Brian Armstrong says Coinbase has heard “rumors” the SEC wants to “get rid of” crypto staking for retail investors, which “would be a terrible path for the US”
Coinbase Global Inc.'s head Brian Armstrong escalated his war of words with the Securities …
FOIA emails detail Sam Bankman-Fried's courtship of US federal regulators, including hiring former regulators and dining with ex-CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz
Before his mid-December arrest, cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried repeatedly claimed that he was a responsible business leader …
Plea hearing court transcript: Caroline Ellison said she and Sam Bankman-Fried knowingly misled investors, lenders, and customers that Alameda borrowed from FTX
bond packages only require around 10-15% of the total amount to be paid. Teflon Tom / @agrizzi8 : This case offers an insight into the world of crypto. Rather than accidental, the ...
Plea hearing court transcript: Caroline Ellison said she and Sam Bankman-Fried knowingly misled investors, lenders, and customers that Alameda borrowed from FTX
Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives received billions of dollars in secret loans from the crypto mogul's Alameda Research …
Plea hearing court transcript: Caroline Ellison said she and Sam Bankman-Fried knowingly misled investors, lenders, and customers that Alameda borrowed from FTX
Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives received billions of dollars in secret loans from the crypto mogul's Alameda Research …
Sources: digital asset trading firm Genesis is potentially facing “hundreds of millions” of dollars in losses, partly through exposure to 3AC and Babel Finance
The DCG-owned trading colossus is said to have suffered nine-figure losses partly through exposure to Three Arrows Capital and Babel Finance.
Source: a British Virgin Islands court ordered the liquidation of Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital on June 27; Teneo will handle the insolvency process
A court in the British Virgin Islands has ordered the liquidation of Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital, underlining the crisis gripping …
A Q&A with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, on her criticisms of the SEC's approach to crypto, chair Gary Gensler's leadership, being called “Crypto Mom”, more
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce is celebrated in memes as “Crypto Mom.” She's considered crypto's staunchest ally … Tweets: @cryptolawus , @benpimentel , @wilber54x , @xrpcryptowol...
LUNA and the UST stablecoin continue to plummet; LUNA dropped as low as $1, a ~97% slide in 24 hours, while UST dropped as low as $0.27, a ~60% fall in 24 hours
Quick Take — The price of Luna has dropped 82% in the last 24 hours. — Its related stablecoin UST has retreated …
Sources: the SEC is probing the NFT market to determine if tokens are securities, focusing on fractional NFTs, in which a token is broken into units for sale
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is scrutinizing creators of NFTs and the crypto exchanges where they trade to determine …
Boston Fed officials and MIT researchers, who have been developing prototypes for a digital dollar platform, plan to unveil their research as soon as July
- Boston Fed, MIT researchers plan to unveil platform work soon — Project could threaten banks, credit cards, cryptocurrencies
Ripple says its partnership with MoneyGram has ended; MoneyGram suspended its use of Ripple's platform in February amid SEC's lawsuit against Ripple
Distributed ledger company Ripple said Monday that its partnership with money transfer firm Moneygram is coming to an end.
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken says it's launching a bank under a new regulatory framework in Wyoming, reducing its reliance on third-party providers
Uniswap has officially gone live with its governance token, dubbed UNI. — One billion tokens have been minted, according to a blog post …
Chainalysis: around $50B in crypto assets have left China in the past year, of which ~$18B was Tether; China limits citizens to $50K/year in overseas transfers
- Report suggests digital coins contribute to capital flight — Tether coin is ‘a U.S. dollar replacement’ for some in China
China says it will expand a pilot program of its digital currency, led by its central bank People's Bank of China, to include a number of large cities
Testing efforts are being led by the People's Bank of China — HONG KONG—China's Commerce Ministry said it would expand a pilot program …
Square reports $528M in Q1 revenue from its Cash App, with $306M coming from Bitcoin transactions, exceeding the app's fiat revenue of $222M for the first time
Bitcoin has flippened USD on Square's Cash App, sort of. — As reported in the publicly traded fintech company's …
Judge allows class action lawsuit against Ripple, which alleges the company misrepresented its XRP currency as a security, to proceed
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CFTC chairman says ether is a commodity, and thus falls under the jurisdiction of the CFTC, anticipates ether futures trading on US markets in the near future
Last December, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) — issued a public call for feedback to “better inform …
The IRS publishes its first guidance in five years for calculating taxes owed on cryptocurrency holdings, clearing up how hard forks should be treated
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Binance says it plans to launch Venus, an “independent regional version of Libra”, which will develop “localized” stablecoins pegged to fiat currencies
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance is planning to launch “Venus,” calling it an …