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Gün Sirer says the U.S. “won the first wave of the internet revolution” because it enabled responsible innovation. Now, it must do the same with blockchain. Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer will be calling on United States officials to “nurture” and “support” responsible blockchain innovation, warning that they face “ disastrous consequences ” if they don't. Gün Sirer’s comments in defense of what he describes as a “revolutionary technology” is part of a testimony that he is scheduled to give to the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on June 13 — the audience will include Chair Patrick McHenry, Ranking Member Maxine Waters and other members in the House Committee. Gün Sirer’s testimony aims to explain how blockchain can “transform society” by making digital services “more efficient, reliable and accessible to all.” My written testimony for the House Financial Services Committee hearing on blockchains and the future of digital assets is now public. You can read it to preview wh...

Cointelegraph Accelerator, Animoca Brands, Cipholio and Brinc will host a Demo Day to introduce seven promising Web3 projects to investors. As numerous Web3 events have reiterated since early 2022, bear markets are ideal times for building. Triggered by the Terra ecosystem crash in May 2022 and aptly named as “crypto winter” following the FTX collapse in November, the current bear market saw the crypto market cap shrinking from $3 trillion to below $1 trillion. While the year-long bear market tore off a good chunk of the market cap, it also presented an opportunity for new ideas to flourish as the industry’s focus shifted from price volatility to innovation . Unfazed by the market conditions, the Web3 ecosystem has continued to build around fresh concepts to prevent the same crashes from happening again and also to find new ways for users to interact with decentralized digital realities. Monthly active developer count since Bitcoin was launched compared to when Ethereum and its smart ...

Along with Google, 11 blockchain firms are now part of the Google Web3 startup program to help accelerate startups. Technology conglomerate Alphabet has expanded the Google for Startups Cloud Program.  As of Apr. 25, the program now includes Web3 firms such as Alchemy, Aptos, Base, Celo, Flow, Hedera, Nansen, Near, Polygon, Solana, and thirdweb. The same day, Blockchain analytics firm Nansen announced that it has partnered with Google Cloud to provide real-time Blockchain data for startup s. Its database currently contains over 250 million wallet labels.  We are very excited to team up with @googlecloud in their Web3 startup program to provide real-time blockchain data Web3 startups in the program get a free month of #NansenQuery & other benefits Learn how it can help YOUR project succeed https://t.co/xU3bZlkOiy — Nansen | Consensus2023 (@nansen_ai) April 25, 2023 Currently, Google Cloud has two product suites for Web3 startups, distinguished by whether the firms have raised ...

Binance said retiring old deposit addresses on multiple blockchains was part of its infrastructure upgrade, and new addresses will offer better security and efficiency. The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, Binance is disabling multiple old deposit addresses as part of its infrastructure upgrade. In an announcement on April 18, Binance said it would retire selected deposit addresses and memos in batches on multiple blockchains, including Ethereum (ETH), Tron (TRX), BNB and Stellar (XLM). The crypto exchange said that the retirement of old addresses is a routine and a part of enhancing security and efficiency for the users . List of retired deposit addresses on various blockhain networks. Source: Binance The users of these impacted deposit blockchain addresses will be notified via email and the exchange strongly encouraged that all impacted users obtain a new address and memo upon receiving the notification. The notification email will include the expirat...

A U.S. Representative has declared he will introduce legislation to have SEC boss Gary Gensler removed from his role. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler could be facing unemployment after United States Representative Warren Davidson declared he would introduce legislation to fire the SEC boss. In an April 15 tweet responding to Coinbase’s legal chief, Paul Grewal, the crypto-friendly Representative announced his intention to have Gensler removed from his role after the SEC's latest announcement about revisiting the proposed redefinition of an "exchange." "To correct a long series of abuses, I am introducing legislation that removes the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and replaces the role with an Executive Director that reports to the Board (where authority resides)," Davidson tweeted. Yep. To correct a long series of abuses, I am introducing legislation that removes the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commiss...

