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Saturday

Fed officials are prohibited from trading stocks, bonds, as well as cryptocurrencies

Central bank authorities will be confined from possessing individual stocks, bonds and different resources under decides reported Friday that initially were gone ahead in October.


The new guidelines stretched out and boycott to cryptographic forms of money, which were excluded from the past declaration.


They follow a discussion last year in which a few authorities exchanged positions just a little ways off of the Fed's phenomenal measures to help the economy through the Covid emergency.


Central bank authorities will not have the option to exchange a huge number of resources including stocks and bonds - as well as digital currencies - under new guidelines that became formal Friday.


Circling back to guidelines reported in October, the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee declared that the majority of the limitations will produce results May 1.


The guidelines will cover FOMC individuals, local bank presidents and a pile of different authorities including staff officials, bond work area supervisors and Fed representatives who consistently go to executive gatherings. They additionally reach out to life partners and minor kids.


"The Federal Reserve expects that extra staff will become subject to all or portions of these standards after the fulfillment of additional audit and examination," a delivery declaring the principles expressed.


The guidelines "plan to help public trust in the fairness and uprightness of the Committee's work by preparing for even the presence of any irreconcilable situation," the assertion likewise said.


National bank authorities acted after revelations last year that few senior Fed authorities had been exchanging individual stocks and stock assets not long before the time the national bank took on clearing measures pointed toward supporting the economy in the beginning of the Covid spread.


Local presidents Eric Rosengren of Boston and Robert Kaplan left their positions following the discussion.


Crypto boycott

The declaration Friday stretched out the boycott to cryptographic forms of money like bitcoin, which were not referenced in the first declaration in October.


Under the guidelines, authorities actually standing firm on market footings will in any case have a year to shed disallowed positions. New Fed authorities will have a half year to do as such.


Later on, authorities covered by the new principles should give 45 days' notification prior to making any passable resource buys, a limitation that will come full circle July 1. They then, at that point, should stand firm on those footings for at minimum a year and will be prohibited from any exchanging during "times of elevated monetary market pressure." There is no set meaning of the term, which not entirely settled by the Fed seat and the load up's broad insight.


Alongside stocks, securities and crypto, the boycott reaches out to products, unfamiliar monetary forms, area record reserves, subsidiaries, short positions and organization protections or utilizing edge obligation to purchase resources.


Congress has been discussing an action that likewise will confine its individuals from claiming individual stocks, however it has not been embraced at this point.

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Monday

Singapore State Investment Fund Temasek Eliminates Position in Coinbase

The investment giant previously held about 8,168 shares in the U.S.-listed crypto exchange.

By Nelson Wang


Singapore’s state investment fund Temasek, one of the largest investors in the world, has sold off its modest position in crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN), according to its latest SEC filings.


- In its third quarter filing, the fund listed ownership of 8,168 Coinbase shares worth approximately $2.1 million, but its Q4 filing shows no Coinbase holdings. Temasek’s total portfolio was valued at $301 billion as of the end of 2021.


- Coinbase’s stock has declined about 40% since its IPO last April.


- Meanwhile, Temasek was one of the investors in FTX.US’s recent $400 million Series A fundraise at an $8 billion valuation. It was not known how much Temasek had invested in FTX.US; other prominent investors in the round included Paradigm, Softbank and Multicoin Capital.


Source : coindesk.com

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Russia-Affiliated Addresses Received 74% of Ransomware Revenue Last Year: Chainalysis

 Moscow City firms received as much as 48% of their crypto from illicit addresses.

By Eliza Gkritsi


Almost three-quarters of revenue from ransomware attacks last year, or $400 million, went to addresses that are “highly likely” to be affiliated with Russia, according to a report from crypto analytics firm Chainalysis.


- The firm determines whether ransomware strains are affiliated to Russia based on three criteria: Whether they avoid attacking former Soviet countries, markers such as language and location, and whether they are related to Russia-based cybercrime organization Evil Corp., Chainalysis said on Monday

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- Ransomware attacks have grown in the past year, according to a joint report of U.S., U.K. and Australian cybersecurity authorities. North American addresses are the biggest targets, according to another Chainalysis report. The U.S. government is pushing for measures to combat this type of attack, in which hackers hold a firm’s data hostage.


- In 2019-2021, between 29% and 48% of all crypto going to addresses belonging to businesses in Moscow City, the Russian capital’s financial center, came from “illicit and risky” addresses, said the research report.


- The recipients included Suex, an over-the-counter exchange that has been sanctioned by the U.S. government, Eggchange, whose co-founder was reportedly arrested by Russian authorities in November, and peer-to-peer exchange Bitzlato.


- These firms are linked to money laundering of the illegally obtained funds, Chainalysis said.


- Some instances of firms receiving low proportions of illicitly obtained crypto can be attributed to their lack of awareness, rather than criminal activity, the report said.


- Of all the crypto going to Moscow City, funds coming from scams, at $313 million, and darnknet markets, at $296 million, made up the majority of illicit crypto in that time period. Ransomware came third at $38 million.

Source : coindesk.com
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Tuesday

$4.4M Stolen in Hack of Blockchain Infrastructure Firm Meter

 According to PeckShield, the hack on Saturday saw more than 1391 ETH and 2.74 BTC stolen.

By Jamie Crawley


Blockchain infrastructure company Meter has had $4.4 million stolen in a hack.

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based firm provides decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure services for cross-chain operability of smart contracts.

According to blockchain analytics firm PeckShield, the hack on Saturday saw more than 1391 ETH ($4.3 million) and 2.74 BTC ($115,000) stolen.

The hackers exploited a feature on Meter that automatically wraps and unwraps gas tokens like ETH and BNB for user convenience.

"However the contract did not block direct interaction of the wrapped ERC20 tokens for the native gas token and did not properly transfer and verify the correct number of WETH transferred from the callers' address," Meter tweeted.

Meter added that it is working on compensating all users affected.


Source : coindesk.com

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Tesla Recorded $101M Impairment Losses on Bitcoin Holdings in 2021

Tesla said that it investment an aggregate of $1.5 billion in bitcoin in the first quarter of 2021.

By Jamie Crawley


Tesla recorded around $101 million of impairment losses from changes in the value of their bitcoin holdings in 2021.

Elon Musk's electric vehicle company disclosed these losses in a filing with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) explaining how its digital asset holdings could affects its profitability.

"In the year ended December 31, 2021, we recorded approximately $101 million of impairment losses resulting from changes to the carrying value of our bitcoin and gains of $128 million on certain sales of bitcoin by us," the filing said.

Tesla said that it made an aggregate investment of $1.5 billion in bitcoin in the first quarter of 2021. The market value of its bitcoin holdings as of the end of 2021 was $1.99 billion.

A year ago, the company announced that it had purchased $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin and thereafter began accept it as a form of payment. In May, Tesla CEO Elon Musk went back on this announcement over concerns about the environmental impact of bitcoin mining.

Musk later said that the company would accept the crypto once it is confirmed that 50% of mining is carried out using clean energy.

Source : coindesk.com
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