The U.S. Federal Reserve Board has finalized tiered guidelines for granting Federal Reserve accounts, with Wyoming’s crypto banks likely to fall under most scrutiny. The United States Federal Reserve Board announced Monday that it had finalized guidelines for factors reserve banks are to consider when reviewing requests for Federal Reserve accounts and payment services. The...Continue Reading

“Up only” Bitcoin and Ethereum take a breather after encountering resistance at a stiff multi-month descending trendline. On Aug. 15, Bitcoin (BTC) price and the wider market corrected while the S&P 500 and DOW looked to build on four-straight weeks of robust gains. Data from TradingView and CNBC show the Dow pushing through its 200-day...Continue Reading

U.S. Treasury links the crypto mixer with $7 billion worth of laundered money. 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...Continue Reading

The Canadian Securities Administrators will require crypto trading platforms to file an undertaking committing them to investor protections while their registration is in process. 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...Continue Reading

Bitcoin and altcoins met selling at key overhead resistance levels and investors are unsure whether traders will buy the current dip. Bitcoin (BTC) has been witnessing a tough battle between the bulls and the bears near the $25,000 level. A clear winner may not emerge in the short term due to a lack of a...Continue Reading

The firm said it would also move its principal business and several people from management from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom. Nasdaq-listed digital asset investment firm Eqonex has announced it will be exiting the “crowded crypto exchange space” by shuttering part of its operations. In a Monday announcement, Eqonex said it will close trading...Continue Reading

LinkedIn crypto scams typically start off with unsolicited token listing offers from LinkedIn users claiming to be from reputable crypto exchanges. According to a Sunday Twitter post by Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, only about 50 out of 7,000 users claiming to be employees of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange on Linkedin...Continue Reading

The major crypto exchange has secured regulatory approval in 2022 to operate as a digital asset service provider in France, Bahrain, Spain and Dubai. 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. In a Monday...Continue Reading

The ownership of WazirX became a hot topic as CZ claimed the deal never went through, but three years later, there’s still no clarity. 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...Continue Reading

Amid the grueling bear market for Bitcoin, Ether and altcoins, the cryptocurrency industry is undergoing consolidation. Cryptocurrency venture firm Dragonfly has acquired a digital asset-focused investment fund for an undisclosed amount — a move that managing partner Haseeb Qureshi said mirrors the broad consolidation trend underway in the industry.  Bloomberg reported Monday that Dragonfly purchased...Continue Reading