Roland Guirdonan
Roland is a Public Relations & Communications guru with an immense passion for the blockchain and crypto industry. A fusion of his expertise and passion led to the dawn of Optimisus in 2020.
Articles by Roland Guirdonan
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The FTX investigation involves the Bahamas Securities Commission, the Prime Minister’s financial intelligence unit, and a financial crimes unit. The Bahamas Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs, Ryan Pinder, has confirmed that the Caribbean nation’s authorities are conducting a “active and ongoing” investigation into the defunct crypto exchange FTX. Pinder explained in a national statement delivered live on the Office of the Prime Minister’s Facebook page on Nov. 27 that the “affairs of FTX Digital Markets” are being investigated by both “civil and criminal authorities,” and that Bahamian authorities are working with “a number of specialists and experts
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On Friday, 38% of the employees at Lemon Cash, a cryptocurrency exchange with operations in Argentina and Brazil, lost their jobs. According to Lemon Cash, the unfavorable business climate and the absence of a clear outlook for a turnaround in the venture capital industry led to the layoff of 100 employees. Due to the persistently unfavorable market conditions, several employees of crypto companies like Lemon Cash have had to receive their pink slips in Latin America. The layoff was announced by Marcelo Cavazzoli, the CEO of Lemon Cash, in a “Open Letter to the Community” blog on Medium. Cavazzoli expressed
1 year ago
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Sweat Economy is an Ethereum-based fitness app that rewards users for living a healthy lifestyle. SWEAT is the native token for Sweat Economy. What is Sweat Economy (SWEAT)? Sweat Economy can be found on the Ethereum and Near Protocol blockchains. It raised $13 million during its initial coin offering. Sweatcoin was created in 2015 by the current CEO, Oleg Fomengo, Egor Khmelev, and Anton Derlyatka. Users can earn rewards by putting their SWEAT on the line. A minted SWEAT token entitles the user to premium services, low transaction fees, and the ability to mint more Sweat Economy. Furthermore, the team
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Some of the early contributors include Jump Crypto, Polygon Ventures, Aptos Labs, Animoca Brands, GSR, and Kronos. Binance’s $1 billion industry recovery fund has already attracted some big names, including Jump Crypto, Polygon Ventures, and market maker GSR. Aptos Labs, Animoca Brands, and Kronos are among the other early contributors, according to CEO Changpeng Zhao. These companies contributed an initial total commitment of around $50 million to the recovery fund. Binance anticipates that more participants will join soon, as over 150 applications have already been received. The fund was announced last week to help mitigate the effects of FTX’s demise.
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Changpeng Zhao or CZ, CEO of Binance, expressed regret for not sending an earlier tweet that led to the demise of the crypto exchange FTX. The CEO of the largest crypto exchange in the world made the statement during a live interview on Bloomberg TV on November 24. CZ said, “I actually reflect on the FTX situation and I kind of blame myself for tweeting that too late. As an industry, we let FTX get too big before we started questioning some of those things.” On November 8, Zhao tweeted that Binance would destroy every single FTT token—native FTX’s token—on
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The Uzbek regulators have begun issuing regulatory approvals to regional crypto service providers as they get ready for the country to adopt a new crypto framework in 2023. As a result, only authorized cryptocurrency companies will be permitted to offer Uzbek citizens crypto trading services beginning in January 2023. According to a declaration made public on November 17, Uzbekistan’s main cryptocurrency market regulator, the National Agency for Perspective Projects (NAPP), has granted the country’s first crypto licenses. The licenses formally permit two “cryptocurrency stores,” including Crypto Trade NET LLC and Crypto Market LLC, to provide services associated with cryptocurrencies. Both
1 year ago
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Litecoin (LTC) is currently trading for $77.24 on CoinMarketCap, with a 24-hour trading volume of $2,035,182,382. LTC has risen by almost 26.5% over the past 24 hours. The current supply of Litecoin (LTC) is 71,674,108 LTC. Litecoin (LTC) is currently traded on exchanges like Binance, Coinbase, OKX, BKEX, and Bybit. What is Litecoin (LTC)? One of the first cryptocurrencies to enter the market after Bitcoin was Litecoin (LTC). LTC, a cryptocurrency modelled after Bitcoin, was introduced in 2011. Charlie Lee, the man behind Litecoin, describes it as “the silver to Bitcoin’s gold.” The Litecoin blockchain uses the proof-of-work (PoW) consensus
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No clients were exposed, according to Dubai regulators, as FTX MENA was still in the planning stages before receiving full operating approval. The Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has suspended the license that allows FTX to make plans to serve the local market following the collapse of the crypto exchange giant. In the announcement, VARA stated on its official website that it had revoked the license for FTX MENA’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP). VARA confirmed that the license of FTX MENA was suspended prior to any clients being made aware of it, citing the bankruptcy filing of FTX-related companies
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ConsenSys, a software company focused on Ethereum, announced it collects the IP addresses and wallet addresses of MetaMask users through the Infura blockchain infrastructure service. Both Infura and MetaMask are owned by ConsenSys. When users use their MetaMask wallets to make a blockchain transaction, Infura processes the transaction on the Ethereum blockchain. Through what is referred to as a “remote call procedure service,” MetaMask connects to Infura. Moving forward, ConsenSys said, “When you use Infura as your default RPC provider in MetaMask, Infura will collect your IP address and your Ethereum wallet address when you send a transaction.” ConsenSys further
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The current market uncertainty has had an effect on the value of the meme cryptocurrency Shiba Inu (SHIB), which has struggled to maintain stability throughout 2022. In fact, the investors in the token have experienced both gains and losses as a direct result of the low SHIB prices. A study of the profits investors made from holding SHIB, in particular, shows that at the asset’s price at the time of publication, 76% of holders are in losses while only 15% are in profits. The final 9% have achieved break-even. Further analysis of on-chain data reveals that 52% of SHIB holders
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NFTs are being introduced by Polygon blockchain to honor the game and create a global community. At the moment, football is a hot topic. In Qatar, the FIFA World Cup is the most well-attended event. Additionally, well-known players are entering the Blockchain markets. FIFA has collaborated with a 3 million-user metaverse to build fandom in the Virtual World in addition to creating the NFTs and the FIFA World Cup. The well-known football player Cristiano Ronaldo recently made his way into the blockchain community by launching the first-ever NFTs collections on the Binance platform in order to increase fandom and make
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The founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, is scheduled to give a presentation at the New York Times DealBook Summit on November 30. On November 23, Bankman-Fried announced via Twitter that he will be speaking with New York Times reporter Andrew Sorkin “next Wednesday” at the DealBook Summit. And Sorkin made the news publicly official. According to a November 11 Gawker article, SBF’s previous speaker page title was “C.E.O., FTX.” Since FTX filed for bankruptcy, his title on the speaker page has been changed to “Founder, FTX,” reflecting his retirement from the position. The New York Times
