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Robinhood Faces Regulatory Scrutiny over Cryptocurrency Operations

Robinhood Markets, the popular trading platform, is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its cryptocurrency operations. The SEC issued...

Coinbase to Suspend Trading for BUSD Stablecoin

Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the US, announced that it would suspend trading for the Binance USD (BUSD) stablecoin on March...

Grayscale CEO: SEC Should Approve GBTC Conversion to Bitcoin ETF

Grayscale Investments' CEO Michael Sonnenshein, has stated that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) acted “arbitrarily” in denying approval for the Grayscale...

Republic’s Metaverse Real Estate Fund Shut Down by SEC

Republic, the third largest equity crowdfunding portal in the U.S., launched the "Republic Realm Metaverse Real Estate Fund" in March 2021. The fund's focus...

Circle CEO Argues Stablecoins Should be Regulated by Banking Authorities

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire argues that stablecoins should be regulated by banking authorities rather than the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In...

US Treasury Secretary Yellen and Indian FM Sitharaman Discuss Crypto Assets

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met on Thursday on the sidelines of the G20 finance chiefs meeting to...

Germany’s DZ Bank partners with Metaco for digital asset custody services

Germany's DZ Bank has partnered with Swiss firm Metaco to offer digital asset custody services, despite dwindling institutional sentiment associated with cryptocurrencies in Germany....

WazirX NFT Marketplace Shuts Down Amid Tough Business Environment

Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX has announced that it is shutting down its non-fungible tokens (NFT) marketplace due to a lack of traction, amid high...

Former FTX CEO Agrees to Pay for Security Expert in Fraud Case

Former FTX CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, has agreed to pay for a security expert to assist the judge overseeing his fraud case in navigating modern...

Paxos in Talks with SEC Over Binance USD Registration

Paxos Trust Company, the firm behind Binance's stablecoin, is in discussions with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after the regulator informed the...

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary: Crypto Venture Funding is “Virtually Dead”

Entrepreneur and "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary has tweeted about the future outlook of venture funding for new crypto projects. In a clip from...

Bitcoin Seen as Solution to Limit Government Corruption:Human Rights Foundation Chief

The decentralized nature of Bitcoin is being hailed as a potential solution to limit government corruption and tyranny, according to Alex Gladstein, Bitcoin advocate...