Updated Feb 21, 2025, 3:55 p.m. UTCPublished Feb 21, 2025, 12:58 p.m. UTC The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will vote soon on a deal negotiated with Coinbase to entirely drop the agency’s legal pursuit of the crypto exchange, according to the…
Feb 20, 2025, 5:10 p.m. UTC The European Central Bank (ECB) said it is looking to develop a way of settling distributed-ledger technology (DLT) transactions with fiat currency as it expands its work on the key feature that underpins the blockchain…
Feb 20, 2025, 4:54 p.m. UTC The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unit tasked with chasing bad guys in the crypto space will be smaller and called something significantly different, the agency said Thursday, further cementing its trend away from an…
Feb 19, 2025, 5:53 p.m. UTC Nearly every big name in the crypto industry has signed onto a letter calling for Congress to eliminate a U.S. tax policy they say could jeopardize decentralized finance (DeFi) technology by shoehorning much of that…
Feb 19, 2025, 3:19 p.m. UTC EToro said it received regulatory approval under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework and will soon be able to provide cryptocurrency trading and custody services across the region. The trading platform announced the…
Updated Feb 20, 2025, 6:09 a.m. UTCPublished Feb 19, 2025, 12:00 p.m. UTC HONG KONG – Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform MANTRA said it secured a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). The license allows the…
Updated Feb 20, 2025, 8:55 a.m. UTCPublished Feb 16, 2025, 2:31 p.m. UTC Argentina’s President Javier Milei is facing impeachment threats after endorsing a cryptocurrency called LIBRA, purportedly intended to support small businesses, which instead crashed and lost billions of dollars in…
Feb 4, 2025, 3:12 a.m. UTC U.S. prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old Canadian man with stealing a combined $65 million in crypto through two separate decentralized finance (DeFi) hacks — the 2021 Indexed Finance exploit and the 2023 KyberSwap hack. In a…
Feb 3, 2025, 6:34 p.m. UTC U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon charging the Treasury and Commerce Departments with creating a sovereign wealth fund. While Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has expressed at least cautious interest in crypto,…
Jan 30, 2025, 9:36 p.m. UTC Memecoin generator Pump.fun was hit with another proposed class action lawsuit on Thursday, accusing the company and its executives of raking in nearly $500 million in fees while violating U.S. securities laws. The suit, filed…