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New laws for regulating cryptocurrencies in Japan will start to be enforced next month.The Payment Services Act (PSA) and Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA), two of the pieces of legislation passed by the Japanese House of Representatives last year to regulate crypto, were scheduled to come into effect starting in April. However, with unexpected…

Colorado State Securities Commissioner Gerald Rome has issued a cease and desist order to four Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) for allegedly offering unregistered securities, according to an official notice published Nov. 8.The orders come as part of a state operation by the “ICO Task Force” within the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), which in May…

Ethereum solutions provider ConsenSys has pledged support for a Uniswap governance proposal to set aside tokens for a new decentralized finance (DeFi) fund for political lobbying.The proposal was made on May 27 by the Harvard Law School Blockchain and FinTech Initiative for the creation of a fund that would finance existing and new political groups…

Monday, Jan. 7 — most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are seeing slight to generous gains in the 24 hours to press time. Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has surpassed the $4,000 mark again, according to Coin360 data.Market visualization from Coin360At press time, Bitcoin is up nearly 5 percent on the day, trading at around $4,025. Looking at…

The Directorate of Enforcement of India alleged that WazirX "actively assisted around 16 accused fintech companies in laundering the proceeds of crime using the crypto route." 247 Total views 3 Total shares India’s Directorate of Enforcement, or ED, has announced it froze roughly $8.1 million in funds and conducted a search connected to cryptocurrency exchange…

The total value locked on the decentralized finance protocol Rari Capital has surged past $1 billion.The DeFi lending, borrowing, and yield generating protocol has surpassed the key milestone in TVL according to the app dashboard, and DeFiPulse confirms the all-time high TVL figure, reporting it at $1.09 billion. On Sept. 30, Cointelegraph reported that Rari’s…

The court cited Sam Bankman-Fried’s alleged witness tampering as the main grounds for rejecting his release bid. 92 Total views 1 Total shares FTX founder and convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried will stay jailed after failing to convince a United States appellate court that he should be freed while his legal team appeals his conviction.In a

Arguably the biggest Bitcoin adoption move of 2020 turned 78,338 off-chain transactions into just 18 on-chain ones, with MicroStrategy praising scalability. Bitcoin (BTC) as a store of value “scales just fine,” the CEO of the company that just purchased 38,250 BTC has said.In a tweet on Sep. 17, Michael Saylor revealed more information about MicroStrategy’s…

Despite only being a week into the new year, SuperRare adds to a number of firms announcing staff cuts such as Huobi and Genesis. 245 Total views 7 Total shares Ho-ho-ho! Get Limited Holiday Trait!Collect this article as an NFTNon-fungible token (NFT) marketplace SuperRare has announced a 30% staff-member cut as CEO John Crain explained…