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Onchain: A DAO forking around, a new wallet, and yet another attack

Story One A DAO forking around Nouns is a DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization with a simple business model: make their IP great. Nouns IP is based around a set of red goggles called noggles. The more popular the IP, the higher the value of the NFTs that people buy

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Offchain: Dance Dance Binance

Despite a horror year, Binance remains the undisputed champ of the crypto space. But how long can they defy gravity? Looking back, it’s still hard to believe exactly how fast Binance’s rise to the top actually was. The exchange traded its first Bitcoin in June 2017 and by

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Onchain: CFTC chooses violence, Visa lands on Solana and Vitalik gets hacked

Story One CFTC chooses violence Someone at the CFTC must have had a bad flight home from vacation. Why else would they end the holiday season by bringing enforcement against 3 DeFi companies? The Commission for Futures Trading figured it'd be a good idea to accuse Opyn, 0x (ZeroEx), and

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Offchain: East v West

As regulators around the world scramble to work crypto out, some familiar divides are re-emerging. CoinJar UK customers this week received an email informing them that something called the Travel Rule now applied to all crypto transactions in the UK. In a nutshell, this means that all crypto transactions must

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New crypto regulations in the UK and how will they impact you

At CoinJar, we must maintain regulatory compliance standards in line with our FCA money laundering registrations and the upcoming FATF & UK Travel Rule for crypto transfers. As of September 1, 2023, the UK government-mandated new crypto regulations, often called the "Travel Rule," are taking effect. They have been designed to

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Onchain: Pepe members go rogue, Farcaster goes Optimism, and Balancer finds vulnerability

Story One Pepe members go rogue Pepecoin, a memecoin that surged to fame earlier this year when everything was trading flat, now faces allegations of being a rug. Or at least of founders enriching themselves, which, at this stage, is as common in crypto as drunk people in the trains

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Offchain: With Friends Like These

Crypto’s latest hype train lets you buy and sell shares in, well, people. Here’s a few ways of thinking about Friend.tech. So, it’s come to this. Some enterprising crypto enthusiasts have designed a platform that lets you render yourself as a tradeable commodity. Welcome to Friend.

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Onchain: PayPal enters the stablecoin game, Base goes live and buy your friends

Story One PayPal enters the stablecoin game On August 6th, the payments giant PayPal announced the launch of its own stablecoin with the creative name PUSD. It's the first major US financial company to launch a US-backed stablecoin. PUSD will be backed 100% by US dollar deposits, short-term treasuries, and

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Offchain: Show Me The Money

Crypto is doing its best to bore the true believers into bailing out. The equation is simple: we need more cash. Nothing like taking a month away from newsletter duties to realise that absolutely zero is happening in crypto-land right now. Have you seen the Bitcoin chart for the last

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Onchain: The new Samcoin, $50 million for real stuff, and yet another exploit

Story One The new Samcoin On July 24th, Worldcoin, the iris-scanning startup, launched its token with the ticker $WLD. Sam Altman's side project has already faced a lot of criticism for operating their Orbs like an MLM scheme and privacy implications of scanning eyes. But with their launch, the team

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Offchain: RWAs, or how crypto is coming full circle

Real-World-Assets are the latest and greatest in crypto, as they promise to usher in the age of financial institutions adopting crypto for real. It's ironic to think back to the beginning of this entire industry when Satoshi wanted to create an alternative to the traditional financial system without ties to

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Onchain: XRP not a security, Rolex as collateral and Snitch-to-Earn

Story One XRP, not a security For a while, the most consistent thing in crypto wasn't the value of stablecoins nor the laser eyes on Bitcoin Maxis profile pics (both didn't perform well). It was Ripple's ongoing lawsuit with the SEC, which ran since 2020. After three years of little

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Automate your taxes with Syla and BGL

CoinJar has teamed up with Syla and BGL by streamlining your personal, SMSF, trust and corporate tax returns. CoinJar <> Syla out-of-the-box integration automatically imports your CoinJar and CoinJar Exchange transactions. If you have an SMSF with CoinJar, Syla can instantly sync your trading history with BGL’s Simple Fund 360

