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PortuguêsNotorious political lobbyist Jack Abramoff has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to defraud investors, conspiring to commit wire fraud, and violations of the Lobbying Disclosure Act relating to the…
Continue ReadingThomas Lambert, Daniel Liebau, and Peter Roosenboom from the Rotterdam School of Management suggest that Security Token Offerings are better at financing start-ups than Initial Coin Offerings. Their research was…
Continue ReadingSohrab Sharma, one of the co-founders of cryptocurrency firm Centra Tech facing charges related to a $25 million initial coin offering scam, is reportedly planning to plead guilty. According to…
Continue ReadingBitcoin Entrepreneur Brock Pierce Joins the 2020 US Presidential Election Blockchain entrepreneur and former Disney child actor, Brock Pierce, is running for President of the United States this election. Pierce…
Continue ReadingYesterday, rumors began circulating regarding crypto exchange Coinbase going public with an $8 billion stock market listing. While there’s no denying the move would be positive for the space, it…
Continue ReadingJohann Schneider-Ammann, who served as the President of Switzerland in 2016, recently joined the board of Crypto Valley Venture Capital, or CV VC. CV VC is a startup that invests…
Continue ReadingThe Securities and Exchange Commission stepped in and put an end to Telegram’s TON crypto token. This week, Telegram settled with the SEC for $18.5 million and intends to return…
Continue ReadingThe Tezos (XTZ) class-action lawsuit from law firm Block & Leviton will likely conclude in a $25-million settlement on August 27. Tezos, like many initial coin offerings (ICO) from 2017,…
Continue ReadingDecentralized finance is all about cutting out traditional financial intermediaries such as banks. Through the use of blockchain technology, DeFi platforms allow individuals to generate money against their own assets,…
Continue ReadingOn June 25, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission charged the issuer of AML Bitcoin — not to be confused with Bitcoin itself — with conducting a fraudulent offering.…
Continue ReadingA Californian federal judge has certified an investor class in a lawsuit alleging that the cannabis crypto firm Paragon Coin Inc violated securities laws in its 2017 initial coin offering…
Continue ReadingA judge has granted a motion from the U.S. attorney’s office to pause the SEC’s action against Edit Pardo and Boaz Manor for their involvement in the alleged $30 million…
Continue ReadingDecentralized finance’s (DeFi) surging popularity might backfire and hurt the forward-looking sector, Waves cryptocurrency platform founder and CEO Sasha Ivanov told Cointelegraph in a recent interview. Ivanov compared DeFi to…
Continue ReadingTether (USDT) makes a $10 million equity investment in the crypto lending platform Celsius Network (CEL) at a $120 million pre-money valuation, bringing the post-money valuation to $150 million. The…
Continue ReadingA great debate is taking place across the cryptocurrency community, arguing over if decentralized finance (DeFi) will have a similarly bullish impact on Ethereum price when the next bull market…
Continue ReadingFrance-based crypto asset issuance platform Tozex claims to have created a new vehicle for crypto financing that can offer firms a way out of the tough economic times due to…
Continue ReadingA U.S. District Judge has approved the majority of redaction requests received during the proceedings surrounding the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) lawsuit against messaging firm Telegram over its $1.7…
Continue ReadingRobert Farkas, the founder of cryptocurrency firm Centra Tech, which raised more than $25 million from its initial coin offering scam, pled guilty in a federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday. …
Continue ReadingDavid Weild IV, who is known as the father of the JOBS Act, believes that the U.S. government had to move to stamp out Facebook’s Libra stablecoin. Facebook: Number of…
Continue ReadingOn June 10, 12 Belarus’ commercial and state-owned banks received permission from the national central bank to issue digital tokens. They will distribute these digital offerings through an upcoming pilot…
Continue ReadingRobert Farkas is negotiating a plea bargain for his role in the fraudulent Centra Tech initial coin offering (ICO) that commissioned celebrity endorsements from Floyd Mayweather Jr and DJ Khaled.…
Continue ReadingInvestors who participated in Tezos’ (XTZ) initial coin offering (ICO) between July 1, 2017, and July 13, 2017, have been notified that they may be eligible for a share of…
Continue ReadingMaerki Baumann, an unlisted family-owned bank in Switzerland, is expanding its cryptocurrency services by introducing crypto custody and trading. Following regulatory approval from the Swiss Financial Market Advisory Authority, or…
Continue ReadingA company once heralded as a “decentralized alternative” to Google recently settled with the SEC. BitClave suffered a near-immediate collapse in price The project’s token price collapsed almost immediately upon…
Continue ReadingSouth Korea will start taxing profits from bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies next year, according to local media reports. The taxation will also apply to bitcoin mining operations and income…
Continue ReadingThe United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered cryptocurrency firm BitClave to return $25.5 million to investors. In a May 28 announcement, the SEC announced charges against the California-based…
Continue ReadingA federal court has frozen all funds raised in a $9 million token sale the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused of being fraudulent. In a filing earlier this…
Continue ReadingPolkadot (DOT) launched a stand-alone blockchain today, although the network is not considered the project’s mainnet yet. Polkadot sits under the wing of blockchain infrastructure company Parity Technologies, and the…
Continue ReadingOn May 19, the Atari Group announced a partnership with the Litecoin (LTC) Foundation, betting on the overlap of interests between the crypto and gaming communities. Atari has raised 74.19…
Continue ReadingPer a May 18 complaint, more investors are looking to recoup funds invested in the record-breaking initial coin offering for EOS — which netted a total of $4 billion in…
Continue ReadingOn May 12, Telegram officially terminated its involvement in its planned blockchain project, the Telegram Open Network, and its corresponding GRAM token. Apparently ending its long-running legal battle with the…
Continue ReadingPer a May 12 message from Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, the company is calling it quits on the Telegram Open Network and the linked GRAM tokens following a lengthy battle…
Continue ReadingOn May 9, we wrote that the Loom Network, a platform-as-as-service blockchain project, appeared to no longer be active. Representatives from the platform have since responded publicly to Cointelegraph, indicating…
Continue ReadingIn an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Gibraltar’s minister for digital and financial services, Albert Isola, has welcomed firms wishing to launch security tokens to the jurisdiction. The minister revealed that…
Continue ReadingAccording to available information at press time, sources show a highly uncertain future for the Loom Network, a platform-as-as-service blockchain project. Cointelegraph investigated a number of Loom Network communication channels,…
Continue ReadingA new round of documents have been filed in the lengthy dispute between the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, and Kik Interactive Inc. over the messaging company’s…
Continue ReadingDUBAI, UAE, 8th May (Friday)Time: 10 AM New York, NY, USA (GMT-4) ‘MEET IDEAOLOGY’ webconference is looking for youThe exclusive, pre-launch presentation for the top crypto people In an effort…
Continue ReadingA new study released by venture capital firm, MMC Ventures, found that UK blockchain companies are turning to traditional capital raising strategies, noting that the Initial Coin Offering, or ICO,…
Continue ReadingA Californian judge has given preliminary approval for a $25 million settlement proposed by the Tezos Foundation to end a consolidated class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit dates back to shortly after…
Continue ReadingTelegram has offered to refund investors after its scheduled release of the Gram token failed – again – due to regulatory complications. Investors will immediately receive 72% of their stakes,…
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