Former Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao now faces the genuine possibility that he’ll spend three years in federal prison in the U.S. – well above the possible 18 months laid out in his plea agreement.
The Lummis-Gillibrand stablecoin bill subordinates state regulation to federal control, giving Washington too much power as to which entities can issue these important digital assets, say Jack Solowey and Jennifer J. Schulp at the Cato Institute.
Financial nihilism is a common philosophy in Web3 but, ultimately, there’s no way to build long-lasting value without finding real customers for real products and services that solve actual problems, says Lex Sokolin.
Some 45% of the EIGEN token supply will go towards the EigenLayer community, while investors will be allocated 29.5% of the token supply, and 25.5% will go towards early contributors.
Liberal Democratic Party leader and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida once called Web3 a “new form of capitalism,” but he faces a party leadership election in September.
The crypto market is balancing the threat of stagflation against a liquidity injection from the Treasury General Account (TGA), and the launch of Hong Kong’s bitcoin ETFs.
With MiCA stablecoin rules taking effect in June, CoinDesk reached out to regulators in all 27 EU member states to show where countries are at with implementation.