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Crypto Firm Orthogonal Trading Said to Be in Provisional Liquidation After Maple Defaults
Orthogonal defaulted on $36 million of loans on DeFi protocol Maple earlier this month after it allegedly misrepresented the scale of its losses from the FTX implosion.
Guggenheim's Scott Minerd, Fickle Bitcoin Forecaster, Dies After Heart Attack
Among Wall Street financiers, Minerd was known for his extreme predictions of the largest cryptocurrency's price, often with mixed success.
DeFi Project Popsicle’s ICE Token Triples as Controversial Wonderland Founder Returns
The sudden price surge of Popsicle’s ICE native token coincided with the controversial blockchain developer Daniele Sestagalli revealing his return to rebuild the project.
Bitcoin Trades Sideways as Stocks Get Pre-Holiday Bounce
The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has been moving sideways in a range between $16,700 and $16,900 in the past 24 hours as traders grappled with an uncertain market outlook for next year.
EU Rules for Distributed Ledger Financial Trading Finalized Ahead of March Pilot
Requirements to test people's knowledge of distributed technology could deter the average retail investor, some worry.
Coinbase Introduces Recovery Tool for Lost ERC-20 Tokens: Report
Users will be able to recover more than 4,000 as-yet unsupported Ethereum-based tokens starting in a few weeks, according to TechCrunch.
Perplexing Tranquility? Bitcoin's Implied Volatility Hits Lowest Since October 2020
Bitcoin's volatility will continue to drop as the economic backdrop improves and the market becomes resilient to the negative FTX headlines, one observer said.
Bitcoin Falls as Federal Reserve Slows Rate Hikes but Stays Hawkish
The U.S. central bank raised its benchmark interest rate to a range of 4.25%-4.5% on Wednesday. Officials now expect the current rate-hiking cycle to peak next year at a "terminal rate" above 5%.
Crypto Market’s Near-Apocalypse in 2022 Turns Zombie Tokens Into Dead Coins
The number of cryptocurrencies has dropped by about 1,000 since February, the biggest-ever decline, according to Statista. Often tokens are removed from pricing sites like CoinGecko because they're no longer trading – even if they still technically exist on the blockchain.
Binance's CZ Welcomes 'Stress Test' as Exchange Resumes USDC Withdrawals
The world's largest crypto exchange by trading volume has endured a wave a withdrawals amid concerns about reserves. Withdrawals of the stablecoin USDC were paused for several hours but have now resumed.