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Offchain: NFTs All The Way Down

The much-derided NFT market has taken yet another nosedive. Is the end of the suffering in sight? It’s been almost two years since someone paid US$1.3 million (400 ETH at the time) for this picture of a rock. Looking back now, it’s a true sign of

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Onchain July: Still no Bitcoin ETF, Azuki enraging its holders, and Poly Network hacked again

Story One Still no Bitcoin ETF Even though major banks now offer digital asset solutions, what's missing so far in the US is a Bitcoin Spot ETF. Exchange Traded Funds are a vehicle that allows institutional investors, such as pension funds, to gain exposure to an asset's appreciation. When Blackrock,

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Recurring Buy (DCA) is now available on CoinJar!

Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) with CoinJar Bundles Recurring Buy is now available on CoinJar, allowing you to set up weekly, fortnightly, or monthly purchases at your chosen rate. Use your debit or credit card to set up automated crypto purchases within your CoinJar iOS or Android app. What is Dollar

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Offchain: Attack of the Titans

While crypto smoulders, some of the world’s biggest asset managers make their move. You have to hand it to the bear market: it has a perverse sense of humour. Here we are, deep in crypto’s most existential of winters, a time of bankruptcies, protocol collapse and 99% drawdowns,

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Onchain: 3AC's NFT collection sold, Tether de-peg, and Polygon 2.0

Story One 3AC's NFT collection sold Last year in March, the infamous crypto fund Three Arrows Capital, was still managing an estimated $10 billion. It didn't last. Within months, the fund collapsed, triggered by the Luna crash, and left behind $3.5 billion in unpaid claims and a collection of

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CoinJar now supports USD and EUR in addition to AUD and GBP for Trading, Deposits, and Withdrawals

Currency Deposit Withdrawal AUD PayID, Bank account transfer, Cash deposit (blueshyft) Bank account transfer USD Fedwire, SWIFT Fedwire, SWIFT EUR SEPA SEPA GBP Faster Payments Faster Payments

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Offchain: The Tower Trembles

The SEC has launched definitive action against Binance and Coinbase. Welcome to the endgame of Crypto 1.0. You’d be hard-pressed to find a crypto watcher who was necessarily surprised by the decision of Gary Gensler’s SEC to sue both Binance and Coinbase last week. If anything, the

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New tokens alert: LIDO, APE, ENS & 1INCH have arrived

We’re thrilled to welcome Lido, Ape, Ethereum Name Service and 1inch to the CoinJar lineup. From today, you’ll be able to buy and sell all of these cryptocurrencies on CoinJar, joining more than 50 other cryptocurrencies that our users can trade, store, send and spend. Enjoy our free

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Bringing advanced TradingView charts to CoinJar Exchange!

At CoinJar, we're committed to empowering our customers with the most effective and efficient ways to trade and manage their cryptocurrencies. In our latest effort we are delighted to announce the arrival of TradingView charting on the CoinJar Exchange interface. Now, you can harness the full power of advanced trading

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Onchain: Nike & EA bringing NFTs to games, Asia rising, and an eye-watering Series C

Story One Nike and EA bringing NFTs to games While things are rather dire in NFT land, companies outside of the space seem to lead the way regarding retail adoption. EA, the gaming company behind FIFA and other sports titles, has partnered with Nike's .Swoosh platform to bring virtual goods

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A Laughing Matter

Memecoins reign and in-jokes are the currency of the realm. Is crypto fundamentally dumb? Is that the whole point? I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the past 12 months have been a Bad Time for crypto. It’s as if the Book of Revelation turned out to

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Onchain: Ledger Drama, Tethers' Bitcoin purchase, and Ben's coins

Story One Ledger Drama The hardware wallet producer has never been one to shy away from funny ideas. After producing a wallet with a necklace so you can keep your crypto close, their latest announcement triggered a significant outrage. Last week Ledger announced a new service to make seed phrase