India issues compliance notices to nine offshore exchanges including Binance
India issues show-cause notices to Binance, Kucoin, and others for PMLA violations. Finance Ministry urges blocking URLs of offshore exchanges...
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South Korea to disclose top officials’ crypto holdings in 2024 as new crypto exchange launches
South Korea transforms transparency: 5,800 officials disclose assets, incl. crypto, via PETI. Pullix disrupts crypto exchange norms: PLX token presale,...
SEC asks for final changes to spot Bitcoin ETF filings: Report
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has set December 29, 2023 as the date for final changes to spot...
Bulgaria closes investigation into Nexo citing no criminal activity
Bulgarian prosecutors have ended the criminal investigations into crypto lender Nexo. A report published on Friday said authorities had found...
EU Commission targets X over ‘dissemination of illegal content’
The European Commission said it had opened formal proceedings to investigate X — formerly Twitter — over content related to...
FTX debtors assess value of crypto claims based on petition date market prices
The debtors of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX have filed an amended Chapter 11 plan of reorganization, which proposes that...
Tether responds to US lawmakers’ calls for DOJ action
Tether, the company behind the stablecoin Tether (USDT), disclosed letters directed to U.S. legislators, addressing requests for intervention by the...
Watchdog group doubles down on Circle-Tron money laundering claims
Nonprofit ethics group Campaign for Accountability (CfA) has doubled down on its money laundering claims against Circle, publishing a new...
CoinList agrees to $1.2M settlement over apparent US sanctions violations
CoinList, a United States-based cryptocurrency exchange, has agreed to a $1.2-million settlement with the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control...
Terrorism & Israel-Gaza war weaponized to destroy crypto – Cointelegraph Magazine
The Israel-Gaza war has once again thrown the spotlight on crypto, with anti-crypto politicians seizing on exaggerated reports of crypto...
Terra co-founder Do Kwon will stay in Montenegro until February: Report
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, expected to be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges, will reportedly stay...
Argentine crypto influencers hope Javier Milei will shun FATF Travel Rule
After libertarian Javier Milei was sworn in as president of Argentina on Dec. 10, the local crypto community hopes he...
UK FCA crypto skills gap is causing slow enforcement, says National Audit Office
The National Audit Office (NAO) in the United Kingdom has raised concerns about the effectiveness of the Financial Conduct Authority...
VanEck files 5th amendment to spot Bitcoin ETF under ‘HODL’
Asset manager VanEck filed a fifth amended application for a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) on Dec. 8.According to...
US senators target crypto in bill enforcing sanctions on terrorist groups
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the United States Senate introduced legislation aimed at countering cryptocurrency’s role in financing terrorism,...
Hong Kong bans two crypto sites for misleading investors
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) banned the two crypto websites for scamming users. HongKongDAO and BitCuped were blocked...
Hong Kong regulator blocks access to two crypto entities, warning of fraud
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong has issued a warning related to suspected fraud involving crypto entities...
Jury in Terraform Labs case shouldn’t decide whether crypto is a security — SEC
Lawyers representing the United States Securities and Exchange Commission requested the judge in its civil case against Terraform Labs and...
Platypus exploiters walk free after claiming to be ‘ethical hackers’
A French court has allowed two brothers responsible for the theft of $8.5 million from decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Platypus...
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust aims for ETF shift to narrow discount
Grayscale, a significant player in digital asset management, has expressed enthusiasm about the potential transformation of its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust...
The SEC is facing another defeat in its recycled lawsuit against Kraken
The legal duel between the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Kraken, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, looks like...
Crypto-based AI markets, and AI financial analysis – Cointelegraph Magazine
We’re rolling out genuine use cases for AI and crypto each day this week — including reasons why you shouldn’t...
