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On Sept. 20, a mysterious group of developers announced they performed a hard fork of the Samourai Wallet code and released the first version of a mobile wallet building upon the Samourai team’s work under the new “Ashigaru Open Source Project.” The project’s website states that Ashigaru “develops, releases, and maintains free and open-source software” and promises […]

A number of emerging economies across Africa have the potential to become digital asset hubs. Simultaneously, the cost of compliance for crypto exchanges is increasing as regulatory clarity emerges, according to Ben Caselin, chief marketing officer of VALR, a crypto exchange based in Johannesburg, South Africa. “South Africa is the entryway to the rest of […]

A federal court judge has fined a New York resident $36 million for allegedly swindling crypto investors by promising high returns and using the funds to support his lavish lifestyle. According to a Sept. 20 statement published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), US district court judge Vince Chhabria ordered William Koo Ichioka “to pay $31 […]

Microsoft has signed a deal with the Constellation Energy Corporation — the owner of the Three-Mile Island nuclear site — to reopen the Pennsylvania facility and provide the tech company with clean energy for its artificial intelligence operations. The 20-year deal between Microsoft and Constellation will see the restoration of the Three-Mile Island Unit 1 […]

7 Coinbase’s country director for Singapore, Hassan Ahmed, recently announced plans to bring Coinbase’s new “cbBTC” — a wrapped Bitcoin asset — to the Solana network at the Breakpoint 2024 event. No date was specified for the launch of the Bitcoin token during the announcement. Ahmed told the audience: “We recently launched cbBTC on base, […]

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele visited Tesla headquarters to meet Elon Musk and discuss, among other topics, the role of next-generation technologies, such as artificial intelligence, in shaping humanity’s future. On Sept. 21, Bukele posted a video on X showcasing his visit to Tesla’s gigafactory in Austin, Texas, where he met with Musk. In the brief […]

Australian energy tech company Powerledger has announced its expansion into the Solana ecosystem, claiming it shares common values with the blockchain network amid wider interest in Regenerative Finance (ReFi). “At the heart of both Powerledger and Solana is a shared vision of innovation, sustainability and transparency — values that are becoming increasingly critical as the […]

Crypto firms should never carelessly trust their engineers to upload code without an external review first, says JP Richardson, CEO of the self-custodial crypto platform Exodus. He argued that this is essential to stop bad actors, who are becoming more sophisticated in tricking crypto firms into giving them jobs, from uploading malicious code to the […]

Cryptocurrency hackers have taken over the Supreme Court of India’s official YouTube channel to run a Ripple and XRP scam. On Sept. 20, the official YouTube channel of the Supreme Court of India, with over 217,000 followers, was rebranded into a Ripple-themed account to run a cryptocurrency scam. The hacked YouTube channel of the Supreme […]

Deus X Capital has expanded its developing digital asset ecosystem with the launch of Solstice Labs, a business that will offer institutional-grade decentralized finance (DeFi) investment products. It appears two days after Deus X Capital debuted Cor Prime, a prime of prime broker dedicated to the digital asset market. Solstice Labs was announced after the […]