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Good news: August saw a significant decrease in cryptocurrency losses due to hacks and fraud, according to a recent report from Immunefi. Total losses amounted to $15,082,000 across five incidents, marking the lowest monthly total year-to-date and a 94.5% decrease from July. As Decrypt reported at the time, July saw cross-chain DeFi protocol Li.Fi losing about $11 million to a hack. Reports indicate that hackers stole more than twice as much cryptocurrency in the first half of 2024—based on the...

Ether's year-to-date gain has narrowed to less than 10% in crypto's latest price tumble.

The crypto exchange complies with anti-money laundering legislation, he said.

Crypto is far from the currency of choice for financial predators, says former CFTC Commissioner Fred Hatfield. That’s really the U.S. dollar.

The U.S. regulator alleged that NFTs sold on OpenSea are securities, the OpenSea CEO said earlier Wednesday.

The head of the popular social-media and messaging platform was arrested on Saturday as part of an investigation into money laundering, drug trafficking, child pornography and...

"We're shocked the SEC would make such a sweeping move against creators and artists," says CEO of OpenSea.