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View More NewsIn brief A U.S. court has sentenced Russian citizen Aleksei Volkov to 81 months in prison for his role in ransomware attacks causing over $9 million in actual losses. Volkov operated as an “initial access broker,” finding vulnerabilities and selling unauthorized access to ransomware groups who then encrypted victims’ data. The 26-year-old must pay $9.2 million in restitution to victims and forfeit equipment used in the crimes. A court in the Southern District of Indiana sentenced Russian citizen Aleksei Volkov, 26, to 81 months in prison Monday for assisting major cybercrime groups including the Yanluowang ransomware group in attacks that…
Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Fira said on Tuesday it was launching with about $450 million in deposits, highlighting demand for fixed-rate onchain credit.Fira said the protocol’s fixed-rate credit market allows users to lock borrowing costs and lending returns for defined periods by organizing lending around maturities rather than floating utilization-based rates, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph.The fixed-rate model differs from most DeFi lending protocols, where borrowers cannot lock funding costs, and lenders cannot predict returns, making long-term DeFi lending less predictable. Fira’s said its model organizes markets by maturity and determines interest rates by supply and…
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In brief MoonPay has introduced the Open Wallet Standard (OWS), an open-source framework for AI agents to manage funds across blockchains. Contributors include PayPal,…
Apex Group, the fund services giant with over $3.5 trillion in assets under administrative care, extended its tokenization range with a structured product offering…
Nasdaq will integrate its Calypso risk and collateral platform and trade surveillance system with digital asset infrastructure firm Talos’s institutional trading tools.The integration announced…
With just over a week left in the month of March, bitcoin is narrowly on track to avoid a historic losing streak. The asset…
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Bitcoin BTC$74,277.88 has fallen back below $75,000, highlighting the fragility of its early Asian session rally to six-week highs.Prices rose to $75,912 early Tuesday,…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is pushing to clear up years of confusion over a key broker-dealer reporting rule that prevented certain assets…
In brief Three Tennessee minors have sued xAI, alleging Grok generated CSAM from their real photos and spread it online, causing severe harm. The…
Law enforcement agencies from the U.S., U.K. and Canada started a joint initiative called Operation Atlantic aimed at disrupting cryptocurrency fraud schemes known as…
US President Donald Trump has again pressured the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates immediately, saying at a White House meeting that they should…
In brief The former LASD deputy was sentenced in a federal extortion case tied to crypto “Godfather” figure Adam Iza. The case details how…
from the if-the-knock-off-shoe-fits dept Normally, a post about the signing of an NFL free agent wouldn’t make it anywhere near these here Techdirt pages.…