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A new partisan bill introduced by Democrats in Hawaii's House of Representatives on Monday, Jan. 26, is advocating a targeted strategy for studying and supporting the use of blockchain technology by individuals, firms and state agencies.Hawaii House Bill 622 (HB622) calls for the passage of an act that would require
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Reps. Rudy and Freeland's bill would exempt crypto miners from paying either Kentucky sales or excise tax. Source
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In a largely celebratory community call devoted in part to commemorating lending protocol Aave’s January 8th “Aaveversary” — a full year of Aave on Ethereum mainnet — there was also a look into Aave’s possible future: a proposal from Delphi Digital seeking to fundamentally alter Aave’s Safety Module and create
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A new bill filed on Thursday, H.R.9067, seeks to create an office that will “coordinate” federal applications of blockchain technology. Sponsored by Rep. Darren Soto, a Democrat representing Florida’s 9th district, the bill would “establish an office within the Department of Commerce to coordinate all non-defense related deployment and activities related
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The investment giant has posted a job vacancy for an NY-based VP blockchain lead to help with the valuation of crypto assets. Source
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A working group created as a partnership between crypto prime broker Bequant and Global Digital Finance wants to create some best practices for decentralized finance (DeFi) in an effort to improve adoption while warding off burdensome regulations.The companies announced last month they would form an industry group with law firm
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In its filing with the US SEC, Guggenheim says that it wants to facilitate a 10% exposure from its $5 billion Macro Opportunities Fund, to Bitcoin. The investment, however, will happen through the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust and could be the biggest institutional investment after MicroStrategy.The Chicago-based global investment giant Guggenheim
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Call it the CPR for Operation Choke Point.The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a national bank regulator led by former Coinbase counsel Brian Books, has proposed a rule that would forbid banks to blacklist legal industries — including, presumably, cryptocurrency firms. Under the proposed rule, banks could deny
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The cryptocurrency and banking worlds continue to draw closer together with digital asset custodian Anchorage seeking a national charter from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.The startup’s trust company unit, based in South Dakota, has applied to the OCC to convert to a national bank, according to
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