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17.08 / 00:51
Law
regulation
SEC
ICO
2017 ICOs aren't over yet: SEC files suit against Dragonchain and its founder
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, has filed a complaint related to a 2017 initial coin offering from a blockchain project originally developed by the Walt Disney Company.
16.08 / 20:13
16.08 / 19:03
business
Government
regulation
Huobi Global suspends derivative trading in New Zealand
Crypto exchange Huobi Global announced the suspension of derivatives trading in New Zealand. The statement from Huobi said the new restrictions against derivative offers are in light of compliance with local regulations.
16.08 / 18:11
16.08 / 17:53
Government
Law
regulation
privacy
Tornado Cash shows that DeFi can’t escape regulation
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued sanctions against Tornado Cash this month, marking its first action against a decentralized finance (DeFi) mixer in what may prove to be a watershed moment for DeFi regulation.
16.08 / 17:27
Ethereum
regulation
Tether
Usd Coin
USDT market cap up by $2 billion following Tornado Cash debacle
The market capitalization of Tether (USDT) tokens has increased by nearly $2 billion since the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash.
16.08 / 17:03
Law
Stablecoin
regulation
fall
regulatory
Optimism fading? Regulatory discussion on stablecoins postponed until Fall
Among a rich range of anxieties both for the crypto industry and the global economy at large, the summer of 2022 will be remembered as the time when the stablecoins proved themselves to be not so stable and thus came into the focus of regulators’ attention.
16.08 / 13:17
16.08 / 11:19
16.08 / 06:19
business
regulation
Banks
remittances
Premium
Korean regulators investigate banks over $6.5B tied to Kimchi premium
South Korean banks are being investigated for their role in facilitating $6.5 billion in suspicious overseas remittances which have been tied to companies arbitraging cryptocurrency.
16.08 / 00:43
regulation
Banks
Federal Reserve
guidelines
Fed to issue long-awaited guidelines for granting master accounts to crypto banks
The United States Federal Reserve Board announced Monday that it had finalized its guidelines for the factors reserve banks are to consider when reviewing requests for Federal Reserve accounts and payment services. The guidelines create a three-tiered review framework with the level of due diligence to be provided, depending on the applicant’s risk level.
16.08 / 00:43
Government
Law
regulation
Coin Center may challenge US Treasury's sanctions on Tornado Cash in court
United States-based crypto policy advocacy group Coin Center said it intended to “pursue administrative relief” for individuals affected by Tornado Cash sanctions imposed by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control, or OFAC.
15.08 / 23:41
regulation
Law Decoded, Aug. 8-15: In the eye of Tornado Cash
Summer is still on, harvesting the fresh names for its list of the crypto companies in deep trouble. This time, the trouble came not from the market or management but from the United States Treasury Department. The regulator has added more than 40 cryptocurrency addresses allegedly connected to crypto mixer Tornado Cash to the Specially Designated Nationals list. These individuals and groups allegedly laundered more than $7 billion worth of cryptocurrency.
15.08 / 22:35
regulation
Trading
regulatory
Canadian regulatory council creates new preregistration filing for crypto platforms
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), the council of provincial and territorial securities regulators, announced Monday that crypto trading platforms will be expected to provide a preregistration undertaking to their principal regulators as they take steps to comply fully with securities regulation. Two platforms, crypto.com and the Canadian platform Coinsquare Capital Markets, have already filed those undertakings.
15.08 / 19:37
Binance
regulation
Binance obtains in-principle approval to operate in Kazakhstan
The Astana Financial Services Authority, or AFSA, an independent financial regulator in Kazakhstan, has taken a step towards licensing major cryptocurrency exchange Binance to operate in the country.
15.08 / 19:07
Binance
regulation
Reserve Bank of India
Indian
Binance distances from WazirX as Indian regulators keep chasing crypto
The Twitter exchange between WazirX co-founder Nischal Shetty and Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao over the ownership of the Indian crypto exchange grabbed a lot of headlines in the first week of August.
15.08 / 18:19
15.08 / 17:05
business
regulation
NASDAQ
Bitcoin
Galaxy Digital terminates BitGo acquisition, citing breach of contract
After more than a year of efforts to acquire the digital asset custodian BitGo, Mike Novogratz’s cryptocurrency investment firm Galaxy Digital has decided to drop the acquisition.
15.08 / 15:15
Blockchain
Ethereum
regulation
Tornado Cash community fund multi-signature wallet disbands amid sanctions
Following the sanctions placed by the United States on USD Coin (USDC) and Ethereum (ETH) addresses associated with the crypto mixer Tornado Cash (TORN), the signatories of the projects’ multi-signature community fund disbanded.
13.08 / 17:11
business
Law
defi
regulation
NOT
Metaverse still not ready for virtual weddings and legal proceedings
As the global Web3 ecosystem continued to evolve at a staggering pace, so have the various use cases associated with this niche. In a striking new development, a high-ranking Singaporean government minister recently noted that legal marriage proceedings, court case disputes, and government services could one day be conducted using Metaverse platforms.
13.08 / 05:53
Blockchain
regulation
Europe
European Union
Talking with Eva Kaili, VP of the European Parliament, on MiCA regulation
In an article I wrote for Cointelegraph, I commented on how the European Union has moved forward to regulate the crypto-asset market through Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) and Transfer of Funds Regulation (ToFR). With this subject as a background, I had the privilege of interviewing one of the people who knows the most about regulating new technologies: Eva Kaili, vice president of the European Parliament. She has been working hard on promoting innovation as a driving force for the establishment of the European Digital Single Market.
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