Top Stories This Week BlackRock revises spot Bitcoin ETF to enable easier access for banks BlackRock has revised its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) application to...
Tether, the company behind the stablecoin Tether (USDT), disclosed letters directed to U.S. legislators, addressing requests for intervention by the Department of Justice in relation to...
Rishi Sunak has said illegal migration threatens to “overwhelm” Europe and hinted a change is needed in international law in order to tackle it. Speaking to...
In the ongoing legal dispute between Coinbase Global Inc. and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the XRP holder’s lawyer, John Deaton, has accused the...
Ripple chief legal officer Stuart Alderoty has shared insights on the future of the cryptocurrency landscape in 2024. He discussed predictions about Ripple’s legal dispute with...
With the Taiwan presidential election looming within a month, residents of Taiwan have been reportedly warned against using cryptocurrency betting platforms to wager on the presidential...
The digital tenge, Kazakhstan’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), has been declared a success following a month-long pilot project. A host of business, regulatory and technical...
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has denied a Coinbase petition for rulemaking on transactions with cryptocurrencies that are securities. Coinbase filed the petition in...
Nonprofit ethics group Campaign for Accountability (CfA) has doubled down on its money laundering claims against Circle, publishing a new open letter on Dec. 14 claiming...
Former Conservative MP Scott Benton has said he will appeal his recommended suspension from parliament and intends to make a formal complaint over it. The Blackpool...
The COVID-19 pandemic, rampant inflation and regional conflicts directly influenced Bitcoin’s (BTC) drop in value over the past two years. However, 2024 promises to be a...
The financial services firm First Trust is the latest company to file for a Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF), and not for a spot one. First...
Ripple has doubled down on its public support for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in a new white paper. The 23-page document was released by the...
The President of Brazil, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, has signed a law introducing taxes on crypto assets held abroad by Brazilian citizens. Lula signed the...
A panel of regulators warned that the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) could pose new risks to the United States financial system if the technology...
Over the past year, there’s been no shortage of scientists, tech CEOs, billionaires and lawmakers sounding the alarm over artificial intelligence — and now, even the...
The token of decentralized finance protocol SafeMoon (SFM) has fallen 31% in five hours after the company filed for bankruptcy. Safemoon officially applied for Chapter 7 bankruptcy,...
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is hoping to push pro-crypto and AI regulation forward with seemingly new strategy: Throwing money at politicians. “If a candidate...
Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. South Korean Web3 firm raises $140 million South Korean nonfungible tokens (NFT)...
The self-regulatory trade association CryptoUK has reported roughly 5% of all Members of Parliament (MPs) in the United Kingdom have publicly spoken on crypto and blockchain,...