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Wall of worry’ led to digital wallets, blockchain tech ignored.
Market uncertainty calls for an opportunity to take advantage of disruptive innovation, which has historically “gained share during turbulent times,” said the ARK Invest CEO.
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood believes that digital wallets and blockchain tech were among the “game-changing innovations” that the equity markets largely ignored in 2022.
In a Jan. 12 blog post on the ARK Invest website, Wood suggested that the equity market faced a “wall of worry” in 2022, caused by fears of entrenched inflation and higher interest rates and largely ignored some innovative technologies.
Wood highlighted that digital wallets are “replacing cash and credit cards,” noting that they overtook cash as the top transaction method for offline commerce in 2020.
Further arguing that digital wallets should not be overlooked, Wood noted that they also accounted for approximately 50% of global online commerce in 2021.
Wood suggested that the recent collapse of crypto exchange FTX hasn’t affected the larger mission of what public blockchains were intended for. She noted:
“Public Blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum have not skipped a beat in processing transactions.”
Wood highlighted how the FTX collapse educated crypto investors to be more diligent with where they store their crypto assets, saying that the share of trading volume on decentralized exchanges, which allow for trading without a central intermediary, rose 37%, jumping from 8.35% to 11.4%.
Wood said she has never, in her “30 years working in portfolio management,” experienced such unstable market conditions, saying she has never seen “markets this dislocated.”
The CEO suggested that the economy is facing a challenging situation, with a decrease in money supply, a decline in commodity prices and the “unwinding” of bloated inventories, which indicate a slowdown in inflation and possibly even deflation.
Wood noted in the report that the fear is high in investors stating that investors are holding “high levels” of cash not seen since the 9/11 crisis in 2001.
South Korean regulators target Bithumb in new probe.
The South Korean National Tax Service agency launches an investigation into Bithumb, according to local reports.
South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb is under a “special tax investigation” by the country’s National Tax Service (NTS), according to local reports.
On Jan. 10, tax agents reportedly raided the exchange’s headquarters in the country’s capital city, Seoul, as a part of a compliance investigation. Authorities are exploring the possibility of tax evasion by examining the domestic and international transactions of Bithumb Korea, Bithumb Holdings and its affiliates.
The agents are also exploring possible tax evasion related to the ownership of Bithumb.
The investigation was carried out by the 4th Bureau of Investigation of the Seoul Regional Tax Service, which specifically investigates “special tax investigations,” as opposed to standard ones.
Bithumb was previously under a special tax investigation in 2018 by the NTS, through which it won roughly $64 million in income tax.
This development comes after former Bitchumb chair Lee Jung-Hoon was acquitted on Jan. 3 of $70 million in fraud charges.
On Dec. 30, just prior to the acquittal, Park Mo — an executive at the largest shareholder of Bithumb — was found dead. He was under investigation by local authorities for embezzlement and stock price manipulation.
The executive’s death was the latest in a slew of crypto billionaires who died within a month of each other, including MakerDAO co-founder Nikolai Mushegian and Amber Group co-founder Tiantian Kullander, among others. Some in the community have pointed to the fact that they occurred around the same time a the fall of FTX.
Regulators around the world have been keeping a close watch on the crypto industry in light of the turmoil, which has since plagued the space.
Silvergate gets more bad news as Moody’s slashes its ratings.
The beleaguered bank was allegedly moving money between FTX and Alameda; then it sold debt at a discount and sacked employees after a bank run.
Things seem to be going from grim to grimmer at Silvergate Bank, with a hit to its Moody’s rating and a selloff by Ark Invest. The bank already experienced a run and has been tied to the FTX collapse.
Ark Invest, the investment vehicle of Cathy Wood, sold off more than 400,000 shares of parent company Silvergate Capital, worth $4.3 million on Jan. 6, leaving it with a mere 4,000 shares, according to various media reports. Those shares lost 43% of their value the previous day.
Moody’s Investors Service also reacted to the situation at the bank, downgrading its ratings of Silvergate Capital and the bank. The bank's long-term deposit rating was downgraded from Baa2 (“lower-medium grade”) to Ba1 (“junk”) and its long-term issuer rating from Ba2 to B1 (both “junk”), with a negative outlook for the both organizations.
