🚀 Crypto Startups Attract $2.7 Billion in Funding

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) criticized several social media companies, including Meta, Google, and ByteDance, for collecting and processing user data without sufficient oversight or transparency. The collected data often includes age, gender, language, income, and other information of interest to advertisers.

Blockchain researcher ZachXBT revealed details of a $243 million fraud operation. This led to the arrest of several suspects and the freezing of funds' portion. The victim was a lone creditor from the Genesis platform, and the main culprits were Greavys (Malone Iam), Wiz (Veer Chetal), and Box (Jeandiel Serrano).

Germany’s DZ BANK Group, the nation’s second-largest banking group, is preparing to offer cryptocurrency trading and custody services to over 700 of its cooperative banks via the Boerse Stuttgart platform. The launch is expected by the year's end, with technical preparations nearing completion.