Category: Breaking

Federal prosecutors charges Samurai Wallet founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill with conspiracy to commit money laundering on Wednesday, as the U.S. government continues its approach to prosecuting crypto mixing tools that may be used by illicit actors and foreign governments to hide fund transfers.

Suggested fines the securities watchdog suggested for Terraform Labs and Ripple are out-of-line with what it has collected from crypto firms in the past.

A serious attempt to bring Ethereum-like smart contract functionality to Bitcoin called OP_CAT has finally been granted a “BIP number:”…

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of April 25-May 1.

Hedera’s native HBAR token surged by more than 107% on Tuesday as investors believed that BlackRock was involved in a fund tokenization project on the Hedera blockchain, the token then slumped by more than 25% as BlackRock turned out to have no involvement in the launch.

India’s general election in 2024 is not expected to immediately affect crypto policy, and its current – restrictive – rules are expected to continue on through the upcoming Parliamentary term.

Some banks, however, expect the dollar index to stay firm over the near term.

A directive circulating in Nigeria asked regulated financial institutions in Nigeria to identify persons or entities transacting in or operating with Bybit, KuCoin, OKX and Binance, but the nation’s central bank denied its real, retracted the denial, and then reissued the denial on X.

The number of addresses holding stablecoins has risen 15% this year.

Binance’s founder and former chief executive, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has apologised for his “poor decisions” and accepted “full responsibility” for his actions, in a letter to the judge overseeing his case.