Former Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison for violating U.S. money laundering laws.

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The SEC proposed that Do Kwon and Terraform pay roughly $5.3 billion in disgorgement, prejudgment interest and civil penalties, while the firm’s team suggested only $1 million.

Data suggests that newer investors are behind Bitcoin’s sell-off, but sell-side exhaustion will eventually mark BTC’s price bottom.

It took less than six weeks for the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund to surpass Franklin Templeton’s one year old tokenized treasury fund.

The recent approval of Bitcoin spot ETFs and bullish BTC price action have become a catalyst for heightened interest in the Bitcoin ecosystem. A myriad of projects aiming to improve Bitcoin’s scalability have been introduced in recent times, the most exciting of them being BitVM.

With over $100 billion of assets stored in 8+ million deployed smart accounts, Safe is one of the go-to solutions for smart contract wallets. Previously called Gnosis Safe, Safe aims to create the standard for ownership with smart accounts.

Though blockchains are designed to be secure, it is difficult to communicate securely between networks. LayerZero is an interoperability protocol that allows secure communication between over 60 networks.

Imagine that you wanted to build a sufficiently decentralized Twitter — a social network in which no single person or company is in control. How would you build something like that?

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