Commissioner Criticizes SEC for Taking Enforcement-Centric Approach to Crypto Regulation
A commissioner with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has criticized the securities watchdog for focusing on enforcement actions...
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$1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Passes Senate With Troubling Crypto Requirements
The U.S. Senate has passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill with a crypto reporting requirement provision that has been described...
Paypal’s Venmo Launches ‘Cash Back to Crypto’ Feature to Auto Purchase Cryptocurrencies
Venmo, a Paypal service, has introduced the “Cash Back to Crypto” feature to allow credit card customers to automatically buy...
Coinbase’s Q2 profits top $1.6B as ETH volume surpasses BTC’s for the first time
Coinbase beat analyst estimates in Q2, after it generated $2.23 billion in revenue compared to estimates of $1.78 billion. Coinbase...
VanEck takes new approach with SEC, files for Bitcoin Strategy ETF
SEC chair Gary Gensler recently hinted he would be more open to accepting ETFs based on crypto futures rather than...
Teller Finance deploys mainnet on Polygon, migrates 2,200 NFTs
Polygon allows Teller Finance to port its solutions onto a scalable network, thereby overcoming many of the current challenges associated...
Biconomy launches cross-chain transaction infrastructure for EVM chains
The new infrastructure, dubbed Hyphen, allows users to transfer USDC stablecoins between Ethereum and Polygon in a more efficient manner....
EQIFI, the DeFi in Partnership With a Global Bank Now Available on the Bloomberg Terminal
PRESS RELEASE. EQIFI, a regulated and licensed decentralized platform for pooled lending, borrowing and investing Ethereum-based cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and select...
Bitcoin Network’s Mining Difficulty Expected to See Largest Increase in Over 2 Months
Bitcoin’s hashrate has been steadily climbing after dropping to 69 exahash per second (EH/s) on June 28, as it reached...
Poly Network Hacked for More Than $600 Million — Hacker Trolls Project Saying ‘It Could Have Been a Billion’
On August 10, the decentralized finance (defi) project Poly Network suffered a loss of over $600 million according to various...
ADAX Have Just Changed the Game, Offering Censorship-Resistant DeFi via ADA
In the history of every successful startup, there comes a ‘defining’ moment – a moment when the vision of its...
5G blockchain company raises $111M in Andreessen-led token sale
Andreessen Horowitz is behind yet another major blockchain funding round. This time, Helium Inc. has raised significant capital to expand...
BREAKING: BitMEX will pay $100M in penalties to FinCEN, CFTC
Former CEO Arthur Hayes and other executives at the firm are still likely to face charges on alleged violations of...
Infrastructure bill passes US Senate — without clarification on crypto
"This legislation imposes a badly flawed, and in some cases unworkable, cryptocurrency tax reporting mandate that threatens future technological innovation,”...
Bank of Jamaica mints the first batch of national digital currency
The Bank of Jamaica plans to issue a total of $1.5 million of CBDC to institutions and authorized payment service...
