cryptocurrencies

Binance (CRYPTO: BNB) has appointed accounting firm Mazars to verify its proof of reserves (PoR), weeks after the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange FTX. As part of the PoR upgrade, Binance chose Mazars — the accounting firm that worked for former U.S. President Donald...

Even though 2021 was the best year for digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), 2022 has been a washout in comparison and has seen cryptocurrency prices fall to pre-COVID-19 levels, wiping out trillions of dollars worth of investor wealth in the process. Making...

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is sacking 1,100 employees, 30% of its workforce, in yet another sign of the prolonged crypto winter following the collapse of FTX (CRYPTO: FTT). Kraken co-founder and CEO Jesse Powell explained in a blog that his company tripled its workforce over the last 12...

A London High Court has ordered six cryptocurrency exchanges, including Binance, Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN), Luno, and Kraken to disclose users' data as part of a hacking investigation to trace $10.7 million stolen from an undisclosed UK-based exchange in 2020. Two of the six exchanges...

FTSE Russell announced on Tuesday the launch of its first multi-asset, market cap index series covering the digital asset market.  What Happened: The newly launched FTSE Global Digital Asset Index series covers eight indices from micro-cap to large and is the second FTSE Russell index...

Reeling from scathing criticism over his massive donations to the Democrats, the disgraced co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX (CRYPTO: FTT) claimed he also made “dark donations” to the Republicans, which were not publicly known. In a phone call with Tiffany Fong, a...

The person who hacked bankrupt crypto platform FTX (CRYPTO: FTT) transferred as many as 255 Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) to crypto exchange OKX, through ChipMixer, days after over $600 million in cryptocurrency mysteriously vanished from the wallets of the former exchange. On-chain detective ZachXBT...

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) miner Hut 8 Mining Corp (NASDAQ: HUT) is looking for third-party energy supplier mediation after disagreements over a joint power purchase agreement caused portions of its operations to shut down. The Canadian company was forced to halt mining bitcoin at its facility in North...

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) have appreciated by more than 1200 times since the end of 2012. Yet, it isn’t hard to find crypto-bashing content on the internet today, with many believing that cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value as they are not...

The dai (CRYPTO: DAI) savings rate (DSR), or the rate of interest the protocol pays to dai stakers, is up for voting in MakerDAO's governance forum. The MakerDAO Open Market Committee has proposed that the DAO members vote on whether to boost the current yield rate of 0.01% to one of four...

Every week, Benzinga conducts a survey to collect sentiment on what traders are most excited about, interested in or thinking about as they manage and build their personal portfolios. This week, we asked over 1,000 Benzinga visitors which cryptocurrencies they were familiar with, and included...

The crypto industry is still reeling under the aftermath of the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. But outside of FTX, cryptocurrency theft is rampant, especially in the UK, where it increased by a third in one year. Thieves stole hundreds of millions of pounds from victims, according to police...

Cryptocurrency Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) is soaring on Sunday. After rallying over 9% on Saturday, it traded above the 10-cent level on Sunday.  Doge closed at $0.08899 on Saturday, then spiked higher on Sunday, trading at $0.1035 at the time of writing, a 28% jump in the last seven days....

The second largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), traded lower on Friday, falling below the $1,200 level, before bouncing back above the key level early Sunday. According to Santiment, Ethereum whales are accumulating the cryptocurrency at the highest rate since 2020. 🐳🦈 #...

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has pledged another $1 billion towards its industry recovery fund, increasing the total amount of the fund to $2 billion, according to its CEO Changpeng Zhao. Zhao made the announcement on Friday. Along with other well-known crypto companies, Aptos Labs and Jump...