August 9, 2022 / Unchained On daily foundation / Laura Shin

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Cathie Wooden said her fund offered Coinbase stock due to regulatory uncertainty from the SEC.
Greg Dwyer, historical head of change model at BitMex, pleaded guilty to violating the Monetary institution Secrecy Act.
Client watchdog workforce TINA demanded celebrities repeat NFT connections.
Celsius token CEL surged amid a Twitter-driven brief squeeze.
Binance denied proudly owning disquieted Indian crypto change WazirX and it disabled off-chain transfers between them.
Crypto lending platform Hodlnaut halted withdrawals, token swaps and deposits due to a liquidity crisis.

As of late in Crypto Adoption…

Crypto platform Crypto.com (disclosure: a sponsor of Unchained) expanded its operations to South Korea by acquiring two corporations.

The $$$ Corner…

Galaxy Digital reported a loss of $554 million within the 2nd quarter.
Marathon, a BTC miner, reported a $191 million quarterly loss.
Cashmere raised $3 million which included Coinbase Ventures, FBG Capital and YCombinator.

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Tornado Money Is Sanctioned by OFAC

by Juan Aranovich

The US Treasury Division’s Place of job of Foreign Property Regulate (OFAC) sanctioned Tornado Money, a digital forex mixer. The OFAC blamed Tornado Money for being damaged-all of the model down to “launder extra than $7 billion price of digital forex since its introduction in 2019.”

Moreover, the US Treasury linked Tornado Money to the North Korean workforce Lazarus. This workforce of hackers has allegedly been unhurried a range of basically the most up-to-date crypto exploits, alongside with the $600 million Ronin hack.

Individuals at the 2nd are banned from interacting with Tornado Money, since OFAC has blacklisted Tornado Money’s addresses.

Secretary of Pronounce Anthony Blinken within the initiating had this to allege on the hiss:

He later deleted his tweet, despite the incontrovertible reality that the snapshots had already been taken. “Even despite the incontrovertible reality that this tweet used to be deleted, it’s a fairly damning gaze into how regulators search these items. When any individual shows you who they are, maintain them the first time,” said Tom Schmidt, partner at Dragonfly Capital and a bunch of The Lowering Block.

Jerry Brito of Coin Heart tweeted, “As of late’s action would now not appear so powerful as a sanction in opposition to a person or entity with company. It appears to be as one more to be the sanctioning of a instrument that’s neutral in personality and that would possibly maybe moreover be assign to real or corrupt makes exhaust of look finally varied expertise.”

Circle, the corporate unhurried stablecoin USDC, iced up USDC funds within the wallets sanctioned by the US Treasury. The quantities frozen memoir for a minimal of 75,000 USDC.

“As of late used to be a sad day for privacy. That being said, Circle had no varied change on the topic nonetheless compliance. Blaming them is modest nonetheless what’s wished is to work on our dependence on centralized assets,” wrote Marc Zeller, head of developer relationships at Aave.

Steered Reads

Bizyugo on Aave and Curve Finance getting into the stablecoin sport
Jon Charbonneau on rollups
Vicky Flores on the Starbucks Web3 initiative

On The Pod…

Will the Nomad Mass Looting Swap How Laws Enforcement Treats DeFi Hacks?

Layne Haber, cofounder of ConnextNetwork, discusses the Nomad bridge hack, how it came about, and what would possibly maybe moreover be carried out to end these exploits. Conceal highlights:

what Nomad is and the plan in which it in truth works
how the hack happened and what the vulnerability used to be
how powerful TVL the protocol had and the plan in which powerful of it used to be drained
why the Nomad hack used to be unfamiliar
how this exploit resembled the DAO hack on Ethereum
the bounty program that Nomad offered and the plan in which hackers answered to it
how Nomad is working with regulation enforcement, and the explanations why regulation enforcement has made up our minds to change into enthusiastic
how Nomad has partnered with TRM Labs to abet with tracking the hackers
whether privacy traits within the crypto ecosystem will make it harder for regulation enforcement to trace down hackers
why wrong-chain hacks happen so on the total
what Layne thinks would possibly maybe moreover be carried out to present a boost to bridge security
what mechanism would possibly maybe moreover be implemented to end errors that enable these styles of mass looting
what Layne expects to stare within the next few weeks across the Nomad exploit

Book Update

My book, The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Substantial Cryptocurrency Craze, which is all about Ethereum and the 2017 ICO mania, is now on hand!

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