A screenshot of a document describing the eligibility criteria for the airdrop was posted on the social-media platform X by the user @Bitcoineo, and Avail’s public-relations team flagged the to tweet to CoinDesk, describing it as a “leak.”Source
Shakeeb Ahmed, a security engineer who stole over $12 million from two different decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges built on Solana, was sentenced to three years in prison and three years of supervised release by a federal judge on Friday.Source
The International Organization of Securities Commissions wants to analyse whether or not further policy direction is needed for tokenization.Source
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for April 12, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.Source
Hong Kong could approve approve spot bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds as early as Monday, Bloomberg said, citing two people familiar with the matter.Source
An Australian federal court agreed to a petition by markets regulator ASIC to hand over some US$41 million in digital assets invested by over 450 Australians with the mining companies to specialists from advisory and restructuring company McGrathNicol.Source
Bitcoin cash has been seen a proxy for the upcoming halving of rewards on the Bitcoin blockchain.Source
HashKey and the Foundation are focussing their partnership on Hong Kong in the first phase.Source
Ordinals and Runes are both projects by long-time Bitcoin developer Casey Rodarmor, which has created trust and lent an idea of authenticity among users.Source