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How Worldcoin is undermining crypto’s original ethos The new crypto from OpenAI’s founder requires users to supply biometric data. What ...
MiCA: The good, the bad and the ugly of the EU’s crypto rules
While United States regulators such as Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler make bad-faith claims that “there’s been cl...
Uniswap Lawsuit Dismissed: DeFi Crypto Exchange Not Liable for ‘Scam Tokens’
A class action lawsuit brought against Uniswap was tossed out by a district judge on Tuesday, who found those associated with the decentrali...
Controversial Digital Euro Plan to Be Led by Architect of Landmark MiCA Crypto Law
Center-right lawmaker Stefan Berger, who previously negotiated the MiCA crypto law for the European Parliament, now heads up a CBDC proposal...
The Many Layers of the SEC’s First NFT Enforcement Action
I cannot recall something that was labeled as a non-fungible token (NFT) being treated as a security by U.S. regulators previously. Accordin...
DOJ seeks to dismiss star lineup of expert witnesses in Sam Bankman-Fried trial
The U.S. Department of Justice wants the court to disqualify all the expert witnesses of Sam Bankman-Fried, per an Aug. 28 court filing. Acc...
Two U.S. SEC Commissioners Challenge First NFT-Related Enforcement Action
On 28 August 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it had charged Impact Theory, LLC, a Los Angeles-based m...
Republican lawmakers object to Fed’s proposed crypto, stablecoin rules
Three U.S. representatives expressed concerns on Aug. 28 regarding stablecoin and crypto rules recently put forward by the Federal Reserve. ...
Prime Trust Filing Reveals Cascade of Failures That Led To Bankruptcy Filing
Irresponsible spending. Misjudging summer 2022’s crypto market implosion. Getting locked out of its own cryptocurrency wallet. These a...
Hedging The End Of Fiat
It is slowly coming clear that the fiat dollar’s hegemony is drawing to a close. That’s what the BRICS summit in Johannesburg is all abo...
When Did Privacy Become a Bad Word?
In the aftermath of the Tornado Cash arrests, the DeFi Education Fund’s Amanda Tuminelli and Miller Whitehouse-Levine write about the ...
U.S. Crypto Tax Proposal Lets Miners off the Hook, Snares ‘Some’ Decentralized Exchanges
The IRS is finally proposing rules for crypto tax reporting, giving the industry its own 1099 form and declaring digital asset miners safe f...