SEC charges Hex founder Richard Heart of crypto theft to fund $4 million ‘Enigma’ diamond purchase
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday charged Richard Heart, founder of the crypto projects Hex and PulseChain, with unregistered ...
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House Financial Services Chair McHenry blames Biden administration for sinking stablecoin bill
The leader of the powerful U.S. House Financial Services Committee blamed the Biden White House for nixing a bipartisan deal ...
Pro-crypto bill gets chilly Senate reception from Democrats who say digital currency benefits ‘money launderers and the criminal syndicates’
The crypto industry is on a winning streak in Washington, but it may not last long.Following a surprise victory in ...
Ripple token not a security in retail sales, judge rules in partial win for crypto
A federal judge ruled that Ripple Labs’ crypto token, XRP, is not a security when sold on digital-asset exchanges to ...
SEC Chair Gensler dismisses industry calls for recusal on crypto decisions
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler has no plans to recuse himself from decisions related to cryptocurrencies, despite accusations ...
Bitcoin falls after Fed skips rate hike in June, but points to two more increases this year
Major cryptocurrencies fell on Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged at the end of its two-day June ...
Crypto helps fund fentanyl trade, says Sen. Elizabeth Warren, calling for strict regulation
In a U.S. Senate Banking Committee hearing on Wednesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren brought up the use of crypto to fund ...
Crypto industry insiders react to DOJ’s crackdown on potential fraud
The crypto industry is assessing what to make of a potential crackdown by the U.S. Justice Department on crime on ...
Zimbabwe is launching gold-backed digital tokens: What you need to know
Zimbabwe is looking to gold to “expand value-preserving instruments,” launching a gold-backed digital currency last week as the nation suffers ...
Pepe coin had a meteoric rise, but has lost 70% of its value in a week. What’s behind the latest meme crypto’s swings?
Welcome back to Distributed Ledger. This is Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch. Crypto investors have recently witnessed the meteoric ...
Key Democrats back Gensler crackdown, tell crypto companies ‘comply with the law of the land’
Leading Democrats in the House of Representatives on Thursday cast a critical eye to Republican and crypto-industry efforts to craft ...
Recession fears fuel investors’ search for havens. Is bitcoin a good choice?
Investors are increasingly worried that a recession may begin in the U.S. later this year, as the Federal Reserve on ...
House Republicans tear into Gensler for refusing to say whether ether is a security
House Republicans took aim at the nation’s top markets regulator Tuesday for its oversight of the digital asset industry, arguing ...
SEC’s Gensler slams digital-asset industry for ‘ignoring the law’ as crypto crackdown continues
U.S. financial regulators appear set to tighten the screws further on the digital asset industry, with Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Bitcoin might benefit from U.S. debt ceiling concerns, analysts say
The uncertainty around whether the U.S. will raise its debt ceiling before it is hit in coming months has started ...
Bitcoin drops 4% as cryptos react to hot inflation data
Bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.11% fell sharply on Friday afternoon, and remains down around 4% over the last 24 hours, trading at ...
Crypto industry’s annual spending on Washington lobbying more than doubles
The cryptocurrency industry sharply increased its annual spending on Washington lobbying last year, shelling out more than it ever has ...
Around 25% of new crypto tokens looked like pump-and-dump schemes in 2022, report says
Creators of crypto token pump-and-dump schemes made an estimated $30 million in profits from selling off their holdings before the ...
SEC charges Terraform Labs and CEO Do Kwon with defrauding crypto investors
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged Terraform Labs, a Singapore-based crypto company, and its chief executive Do ...
Bitcoin jumps as U.S. inflation slows, though remains sticky
Bitcoin jumped more than 3% after President Joe Biden on Tuesday said a new report on the U.S. consumer price ...
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