FinCEN’s 2023 proposal to require crypto companies to report transactions that involved mixing is about transparency, not banning mixers, said Brian Nelson, U.S. Treasury undersecretary.
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) vowed the crypto industry won’t have long to wait to get U.S. regulations, now that the U.S. House of Representatives has shown the way.
Ripple has added another $25 million to the coffers of Fairshake, a federal crypto super political action committee (PAC) that’s spending big this election year to support crypto-friendly Congressional candidates.
A rally in meme tokens such as dogecoin and shiba inu is primarily driven by Asian traders in response to bullish sentiment around ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs), one trader said.
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Israel’s central bank is launching a challenge on the use of a central bank digital currency in payments as part of an “action plan for a possible issuance of the digital shekel.”