Crypto and Laws

• Government of Monaco teams up with Tokeny to oversee tokenization projects

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  Monaco’s Ministry of State has partnered with Tokeny to ensure control and compliance of tokenization projects in the tiny European country....

• NYDFS to issue conditional licenses to crypto companies amid BitLicense hurdles

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws Cryptopolitan 197

  Crypto companies and businesses in New York have lamented on several occasions that obtaining the state’s BitLicense takes longer...

• Wirecard files for insolvency as $2 billion goes missing

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 245

  Wirecard, the troubled German payments processor, has just filed for insolvency at a Munich court. Announcing the news on Thursday, Wirecard...

• FCA wants UK crypto businesses to register before June 30

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws Cryptopolitan 438

  UK crypto businesses have been advised by the country’s financial watchdog to apply for registration as quickly as possible. This will...

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• A high-frequency trading expert explains why you shouldn’t fear how Robinhood makes money

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 211

  Before Tarun Chitra built out his company, he spent years doing quantitative research and development for places like D.E. Shaw Research and Vatic...

• The Logbook: A brief history of the world’s first Internet search engine

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 232

  Quick Take Before Google and Yahoo became dominant Internet search engines, there was Archie. Archie is widely considered to be the...

• Morocco: Government Decides to Ease Restrictions Aimed at Curbing Spread of COVID-19

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 209

  (June 24, 2020) On June 9, 2020, the prime minister of Morocco, Saadeddine El Otmani, announced that the country would start easing restrictions...

• Australians lost more than $14 million to crypto investment scams in 2019: report

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 162

  Australians lost over AU$21 million (roughly $14.5 million) last year to cryptocurrency investment scams, according to a government report....

• France: Last Phase of Gradual End to Coronavirus Shutdown Commences

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 332

  (June 24, 2020) On June 15, 2020, the French government published a decree by which the country entered the third and final stage of...

• $188 million in ETH tied to PlusToken Ponzi moves for first time since December

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 172

  Nearly 790,000 ETH – worth roughly $188 million – held in a wallet connected to the PlusToken Ponzi scheme were on the move in a pair of...

• CENTRE adopts multi-chain framework for USDC starting with Algorand

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 541

  The USDC stablecoin is set to launch on the Algorand blockchain as part of a new framework focused on multiple network implementations.  The...

• Crypto-friendly SEBA Bank launches bitcoin product that offers yield

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 177

  Crypto-friendly SEBA Bank has launched a new bitcoin structured product that allows investors to earn yield. The product, called Dual Currency...

• Crypto exchange Bithumb has reportedly started its IPO work with Samsung Securities

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 317

  South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has reportedly begun its initial public offering (IPO) work with Samsung Securities as an...

• Brazil’s central bank suspends WhatsApp’s new payments service

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 347

  The central bank of Brazil has suspended WhatsApp’s payments service just a week after its launch. The central bank said it had ordered Visa...

• Analysis: The history of M&A activity within the digital asset industry

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 233

  Quick Take Since 2013, a total of 129 M&A transactions have been conducted within the blockchain sector, with a reported total value of...

• United States: Welsh Government Not Immune from Copyright Lawsuit for Using Dylan Thomas Photos in Tourism Ads

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 201

  (June 23, 2020) On June 8, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a lower court decision that the Welsh government is not...

• Final judgment reached in ICO fraud cause brought by SEC against Shopin founder

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 172

  A lawsuit brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last year against the founder of a company that launched an allegedly...

• Here’s how Brian Brooks disagrees with Fed chair Jerome Powell on the digital dollar

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 152

  Talk of potential plans for a "digital dollar" has increased in recent weeks, thanks in part to recent Congressional hearings that have touched on...

• Crypto data platform CoinGecko introduces reward system for users

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 186

  Crypto market data aggregator CoinGecko has launched a new reward system for its users. Called Candy , the system provides loyalty points to...

• Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun has been arrested

  1 week ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 200

  Markus Braun, the former CEO of troubled payment processor Wirecard, has been arrested in Germany. Various media outlets reported the news on...