A New York federal court is now the venue for a legal battle testing just how far stablecoin issuers can go when freezing customer funds. Two Thai businessmen have taken Tether to court, alleging the company locked away $42.4 million…
Thailand’s securities regulator has finalised a set of Travel Rule requirements that will force digital asset businesses to gather detailed information on everyone involved in crypto transfers, including transactions that touch personal, self-managed wallets. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)…
Leading crypto exchange Coinbase has opened up crypto derivatives trading to qualified customers in Canada, allowing them to trade perpetual and dated futures contracts linked to Bitcoin, Ether, Solana and a range of other digital assets. The new lineup gives…
Marking a key regulatory development, HashKey has become the first Asian digital asset service provider to be added to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s(DTCC) Digital Assets Advisory Services Industry Working Group, marking a notable step for the exchange operator’s…
The U.S. state of New Jersey is taking its dispute with prediction market platforms all the way to the nation’s highest court, as per reports. The state’s Attorney General, Jennifer Davenport, along with the interim director of the Division of…
Leading tokenized asset firm Ondo Finance is pressing American regulators to open the door for perpetual futures on individual stocks, telling both the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission(CFTC) that the current legal framework for security…
Bitcoin won’t be the only crypto asset backing loans at Sber for much longer. This comes after Russia’s largest lender, Sber, announced its intention to accept Tether’s USDt stablecoin and Ether as collateral too, according to comments Deputy Chairman Anatoly…
In a major development, Polygon Labs came forward this week with details of several security flaws in its proof-of-stake network that had been kept under wraps while engineers worked on solutions. The company’s Validators Support Team issued the disclosure on…
Two hardware wallet makers are now trading barbs after OneKey’s security team said it managed to reproduce an exploit in an old version of Ledger’s Ethereum app, and Ledger fired back over how that claim got framed. OneKey founder and…
The US Treasury Department significantly expanded its ability to crack down on Iran’s digital asset activity on August 24, giving the Office of Foreign Assets Control new authority to go after foreign companies and individuals who support the country’s crypto…
