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Markets

Darknet Markets Face Headwinds After Year of Mixed Results

Darknet markets are falling off the radar and watching their customer base level off.

Hydra is one of the biggest darknet markets still in operation.

Markets

Nearly $1B in Bitcoin Moves From Wallet Linked to Silk Road

A wallet possibly belonging to early dark net market Silk Road moved almost $1 billion worth of bitcoin early on Wednesday.

Convicted Silk Road operator Ross William Ulbricht

Finance

CipherTrace Outlines Regulatory Gray Zones Plaguing Booming DeFi Sector

Here's how blockchain analytics firms like CipherTrace and Elliptic are viewing DeFi and DEXs after the KuCoin hack.

Where do DEXs sit with regulators?

Markets

Elliptic Adds Monitoring Support for Binance Chain and BNB

Ellipitc is only the second crypto analysis company to support Binance's namesake blockchain.

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Markets

Elliptic Teams With Fireblocks to Automate Security and Compliance in Crypto Industry

Elliptic has joined forces with Fireblocks to automate anti-money laundering compliance for their shared institutional clients.

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Markets

Elliptic Hires Former Revolut CFO as It Prepares for Asia Expansion

David MacLean will oversee the crypto tracer's finance and personnel operations.

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Markets

P2P Exchange LocalBitcoins Adds Crypto Surveillance Tools From Elliptic

Elliptic's tracing software bolsters the peer-to-peer exchange's anti-money laundering safeguards.

A security camera in downtown Helsinki, where LocalBitcoins is based. (Kekyalyaynen/Shutterstock)

Policy

CoolBitX and Elliptic Team Up to Offer Crypto Firms Compliance Tools

Elliptic and CoolBitX will provide a package of their respective solutions to crypto firms such as exchanges needing to stay in compliance with regulators.

Elliptic founder and CTO James Smith (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

IRS Seeks Elliptic’s Crypto Tracing Software in Response to COVID-19

President Donald J. Trump invoked the Stafford act in March, authorizing federal agency funding.

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Finance

Elliptic Follows Chainalysis in Adding Zcash to Monitoring Platform

Elliptic, the blockchain analysis company, has added privacy coins zcash and horizen to its monitoring platform.

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