EU watchdog targets crypto ads on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, TwitterThe largest European consumer rights group alleges crypto marketers on popular social networks use misleading promotion, exposing consumers to serious harm.Jun 8, 2023David Attlee
GameStop fires CEO Matt Furlong months after axing crypto pushThe executive, once instrumental to the company’s NFT efforts, was “terminated” amid lackluster Q1 earnings.Jun 8, 2023Tom Mitchelhill
Meet the judges that will preside over Coinbase and Binance’s SEC lawsuitsOne judge has ruled on a key crypto case of late, while the other has ruled on high-profile political cases in the United States in recent times.Jun 8, 2023Brayden Lindrea
Major Australian bank to decline ‘certain’ payments to crypto exchangesCommonwealth Bank executive James Roberts cited a huge scale of “investment scams” involving crypto exchanges.Jun 8, 2023Jesse Coghlan
Do Kwon could serve prison in both US and South Korea, prosecutor saysSouth Korean prosecutor Dan Sunghan says Kwon’s extradition to South Korea makes more sense but adds that the Terraform Labs co-founder could also serve time in the United States as well.Jun 8, 2023Arijit Sarkar
EMAX class action against Kim K and Mayweather is back on, says judgeWhile a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit last year, U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald has given the plaintiffs a new chance at pursuing action against the celebrities.Jun 8, 2023Martin Young
CEX trading volumes fell to 4-year lows even before Binance, Coinbase suitsMonthly trading volumes on centralized exchanges continued to fall in May as regulators tighten their grip on the industry.Jun 8, 2023Tom Mitchelhill
Republican crypto bill a ‘10x improvement’ on all others — Messari CEOSpeaking in a Twitter Space hosted by Coinbase on June 7, Ryan Selkis praised the new crypto bill for providing new firms with a clear path to compliance.Jun 8, 2023Brayden Lindrea
SEC’s Gensler offered to serve as an adviser to Binance in 2019, lawyers claimYears before serving as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler offered up his advisory services to Binance, the exchange’s lawyers allege.Jun 8, 2023Tom Mitchelhill
Cumberland Labs unveils SaaS API for public blockchains and DeFi protocolsWhen Cumberland Labs looked for a gateway between blockchains and DeFi protocols, it came up with its own universal API service.Jun 8, 2023Ana Paula Pereira
Intuit introduces proprietary large language models for fintech with GenOSIntuit is launching an operating system for generative artificial intelligence that will feature AI models trained on the company’s financial data.Jun 7, 2023Tristan Greene
Binance.US coins trade at premium amid litigation fears, fiat gateway issuesStablecoins such as USDT and USDC were trading for 3 to 4% higher than par value at the time of publication.Jun 7, 2023Zhiyuan Sun
Price analysis 6/7: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, DOGE, MATIC, SOL, DOT, LTCBitcoin and most major altcoins are facing selling at higher levels, but there are no signs of panic selling at the moment.Jun 7, 2023Rakesh Upadhyay
Nike NFTs are coming to EA Sports games: Nifty Newsletter, May 31–June 6Cointelegraph spoke with Future Primitive’s Jayden Windle and Benny Giang to learn how NFTs can be used as digital wallets through ERC-6551.Jun 7, 2023Ezra Reguerra
US district court issues summons for Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao over SEC actionAccording to the summons, CZ’s current residential address is in the Mediterranean island nation of Malta.Jun 7, 2023Tristan Greene
Evidence in SEC suit includes 2022 testimony of Binance.US’ long silent ex-CEOCatherine Coley left social media and the CEO job, but the SEC brought her in to testify the following year.Jun 7, 2023Derek Andersen
Binance.US halts trading for dozens of USDT, BTC, BUSD pairs amid SEC lawsuit Binance’s arm in the United States suspended its OTC trading platform and reduced the number of supported convert trading pairs.Jun 7, 2023Ana Paula Pereira
Security or not, Ether looks poised to hold the $1.8K level based on 3 key metricsEther could eventually run afoul of the SEC, but at the moment, key data points suggest ETH is poised to hold the $1,800 level.Jun 7, 2023Marcel Pechman
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange completes proof-of-concept to tokenize fiat and bondsIn its proof-of-concept, TASE minted the first ERC-1155 security token representing a dummy digital government bond.Jun 7, 2023Ana Paula Pereira
Binance and CZ sued by the SECOn this week’s episode of The Market Report, Cointelegraph’s resident expert discusses the details of the SEC’s lawsuit against crypto exchange Binance and its CEO, Changpeng Zhao.Jun 7, 2023Marcel Pechman
What asset freeze? Binance BTC outflows muted as users shun panic sellingExchange Bitcoin holdings, unlike Ether, appear stable in light of the Binance and Coinbase lawsuit news.Jun 7, 2023William Suberg
Bitcoin evangelist Joe Hall on why BTC will conquer the world: The Agenda podcastBitcoin has a marketing problem, but journalist and BTC evangelist Joe Hall is doing his best to fix it.Jun 7, 2023Ray Salmond
ARK Invest buys Coinbase shares the same day SEC serves lawsuitARK Invest bought over 400,000 shares of Coinbase stock totaling more than $21 million on the day the SEC served the exchange with a lawsuit.Jun 7, 2023Savannah Fortis
Binance says it’s ‘different’ from other exchanges amid SEC lawsuit“We are different than ___,” the crypto exchange said in a statement.Jun 7, 2023Zhiyuan Sun
Economics of Bitcoin ATM market could hinder wider adoptionBitcoin of America’s shutdown in Connecticut highlights the obstacles for companies operating crypto ATMs.Jun 7, 2023Shiraz Jagati
Heilpern loves Bitcoin, hates bullshit… was a China state media journo: Hall of FlameLayah Heilpern had a stint working as a journalist for a Chinese state-run TV network before falling “down the rabbit hole” of cryptocurrency.Jun 7, 2023Ciaran Lyons
SEC lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase unify the crypto industryBlockchain Association CEO Kristin Smith said that while the SEC’s approach to regulation is expected due to its anti-crypto stance, it’s still “unacceptable.“Jun 7, 2023Ezra Reguerra
SEC lawsuit against Binance stalls Gopax acquisition deal in South KoreaThe country’s financial watchdog claimed it was very difficult to accept the acquisition requests amid accusations of securities laws violations.Jun 7, 2023Prashant Jha
The Philippines delays publishing crypto frameworkDespite a tumultuous year, the Philippines’ financial regulator decided not to rush a legal framework on the crypto industry, which was initially planned for late 2022.Jun 7, 2023David Attlee
SEC lawsuit claims Binance.US, Changpeng Zhao put customer funds ‘at significant risk’One of the latest SEC filings in its lawsuit against Binance claims billions of customer funds are at the “mercy” of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao.Jun 7, 2023Savannah Fortis