United States prosecutors reportedly believe that there would be no new evidence to present at a second trial. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-prosecutors-sbf-second-trial-report

Catalyx suspects the security breach — which resulted in undisclosed losses — may have involved one of its own employees. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/canadian-crypto-exchange-catalyx-suspends-withdrawals-halts-trading-security-breach

More than 105 million shares of Marathon Digital have been traded in the last 24 hours, beating Tesla, Apple, and Amazon. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/marathon-digital-bitcoin-miner-most-traded-stock-united-states-share-market

Part of Bitzlato co-founder’s guilty plea on Dec. 6 was to dissolve the illicit exchange and forfeit its cryptocurrency. Now, it’s suspending withdrawals. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitzlato-suspends-bitcoin-withdrawals-founder-guilty-plea

Crypto investors will have to keep their eyes peeled for sophisticated phishing scams and a plethora of smart contract vulnerabilities next year, according to blockchain security firms. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-crypto-hackers-will-up-their-game-2024

The firm said it’s priorities now are to keep KyberSwap’s Aggregator and Limit Order functions up and running and to reimburse impacted customers. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/kyber-network-cuts-workforce-50-percent-following-november-exploit

A bug in zkSync’s software caused a security protocol to be erroneously triggered, crashing the network and leaving it offline for several hours. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/zksync-went-down-5-hours-christmas-day-now-back-online

Wall Street giants will only serve to “vacuum up” Bitcoin and store them in a “metaphorical vault,” if too successful, the number of Bitcoin transactions would dry up, says …

With toolkits already available for game devs to meld AI into NPCs, Animoca Brands’ co-founder thinks more intelligent nonplayer characters will start to show up in 2024. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-talking-npcs-are-coming-to-a-game-near-you

Coinbase’s Chief Policy Officer, Faryar Shirzad, states that the claims are simply wrong and misrepresents the exchange’s intention to promoting progress in crypto regulatory matters. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-senator-warren-allegations