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Ethereum’s native Ether (ETH) token may be both a commodity and a security, the former commissioner of the United States Commodities Futures Trading Commission has claimed.Speaking on a May 23 episode of Laura Shin’s Unchained podcast, Dan Berkovitz, who is also the former general counsel at the Securities and Exchange
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Kia ora kotou katoa. That’s a greeting in te reo Maori, the Maori language of my homeland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Thank you for the kind invitation from the Chair to speak before this Committee. I am pleased to be here as the UK’s regulator for data protection. My principal reason for being here is
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Hester Peirce, a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has issued her opinion on the recent attempts of the institution to change the definition of “exchange” under the Exchange Act Rule. According to Peirce, the institution is now expanding its reach to solve “problems that do not
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Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) collapse has had a “limited impact” on the European Union but authorities must still “stay alert” to events as they unfold, European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness has said. Despite McGuinness’ reassuring remarks, stocks of Europe’s largest banks still plunged by as much as 10% on March 15. Silicon
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“We need to harmonize basic requirements for these smart contracts” to ensure interoperability, legal certainty and large scale deployment, said Breton, the commission’s lead official responsible for internal market laws, including for the digital sector. “When we made this proposal we intended to mandate standardization organizations to develop these.” Source
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Hello, thank you for having me here today at the Data Protection Intensive. I spoke to you last year, three months into my role, and I told you all what I was planning to do in my first year. Now, I’m over a year in. Rather than list all the things
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“We had not tried to sit down with people in the industry” to discuss staking, the process by which crypto holders delegate their tokens to validators in order to earn crypto rewards, Peirce said. She said the SEC has known about staking for a long time, and its decision to
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United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner Hester Pierce has publicly rebuked her own agency over the shut down of Kraken's crypto staking program in the United States. The commissioner blasted her regulator in a Feb. 9 statement called "Kraken Down," noting that regulation by enforcement “is not an efficient
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A commissioner with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has called for “a coherent and consistent legal framework that works across all asset classes,” including crypto assets. She warned that the SEC’s current enforcement-centric approach would take 400 years to go through all the crypto tokens that are allegedly
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Such meteoric rises, Johnson explained, are often followed by an all-too-common ending: “Like lightning striking, in an instant, the exchange suspends trades, shutters the windows for withdrawals, silences traffic on its website and files for bankruptcy protection, leaving customers infuriated, investors stunned, and creditors scrambling in a footrace to the
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