US Senate Leader doesn‘t Expect Market Structure to Pass before April
US Senator Majority Leader John Thune reportedly said he doesn’t expect the chamber to move forward with legislation to establish...
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Hester Peirce Calls For Simpler Disclosure Rules, Tokenization Experiments
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce said regulators should avoid micromanaging markets and consider simplifying disclosure requirements...
Senate Includes CBDC Ban Amendment in Housing Affordability Bill
The United States Senate voted on Thursday to include an amendment in the 21st Century Road to Housing Act that...
Binance Claims ‘Full and Complete Legal Victory‘ in Alabama Court
A federal court in Alabama has granted a motion to dismiss a 2024 complaint filed against Binance, its separate US...
Coinbase Execs Say They Aren’t Opposing BTC Tax Exemption
Executives at Coinbase have denied allegations that the crypto exchange is blocking a de minimis tax exemption for Bitcoin (BTC)...
CFTC Chair Opens Prediction Markets Rulemaking to Public Comment
“This ends today,“ said CFTC Chair Michael Selig, who has been reiterating his position that the agency has exclusive jurisdiction...
Eightco Holdings shares swing after $125M funding round led by Bitmine and ARK Invest
Eightco Holdings (ORBS) shares swung sharply after the company announced a $125 million funding round led by Bitmine and ARK...
South Korea Moves to Build AI Platform to Monitor Crypto Gains
South Korea’s tax authority is preparing to deploy artificial intelligence to track cryptocurrency investment gains as the government moves closer...
Tim Draper-backed Ark Labs secures $5.2 million from Tether and investors to scale Bitcoin infrastructure
Ark Labs, a Bitcoin infrastructure startup backed by Tim Draper, has secured $5.2 million in seed funding to build a...
Offshore Crypto Exchanges Create Oversight Gaps, FATF Says
A new report from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) warns that crypto service providers operating offshore pose risks of...
Stablecoins Are Becoming Crypto’s Largest Wasted Resource
Opinion by: Artemiy Parshakov, vice-president of Institutions at P2P.orgStablecoins sit at the center of the digital asset economy, functioning as...
Utah Set to Block Prediction Markets Like Kalshi and Polymarket
The US state of Utah is set to block prediction market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, escalating a growing...
Stablecoin Yields will Bring Fresh Money to US Banks: Patrick Witt
Stablecoin yield providers will inject more capital into the US banking system, argues White House Council of Advisors for Digital...
US Prosecutors Oppose Sam Bankman-Fried’s New Trial Bid: Report
Bloomberg reported Thursday that US prosecutors urged a federal judge to reject Sam Bankman-Fried’s request for a new criminal trial,...
New Zealand Rules NZDD Stablecoin Not a Financial Product
New Zealand’s financial regulator has ruled that a local currency-tied stablecoin, NZDD, isn’t a financial product, a move a local...
Kalshi Preemptively Sues Iowa to Defend Sports Contracts
Prediction market Kalshi has sued regulators in the US state of Iowa, claiming it did so as there was a...
OP Labs cuts 20 employees as Ethereum L2 developer narrows strategic focus
OP Labs, the development company behind the Ethereum layer 2 network Optimism, has let go of 20 employees as part...
Bank of England Signals Flexibility on Sterling Stablecoin Holding Limits
Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden told UK lawmakers that the central bank is open to alternative ways to...
Ghana Lets 11 Crypto Companies Participate in Sandbox
Ghana’s securities regulator has given the nod to 11 crypto trading platforms to participate in its new regulatory sandbox program,...
Binance.US Hires Compliance Lawyer as New CEO
Stephen Gregory, a former compliance executive at CEX.IO and Gemini, has taken over as CEO of Binance.US, a crypto exchange...
FDIC Chair Says no Deposit Insurance for Stablecoins under GENIUS Act
Travis Hill, chair of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), confirmed that, in his opinion, a law passed in...
Ripple Labs launches $750M share buyback, valuing firm at $50B
Ripple Labs has launched a share buyback program that would value the company at roughly $50 billion, reinforcing its position...
