Federal Reserve Leaves Rates Unchanged; Bitcoin Flat at $34.5K
Market participants will now turn to Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s post-meeting press conference to glean insight into the future path of U.S. central bank policy.
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SEC Charges SafeMoon Team With Fraud, Offering Unregistered Crypto Securities
The team bought luxury cars and homes with funds that they told investors were “locked,” according to the regulator.
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Crypto Venture Funds Variant, 1kx Lead $6M Funding Round for ZK-Meets-AI Startup Modulus
The funding will be used for the company’s ambitions in zero-knowledge machine learning, combining aspects of zero-knowledge cryptography with artificial intelligence or AI.
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3 Greenshoot Sectors in the Blockchain Space
From “AI x blockchain” and zero-knowledge proofs to Bitcoin ordinal projects, there are plenty of bright spots in the Web3 ecosystem, despite the market volatility and regulatory problems of the last few months, says Paul Veradittakit, managing partner at Pantera Capital.
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Bitget Embroiled in Bitter $10M Dispute With Floki Over TokenFi Memecoin Listing
Floki Inu alleges that Bitget created a $10 million hole by selling tokens that it didn’t hold, effectively creating a synthetic short position.
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Why Momentum Trading Works In Crypto
Crypto markets have specific characteristics that align with a strategy of riding momentum in price movements, says Todd Groth, head of research at CoinDesk Indices.
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‘A Pyramid of Deceit’: Prosecutors Begin Closing Argument in Sam Bankman-Fried Fraud Trial
The U.S. Department of Justice is hoping the four-week case will lead to a conviction on seven charges.
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Fed Seen Holding Rates Steady, but Policy Statement and Press Conference Will Be Key for Bitcoin
Signs that the U.S. central bank might refrain from further rate hikes this cycle could lead to a new breakout in bitcoin prices.
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Near Token Rallies Amid Nym Partnership, Ahead of Nearcon Conference
The Near Foundation announced a partnership with Nym Technologies, a privacy-focused infrastructure startup.
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How a Ph.D. Student’s Research Paper Turned Celestia Into $345M Blockchain Project Overnight
This week’s launch of the new “data availability” network Celestia came with an airdrop of the project’s TIA tokens, one of the most anticipated giveaways in the crypto industry of the past year.