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Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday said her party is not opposed to the idea of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), but does not endorse the way the BJP and its government «seek to implement it in the country». The former chief minister said the Constitution mentions securing a UCC for all citizens but there is no provision of «imposing it».

P Chidambaram on Sunday took a swipe at Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over his remarks that the situation in Manipur will improve within 7 to 10 days, saying it would help if the BJP leader does not «poke his nose» into Manipur's conflict and stayed away. The former home minister also asserted that it would help if Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh resigned as the CM and President's Rule was imposed in the northeastern state for a few months.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that he does not stake all of his Ethereum (ETH) due to multisignature (multisig) wallets being “complicated in a bunch of ways.”

Optus says it still does not know how much customer information was stolen nearly a year after a massive cybersecurity breach, and has denied it had a duty of care to protect the affected customers from harm.

The Bank of England is still mulling over which technology will underpin its Central Bank-Backed Digital Currency (CBDC). 

While an approved BlackRock spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) will funnel new institutional money to Bitcoin, it's going to be the retail investors that ultimately drive any significant price surges, according to Michael Shaulov, the CEO and co-founder of institutional custody platform Fireblocks.

The United States Secret Service has finally shed more light on its bizarre nonfungible token (NFT) collection sitting on OpenSea. 

While many community members enjoy arguing about what the ultimate blockchain is, an executive from the Cardano Foundation believes that these arguments should stop, as use cases dictate which blockchain is most appropriate for specific projects. 

A South Korean court has ruled that “Bitcoin (BTC) is not money,” and that “interest rate rules don’t apply” to business deals involving cryptoassets.

After a grand opening in March, Australian fast-food diner Shiba Wings has seen plenty of customers walking through the doors for their fried delectables. 

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reiterated its calls for crypto regulation across certain countries but said an outright ban may not be the best approach.

The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said he doesn’t know how he will vote on a potential interest-rate increase at the central bank’s next meeting in July.

BEIJING — Subsidies for electric cars aren't enough to boost growth in China's slowing economy.

When Goldman Sachs started its third round of job cuts in June, the plan wasn’t just to reduce headcount. It was to strip out costs across the firm.

Professional investors are still keen on crypto but want to see backing from large traditional financial institutions before taking the plunge themselves, a survey from Nomura’s digital asset arm has revealed.

Binance has not sold either bitcoin or Binance Coin, its native token, the company's CEO Changpeng Zhao tweeted on Tuesday. Last week, Binance was sued by the U.S.

Newly released documents showing edits that were made to a 2018 speech given by former director of the Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) corporate finance division Bill Hinman suggest the editors were concerned his statement might undermine the idea that Ether (ETH) is a security. 

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Major banks and fintech companies claim to be piling into generative artificial intelligence as the hype surrounding the buzzy technology shows no signs of fizzling out — but there are lingering fears about potential pitfalls and risks.

FTX received court permission on Friday to remove customer names from all filings in its bankruptcy case, persuading a US judge that publishing the names would put people at risk of scams and identity theft. US Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey in Wilmington, Delaware, ruled that FTX can permanently redact the names of individual customers from its bankruptcy filings, after hearing testimony that publishing customers' names would place them at risk even if other identifying information like their email address was kept secret. «It is the customers who are the most important issue in this case,» Dorsey said. «We want to make sure that they are protected and they don't fall victim to any types of scams.» In January, Dorsey had allowed FTX to keep secret the names of 9 million of its individual customers for three months.

The Solana Foundation took to Twitter to address for the first time the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's classification of its native token, Solana (SOL), as a security. 

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — At last year's Money 20/20 — Europe's marquee event for the financial technology industry — investors and industry insiders were abuzz with talk about embedded finance, open banking, and banking-as-a-service.