The Risk Alert seemed to take particular aim at broker-dealers, who have been "inadequate" in their AML compliance. The Security and Exchange Commission's Division of Examinations published on Friday a blueprint for investment managers and institutions on how the division will inspect the...
CEO Michael Saylor said the firm doesn't intend to slow down the rate of its Bitcoin acquisitions after buying another $1 billion worth of BTC.
Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy increased its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings by 27% on Wednesday after purchasing an additional 19,452 coins, taking...
New York regulators are forcing Tether to be fully transparent about its reserves, at the cost of not serving New York residents.
Bitfinex and Tether settled with the New York Attorney General office in the landmark case against Tether. New York authorities alleged that Tether misrepresented the...
The Feb. 23 crypto market flash-crash liquidated more than $24 million worth of DeFi loans. with Compound users representing more than half of the margin calls.
The Feb. 23 crypto crash has sparked the second-largest volume of DeFi liquidations in the sector’s history, with more than $24.1...
With a charity and some slapdash art theory as a cover, a copycat makes off with 512 ETH in NFT sales.
As the Crypto Twitter community debates the fair value of Cryptopunks and other NFTs rising to sky-high valuations, there’s at least one clear sign of the digital collectibles market growing...
Binance paused ERC-20 withdrawals without offering a credible explanation, letting speculation about its true motives run wild.
Binance had a hiccup with its withdrawals for Ether (ETH) and all ERC-20 assets on Friday, with users being unable to access any of their Ethereum-based assets for...
The Dead Coins project has been given new lease of life by BTC education portal 99Bitcoins.
Bitcoin education portal 99Bitcoins is the newly appointed undertaker of the cryptocurrency industry.
It’s taken over the Dead Coins project, which provides a burial ground for more than a thousand dead...
Async Art is looking to lead the programmable art movement with a new funding round.
Async Art, a Silicon Valley nonfungible token platform, has secured over $2 million in seed funding from at least 10 investors, highlighting the growing value proposition of programmable art.
The company...
The altcoin market crashed as Bitcoin achieved a new all-time high and made its way towards $50,000.
Altcoins plunged steeply on Feb. 14 after the price of Bitcoin (BTC) achieved a new all-time high above $49,000.
The timing of the altcoin market’s drop was noteworthy because it corrected as...
Securities regulators' down under said that they are open to a Bitcoin ETF, so long as investors are protected by the proper rules.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has clarified its position regarding Bitcoin (BTC)-linked exchange-traded funds.
According to a Feb. 12...
Bitcoin is preparing for another run to its all-time high at $42,000 as the crypto industry turns cautiously bullish.
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) is showing signs of a newfound rally as it breaks the $40,000 resistance area. There is a combination of optimistic on-chain data points and a...
A breach of Blockfolio’s signal feed saw racist messages sent to some users of the crypto portfolio platform.
Some Blockfolio users received shocking messages from the app on Tuesday in what has now been confirmed as a breach of the platform’s signal feed.
The hackers responsible for the breach...
China’s first hardware wallet for the digital yuan supports dual offline payments without an internet connection.
A Chinese banking institution has completed the development of a hardware wallet for the country’s central bank digital currency, the digital yuan
According to a Feb. 7 announcement...
Protego joins Anchorage as the first string of digital asset firms to get national trust bank licensing.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted another crypto firm a national charter.
Per an announcement shared with Cointelegraph today, Washington-based institutional crypto...
A speculative wave is now receding, and more than one trader regrets the ride.
After a pump that highlighted the power of crowd mania and meme magic, Dogecoin has tumbled nearly 40% in a retreat from $.06 Friday highs, falling as low as $.033 this morning.
For the influencers and Wall Street...
In the last 30 days, FTX Token rallied 105% as its exchange surpassed BitMEX and Deribit's open interest, but is there room for further upside?
FTX is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange backed by Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm and crypto liquidity provider.
The exchange...
The payments giant is bullish on stablecoins, but may be overlooking the potential of DeFi
During the Visa Q1 earnings call on Thursday, chairman and CEO Al Kelly devoted a portion of his comments to reaffirming the financial giant’s commitment to crypto payments and onramps, as well as...
The potential of Ether greatly exceeds Bitcoin, and the community is beginning to understand the value of ETH.
During the second half of 2020, we saw a growing interest in cryptocurrencies from institutional investors and big capital. However, all the attention of the whales, as well as all the...
Bahrain-based crypto exchange CoinMENA acquired a major license ahead of its launch in several countries including the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
CoinMENA, a soon-to-launch cryptocurrency exchange headquartered in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has obtained a license from the Central Bank of Bahrain, or...