Derek Andersen

The Laotian central bank and the Soramitsu firm signed an MOU to launch the project to expand financial inclusivity and provide sellers with faster settlement.

The court dismissed the Jarretts’ case over the taxation of staking rewards after the IRS issued the refund the couple sought; not good enough, they said.

The announcement came with just two days’ notice, but it does not apply to Binance.US users, so only 0.01% of active users will be affected.

Italian central banker Ignazio Visco talked about fostering or discouraging crypto assets during a lengthy speech to the Italian financial markets association.

The Central Asian country’s CBDC project is right on time, according to a 2020 roadmap, as consumers and merchants use the currency in a controlled environment.

There were almost twice as many state actions as federal in 2022, although both the feds and the states broke previous record by significant margins.

The decision did not address the question of whether the 79 tokens in questions were securities, but dismissed claims based on the Securities and Exchange Acts.

Investment bank B. Riley is already a Core Scientific creditor and tried to provide funds before the Bitcoin miner filed for Chapter 11.

The court-appointed examiner found many intentional and unintentional shortcomings at the bankrupt crypto lender dating back to its founding.

Osprey alleges its only competitor on the BTC OTC trust asset market gained its 99.5% market share by misrepresenting the likelihood of its trust becoming an ETF.

Montenegro’s prime minister announced a central bank “digital currency or stablecoin” project with Ripple; the Balkan country currently uses the euro instead of its own national currency.

The Biden administration touted its comprehensive framework and encouraged regulators and Congress to tighten the screws on crypto in a new statement.

The new policy would align the allowable activities for insured and uninsured state banks and OCC-supervised national banks by making rules for state banks more restrictive.

Veteran Ripple executive and former general manager Monica Long said the company has seen record growth in recent months despite the crypto winter.

The bank applied for the application in 2019 and sued the Fed in an attempt to speed up the decision.

The senators co-authored a letter to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board chair asking how FTX and other crypto firms were audited and why the audits failed so badly.

The Web3 Foundation has reminded the world that, in its eyes, it has conformed to SEC requirements and DOT should no longer be considered a security.

The office’s request for information is the latest piece in the massive research agenda in President Biden’s executive order on digital asset development.

The crypto detectives traced funds stolen by North Korean Lazarus Group through two mixers and various networks to identify 350 addresses where the funds remain today.

ECB board member Fabio Panetta affirms the ECB’s digital euro privacy policy and says the digital currency will never be programmable, but it may have an app.

Stellar chief operating officer Jason Chlipala said the foundation would bring the unique perspective of Layer 1 to the committee and highlight stablecoin use cases.

Bank for International Settlements researchers admired DeFi’s “competitive financial engineering” and made some highly technical aspects of DeFi somewhat more accessible.

The foundation set up by “Crypto Dad” Christopher Giancarlo released a new version of its CBDC white paper with new warnings about maintaining U.S. leadership.

The Hong Kong crypto exchange with strong ties to Russia was a blip on Chainalysis’ radar last year, with its takedown seen as anticlimactic by many in the crypto community.

The World Economic Forum’s “Decentralized Autonomous Organization Toolkit” is the fruit of the labor of over 100 experts in a concise discussion format.

The Eurogroup confirmed its support for digital euro research and noted that some of the design and use elements under consideration would require political decision making.

According to the project’s pitch deck, the company intends to launch as soon as possible and estimates the claims market to be worth around $20 billion.

Grayscale appealed the SEC’s denial of its application to create a spot BTC ETF in June; the case “is moving swiftly,” according to the Grayscale chief legal officer.

The report concentrates on real-world research from low- and middle-income countries and untangles questions of inclusiveness, trust and functionality.

The latest Bank of International Settlements bulletin looks at ways to mitigate the risks of crypto assets and suggests traditional finance could get its house in better order too.