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Telegram released a statement Monday, notably announcing that the TON Wallet won't be integrated with the company's popular messenger app at launch.

Hex is a new project described on its website as a the “the first high interest blockchain certificate of deposit.” If you have Bitcoin you can claim “free Hex” by “staking” your bitcoin (signing a transaction with your private key to prove it’s yours). If you own ether, you can send it to an Ethereum […]

Link to lawsuit A new 8 count federal court lawsuit in Seattle names Stox Technologies and Moshe Hogeg as defendants. Plaintiff claims that he purchased Stox Tokens in reliance on statements made in the Stox whitepaper but was damaged to the tune of $435,000 when the Defendants flooded the market with Stox tokens, “causing a drastic […]

BlockTV, a media venture of controversial Israeli blockchain entrepreneur Moshe Hogeg, is hoping to raise $2 million via a token listing on cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex Global. BlockTV’s owner Alignment Media is part of the Alignment Group, which is fully owned by Hogeg’s venture capital fund Singulariteam, Globes reported Sunday. Alignment Media will manage the token […]

Vietnam-based little-known cryptocurrency exchange VinDAX has been hacked, losing “half a million USD” worth of cryptocurrencies, The Block has learned. An admin of VinDAX’s official Telegram channel, with the handle “@VinDAXSupport” confirmed to The Block on Friday that it is “true” that the exchange got hacked and lost cryptocurrencies worth the amount. They said the […]

What’s in a name? Is a listing fee by any other name still a listing fee? Maybe not, according to two cryptocurrency companies.  As per a recent filing, Blockstack paid cryptocurrency exchange Binance 833,333 STX tokens (~$250,000) to list its Stacks token on the venue. Binance is the first marketplace to support trading of Stacks. […]

Some days it’s hard to keep up with the onslaught and speed of news, amplified by Twitter and instant global communication. I’m thinking in particular of the SEC’s Block.one settlement, which when released yesterday late afternoon was analyzed, dissected and commented on around the world within the hour and overnight. As one would expect, some […]

The SEC announced yesterday that it has settled charges against Block.one, the issuer of EOS, for conducting an unregistered ICO in 2017–2018. After allegedly raising $4.1 billion, the firm has agreed to pay a $24 million penalty for selling unregistered securities. That’s a slap on the wrist — only 0.6% of the total raise. In a statement, […]

Former ConsenSys Ventures head Kavita Gupta has joined a blockchain project looking to breathe new life into the lethargic security token market, betting its offering will provide an alternative to the initial public offering process.  Gupta will chair Dusk Network’s non-executive board. The Amsterdam-based firm developed a permissionless blockchain for companies to tokenize their equity […]