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Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation.
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Latest News on Regulation
Crypto regulation is an umbrella term for the network of laws, statutes and legal practices surrounding the crypto and blockchain industries. Since Bitcoin's 2008 white paper, the legal status of these industries has been the subject of a huge amount of conversation. Lawmakers and regulators have had to cope with an entirely new set of concerns. Some governments have reacted hostilely, seeing crypto as a threat to monetary control. Others have embraced the industry for its capacity to link distant economies and facilitate trustless transactions across the globe. But most of the world is still figuring out exactly how to legislate, regulate and prosecute the set of laws surrounding such a young industry.
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Rising debt and no concrete plans to reduce government spending are the primary drivers behind the reduced credit assessment for the US.
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Everstake met with the SEC’s Crypto Task Force to argue that non-custodial staking is a technical process, not a securities transaction.
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Authorities in New Zealand arrested 13 people in a $265 million crypto fraud probe, with one Wellington man indicted under US racketeering laws.
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French law enforcement will offer crypto entrepreneurs and their families a police emergency line and conduct house visits to ensure their safety amid a recent spate of attacks.
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Lawyers for the crypto platform tied to the president's family said a call for an investigation and oversight was "fundamentally flawed."
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Lawyers for Eric Council Jr. had requested a sentence of one year and one day, while the US government asked for two years.
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Christy Goldsmith Romero reportedly said she only planned to leave the financial regulator once Brian Quintenz had been confirmed as CFTC chair.
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Coinbase faces a $400 million phishing bill after cybercriminals managed to bribe overseas support agents to expose the personal data of the exchange’s users.
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The GENIUS Act's failure to move to a full vote is "a bump in the road" and it will pass "in the next few weeks," says Cody Carbone, CEO of the Washington, DC,-based advocacy group.
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Banks are rapidly pivoting away from past practices of shunning crypto businesses to consider upgrading their payments infrastructure using stablecoins, eyeing them as the next frontier for payment innovation.
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With Tether stepping back and BitGo stepping up, MiCA’s rollout is already redrawing crypto’s playing field in Europe. Here’s what’s happening, and what comes next.
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Ripple’s Stuart Alderoty said “procedural concerns” are at the heart of a court’s denial of a joint motion by Ripple and the SEC to settle the regulator’s case against it.
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A new Eric Trump token on Solana surged 6,200%, raising rug-pull concerns as blockchain sleuths trace insider wallet activity and repeated scam attempts.
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The New York Fed and the Bank for International Settlements are trialing smart contracts for tokenized monetary policy, aiming to let central banks act instantly in future financial systems.
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