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Finance

Framework Ventures Leads $24M Round for Web3 Security Platform Immunefi

Immunefi focuses on bug bounties for crypto projects.

Immunefi CEO Mitchell Amador (Immunefi)

Finance

A16z Leads $51.5M Round for Web3 Fraud Protection Startup Sardine

Sardine customers include FTX and Blockchain.com.

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Finance

BNB Chain, Blockchain Security Firms Start AvengerDAO to Protect Users

AvengerDAO will be run by the community with the ambition to set an industry standard for safe practices.

Naoris hopes to create a decentralized proof-of-security consensus mechanism by the end of 2022. (jaydeep/Pixabay)

Markets

Cosmos' ATOM Gains, Bucks Post-Merge Lull on Outlook for New Uses, Better Security

Cosmos is likely to announce the interchain security feature next week, opening doors for the token to capture value from the entire network.

ATOM's ether-denominated price has rallied 30% since Thursday. (TradingView)

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Bitstamp CEO on Regulatory Implications of Ethereum’s Proof-of-Stake Transition

“We feel that the marketplace is quite comfortable with the currency treatment of ETH as not a security,” Bitstamp USA CEO Bobby Zagotta says. He adds that staking shouldn’t affect that equation.

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Finance

NFT Security Startup Tokenproof Raises $5M to Keep JPEGs Safe From Scammers

“A lot of people talk about the utility of NFTs, but there hasn't been the rails for the infrastructure to be able to unlock that utility in the real world,” Alfonso Olvera, CEO of Tokenproof told CoinDesk.

Blue chip NFTs on display (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Videos

Grayscale, Disclosing SEC Queries, Says Cryptos XLM, ZEC, ZEN May Be Securities

Digital asset manager Grayscale Investments has been fielding questions from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the firm’s "securities law analysis" of tokens in some of its less-popular crypto trusts. For the first time, Grayscale acknowledged that ZEC, ZEN and XLM “may currently be a security, based on the facts as they exist today.”

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Finance

Former CFTC Commissioner Dawn Stump Joins Crypto Risk Monitoring Firm Solidus Labs as Adviser

The appointment reflects the broader trend of former top government officials taking roles at crypto firms after departing from their public service roles.

Former CFTC Commissioner Dawn Stump speaking at Consensus 2022. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)