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But when it comes to actually introducing legislation that would move the needle on crypto regulation, Cruz is lagging behind other senators including Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) – all of whom have worked on major crypto-related bills. Original Source
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The bill was supported by some representatives of both the Republican and Democratic parties.A new bill has been submitted by Senator Josh Hawley, this bill is expected to refrain members of Congress from trading and possessing stocks, leveraging the name of his legislation to criticize the investment activities of Rep.
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The Wyoming Republican says the second-largest cryptocurrency was transformed by the Ethereum Merge. Source
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"[There are] reports that Mr. Bankman-Fried ‘secretly transferred some $10 billion of customer funds to his trading vehicle, Alameda Research,’ to fund ‘risky bets,’ violating both U.S. securities laws and FTX’s own terms of service," said the letter. "We are concerned about Silvergate’s role in these activities because of reports
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“Single regulatory agencies currently generally do not have a comprehensive view of crypto asset entities’ activities,” Brown argued in his letter, which highlighted the findings of a report from the Financial Stability Oversight Council led by Yellen, including its recommendation for legislation that would “create authorities for regulators to have
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United States Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Durbin wrote to the former and current CEOs of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried and John Jay Ray III, respectively, on Nov. 16 to ask for more information on the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange. They made 13 requests for documents, lists and answers. “The
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Earlier on Wednesday, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire wrote a public letter to Brown, Toomey, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, and Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), the committee’s ranking member, urging them to pass stablecoin legislation quickly. Original Source
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The feud between the CEOs of crypto exchanges FTX and Binance — Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and Changpeng “CZ” Zhao — not only crashed cryptocurrency prices but also reminded regulators to step in and avoid similar fallouts in the future.Ever since CZ publicly announced Binance’s intent to liquidate its FTX Token
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"It does make sense that this episode with Terra would refocus attention on stablecoins generally,” Toomey told reporters on a conference call, but he defended tokens backed by assets such as cash and securities and said he doesn’t see them as a risk to the financial system, as suggested by
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United States Senator Cynthia Lummis appeared on a livestream hosted by Axios on Tuesday to tease the highly awaited bill on cryptocurrency she is authoring. The Wyoming Republican said the bill will be introduced as “one big piece so people can see the big picture” and be broken down into
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