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South Korea Wants Companies to Disclose Crypto Holdings
12.7.2023
Companies that issue or own crypto will have to make disclosures in their financial statements from next year onwards, say draft rules
Celsius Sues StakeHound for Failing to Return $150M Worth of Tokens
12.7.2023
StakeHound has 55,000 ether, 50 million MATIC, and 66,000 DOT that Celsius wants back
Coinbase Goes to Court Against the SEC
11.7.2023
Coinbase (COIN) and the Securities and Exchange Commission will meet in court this week. The hearing – the questions asked and the answers given – should provide some hints on how the case may go (for now, anyway)
U.S. Department of Justice Arrests Engineer Over $9M Crypto Theft
11.7.2023
The U.S. Department of Justice arrested a security engineer on wire fraud charges, alleging he stole $9 million worth of crypto from an unnamed decentralized cryptocurrency exchange
Federal Prosecutors Investigate Former FTX Executive Over Possible Campaign Law Violations: WSJ
11.7.2023
Ryan Salame is being investigated for potentially illegally avoiding federal limits on contributions to his girlfriend's congressional campaign last year
EU’s Metaverse Vision Focuses on Standards, Governance and Funding
11.7.2023
The EU isn’t proposing new laws but could spend hundreds of millions on research into virtual worlds
UK Treasury Starts Consultation on Five-Year Digital Securities Trial
11.7.2023
The pilot will relax regulations for digital bonds and equities – but not unbacked crypto, like bitcoin or ether
Dubai Regulator Suspends Crypto Exchange BitOasis' Conditional License
11.7.2023
BitOasis said it's working closely with the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority to fulfil the conditions
Crypto Can’t Be Used as Money Due to ‘Inherent Flaws,’ BIS Tells G20
11.7.2023
Central bankers, wary of displacing their own fiat currencies, pointed to the past year's prominent hacks and collapses
UK Regulator Ramped Up Campaign Against Crypto ATMs in May and June
11.7.2023
The financial watchdog conducted inspections in conjunction with the South West Regional Organized Crime Unit and the police forces of Greater London, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
DOJ Charges Moroccan Man With Stealing $450K in OpenSea Spoofing Scam
10.7.2023
Grayscale Argues Leveraged Bitcoin Futures ETF Approval Shows Spot ETF Should Be Approved
10.7.2023
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U.S. Senator Tuberville Asks DOJ, SEC to Investigate Crypto Broker Prometheum
10.7.2023
U.S. Senator Thomas Tuberville (R-Ala.) wrote an open letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler asking them to investigate Prometheum, a special-purpose broker that recently secured federal permissions to offer crypto trading services
15 Retail CBDCs Likely by 2030, BIS Study Says
10.7.2023
A survey conducted by the Bank for International Settlements found 93% of central banks worldwide were engaged in digital currency work in 2022
Coinbase Knew It Was Violating the Law Prior to the SEC's Lawsuit, Regulator Claims
7.7.2023
Binance Feels Strain of World’s Regulators Leaping Into Action
7.7.2023
Australian officials directly sought out current and former employees of Binance’s operation there this week, demanding copies of internal communications and data from their personal devices, according to a person familiar with the government’s move against the leading crypto exchange, which marked...
Gemini Sues Digital Currency Group and Founder Barry Silbert Alleging 'Fraud'
7.7.2023
Gemini and its founders sued Digital Currency Group on Friday alleging that it incurred losses due to DCG's "false, misleading and incomplete representations" tied to DCG subsidiary Genesis' work with Gemini on the crypto company's Earn product
BOND Token Slumps 10% as BarnBridge Faces SEC Investigation
7.7.2023
“All work on BarnBridge-related products should stop,” an appointed legal counsel said in a Discord message viewed by CoinDesk
Kraken Co-Founder Jesse Powell Under Federal Investigation on Claims of Hacking, Cyberstalking Non-Profit
7.7.2023
The agency searched the Los Angeles home of Jesse Powell as it probes whether he had interfered with computer accounts of the non-profit. A lawyer for Powell said he's done "nothing wrong" and that the matter does not touch on his crypto interests
Big Banks, NY Fed’s Innovation Group See Merit in Digital Ledgers for Global Payments
6.7.2023
Citigroup Inc., HSBC, BNY Mellon and other global financial giants have been experimenting with what they call a “regulated liability network” for conducting round-the-clock, wholesale payments using shared ledgers, and a paper released Thursday suggests the system has potential