Day: August 8, 2022

Aug 08
Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm – Fraudulent entity clones authorised firm ING Bank

It has come to the attention of the Central Bank of Ireland (‘Central Bank’) that a fraudulent entity has been claiming to be an investment firm / investment business firm in the State in the absence of appropriate authorisation. In this instance, the fraudulent entity cloned and impersonated legitimate Central Bank authorised firms in order […]

Aug 08
Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm – Fraudulent entity clones authorised firm Miripro Insurance Company DAC

It has come to the attention of the Central Bank of Ireland (‘Central Bank’) that a fraudulent entity, Miripro Insurance Company Limited, has been operating as an insurance / reinsurance firm in the State in the absence of appropriate authorisations.  In this instance, the fraudulent entity cloned and impersonated a legitimate Central Bank authorised firm […]

Aug 08
Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm – Lend Invest

The Central Bank of Ireland (‘Central Bank’) today, XX July 2022, published the name of an unauthorised firm, Lend Invest – https://thelendinvest.uk/ , in order to warn the public that it is not authorised by the Central Bank to provide financial services. Lend Invest is advertising loans on its website but it holds no authorisation […]

Aug 08
Vitalik: Layer-2 scaling will make crypto payments ‘make sense’ again — KBW 2022

“It’s a vision that has been, I think, forgotten a little bit and I think one of the reasons why it has been forgotten is basically because it got priced out of the market,” Vitalik Buterin said. 1356 Total views 18 Total shares Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has argued that crypto payments will once again […]

Aug 08
60 million NFTs could be minted in a single transaction: StarkWare founder

Zero-knowledge (ZK) rollup tech company StarkWare founder Eli Ben-Sasson says its new Recursive validity proofs could theoretically roll up as many as 60 million transactions into one on the Ethereum blockchain. The zkSTARK co-inventor made the comments to Cointelegraph during ETH Seoul on Aug. 7 after announcing the start of production of StarkWare’s new Recursive […]

Aug 08
Once-hacked for $77M, Beanstalk’s algo stablecoin protocol relaunches

Ethereum-based algorithmic stablecoin project Beanstalk Farms has relaunched its protocol just under four months after going offline after suffering a devastating $77 million governance exploit. The protocol and its governance have been paused since April following the governance exploit and flash loan attack, but were relaunched as of Aug. 6 in an event called the […]