Coinbase debuts tokenised Apple and Nvidia shares on Base
Coinbase starts with Apple, Nvidia, Meta and Alphabet, issued under an Abu Dhabi framework that carries no UK permission and no FSCS protection.
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BitMart weighs a partial restart, with a creditor roadmap due 9 September
The exchange has hired law firm White & Case and a detailed plan is expected by 9 September. Anyone with a balance stuck there is now a creditor.
A seven-day safety delay did not stop Term Finance losing $8.5m
Term has permanently closed its Meta Vaults after an attack reportedly emptied nearly all their ether. Nobody appears to have broken the code itself.
What a £4.52 coffee really costs on a crypto card
A £4.52 coffee costs £4.52 on a debit card and up to £4.61 on a crypto card. What that becomes across a working year.
eCash plans to hand bitcoin holders a second coin on 31 October
eCash's roadmap puts a 1:1 ECX allocation to bitcoin holders on 31 October. The August chain was a rehearsal, and nothing needs claiming yet.
Crypto card spending tops $1bn, with stablecoins funding most of it
Tracked card volume more than tripled in a year and USDC and USDT funded over 70% of it. In the UK, each of those purchases is a CGT disposal.
Stablecoin issuers can freeze and move your coins. Most already can
Justin Sun says USD1's live contract lets its issuer move frozen balances. Tether and Circle hold similar powers. Here's what those functions actually do.
MANTRA blames shared code as its chain stays offline
MANTRA says it found the root cause and contained the threat, but its chain is still halted and no patch note, loss figure or all-clear has been published.
SEC’s plan for the $123m Terra investor fund is due on 20 August
A Jump Crypto subsidiary has already paid the $123.1m. The SEC's 20 August filing decides who is eligible to claim from it and how losses get counted.
Binance handed a user’s data to Russian authorities, and an arrest followed
CoinDesk reports that Binance passed user information to Russian authorities, contributing to the arrest of a Ukrainian donor. The exchange left the Russian market in 2023, but the records it collected before then did not go with it.