Moody’s attributed its decision to falling deposits, losses from securities sales to meet liquidity needs and workforce layoffs. Moody’s vice president Sadia Nabi said in a statement:
“Almost all of the bank's deposits continue to be from crypto currency centric institutions, and while the bank currently has adequate liquidity and capital, continued large outf[l]ows of these deposits would further adversely impact the bank's financial condition.”
Silvergate Bank lost $718 million as it liquidated debt to cover $8.1 billion in withdrawals, according to reports on Jan. 5. It also laid off 40% of its workforce, about 200 people. In addition, crypto-related deposits were down 68% in the fourth quarter of 2022.
The bank had come under the scrutiny of legislators after allegations that it facilitated transfers between FTX and its sister-company Alameda Research. Three senators headed by Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Silvergate CEO Alan Lane Dec. 6 asking for an explanation of the allegations. On Dec 16, FTX investors filed a class action suit against Lane, the bank and Silvergate Capital over the same allegations.
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Alameda wallets funnel over $1.7M via crypto mixers overnight.
Data negates the possibility of liquidators behind the fund transfers due to the use of mixing tools and extensive planning to hide transaction paths.
30 cryptocurrency wallets linked to Alameda Research, the bankrupt sister company of crypto exchange FTX, became active on Dec. 28 following four weeks of inactivity. These wallets swapped and mixed over $1.7 million worth of crypto assets through various crypto-mixing services.
Crypto mixers are often used by market exploiters and criminals to obscure the transaction path so that the funds cannot be traced to the original source.
As Cointelegraph reported on Dec. 28, the sudden movement of funds from Alameda wallets just days after Sam Bankman Fried was released on bail raised suspicions across the crypto community. Nearly 24 hours later, it seems the culprit behind these fund transfers used extensive planning to hide transaction routes.
According to data shared by the crypto forensic group Arkham, the first transfer of funds began with multiple Alameda addresses swapping tokens for Ether/Tether, sending them to crypto mixers. A majority of these transfers were tracked to two main wallets starting with 0xe5D and 0x971.
Tokens from the Alameda wallet were first sent to an address starting with 0x738, and then on to an address 0x64e. This 0x64e wallet then splits up the ETH and sends it to smaller wallets, in sizes of generally $200,000 and $50,000. After that, it was sent to mixers such as Fixedfloat and ChangeNOW.
Another wallet was used to swap for stablecoins, where wallet assets were first swapped into USDT and then sent to Fixedfloat. A total of 800,000 USDT was swapped out using mixers, while another 400,000 USDT was funneled via other methods. An additional 200,000 USDT worth of stablecoins were sent to the Bitcoin network using renBTC.
In total, $1.7 million worth of funds were swapped and sent through various mixing services as follows:
270.5 ETH through ChangeNOW (~$325k)
800,000 USDT through Fixedfloat
200,000 USDT through Curve SynthSwap to native Bitcoin
200,000 USDT through Airswap
200,000 USDT through other crypto-mixing services
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The new standard limits crypto reserves among banks to 2% by 2025, and goes into effect on January 1, 2025.
A global standard for banks' exposure to crypto assets has been endorsed by the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). The standard, which sets a limit of 2% on crypto reserves among banks, must be implemented on January 1, 2025, according to an official announcement on Dec. 16.
The report, dubbed "Prudential treatment of cryptoasset exposures", introduces the final standard structure for banks regarding exposure to digital assets, including tonenized traditional assets, stablecoins and unbacked cryptocurrencies, as well as feedback from stakeholders collected in a consultation launched in June. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision noted the report will soon be incorporated as a new chapter into the consolidated Basel Framework.
BIS's announcement highlights that the global banking system's direct exposure to digital assets remains relatively low, but recent developments have outlined "the importance of having a strong minimum framework for internationally active banks to mitigate risks." It also stated:
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United States crypto exchange Binance US has finally rolled out its Binance Pay service — some 22 months after the feature was launched by the global exchange to its customers outside the U.S.
The service, which had a beta version rolled out globally in February 2021 for peer-to-peer payments that was expanded to include merchant transactions on March 12, allows mobile users of the Binance app to instantly transact withnearly 150 supported cryptocurrencies without fees.
A Dec. 13 blog post from Binance US clarifies that Pay transactions will feature zero gas or transaction fees, and notes that the app is currently only available on mobile as it prepares to introduce a web version “which will arrive in the near future.”
