XRP Is Used in Crime, But Far Less Often Than Bitcoin, Elliptic Says

Reports are that Chris Brummer – author of a volume on crypto assets and frequent speaker on digital currencies – will chair the CFTC.This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.On this edition of the Weekly Recap, NLW argues that while bitcoin’s price was the short-term story of the week, the medium-term story was all about the…

Aug 19, 2020 at 19:30 UTCThe S&P 500 has recovered to hit new all-time highs but how real is it, and how are leading finance minds interpreting the recovery? For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, iHeartRadio or RSS. This episode…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) users will receive an airdrop from pricing oracles network Pyth next week with 255 million tokens set to be issued to 90,000 wallets.Pyth network competes with the likes of Chainlink. It will work by gathering first-party pricing data from exchanges, trading firms and institutions before relaying that data to smart contracts or

news A new startup launched by the former co-founder of Simple Bank wants to provide early-stage fintech startups with traditional banking service functionality. Sila, founded last year and until now operating in private alpha test phase, unveiled an open beta Thursday, inviting developers of fintech firms – including blockchain and crypto startups – to begin building…

Hundreds of bitcoiners flocked to the swanky Chelsea Hotel in downtown Toronto on June 17 and June 18 to attend the first ever Canadian Bitcoin conference. The event featured talks from podcast host Stephan Livera, a “build your own open-source Bitcoin miner” workshop by Quebecan mining service provider D-Central, and a sneak preview of the…

Cboe's BZX exchange is hoping to launch the first spot ether exchange-traded funds in the U.S., filing the paperwork for products tied to Ark 21Shares and VanEck.The exchange filed 19b-4 documents on Wednesday, formally kicking off a review process. Once the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) acknowledges the filings, it will start a 240-day

Proposals requiring crypto companies to report transactions amount to "mass surveillance" and flout the Fourth Amendment. (THINK A/Shutterstock)Jan 13, 2021 at 7:55 p.m. UTCFinCEN’s Crypto Surveillance Rule Violates the US ConstitutionIn the late afternoon on the Friday before Christmas, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed a regulation introducing data collection and…

news Calibra, a digital currency wallet built by Facebook, is beefing up its compliance team as the company tries to convince U.S. and European regulators that the social media giant’s Libra project poses no legal threat. Now it’s bringing that conviction to the fore by hiring for a new compliance team to manage the many…

BEUC, an umbrella group of European consumer organizations, filed a complaint with European Union consumer protection bodies calling for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter to toughen their crypto advertising rules.National regulators should require social media networks to tighten their policies and ban influencers from promoting crypto, the complaint said.“Consumers are increasingly being promised ‘get rich…