Crypto law firm loses appeal to force SEC’s hand on Ether classification

August 23, 2024
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Hodl Law sued the SEC in 2022, claiming it could face the regulator’s ire for using Ethereum and wanted a court to force it to decide if ETH is a security.

Monthly active developers across the crypto ecosystem fell 28% year-on-year in October, though some have managed to buck the trend. 42 Total views 1 Total shares Ethereum layer-2 scaling solutions Starknet and zkSync are among the few platforms to have increased their total monthly active developer counts over the last 12 months, data shows.While Starknet

European central bank execs are wrong — Intentionally or unknowingly?

Recently, European central bank executives — Thomas Moser from Swiss National Bank and Martin Diehl from Deutsche Bundesbank — stated that central bank digital currencies don’t need a blockchain.They expressed their opinions by saying that blockchains — especially public, or permissionless — make no sense for central bank digital currencies. The reason is that central…

Fed’s dovish move will slash $625M in interest income for stablecoins

CCData estimates stablecoins will lose approximately $625 million in interest income for each 50-basis point cut. Further cuts in 2024 could reduce annual revenue by as much as $1.5 billion.

Kadena CEO Stuart Popejoy on blockchain design: proof of work is a feature, not a flaw

When taking its blockchain public, “there was an adjustment period where we had to learn to love crypto,” Kadena founder and CEO Stuart Popejoy said. The admission sounded more like a technical adjustment than a surge of emotion on his lips, but he added, “The people who participate in your ecosystem really are your network…

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Owner of unlicensed UK crypto ATM network faces criminal charges

The FCA is throwing the book at the head of GidiPlus Limited for operating an ATM network after being denied registration.

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Is Trump right to worry that China could ‘take over’ crypto?

Does China regret banning Bitcoin mining in 2021? Could it opt back in? Can a single nation even control decentralized assets like BTC?

CFTC’s First Published 2019 Examination Priorities Reveal Major Cryptocurrency Focus

United States regulator the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced cryptocurrency will form a priority for its internal examinations this year, according to a press release published on Feb. 12.The CFTC, which has released its examination priorities for the first time in 2019, will include various crypto-related aspects in its Division of Market Oversight…

67% of Cardano holders underwater and most bought less than 1 year ago

ADA prices are sliding back towards a dollar, putting more holders in the red as gains are eroded. 986 Total views 18 Total shares As Cardano (ADA) prices fall back towards the psychological one dollar level, more and more investors are finding themselves with unrealized losses by holding on to the digital asset.Cardano’s ADA token…

Epic Games raises $2B for Metaverse, Mastercard scales NFT plans and Ripple scores big win against SEC: Hodler’s Digest, April 10-16

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This WeekMastercard files 15 metaverse and NFT related trademarks Multinational payments giant Mastercard…

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