Meanwhile, amid the recent fear, uncertainty and doubt against Binance globally, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) applauded the Binance American unit, saying “Keep building!”
To access the new features, Binance US users would need to update to the latest version of the app, and go through identity verification as well as loading their Pay wallet.
However, the service only facilitates transactions between users on the Binance US mobile app. Users can receive up to $1 million in crypto every 24 hours.
The latest announcement has come amid a turbulent period for the global crypto exchange.
At the time of writing, Binance’s Bitcoin balance had fallen by over 42,000 in the last 24 hours, equating to over $754 million. But despite the withdrawals, the exchange still has a Bitcoin balance in excess of 527,304 BTC, according to on-chain monitoring resource Coinglass.
The withdrawals follow a Dec. 13 Reuters report that the U.S. Department of Justice is nearing the end of a three-year investigation into Binance, with U.S. prosecutors reportedly split over whether there is enough evidence to press criminal charges against the exchange and its executives.
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XRP, the cryptocurrency that underpins Ripple’s global blockchain-based payments system, was last trading lower by just over 1% on Friday, having pulled back from weekly highs in the $0.3950 area to trade around the $0.3900 level. That still leaves the cryptocurrency higher by about 4.2% versus earlier weekly lows.
Recent US PPI data showed that, while the YoY rate of inflation declined further, the decline was not as large as expected, which has weighed on sentiment in cryptocurrency markets. As a result, XRP price predictions have not become more bullish.
XRP’s rally in the last few days from recent lows doesn’t signal a sudden resurgence in XRP risk appetite. The cryptocurrency has only been able to recover back to close to its 21 and 200-Day Moving Averages again and remains well within recent ranges. XRP has also failed to get back to the north of a key Fibonacci level that marks the 61.8% retracement back from September highs in the $0.56 area to June’s annual lows in the $0.28 area.
In the last few weeks, XRP appears to have formed a descending triangle pattern, with support keeping a floor under the price action in the low $0.37s, while the upside has been squeezed by a downtrend that began on the 25th of November. Descending triangles tend to form ahead of a bearish breakout. The XRP bears will thus be biding their time and waiting patiently for XRP to break lower once again towards sub-$0.35 levels.
XRP appears to be at a crossroads. It looks to be around the middle of both short ($0.37-42) and longer-term ($0.31-55) ranges. The $0.42 area is a formidable area of resistance – it has consistently acted as both resistance and support since late July and is where the 100 and 50DMAs reside.
Conversely, if next week’s US CPI data surprises to the upside like today’s PPI data, and should the Fed be interpreted by the market as sounding hawkish, then macro headwinds are likely to result in XRP grinding lower. A steady crawl lower to $0.31 support, which is roughly where the post-FTX collapse lows are, could be on the cards.
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In a recent tweet, on-chain crypto detective ZachXBT said that the hackers had moved $64 million over the weekend.
Security teams at crypto exchanges Binance and Huobi worked together to freeze and recover 121 Bitcoin from hackers behind the Harmony bridge exploit.
In a tweet, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced that the hackers have tried to launder their funds through the Huobi exchange. After Binance detected this, they contacted and assisted Huobi in freezing and recovering the digital assets deposited by the hackers.
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Before Binance and Huobi detected and froze the funds, on-chain crypto detective, ZachXBT, highlighted that the hackers behind the exploit were moving 41,000 Ether, worth around $64 million, over the weekend.
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On June 24, 2022, the Harmony team detected the exploit and reported $100 million in funds compromised. The hack highlighted concerns previously brought up by community members around some of the mutisig wallets securing the Horizon bridge.
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As a part of its reform of crypto regulation, Indonesia will create a crypto exchange in 2023, according to reports. The platform is planned to be launched prior to a shift of regulatory power from commodities to securities authority.
On Jan. 4, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency of Indonesia (Bappebti), Didid Noordiatmoko, stated that a crypto exchange should be set up this year. The move comes as a part of broader financial reform launched in December 2022.
In accordance with the reform, in the next two years, the crypto oversight will be taken from Bappebti, a commodities-focused agency, by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
The Financial Sector Development and Reinforcement bill (P2SK) was ratified by the House of Representatives of Indonesia on Dec. 15 to become the primary legal reference in the financial service sector. Explaining the shift of authority from Bappebti to the FSA, cemented by the bill, Suminto Sastrosuwito, a head of Financing and Risk Management of the national finance ministry, claimed that:
“In fact, crypto assets have become investment and financial instruments, so they need to be regulated on an equal basis with other financial and investment instruments.”