The American billionaire is being sued for $258 billion in a racketeering lawsuit alleging Musk ran a pyramid scheme to support Dogecoin. On Apr. 3, social media giant Twitter change d its icon to that of the symbol on the popular meme token Dogecoin (Doge). Just two days prior, Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter and Tesla, asked a U.S. judge to dismiss a $258 billion lawsuit filed by investors alleging the operation of a pyramid scheme to promote Dogecoin. The Twitter icon as it appears at the time of publication (Twitter) Dogecoin is up sharply in light of the news, with its price surging by more than 22% in the past hour to $0.09784 apiece. The icon change took place platform-wide and is directly visible by the social media giant's estimated 360 million monthly active users, and visitors to the platform alike. Musk's lawyers reportedly argued that "funny pictures" and "tweeting words of support" do not amount to a fraud claim. This is a developing story and w...

Cointelegraph analyst and writer Marcel Pechman explains how the Credit Suisse bank crisis will impact the crypto market. The show Macro Markets, hosted by Marcel Pechman, which airs every Friday at 12 pm ET on the Cointelegraph Markets & Research YouTube channel, explains complex concepts in layman’s terms and focuses on the cause and effect of traditional financial events on day-to-day crypto activity. In today’s episode, crypto analyst Pechman discusses how to analyze banks — importantly, how to avoid the erroneous market capitalization indicator, which had a $15.8-billion value for the defunct Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The enterprise value (EV) metric provides a much better picture of a bank’s balance sheet terms by subtracting net debt from market cap. Of course, Pechman first explains the relationship between Banking valuation and crypto currencies, specifically Bitcoin’s (BTC) ethos. The video explores the 2018 denial of The Narrow Bank’s application, a bank that would...

If the final tally remains in favor of the purchase, the LinksDAO acquisition committee will officially put out a “compelling offer” to purchase the golf course. The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)-operated golf startup, LinksDAO, may soon put in an offer to purchase the newly marketed Spey Bay Golf Club in Scotland worth about $900,000.  LinksDAO — self-described as a “global group of golf enthusiasts” that is on a mission to build the “world’s greatest golf community” — officially opened the proposal vote on Feb. 20, which came after a few weeks of informal deliberation. It would be the DAO’s first ever golf course purchase. few things in life are more fun than doing what you said you were going to do, regardless of adversity i will love the @linksdao core team, contributors and members forever for delivering 110% bear markets mean nothing when passion meets greatnesshttps://t.co/1iqvi1sHIx pic.twitter.com/qQGLYxlB9F — Mike Dudas (@mdudas) February 21, 2023 While ...

The current whereabouts of the funds remain unknown. According to a Bloomberg report published on Dec. 27, the U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the whereabouts of approximately $372 million in missing digital assets from now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX and FTX US. On Nov. 12, amidst bankruptcy and internal collapse, FTX warned customers of abnormal wallet activity regarding at least 228,523 Ether (ETH) transferred out of the exchange from an unknown perpetrator.  On Nov. 11, or the night of the company's bankruptcy filing, FTX US' general counsel Ryne Miller confirmed that the transactions were unauthorized and that the subsidiary exchange had moved all crypto to cold wallets as a precaution. On Nov. 20, Blockchain forensics firm Elliptic wrote that the unauthorized transfers amounted to $477 million, and the unknown perpetrator swapped the stolen Ether for RenBTC, before being bridged to Bitcoin through the RenBridge service. Ren was acqu...

The news comes after Amber Group reportedly pulled back expansion plans due to financial exposure in the FTX collapse. Cryptocurrency trading firm Amber Group, which had roughly 10% of its trading capital stuck on FTX at the time of the exchange’s collapse, has report edly acquired crypto currency platform , Sparrow Holdings according to an announcement on Dec. 14. The Singaporean crypto platform Sparrow Holdings, which offers digital assets products and solutions, acquired its payments license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore in August, to provide Digital Payment Token (DPT) services in Singapore, under the Payment Services Act (PSA). Founded in 2018, Sparrow works with financial institutions and family offices in designing bespoke digital asset solutions to achieve customer-centric growth objectives, while maintaining compliance requirements.  Related: Amber Group uses simple hardware to show just how fast, easy the Wintermute hack was The news of Amber Group's acqui...