The UK Tax Authority is considering making substantial changes to the regulation of DeFi lending and staking, which may have far-reaching consequences for the future of crypto taxes. This recent move is an indication that the government of the United Kingdom is striving to guarantee that crypto-related activities are taxed
On April 26th, a hacker stole $1.82 million from the decentralized exchange Merlin. PeckShield and other members of the community have brought to light the exchange’s exploitation and provided the addresses of the exploiters. The funds were transferred from zkSync to Ethereum in the form of USDC tokens. #PeckShieldAlert Our
Thetanuts Finance, a multichain decentralized options protocol, has secured $17 million in an institutional funding round. Thetanuts Finance offers a range of crypto-structured products, enabling a wide customer base to earn a yield on major cryptocurrencies and popular altcoins. Along with providing liquidity, and executing short and long options strategies.
A bankruptcy court in New Jersey ruled on Wednesday that the cryptocurrency platform BlockFi Inc. has until the middle of the next month to submit its Chapter 11 or reorganization plan. The court ruled that a little delay was acceptable to ensure the case’s smooth continuation. Representing BlockFi, attorney Joshua
The planned purchase of defunct US crypto lender Voyager Digital especially by Binance.US has been blocked by authorities on many occasions during the last few months. Recently, however, Voyager reported that the Unsecured Creditors Committee (UCC) had struck an agreement with the U.S. government allowing the purchase plan to go
A court document suggests that defunct cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network sought to sue crypto blogger and Celsius creditor Tiffany Fong for disclosing confidential business information. According to a snapshot posted by Fong, she has around $119,000 worth of crypto assets locked on Celsius after the company halted withdrawals in the
Term Labs announced on April 12 it had successfully launched its first testnet auction, cleaning $22.4 million in USDC loans against ETH at 2.96% interest over a four-week term. “We were pleasantly surprised to see the auction clear within a few basis points of the current midpoint of Compound Finance’s
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has been making waves in the financial world as a revolutionary technology. That allows peer-to-peer value transfer on blockchains without intermediaries. However, concerns have raised about the risks associated with DeFi, including money laundering and terrorism financing. According to recent reports, the US Treasury Department released a
This weekend, security company PeckShield discovered a significant flaw in the DeFi protocol SushiSwap, namely in the ‘RouterProcessor2’ contract, which is used for trade routing on the SushiSwap exchange. In other words, consumers unwittingly give the exploiter access to their tokens by approving the fraudulent contract. PeckShield tweeted: “It seems
According to a recent assessment from the United States Treasury Department, crypto, consumers, and national security are all at risk due to inadequate cybersecurity measures within the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. This groundbreaking report is the first to propose that the decentralized and distributed structure of DeFi necessitates further regulatory
