US President Joe Biden is scheduled to leave office on January 20, and he still has time to issue pardons and commutations for individuals convicted of federal crimes. As of January 9, cryptocurrency betting platform Polymarket is offering users 4% odds that President Biden pardons former FTX CEO Sam "SBF" Bankman-Fried, and 2% that he pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. As of the time of this article's publication, users have placed more than $5 million in bets on SBF's odds and...
Senior South Korean government officials set out in the early morning of the 3rd to execute the arrest warrant for suspended President Yoon Seok-yeok.
Trump broke market expectations again, and the dollar index continued to move. Will the Fed meeting notes released in the early morning give clues about whether to cut interest rates in December? > >
In a conversation with Empire co-host Jason Yanowitz, dYdX founder Antonio Juliano announced his return to the CEO role five months after leaving the company. "After thinking about it for a while, I now have a very clear idea of what we need to do. I basically want to completely restart everything and run the company again as a founder." According to DeFiLlama data, in October last year, DEX perpetual contract trading volume was 33 billion US dollars, of which dYdX accounted for 80% of the marke...
Artur Guliński, co-founder of Orbitt, said that the Web3 market is still in its early stages and many participants see it as a "lottery". This trend is particularly evident in the blockchain ecosystem where Meme has a significant impact. These characteristics are what distinguish Web3 traders from their less volatile traditional financial marekt peers at the moment. However, Guliński pointed out that more and more Web3 traders are moving from short-term strategies to long-term strategies, indi...
In response to the departure of Danny Ryan, a core researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, Vitalik, co-founder of Ethereum, wrote on the X platform: "I am very grateful for your hard work for the Ethereum ecosystem. You are an important force in bringing Ethereum to where it is today. I hope you can be proud to help the world cut electricity consumption by 0.23%, and I hope you can rest well." Vitalik's response included an image that read "Ethereum's total electricity consumption once accounted ...
In response to the departure of Danny Ryan, a core researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, Vitalik, co-founder of Ethereum, wrote on the X platform: "I am very grateful for your hard work for the Ethereum ecosystem. You are an important force in bringing Ethereum to where it is today. I hope you can be proud to help the world cut electricity consumption by 0.23%, and I hope you can rest well." Vitalik's response included an image that read: "Ethereum's total electricity consumption used to accoun...
German Foreign Ministry spokesperson: German citizens are advised to leave Lebanon "urgently".
Paxful co-founder and former head of technology Artur Schaback pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to fail to maintain an effective anti-money laundering (AML) program at a cryptocurrency exchange and faces up to five years in prison. Schaback, the exchange's former chief technology officer, is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 4 and will resign from Paxful's board of directors, the Department of Justice said on July 8. A plea agreement filed in California District Court on the same day shows th...