Indonesia imposed a blanket ban on crypto payments starting in 2017, while trading in digital assets has largely remained legal in the country. In the first days of January, Noordiatmoko revealed that the value of crypto transactions in the country fell by half in 2022 — from 859.4 trillion Indonesian rupiahs ($55 million) to 296.66 trillion ($19 million).
In December, Bank of Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo announced the release of the conceptual design of a digital rupiah — a currency the equivalent of the country’s fiat — which will be made available for public discussion.
Sam Bankman-Fried to reportedly plead not guilty to criminal charges.
Following a court hearing on Dec. 22, SBF was released on bail and is slated to appear on court on Jan.3 before U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), currently free on a $250 million bail bond, will reportedly plead not guilty to the alleged FTX and Alameda-related financial frauds in court on Jan. 3.
SBF was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government under suspicion of defrauding investors and misappropriation of funds held on the FTX crypto exchange. Following a court hearing on Dec. 22, SBF was released on bail and is slated to appear on court on Jan.3 before U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan.
During the hearing, SBF is expected to enter a plea of not guilty to the criminal charges, according to a Reuters report. On Dec. 13, the SEC charged the former FTX CEO with violating the anti-fraud provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Defendants have the right to plead not guilty during initial court hearings and are allowed to change their plea in due time.
On Dec. 28, a movement of funds from Alameda wallets raised suspicions about SBF’s involvement in the anomaly. However, the entrepreneur was quick to distance himself from the alleged rumors.
SBF’s tweet was in response to a Cointelegraph report that a wallet address had received over 600 Ether from wallets that belonged to Alameda.
ETH staking on top exchanges contributes to Ethereum censorship: Data.
One of the biggest factors harming Ethereum’s credible neutrality is the use of censoring MEV relays by crypto ecosystems and exchanges.
For most crypto ecosystems, being compliant with federal sanctions have a negative impact on its global reach. However, when it comes to Ethereum, investors have significant power to decide the degree of compliance the ecosystem obeys.
Nearly 60% of all post-Merge Ethereum blocks comply with the United States sanctions put forth by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). While the crypto community stands against this transformation, many fail to realize their own contribution to helping Ethereum attain total OFAC compliance.
One of the biggest factors harming Ethereum’s credible neutrality is the use of censoring Miner extractable value (MEV) relays by crypto ecosystems and exchanges. MEV relays work as a mediator between block producers and block builders, which are being used by prominent crypto players, such as Binance, Celsius Network, Coinbase, Kraken and Cream Finance, to name a few.
Users staking Ether on platforms (as shown above) that run censoring MEV relays on their validators are directly contributing to the censorship of Ethereum. Crypto platforms can help remediate the situation by adopting a non-censoring MEV-boost relay.
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At the time of writing, 67 of the last 100 Ethereum blocks were found enforcing OFAC compliance.
As investors, it is important to understand that protocol-level censorship is deterrent to crypto’s goal of unleashing open and inclusive finance. Hence, it becomes important for both investors and service providers to opt for non-censoring MEV-boost relays.
The Ethereum ecosystem recently witnessed two dormant addresses wake up after four years to transfer 22,982 ETH.
The ETH transfers in question can be traced back to trading platforms Genesis and Poloniex where the unknown whales transferred 13,103.99 ETH and 9,878 ETH, respectively.
Binance addresses 7 instances of recent FUD via Chinese blog post.
Binance is fighting back against the tsunami of FUD it has faced in recent weeks.
The world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, has been dealing with a torrent of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) since the downfall of FTX. The firm is now fighting back with its latest blog post.
On Dec. 22, Binance published a blog post in Chinese to address seven key issues the company wanted to clear up. At the time of writing, there was no English language version available.
The first of which was the temporary suspension of USDC withdrawals earlier this month. It explained that this was done during a “token swap” conversion period, with the exchange consolidating its stablecoin reserves into BUSD.
The next thing it addressed was the availability of sufficient reserves for withdrawals. It confirmed that “all users’ assets in Binance are supported 1:1,” and that its financial status was very healthy since it makes ample profit on transaction fees. On Dec. 16, CryptoQuant verified Binance's reserves, reporting that there was no “FTX-like” behavior.
