Fears over Silvergate, $8B hole at FTX, senators seek Binance’s numbers: Hodler’s Digest, Feb. 26 – March 4

Top Stories This Week Silvergate stock plunges after delayed filing raises doubts over future Silvergate made headlines this week after postponing the filing of its annual 10-K financial report, raising fears of an upcoming bankruptcy filing. The collapse of the cryptocurrency bank could prove costly for the rest of the industry. Within 24 hours after […]
$3M OKX airdrop, 1 hour due diligence on 3AC, Binance AI — Asia Express

Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. OKX airdrop after token trading fiasco On Mar. 1, cryptocurrency exchange OKX announced that it would airdrop 3,014,381 Tether (USDT) to users who suffered losses as a result of the Celestial (CELT) token trading incident. On Feb. 26, Celestial revealed the […]
‘Account abstraction’ supercharges Ethereum wallets: Dummies guide

For years, Bitcoiners have repeated the mantra “be your own bank.” But in truth, storing any type of crypto in a wallet has been a lot closer to stuffing cash under your mattress than to a complex financial institution like a bank. Admittedly, it’s an improvement in that crypto can be transferred across the globe […]
Unstablecoins: Depegging, bank runs and other risks loom

Stablecoins are entering a period of great uncertainty following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission labeling BUSD an “unregistered security” and ordering Paxos to stop minting new tokens. Do these moves signal a wider war by U.S. regulators on stablecoins? Could the SEC declare all stablecoins securities, or is BUSD a special case? Independent crypto […]