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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is looking to reset its relationship with the crypto industry, even before a permanent chair is confirmed by Congress. The latest effort was Friday’s roundtable, hosted at the SEC’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. and […]

The U.S. Treasury Department’s sanctions watchdog removed Tornado Cash from its global blacklist Friday. The crypto mixing tool has been accused of helping North Korea’s Lazarus Group launder stolen funds from its various hacks and thefts, and the U.S. Treasury

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, the newly named head of the regulator’s crypto task force, has long been a proponent of the crypto industry as one of the Republicans overseeing the federal securities regulator. She discussed her approach with CoinDesk in

A majority of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to overturn an IRS rule treating crypto entities as brokers and requiring them to collect certain taxpayer and transaction information, including decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. With a 292-132 vote,

U.S. President Donald Trump named XRP, Solana (SOL) and Cardano (ADA) as three assets to be included in a U.S. strategic crypto reserve on Sunday, providing the first details about what such a reserve may look like. Notably, Trump did

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been busy over the past few weeks, hinting at a brighter future for crypto companies. PS: I’ll be in San Francisco next week for the American Banker Payment Forum. Say hello. You’re reading

U.S. President Donald Trump will host a crypto summit on March 7, the White House announced. White House Crypto and AI Czar David Sacks and Bo Hines, the executive director of a working group on digital assets, will run the

Stablecoins and the role of Congress in addressing future digital assets legislation took center stage during one of the Senate Banking Committee’s first hearings to focus on what a regulatory framework for crypto may look like. The Wednesday hearing, framed

Attorneys for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission hinted at a potential settlement with Coinbase in a late Friday court filing, citing the regulator’s new crypto task force. The SEC asked a federal appeals court to extend its deadline to

Terraform creator Do Kwon will be extradited to the U.S., Montenegrin Justice Minister Bojan Božović said Friday. The U.S. and South Korean governments have both sought to take custody of Kwon to face criminal charges related to the collapse of