“Binance will not embezzle users’ funds for any transactions or investments, nor does it have any debts, nor is it on the list of creditors of any company that has recently gone bankrupt.”
Regarding Mazars and the “Big Four” auditing firms refusing to work with crypto companies, it said that encrypted on-chain verification was a new field that these companies may not have the capacity to carry out.
It noted that these audits are typically aimed at the financial situation of the listed company, not verifying reserve assets.
Mazars has since removed Binance's audit reports from its website. Binance also stated that it did not need to disclose financial information because it was a private company, not a listed one.
“In many jurisdictions where we operate, we have shared or are sharing operational and financial information as required by local regulators.”
Regarding a Reuters report claiming that the U.S. Department of Justice was investigating the company, Binance stated that mainstream media has been targeting the company with salacious reporting for quite a while now.
Projects would rather get hacked than pay bounties, Web3 developer claims.
After reporting and helping patch a smart contract vulnerability, the developer claims that the projects he helped started to ignore him.
As hacks and exploits continue to go rampant within the crypto industry, the importance of finding vulnerabilities to prevent potential losses becomes of utmost importance. However, a Web3 developer highlighted that it’s not rewarding to do so.
In a tweet, a Web3 developer claimed that he found a vulnerability in a Solana smart contract that would have affected several projects and around $30 million in funds. According to the dev, he reported and helped patch the vulnerabilities. However, when it was time to ask for a reward, the projects just started to ignore him.
The developer noted that this sends a wrong message because it shows that projects would rather get hacked than have critical bugs reported to them. He wrote:
“This is why you have situations like the Mango exploit happen where the exploiter will first steal the funds and then start negotiating. There's no proper incentive to report.”
Community members also echoed the sentiment of the developer. Smit Khakhkhar, a fellow developer, responded by claiming that he also made the same mistake multiple times. “This is one major reason why hackers exploit first and then negotiate,” he wrote. On the other hand, a Twitter user thinks that it's also possible for developers within the projects to secretly want to exploit the code for themselves. They tweeted:
Because of these, some predict that the next cycle in crypto will be a break-and-fix cycle. According to the community member, traders could potentially pay blackhats to exploit critical vulnerabilities while shorting projects.
Meanwhile, many industry executives believe that artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT can contribute to securing smart contracts. Speaking to Cointelegraph, HashEx CEO Dmitry Mishunin recently noted that ChatGPT can be integrated and reduce the number of hacks within the industry.
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The new legislation will bring a licensing regime for the virtual asset service providers requiring them to pass strict AML and money laundering guidelines.
Hong Kong’s legislative council has passed a new amendment to its anti-money laundering (AML) and terrorist financing system to include virtual asset service providers.
The latest legislation will establish a new licensing regime for virtual asset service providers, set to come into effect from June 1, 2023. The new amendment will subject crypto exchange service providers to the same legislation as followed by traditional financial institutions.
It means virtual exchanges looking to open a business in Hong Kong will have to go through rigorous AML guidelines and investor protection laws before being granted a license of operation. Unlike most other regulators around the globe, Hong Kong has used the FTX collapse as a way to mitigate regulatory risks associated with centralized exchanges.
In the aftermath of the FTX crypto exchange collapse, regulators from around the world have faced public ire for their failure to protect retail investors. There has been a growing demand to bring crypto exchanges and service providers under the purview of law and subject them to strict AML and investor protection requirements.
In a recent conference, Hong Kong Monetary Authority chief executive Eddie Yue hinted at possible investor protection regulations coming soon to the nation. The recent legislation amendment has propelled the nation to become the first mover on the pressing issue of investor protection.
Hong Kong has been actively working towards establishing a well-thought regulatory groundwork for the nascent crypto market. A policy proposing a regulatory framework and risk-based regulatory direction was published by the Hong Kong government in October under the title ‘Policy Declaration on the Development of Virtual Assets”. The government has suggested a number of pilot projects to evaluate and improve the technologies underlying virtual assets.
SBF One Of The Greatest Fraudsters In History, Says CZ
Changpeng Zhao (CZ), CEO of Binance on Tuesday called out all the wrong narratives being built around him over the recent FTX collapse.
However, the alleged culprit of the horrific crash, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) recently came out in front of the media to present his side of the story.
https://coingape.com/binance-cz-calls-sbf-one-of-the-greatest-fraudsters-in-history/?gb
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