Updated Jan 30, 2025, 1:17 p.m. UTCPublished Jan 30, 2025, 12:57 p.m. UTC Staunch crypto skeptic and disgraced former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Wednesday on charges of bribery and acting as an agent for…
Updated Jan 30, 2025, 6:30 a.m. UTCPublished Jan 30, 2025, 6:18 a.m. UTC Spanish authorities are crediting the T3 Financial Crime Unit, a consortium made up of Tron, Tether, and TRM Labs, for helping take down a multinational European financial crime syndicate.…
Updated Jan 29, 2025, 6:22 p.m. UTCPublished Jan 29, 2025, 5:47 p.m. UTC Howard Lutnick, who is President Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of Commerce, is drawing scrutiny on his relationship with Tether from Senator Elizabeth Warren — the ranking Democrat…
Jan 29, 2025, 4:14 p.m. UTC The crypto political action committee that stunned U.S. politics last year, Fairshake, successfully weighed in again in a pair of Florida special elections to replace Republican members of Congress, likely adding to its list of…
Updated Jan 29, 2025, 4:39 p.m. UTCPublished Jan 29, 2025, 11:26 a.m. UTC Digital asset exchanges Bitstamp and Crypto.com will suspend certain token services deemed unauthorized under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets legislation (MiCA). Stablecoins’ Tether’s USDt, and Paypal’s PYUSD,…
Jan 28, 2025, 5:55 p.m. UTC French authorities have expanded a probe into Binance, investigating alleged money laundering, tax fraud and other crimes at the crypto exchange from 2019 to 2024, according to a Tuesday report from Reuters. Binance has denied…
Jan 27, 2025, 11:08 p.m. UTC With his U.S. Senate confirmation behind him, Scott Bessent is in place to be the top financial official of President Donald Trump’s administration, where he’ll be among those fulfilling the crypto directives already set out…
Updated Jan 27, 2025, 1:19 p.m. UTCPublished Jan 27, 2025, 9:47 a.m. UTC Crypto exchange Bitpanda said it secured a Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) license from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and rivals OKX and Crypto.com said they received…
Updated Jan 24, 2025, 9:25 p.m. UTCPublished Jan 24, 2025, 8:12 p.m. UTC An investigation in the U.S. House of Representatives and a hearing in the Senate will examine whether financial regulators during the administration of former President Joe Biden deliberately cut…
Jan 24, 2025, 4:06 p.m. UTC David Balland, co-founder of cryptocurrency wallet developer Ledger, was rescued in a police operation after being kidnapped in a ransom attack in France, according to reports, putting an end to days of swirling rumors. Paris…