Interpol has issued a Red Notice to locate and arrest Do Kwon and Pro-centralization Vladimir Putin grants citizenship to Edward Snowden. Keep track of this week’s news on our Hodler’s Digest.
The auction to acquire Voyager Digital assets ended this week when crypto exchange FTX US emerged as the winner, edging out competing bids from CrossTower and Binance. The U.S. exchange paid around $1.4 billion for Voyayer’s assets, which is roughly the same as the lender’s remaining assets. The deal is pending approval from a U.S. bankruptcy court.
U.S. District Court Judge Analisa Torres ruled that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission must provide information about comments from a former government official that could impact Ripple’s fight against the securities regulator. In a 2018 speech, former SEC Corporation Finance Division Director William Hinman noted that Bitcoin and Ether did not classify as securities. The ruling from Torres means the SEC must not hold back documents related to that speech.