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Fed Chair Powell Backs Stablecoin Oversight Framework—Warsh Signals Caution With Abstention
The Federal Reserve's leadership just moved forward on a critical piece of crypto infrastructure: formal stablecoin customer screening requirements. ...
Ireland Escalates Crypto Oversight: New 30-Point Action Plan Targets Digital Asset Risks
Ireland's financial regulators are getting serious about crypto. A freshly released National Risk Assessment has officially flagged crypto-asset misu...
G7 Escalates Crypto Enforcement Push as North Korea's Digital Theft Spree Expands Beyond Bitcoin
The Group of Seven is amplifying pressure on North Korean cybercriminals, expanding their policy focus beyond cryptocurrency theft to encompass the fu...
CME Plans Legal Challenge Against CFTC's Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Decision
CME Group's outgoing CEO Terry Duffy is taking regulatory action against what he sees as regulatory overreach. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange will f...
Aztec's Second Major Breach Exposes Dangers of Abandoned Code: $2.1M Drained in a Week
Aztec just got hit again. The privacy-focused crypto protocol suffered a second $2.
Michelle Bond Faces FTX Campaign Finance Trial as Federal Judge Rejects Dismissal Bid
A federal judge has dealt a significant blow to Michelle Bond's legal defense by rejecting her motion to dismiss campaign finance charges connected to...
France's Quantum Encryption Mandate Could Reshape Crypto Security Standards by 2030
France's cybersecurity authority is drawing a line in the sand: get quantum-resistant or get blocked. The nation's ANSSI agency (National Cybersecuri...
Kentucky Targets Major Prediction Market Platforms in Aggressive Legal Push
Kentucky has joined the growing legal assault on prediction market platforms, filing suit against Polymarket and Kalshi—along with the latter's financ...
France's 2027 Quantum Encryption Mandate Could Reshape Crypto Security Standards
French government cybersecurity researchers are drawing a hard line: starting in 2027, they'll no longer certify security products that don't incorpor...
Federal Court Sides With Michigan: Polymarket Prediction Markets Escape CFTC's Regulatory Grasp—For Now
A Michigan federal judge just delivered a significant ruling that clarifies the regulatory landscape for crypto-based prediction markets, and it's not...
Gambling Lobby Pushes Congress to Clip CFTC's Wings Over Prediction Markets
Gambling industry groups are making a direct play to Congress, urging senators to pass legislation that would strip the Commodity Futures Trading Comm...
FTX's Hidden SpaceX Bet Could Unlock Billions for Bankrupt Crypto Exchange Creditors
FTX's collapse devastated investors and customers, but the defunct crypto exchange held one potentially lucrative asset nobody was talking about: a me...
Bitcoin-Backed Candidate Secures Alabama Senate Seat as Crypto's Political Influence Escalates
The crypto industry just flexed its political muscle in a major way. An Alabama Republican candidate backed by a cryptocurrency company's PAC won the...
Stablecoin Payment Infrastructure Player Trace Finance Lands $32M Series A From Coinbase, CoinFund
Trace Finance, a stablecoin infrastructure startup focused on streamlining digital asset payments, announced Wednesday it has secured $32 million in S...
Estonia Could Become First Country to Legally Recognize AI Agents as Autonomous Entities
Prime Minister Kristen Michal is backing a bold proposal that would fundamentally reshape how governments treat artificial intelligence. Estonia want...
Kalshi Beefs Up Compliance Arsenal With New Software Partner as Regulators Circle
Kalshi, the binary options exchange that's been operating in a regulatory gray zone, just signed a major software partnership aimed at sharpening its ...
AI's LGBTQ Problem: GLAAD Sounds Alarm as Bias Amplification Risks Escalate
GLAAD, the leading media watchdog for LGBTQ representation, just dropped a serious warning about artificial intelligence systems that should concern e...
Congressional Pressure Mounts: US Lawmakers Draw Line on SBF Pardon
Sam Bankman-Fried is currently locked into a 25-year prison sentence after being convicted on seven felony charges centered around the misappropriatio...
Bybit Joins Singapore's MAS Warning List as Regulatory Scrutiny Tightens
Bybit, one of the world's largest crypto trading platforms, has landed on Singapore's Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Investor Alert List—a deve...
Trace Finance Secures $32M to Scale Cross-Border Stablecoin Settlement Infrastructure
Trace Finance just locked down a significant $32 million funding round to accelerate its cross-border stablecoin settlement platform—and the timing co...