Lawmakers in France are set to review a proposal that could have significant implications for the country’s adoption of digital currencies, from stablecoins to Bitcoin (BTC). In a motion for a resolution introduced on Wednesday, […]
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official Michael Selig announced that President Donald Trump had nominated him to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), citing a focus on crypto policies. The move still requires Senate […]
Opinion by: Rachel Lin, co-founder and CEO at SynFutures DeFi has come a long way since the boom-and-bust cycle of 2020’s DeFi Summer. Much of the surge in the early days was fueled by experimentation, […]
Opinion by: Alex Zhang, co-founder at Pharos Tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs) is not a self-contained solution to traditional finance problems. To claim such a thing would be one-dimensional. As it stands, RWA tokenization is under […]
Thailand’s SEC raids site tied to World’s WLD exchange over alleged unlicensed operations. Regulators in Germany, Kenya, Brazil, and Indonesia also probe World’s biometric crypto model. Global scrutiny grows over iris-scan data use as the […]
Update (Oct. 23 at 5:45 pm UTC): This article has been updated to incorporate a response from Binance. US President Donald Trump has pardoned convicted Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, following months of lobbying and […]
Xeltox/Cryptomus fined C$177M for failing to report 1,000+ suspicious crypto transactions. Violations involved child abuse, fraud, ransomware, and sanctions-related transactions. Firm previously faced BC Securities Commission action over unrecognized exchange operations. Canada’s Financial Transactions and […]
The US Federal Reserve is considering the introduction of a new type of payment account that would make it easier for smaller companies to participate in the central bank’s payment system, signaling the end of […]
The US government is entering its third week shut down, with a Senate vote scheduled for Monday evening to end the funding impasse, and a separate meeting on Wednesday where lawmakers and crypto executives will […]
Chinese technology giants, including Ant Group and JD.com, have reportedly suspended plans to issue stablecoins in Hong Kong after regulators in Beijing voiced concerns over privately controlled digital currencies. The companies were instructed by the […]