Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission is probing potential losses among users of crypto platform Zipmex, after the exchange temporarily suspended withdrawals last week. The SEC has asked users to submit details of how they had been affected via an online forum. Southeast Asia-focused crypto exchange Zipmex operates in Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, and Austra…

Crypto mining firm Bitzero will purchase an old US anti-ballistic missile site abandoned in the 1970s and redevelop it into a data centre to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to North Dakota governor Doug Burgum. The firm intends to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota and is working on a joint venture for assembly and distribution of b…

An alliance of Web 3 companies have joined forces to create an open DAO called OMA3, also known as the Open Metaverse Alliance (OMA3). According to the group, it seeks to address key issues in the metaverse’s nascent state.

Aptos Labs, a blockchain start-up founded by former Meta employees, Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching, has secured $150 million (roughly Rs. 1,196 crore) in a Series A funding round. FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto led the funding round. Griffin Gaming Partners and Franklin Templeton are among other venture capital firms that participated in the round. With this, the one-year-ol…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly probing crypto exchange Coinbase, a publicly-traded company it oversees, on suspicion it allowed US persons to trade unregistered securities.

The prices of all major cryptocurrencies found themselves impacted by the market volatility on Tuesday, July 26. Along with BTC and ETH, Binance Coin, Cardano, and Ripple also saw losses. Only few stablecoins including USD Coin managed to reel-in gains. Owing to the present changes in the market sentiment, the overall valuation of the crypto market has also slipped be…

Crypto lender Voyager Digital on Sunday rebuffed a recent joint proposal from FTX and Alameda Ventures and called it a “low-ball bid dressed up as a white knight rescue”. The firm was offered a bailout plan where crypto trading firm Alameda would purchase all of Voyager’s digital assets and digital asset loans, except the loans to bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arro…

The University of Tokyo, or Todai, has decided to offer a list of tech-related study programs for students enrolled in high school as well as university level courses. The project will be set and monitored by Todai’s engineering vertical. The university is looking to make education accessible to everyone regardless of their genders, age, or residential localities.

Struggling crypto lender Voyager Digital rejected FTX’s offer to buy all its assets and refund customers in a July 24 letter due to it being a “low-ball” offer that may “hurt customers.” FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has meanwhile responded to this on Twitter.

Ryan Felton, a Hollywood producer from Atlanta has pleaded guilty in scamming crypto investors to maintain his outlandish life. The 48-year-old has confessed to have promoted two initial coin offerings (ICO), one for an entertainment streaming platform called ‘FLiK’ in 2017 and another for a crypto exchange called ‘CoinSpark’ in 2018. As part of his scam initi…