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“As we've seen in recent months, stringent rules and supervision are very much needed,” the European Commission’s Mairead McGuinness said, citing the collapse of crypto companies FTX, Celsius, Voyager, and the stablecoin terraUSD, and referring to provisions intended to protect consumers, avoid market abuse, and curb money laundering. Source
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A Delaware company is seeking registration with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to carry out over-the-counter (OTC) stock trading on-chain. BlackStar Enterprise Group has been developing the platform since 2018 and spent almost two years in communication with the regulator, answering dozens of questions and comments from examiners.
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A bug on a smart contract on the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol SushiSwap led to over $3 million in losses in the early hours of April 9, according to several security reports on Twitter. Blockchain security companies Certik Alert and Peckshield posted about an unusual activity related to the approval function
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Decentralized exchange SushiSwap was on April 9 hacked for more than $3.3m. It follows a bug in the approval system of the exchange’s RouterProcessor2 contract on Ethereum. The exploit led to the loss of more than 1,800 ethereum (ETH). Following the hack, SushiSwap’s Head Chef, Jared Grey, is advising affected users
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Developers asked users to revoke contracts as a security measure early Sunday. Source
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Boerse Stuttgart Digital, the digital asset brand of the Boerse Stuttgart exchange group, announced March 30 that its blocknox service has received final licensing from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) to operate as a crypto custodian. Boerse Stuttgart Group now offers fully regulated brokerage, trading, and custody of
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The Federal Reserve Board argued that Custodia Bank’s proposed business model was “inconsistent” with approval in an order explaining its denial of the Wyoming-based crypto bank’s application for membership. Original Source
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Institutional cryptocurrency custodian Protego’s conditional national trust banking charter has expired without it receiving permanent approval, according to a March 17 report in Fortune.A spokesperson for the United States Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) told Fortune that the firm did not meet pre-conversion requirements. According to the
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Signum Digital, a joint venture of Coinstreet and Somerley, has announced that it has received an approval-in-principle from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) for its security token offering (STO) and subscription platform.Security tokens are a new category of digital assets built on blockchain technology representing ownership of
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In episode 11 of Hashing It Out, Cointelegraph’s Elisha Owusu Akyaw speaks to Steven McClurg, the chief investment officer of Valkyrie Investments, about the state of Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and the way forward.Regulators in the United States have mounted stiff opposition against listing Bitcoin spot ETFs even though
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