Updated Feb 27, 2025 18:54 UTC Published Feb 27, 2025 16:25 UTC WASHINGTON, D.C. — Shortly after announcing his role as a cryptocurrency adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, former Galaxy Digital attorney Tyler Williams spoke at a private digital…
Feb 27, 2025 11:19 UTC Pakistan has announced the creation of a national cryptocurrency council to draft legislation in the area after meeting with President Donald Trump’s digital asset advisers, according to local news outlet Dawn. The council will be…
27 Feb 2025 9:30 UTC The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has asked the cryptocurrency industry to help track and block transactions related to the laundering of $1.5 billion stolen from Bybit by North Korean hackers. On Wednesday, the FBI…
Updated Feb 27, 2025 1:14 AM UTC Published Feb 27, 2025 1:10 AM UTC Stablecoins and the role of Congress in developing future digital asset legislation were the focus of discussion at one of the Senate Banking Committee’s first hearings…
Feb 26, 2025, 7:46 p.m. UTC The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a ruling on Wednesday largely agreeing with a lower court’s 2023 decision to toss out a class action suit against decentralized exchange Uniswap. A group…
Feb 26, 2025, 7:30 p.m. UTC Gotbit founder Aleksei Andriunin, a 26-year-old Russian national, was extradited to the U.S. on Tuesday to face fraud charges stemming from allegations that his firm participated in a “wide-ranging conspiracy” to manipulate token prices for…
Updated Feb 25, 2025, 2:12 p.m. UTCPublished Feb 25, 2025, 12:30 p.m. UTC Circle’s stablecoin’s USDC and EURC got approval for use and promotion within the Dubai International Financial Centre, the company said in a statement on Monday. The Dubai Financial Services…
Updated Feb 21, 2025, 7:23 p.m. UTCPublished Feb 21, 2025, 7:03 p.m. UTC The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) is tasked with managing assets seized by law enforcement in the course of criminal investigations, like real estate, cash, jewelry, antiques or vehicles. It…
Feb 21, 2025, 6:24 p.m. UTC Staking should potentially be added to the menu for crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs), a bipartisan group of U.S. senators argued in a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday. Issuers of crypto…
Updated Feb 21, 2025, 6:01 p.m. UTCPublished Feb 21, 2025, 4:37 p.m. UTC The U.S. Senate Banking Committee has scheduled a hearing to discuss bipartisan digital assets legislation next week, the panel announced. This Senate committee was the one that became a…