Olga Kharif

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  • The Kraken website crypto prices page for Bitcoin on a laptop computer arranged in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, US, on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. Kraken will pay $30 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that it broke the agencys rules with its cryptoasset staking products and will discontinue them in the US as part of the agreement with the regulator. Photographer: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    What is crypto staking and why did the SEC just go after Kraken for it?

    By Olga Kharif, Lydia Beyoud, and others
  • TOPSHOT – FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (C) is led away handcuffed by officers of the Royal Bahamas Police Force in Nassau, Bahamas on December 13, 2022. – Disgraced cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried was hit with multiple criminal charges December 13, 2022, accused of committing one of the biggest financial frauds in US history. Bankman-Fried will serve time at The Bahamas Department of Corrections until February 8, 2023. (Photo by Mario Duncanson / AFP) (Photo by MARIO DUNCANSON/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    One of Sam Bankman-Fried’s closest FTX associates tipped off Bahamian authorities about possible fraud

    By Olga Kharif and Bloomberg
  • Lisbon , Portugal – 2 November 2022; Changpeng Zhao, Co-Founder & CEO, Binance, at Media Village during day one of Web Summit 2022 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo By Ben McShane/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images)Finance

    Binance CEO CZ warns staff of ‘bumpy’ months ahead after record customer withdrawals in wake of FTX collapse

    By Suvashree Ghosh, Olga Kharif, and others
  • Finance

    Crypto Reddit mobilizes after being pummeled by bankruptcies: ‘I am skipping lunch today and putting $15 into GoFundMe instead’

    By Olga Kharif and Bloomberg
  • Michael Saylor, founder of MicroStrategy.The Ledger

    MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor steps down as CEO after company reports $900 million in crypto losses

    By Olga Kharif and Bloomberg
  • Ethereum digital currency, futuristic digital money, green technology worldwide network conceptThe Coins

    Crypto fans await the ‘flippening,’ when Ether will surpass Bitcoin in value. ‘This event is getting closer by the day’

    By Vildana Hajric, Olga Kharif, and others
  • LISBON, PORTUGAL – 2021/11/04: Alex Mashinsky, Founder and CEO at Celsius, addresses the audience during the last day of the Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon. (Photo by Bruno de Carvalho/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)The Coins

    Crypto lender Celsius files for bankruptcy a month after freezing customer withdrawals

    By Olga Kharif, Joanna Ossinger, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 23: Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill October 23, 2019 in Washington, DC. Zuckerberg testified about Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra, how his company will handle false and misleading information by political leaders during the 2020 campaign and how it handles its users’ data and privacy. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Tech

    Meta is pulling the plug on its failed crypto project this September

    By Olga Kharif and Bloomberg
  • 07 May 2022, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Rottweil: A hacker program is open on a MacBook Air. Photo: Silas Stein/dpa (Photo by Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images)The Coins

    Hackers just stole $100 million in crypto from Harmony’s Horizon bridge

    By Olga Kharif, Sidhartha Shukla, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 14: Gary Gensler, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on the SEC on September 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images)The Coins

    ‘They’re trading against their customers’: SEC head slams crypto exchanges for betting habits and stablecoins

    By Allyson Versprille, Olga Kharif, and others
  • Bored Ape Yacht Club collection in OpenSea displayed on a phone screen and NFT logo displayed on a screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on April 19, 2022. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NFTs and Culture

    If you invested in Bored Ape Yacht Club creator’s chaotic metaverse land sale, you’re probably already underwater

    By Olga Kharif and Bloomberg
  • A painting of a Bored Ape at the NFT LA conference in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Thursday, March 31, 2022. NFT LA is an integrated conference experience fused with immersive Metaverse integrations. Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Bored Ape metaverse frenzy raises millions, crashes Ethereum

    By Olga Kharif, David Pan, and others
  • An exhibitor demonstrates Emerge Home with a Meta Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality (VR) headset at the NFT LA conference in Los A ngeles, California, U.S., on Thursday, March 31, 2022. NFT LA is an integrated conference experience fused with immersive Metaverse integrations. Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    The hot NFT marketplace challenging OpenSea is pretty much users selling tokens to themselves in order to win rewards

    By Olga Kharif and Bloomberg
  • Kathryn Haun, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz in Menlo Park, CA.The Ledger

    Crypto investor Katie Haun raises $1.5 billion for her venture capital fund

    By Olga Kharif, Allyson Versprille, and others
  • A finger hovers over an Ethereum icon on screenTech

    What sparked Ether’s jump above crypto rival Bitcoin?

    By Olga Kharif, David Pan, and others