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Iran Eyes Bitcoin as Untraceable Payment Gateway for Strait of Hormuz Tolls
Iran is exploring cryptocurrency as a payment mechanism for oil vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, according to reporting from the Financial Tim...
MEXC's New Leadership Charts Course for EU Compliance as Exchange Hunts Global Licenses
MEXC has appointed Vugar Usi as CEO, marking a significant leadership shift as the exchange accelerates its pursuit of regulatory licenses across majo...
Standard Chartered Eyes Consolidation Play: Moving Zodia Crypto Custody In-House
Standard Chartered is reportedly considering a significant restructuring of Zodia Custody that would integrate substantial portions of the crypto cust...
Fed's Stablecoin Yield Ban Won't Save Community Banks, White House Analysis Shows
The White House Council of Economic Advisers has pushed back against proposals to restrict stablecoin yield products, concluding that such bans would ...
South Korea Cracks Down on Crypto Exchange Loopholes as Scammers Exploit Withdrawal Exemptions
South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) is tightening the screws on crypto exchanges after discovering a massive vulnerability in their with...
White House Study: Stablecoin Yield Restrictions Won't Meaningfully Boost Bank Lending
White House economists just dropped a reality check on the banking lobby's biggest complaint about crypto. According to a new report from the Council...
South Korea's Ruling Party Eyes Strict Stablecoin Rules Under Existing Finance Framework
South Korea's Democratic Party is drafting comprehensive legislation that would treat stablecoins as foreign exchange instruments and mandate asset-ba...
Thailand Tightens the Screws: New Crypto Funding Rules Target Hidden Capital Flows
Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (Thai SEC) is moving to close a major regulatory loophole in the crypto space. On Monday, the regulator...
Major Swiss Banks Team Up to Build Swiss Franc Stablecoin Through 2026 Sandbox Initiative
UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum, Raiffeisen, Zürcher Kantonalbank, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise and Swiss Stablecoin AG have officially launched a blockchain sa...
Three Polymarket Wallets Cash Out Nearly Half a Million on Iran Ceasefire Bet—Days Before Official Announcement
Three freshly minted wallets just turned a $484,575 profit on Polymarket by betting "yes" on a US-Iran ceasefire. That's the latest red flag in the p...
Coinbase Doubles Down on Australia: New License Opens Door to Hybrid Crypto-TradFi Trading
Global crypto exchange Coinbase is making a bold play in Australia's regulated financial services ecosystem. The platform just secured its Australian...
SEC Admits Its Crypto Enforcement Blitz Delivered Little Real Protection
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is acknowledging what skeptics have long argued: many of its recent crypto enforcement actions haven't actua...
FDIC Proposes Stablecoin Oversight Framework—But Won't Insure Token Holders
The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is moving forward with regulatory guardrails for stablecoin issuers operating under its supervisio...
From Binance Billionaire to Federal Prison: CZ's New Memoir Breaks Down Crypto's Messiest Reckoning
Changpeng "CZ" Zhao's highly anticipated autobiography, *Freedom of Money*, drops a detailed first-person account of Binance's meteoric rise, the regu...
Congressional Pressure Mounts as CFTC Faces Accountability on Prediction Market Insider Trading
Seven US House members are calling out the CFTC for what they see as regulatory gaps in policing insider trading on prediction markets—and they want a...
DOJ Shoots Down Tornado Cash Dev's Latest Legal Gambit as Retrial Looms
The Department of Justice isn't buying Roman Storm's newest defense strategy. Prosecutors flatly rejected the Tornado Cash developer's argument that ...
FDIC's New Stablecoin Framework: Federal Control Tightens, Insurance Stays Off Limits
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation just dropped its proposed rulebook for stablecoin issuers, and it's a significant move in cementing federal ...
Morgan Stanley's Late Bitcoin ETF Entry Could Unlock Massive Demand, Says Bloomberg Expert
Morgan Stanley is arriving late to the Bitcoin ETF game, but Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas reckons the investment bank carries significant firepower with...
Prosecutors Shut Down Tornado Cash Dev's Defense Strategy in High-Stakes Money Laundering Case
Roman Storm, co-founder of the notorious crypto mixing service Tornado Cash, remains in legal limbo after prosecutors flatly rejected his motion for d...
Milei's LIBRA Connection Deepens: Phone Records Reveal Seven Calls on Launch Night
Argentina's federal investigation into LIBRA just got messier for President Javier Milei. Phone logs obtained during the probe show seven calls betwe...