X, the popular social media platform, has been granted a currency transmitter license by Rhode Island regulators, marking a step forward for the company’s foray into the financial services sector. This license is legally required for companies conducting financial activities related to sending and receiving money, including both fiat and crypto assets.The approval will allow […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently initiated legal proceedings against media and entertainment company Impact Theory, resulting in a cease-and-desist order and a financial penalty of over $6.1 million. Two prominent commissioners at the SEC, Mark Uyeda and Hester Peirce, have expressed their dissent against the agency’s enforcement action on Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).The […]
Jamie Coutts, a crypto market analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, believes that Ethereum (ETH) will win the “upcoming stablecoin wars”. He states that Ethereum and its broader ecosystem, including layer-2 projects like Optimism (OP), Base and Arbitrum (ARB), leads all other alternative networks across most network-adoption metrics. However, Coutts notes that transferring the top stablecoin by […]
CoinSwitch, an Indian cryptocurrency exchange backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), has recently reduced its team by 7%, or 44 people. This decision was made due to the decreasing level of customer activity. A spokesperson of the platform explained that the team was right-sized to align with the present volume of customer queries.CoinDCX, another local digital […]
Tether, the issuer of the popular stablecoin USDT, has reportedly added Britannia Bank & Trust, a private bank based in The Bahamas, to its platform to process dollar transfers. It is unclear when the banking relationship between Tether and Britannia Bank began, but other reported banking partners include Deltec Bank and Capital Union Bank.The move […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled in favor of Grayscale in its lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The court found that the SEC had failed to adequately explain why it approved two bitcoin futures ETPs but not Grayscale’s proposed bitcoin ETP.Grayscale had accused the SEC of “arbitrary […]
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has devised a strategy to retain its Belgian market following a suspension order by Belgium’s financial market regulator in June. The exchange has redirected all its Belgian users to its Polish branch, which is a registered virtual assets service provider (VASP) in the European Economic Area (EEA). Customers may […]
The crypto community was delighted when the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) rejection of Grayscale Investments’ Bitcoin spot ETF application. Adam Cochran of Cinneamhain Ventures and Miles Deutscher, an influencer, both expressed their enthusiasm on X. Grayscale’s chief legal officer Craig Salm acknowledged the […]
Grayscale has won a major victory in court against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), bringing the U.S. market one step closer to approval of a Bitcoin spot ETF. Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Legal Analyst Elliot Z. Stein had given Grayscale a 70% chance of winning its lawsuit against the SEC. Grayscale’s lawsuit accused the SEC […]
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who was one of the few cryptocurrency-friendly candidates running for president of the United States in 2024, has announced he will be suspending his campaign. In an Aug. 29 announcement on X (formerly Twitter), Suarez said that while running for U.S. president had been “one of the greatest honors of [his] […]
