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Hester Peirce, head of the SEC’s crypto task force, said the context of a digital asset transfer could make it a securities transaction.
A House bill formally introduced Thursday would end SEC oversight over the crypto industry. It will be debated by lawmakers in the coming weeks.
Stablecoin issuer Circle used its authority to freeze wallets connected to the Libra token team containing millions of dollars of USDC.
Key takeaways: 97% of ETH put options will expire worthless if ETH holds above $2,600. A bullish ETH price outcome could be limited by macroeconomic factors and trading strategies that cap Ether gains. On May 30, $2.4 billion in Ether (ETH) options will expire—an event that could support ETH’s attempt to break above the $2,700 …
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A third individual, suspected of being connected to the recent kidnapping, torture and attempted extortion of an Italian tourist in New York City, surrendered to law enforcement on May 27. 33-year-old William Duplessie was taken into custody by the New York Police Department (NYPD) and will be charged with “kidnapping and false imprisonment of an …
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The bank’s Head of Digital Assets thinks Solana needs to find use cases in «high-throughput financial apps.»
Dubai has launched the first licensed tokenized real estate project in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, previewing appetite for real-world tokenization in one of the world’s burgeoning crypto hubs. Partners in the project include the Dubai Land Department (DLD), the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, and the Dubai Future Foundation, …
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Avraham Eisenberg was last year convicted for taking $110 million in crypto from the Solana-based DEX. But a judge just said there wasn’t enough evidence he committed fraud.
Blockchain security firm Dedaub released a post-mortem report on the Cetus decentralized exchange hack, identifying the root cause of the attack as an exploit of the liquidity parameters used by the Cetus automated market maker (AMM), which went undetected by a code «overflow» check. According to the report, the hackers exploited a flaw in the …
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