something goes up,” he explained. “So you have…