SEC Chairman Outlines Regulation of Crypto Assets Relating to Security-Based Swaps – Regulation Bitcoin News
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SEC Chairman says cryptocurrency falls under security-based swaps rules
The Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, may soon issue new rules for the regulation and registration of security-based swaps, including cryptocurrency.In a speech to the American Bar Association Derivative and Futures Law Committee SEC Chairman Gary Gensler laid out the changes coming to security-based swaps over the next year.
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SIM Swaps to Physical Threats: Ledger Leak Has Dire Consequences
As soon as he learned he was among the thousands of Ledger customers whose personal information had been published online Sunday, JimboChewdip, as he’s known on Twitter, acted fast. Not fast enough, however.JCD, as we’ll call him, spent Monday morning changing his passwords, only to get a notification a new
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ErisX Unit Gets CFTC ‘OK’ to Clear Fully Collateralized Swaps
Eris Clearing LLC, the clearing arm of Eris Exchange, has won the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s blessing to provide clearing services for fully collateralized swaps in addition to its existing business of clearing virtual currency products. Source
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Blockchain Bites: Crypto’s Top Universities, Bitcoin’s New Addresses, MetaMask’s Token Swaps
Making consensusCryptoX is preparing for the invest: ethereum economy virtual event on Oct. 14 with a special series of newsletters focused on Ethereum’s past, present and future. Every day until the event the team behind Blockchain Bites will dive into an aspect of Ethereum that excites or confuses us. The Top Shelf news you subscribed to is
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DEX With Cross-Chain Swaps and Governance
The first quarter of 2020 saw $5.1 billion added in volume to decentralized exchanges, 500% increase from the
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Tassat Regains CFTC ‘No-Action’ Relief Ahead of Eventual Bitcoin Swaps Contract Listing
Tassat blamed COVID-19 and leadership changes for its long-delayed bitcoin derivatives contract listing. Source
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Binance Eyes Uniswap’s Lunch With Launch of Centralized ‘Swaps’ Platform
The exchange giant is hoping to capitalize further on the DeFi boom with a new centralized trading platform that makes it a rival of the likes of Uniswap. Source
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US Regulators Take Joint Action Against Crypto Firms’ Swaps Offering
Two related cryptocurrency firms have fallen foul of United States financial regulators for entering into illegal off-exchange swaps in digital assets and foreign currency. On July 13, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an order filing and settling charges against the two firms. The same day, the U.S. Securities
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Bitcoin Wallet Electrum Now Supports Lightning, Watchtowers and Submarine Swaps
One of the most popular Bitcoin wallets, Electrum, now supports Lightning Network payments. The latest swathe of major changes was released in version 4.0, one of its biggest upgrades since the Bitcoin wallet launched in 2011. (Note: Since the 4.0 release, some bug fixes have been added.) Lightning payments are seen
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