🏛 U.S. Permits Tornado Cash Users to Access Crypto Deposits
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Crypto Regulation
🏛 U.S. Permits Tornado Cash Users to Access Crypto Deposits
Authorities Say Users Need License to Retrieve Funds From Sanctioned Mixer
By Samuel Haig
LICENSE U.S. residents with crypto trapped on Tornado Cash may now apply for a license from the U.S. Treasury Department to retrieve their funds.
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😫 Macro Trumps The Merge As Crypto Dives After Hot Inflation Data
Stocks Had Their Worst Day Since June 2020
TUMBLING Worse-than-expected U.S. inflation numbers sent global markets tumbling Tuesday despite mounting excitement over the Merge, the most significant upgrade to Ethereum in its seven-year history.
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NFT Fundraising
💰 Doodles NFT Project Raises $54M At $704M Valuation
Funding Round Led By Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six
By Owen Fernau
POPULAR After over a month of silence on Twitter, Doodles are back with a bang. The popular NFT project announced a $54M raise on Sep. 13 that values Doodles at an eye-popping $704M. Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, led the funding round through his venture firm Seven Seven Six, according to Forbes.
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🔗 S. Korean Court Issues Arrest Warrant Against Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon: CoinDesk
A South Korean court has issued an arrest warrant against Do Kwon, the co-founder of the now defunct stablecoin issuer Terraform Labs, according to the Financial Crimes Unit of the Supreme Prosecutors Office.
🔗 ‘WAGMI’ Is Dead: Pplpleasr, UnicornDAO, TIME President Weigh in on NFTs: Decrypt
Are we all gonna make it? Probably not—and some Web3 proponents don’t even want people using the term “NFTs” anymore.
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On Eve of The Merge Skeptics and Supporters Gird for Raft of Changes The moment has finally arrived. Ethereum is poised to execute the most historic upgrade in its eight-year history. And the DeFi community is giddy with anticipation that the shift to Proof-of-Stake consensus will revitalize the blockchain network’s usefulness and value. Richard Craib’s response? Meh.
ETH Fire Sale Unlikely After Shanghai Upgrade: Nansen Unless The Merge sends Ether to the moon, Ethereum die-hards shouldn’t fear a fire sale when the post-Merge “Shanghai” upgrade takes effect next year, according to a new report from crypto analytics firm Nansen.
With Privacy Under Threat DeFi Community Scrambles to Rethink Frontend Design Crypto was supposed to be unstoppable. But when the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the privacy-preserving protocol Tornado Cash on Aug. 8, the conception of crypto as an uncensorable financial network came into doubt.
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