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Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino told a U.S. crowd on Tuesday that he’s counting on sensible crypto regulations coming soon from the U.S. “There is no place like the U.S.,” he said via video link at DC Fintech Week in Washington.

Congressman Andy Barr (R-Ky.) is one of the lawmakers running to succeed U.S. House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) as the head of the Republican wing of the committee, which oversees regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission and is responsible for shepherding legislation that might affect the U.S. capital markets and banking sectors, among others. He shared some of his thoughts on what his crypto priorities might be during an aside at the Flyover Fintech conference on Monday.

Exchanges will now have until the last week of November to meet new requirements.

The broad-based CoinDesk 20 (CD20), a liquid index tracking the largest tokens by market capitalization, lost 2.1%.

APE has doubled in value to $1.5 since the weekend.

Stablecoins have emerged as the main use-case for blockchains, especially for cross-border payments, the report said.

Japan’s Democratic Party for the People is trying to attract crypto-conscious voters with tax system reforms. But it’s not alone.

Approximately 16% ($682 million) of the notional value in bitcoin that is set to expire is currently “in the money.”

The private transactions allow institutional users to define privacy conditions in a way that keeps onchain data private from all third parties and adversaries.

Someday soon, somebody besides Gary Gensler will be calling the shots at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and most of the crypto industry will rejoice.More than any other figure in the U.S. government, this SEC chair played an unflinching antagonist to its aims. That no-holds-barred opposition is likely to cease, one way or another, in the coming year, when the securities agency gets a new boss.