A US financial giant is accused of secretly intercepting the online communications of its website visitors through embedded tracking technologies. Plaintiff Franceska Herrera filed the suit against Citigroup Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, reports Top Class Actions. The complaint alleges the bank and financial services firm deployed third-party tracking …
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President Trump is pledging to allocate up to $500 million from his super PAC to support Republican candidates in the November midterms. He delivered the comments while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, reports CNBC. “I think I have like close to a billion dollars in the super PAC, and I’m allocating probably four …
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Tether-backed Orionx is permanently closing after an audit found more than $7 million in customer assets had moved to wallets outside its custody. Orionx, a Chilean crypto exchange backed by USDt stablecoin issuer Tether, is shutting down after uncovering a multimillion-dollar issue linked to asset custody. The exchange said it began a permanent closure process …
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TLDR: EIP-8141 separates Ethereum transaction actions from dependencies to enable more parallel processing. Vitalik Buterin links EIP-8141 with broader efforts to make Ethereum execution easier to scale. The transaction design could support batching, gas sponsorship, and advanced proof-based verification. A public testnet already supports EIP-8141 as developers refine the design before Ethereum’s 2027 hard fork. …
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The exchange terminated operations and stopped withdrawals after an audit found unknown transactions worth over $7 million that moved custodied assets to external wallets. Orionx accused Joaquín Díaz and Roberto Zibert, the exchange’s founding partners, of participating in these movements. Orionx Halts Customer Withdrawals Amidst $7 Million Fund Deficit Chile, which had discussed adopting bitcoin …
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Over the last week, bitcoin’s price has been trading between $76,200 to $82,100, and market sentiment has been far more bullish. BTC’s price is roughly around the same height it was around May, and at that time, Bitcoin.com News queried 11 artificial intelligence (AI) models to predict bitcoin’s year-end price. With September historically proving to …
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The FBI seized more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency intended for Hamas through a series of court-authorized operations. Agents also took control of online infrastructure, intercepted donations, and gathered information about thousands of potential supporters. FBI Takes Control of Hamas Fundraising Network Federal investigators seized more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency and took control of domains and …
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The motion to reconsider the presidential veto, pushed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, failed to garner support in the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament, after President Nawrocki faced corruption allegations tied to the Zondacrypto exchange scandal. Polish Sejm Fails to Overturn Presidential Veto On Crypto-Asset Market Act Poland is facing a battle …
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A Minnesota man faces felony charges after authorities allege he used what looked like the victim’s photo ID and a forged signature to drain $12,760 from a victim’s accounts during back-to-back visits to two U.S. Bank branches. Dion Antonio Lowe, 55, of Minneapolis is accused of the June 11th thefts from a Missouri victim’s checking …
Tokenized equity trading reached nearly $3 billion in weekly volume during August, with Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Solana handling most activity. However, only about 5% of the market is deployed in onchain financial applications. Tokenized Equity Trading Reaches New High Tokenized equity trading climbed to new highs in August as blockchain-based stocks attracted activity …
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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan has boiled the whole crypto market down to three stories, i.e., bitcoin, zcash and tokenization. Three Stories, One Portfolio Matt Hougan isn’t typically one to pick individual assets, as the Bitwise chief investment officer spends most of his airtime on structure, be it exchange-traded funds (ETFs), financial advisors, or regulation. However, …
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse renewed his call for U.S. crypto leadership after joining industry executives and federal regulators at the White House. His message arrives as the CLARITY Act approaches a Senate procedural vote on federal crypto market structure legislation. Garlinghouse Renews US Crypto Leadership Call Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse renewed his support for President …
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Scammers have taken more than $250 million from over 200 elderly victims across Texas and the nation in an alleged gold theft operation. Authorities in Tarrant County have secured more than 40 indictments tied to the fraud, reports The Dallas Morning News. Victims received urgent calls from people pretending to be bank officials who claimed accounts or …
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A hardware wallet maker is notifying tens of thousands of additional customers about an expanded data breach stemming from its former shipping partner. The company says ShipMonk notified it on September 2 that order records from November 2019 through August 2021 remained in its systems and were swept up in the same incident first reported …
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A former South Carolina police officer faces charges of bank fraud, prostitution and obstruction of justice following allegations of paying for sexual services and attempting to defraud his credit union. The 43-year-old ex-Pacolet Police Department officer, identified as Fredrick Trent Payne, stands accused of the offenses, reports FOX Carolina. Arrest documents detail that Payne used …
