On January 24th, the Paris prosecutor held a press conference on Thursday evening, saying that Ledger co-founder David Balland and his wife were kidnapped from their home in central France early Tuesday morning and taken to two different locations by car to be imprisoned. During the kidnapping, the kidnappers contacted another Ledger co-founder and demanded a ransom payment in cryptocurrency, which has been partially paid. This...
On January 18, according to the CCData report, compared with the total share of the spot and derivatives market, Bitget, Coinbase, and Crypto.com will grow significantly in 2024, ranking among the top three, with market shares increasing by 4.05%, 3.89%, 3.39% to 10.5% (Bitget), 5.43% (Coinbase), and 4.71% (Crypto.com). Among them, Bitget's spot trading volume rose 97.6% to $159 billion in December, setting a new all-time high set by the trading platform in April 24.
Paris-based crypto wallet technology firm Dfns closed a $16 million round led by Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ, with other investors including market maker Wintermute, Motive Partners, Bpifrance and Motier Ventures, the family office of the owner of Galeries Lafayette Group.
21:00-7:00 Keywords: Fed meeting notes, CFTC chairperson, blob expansion 1. Federal Reserve Governor Waller: Support further interest rate cuts in 2025; 2. The SEC chairperson reiterated that the crypto space is "rife with bad actors"; 3. Vitalik Buterin calls for prioritizing key upgrades such as "blob expansion"; 4. In the past 5 hours, the USDC Treasury has minted 200 million new USDCs; 5. Federal Reserve mouthpiece: meeting notes show that officials are generally reluctant to cut interest ra...
OPENAI's CHATGPT, API, and SORA are currently experiencing high error rates, which are caused by upstream service providers.
The yuan's central parity rate against the dollar rose 24 points to 7.1918 from the previous day.
The central parity of the yuan against the dollar fell by 64 points to 7.1991 from the previous day, and the central parity depreciated to the lowest level since September 11, 2023.
Santiago Roel Santos, a former partner at ParaFi Capital, has announced the launch of Inversion Capital, a new private equity fund that will "acquire traditional companies that can benefit from business model transformation by adopting crypto". Santos believes that crypto-revamping traditional businesses can help them operate better, faster, and cheaper. Some businesses could benefit from adopting crypto tools to address coordination issues "manifested in higher operating costs, capital expendit...
The central parity rate of the RMB against the US dollar fell by 666 points to 7.1659 from the previous day, the lowest since November 17, 2023, and the largest decline since April 26, 2022.
According to analyst @Torero_Romero, the Sui lending protocol offers higher returns compared to chains like Solana and Ethereum. Among them, Scallop offers the highest stable returns, and borrowers can get up to 45% when pledging SCA to obtain veSCA.
Greeks.live said on the X platform that, stimulated by the price of bitcoin breaking through $72,000, the options market volume hit a new high in a month today, and the bulk market was also extremely active. The call option turnover was about 700 million dollars, and the put option turnover was about 300 million dollars, totaling more than 1 billion dollars.
The central parity rate of the yuan against the dollar fell by 54 points to 7.1274 from the previous day, and the central parity depreciated to the lowest level since August 29, 2024.
BBH analysts said in a note that Fed meeting notes to be released tonight were likely to show some Fed officials had opposed a 50 basis point cut before being persuaded to vote for a majority. Bowman, the Fed governor, was the only dissenter at the September 18 meeting to kick-start monetary easing, voting for a 25 basis point cut. The prospect of the Fed hinting at another 25 basis point cut next month has since provided some support for the dollar.
On October 8, the central parity rate of the RMB against the US dollar fell by 635 points to 7.0709 from the previous day, the largest decrease since May 6, 2022.