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Defence Seeks Mistrial in Roman Storm Trial Over Questionable Tornado Cash Evidence
Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm’s legal team is considering a motion for mistrial after questioning the accuracy of key evidence intro...

Trump Signs GENIUS Act to Regulate Stablecoins as MTG Warns of ‘CBDC Backdoor’
After months of legislative wrangling, the GENIUS Act was finally signed into law by US President Donald Trump on Friday 18 July, establishi...

Crypto Week Stalls: US House Halts Procedural Vote on Landmark Stablecoin Bills
The US House of Representatives abruptly cancelled a planned vote on Tuesday to advance three crypto related bills, including the GENIUS and...

Fed, OCC, and FDIC Spell Out Crypto Custody Rules – No New Requirements, Just Safeguards
US regulators have issued a formal clarification on how banks should approach crypto-asset safekeeping, confirming that no new supervisory s...

Crypto Mixer Co-Founder Roman Storm Appeals for $500K “Code as Free Speech” Legal Fund
Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash, is short US$500K (AU$763K) ahead of his criminal trial which commenced Monday, and says his total l...

Aussie Crypto Billionaire Bites Attacker’s Finger Off in Failed Kidnapping Attempt
An Estonian court has heard that Australian billionaire Tim Heath, founder of crypto-gaming giant Yolo Group, fought off an attempted kidnap...

Senate Passes “One Big Beautiful Bill”: Crypto Tax Relief Nowhere in Sight
Republicans have just barely managed to pass the Donald Trump-backed ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ through the US Senate to advance the conte...

Novogratz: Stablecoin Law Will Open the Floodgates for Wall Street Crypto Invasion
Michael Novogratz says the stablecoin bill is a massive greenlight for Wall Street capital. Speaking in a recent Bloomberg interview, the Ga...

Australian Money Laundering Scheme Busted: A$190M Converted to Crypto
Four people have been arrested for allegedly laundering millions of dollars in suspected criminal funds through “a complex web of deceptio...

Democrats Accuse SEC of “Hiding the Ball” in CLARITY Act Briefing
House Democrats are accusing the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of partisan interference after the agency allegedly refused to pro...

25 Young Suspects Charged in String of Crypto-Targeted Attacks on Wealthy Victims
Twenty-five young people, including six minors, have been charged in France in connection with a coordinated series of violent attacks and k...

GENIUS Act Anti-Corruption Amendment Planned to Foil Trump Stablecoin Profiteering
Three Democratic Senators will propose an amendment to the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act (GENIUS), aim...