More than 500 scam tokens have reportedly been deployed by developers on Base, the new blockchain launched by crypto exchange Coinbase. These efforts have resulted in scammers pocketing around $2 million, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Aug. 16), citing figures from New York-based crypto market integrity platform Solidus Labs. Coinbase did not immediately...
Thai state-owned oil and gas company PTT and blockchain energy nonprofit Energy Web Foundation (EWF) have announced that they are teaming up to build a blockchain-based renewables platform. According to Coin Telegraph, the solution will be based on the Energy Web Chain and compliant with...
In February, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a warning to consumers about pump-and-dump cryptocurrency scams, and now regulators have some help in finding the criminals behind them. According to MIT Technical Review, Jiahua Xu and Benjamin Livshits at Imperial College London have published the...
Pump and dump schemes — in which an asset is talked up to drive the price higher before traders dump it for a profit — are making their way to the cryptocurrency market, with digital chatrooms growing over the Internet where coin traders will gather...
October 09, 2024
Eighteen companies and individuals are facing charges related to alleged fraud and manipulation in cryptocurrency markets. The charges, which were unsealed in Boston, concern the leaders of four cryptocurrency companies, four cryptocurrency financial services firms known as “market makers” and employees of those firms, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts, said in a Wednesday […]
August 16, 2023
More than 500 scam tokens have reportedly been deployed by developers on Base, the new blockchain launched by crypto exchange Coinbase. These efforts have resulted in scammers pocketing around $2 million, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Aug....
September 11, 2019
Thai state-owned oil and gas company PTT and blockchain energy nonprofit Energy Web Foundation (EWF) have announced that they are teaming up to build a blockchain-based renewables platform. According to...
December 07, 2018
In February, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a warning to consumers about pump-and-dump cryptocurrency scams, and now regulators have some help in finding the criminals behind them. According...
