Eric Trump, son of U.S. President Donald Trump, says the Trump family’s embrace of cryptocurrency was sparked by being “debanked” in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Trump...
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has lashed out at French authorities, accusing them of pursuing a baseless criminal investigation that has dragged on for more than a year and left him tethered to legal obligations in Paris. Durov, a Dubai-based...
European policymakers are accelerating work on the digital euro after Washington’s landmark stablecoin legislation heightened fears of eroding the euro’s global influence. Momentum in Brussels picked up after President Donald Trump signed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for...
In a significant move impacting the future of digital currency, the US House of Representatives has inserted a sweeping provision into its annual defense policy legislation that would prohibit the Federal Reserve from developing or issuing a central bank...
Thirteen wallets pocketed over $24.5 million from trading Kanye West’s newly launched YZY token before its price crashed, blockchain data from Nansen shows. The rapper launched YZY on Solana on Thursday, sparking a frenzy that saw the token soar...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has rolled out its second “crypto sprint,” this time inviting public feedback from market participants on how the agency should approach regulating spot cryptocurrency trading. Acting Chair Caroline D. Pham announced the...
A Bitcoin investor has fallen victim to a massive social engineering scheme, losing 783 BTC—valued at roughly $91 million—in a single transaction earlier this week. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT revealed the exploit in an X post on Thursday, noting that...
Australia’s corporate watchdog is intensifying its war on online scams after removing more than 14,000 fraudulent websites since mid-2023, with thousands linked to cryptocurrencies. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) revealed on Thursday that over 3,000 of those...
Injective has entered into a strategic partnership with global investment platform Republic, aiming to expand access to tokenized private market opportunities and accelerate institutional adoption of blockchain-based finance. The collaboration was announced in an August 21 press release. As...
Australia’s financial intelligence agency, AUSTRAC, has ordered Binance Australia to undergo an independent audit following concerns over the exchange’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) controls. The directive, announced on August 22, targets Investbybit Pty Ltd, Binance’s local entity...
