U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is arguably the most important lawmaker currently standing in the way of a crypto regulation bill, and industry interests have paid for a new campaign in his own back yard ...

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission granted crypto derivatives company Bitnomial approval to register as a derivatives clearing organization in the U.S., letting it settle margined futures and options contracts.

Crypto derivatives show bullish positioning but are not over-extended by historical norms. That’s good news for the whole crypto market.

Crypto exchange Coinbase will soon be offering the option to spot trade cryptocurrencies outside of the U.S. as part of its global expansion efforts, the company announced in a blog post Wednesday.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board, a U.S. entity that details how companies should report assets on their balance sheet, published a standards update on Wednesday that will let corporations recognize "fair value" changes in crypto holdings.

USDT was assigned a low score of four, meaning the largest stablecoin is constrained in its ability to maintain its peg to fiat.

The government's official rate is now 800 pesos to the dollar versus 400 previously.

This week, two of the country’s largest banks announced crypto initiatives.

Shopify, Minecraft, and Reddit will begin using World ID to identify some users.

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Both exchanges lost a combined total of more than $200 million in a series of hacks last month.

Stabelcoin issuer Tether blacklisted 41 wallets controlled by people on the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List on Saturday.

National security officials with the U.S., South Korean and Japanese governments discussed North Korea's crypto thefts and other efforts to work on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, the White House announced Friday night.

The military-linked bill is viewed as must-pass legislation, so lawmakers sometimes try to tack on other things to get them passed, too.

Marinade's market cap is dwarfed by Jito, though, despite being a bigger crypto ecosystem.

The firm says it has already seen $6 billion in volume in the Latin American region since its debut in April.

The blockchain-oracle project's "v0.2" staking program expanded the capacity to 45M LINK tokens from 25M, and the portion reserved for the community quickly filled up. The LINK token surged in price.

Starknet said 900 million STRK are earmarked for the foundation’s Provisions Committee, and 900 million will be dedicated to user rebates.

Strong miners might be about to eat the weak ones as the reward for mining BTC gets cut in half, experts say.

Binance determined the application was not necessary "when assessing [its] global needs." The move is unrelated to the exchange's legal settlement in the U.S.