The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) reminded banks on April 27 that there is no one size fits all when it comes to anti-money laundering (AML). Banks should not make opening an account unnecessarily difficult.
Global banks continue to expand their cryptocurrency-related capabilities, with British multinational bank Standard Chartered raising new funding for its crypto platform Zodia.
Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, CEO of major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, claims to have a net worth that is much lower than some mainstream media outlets have reported.
Silicon Valley, California-based accelerator Plug and Play Tech Center will expand its cryptocurrency and digital asset vertical to France, the company announced April 25.
Republican lawmakers on the US House Financial Services Committee have released a draft bill focusing on stablecoins for payments rather than overseeing other aspects of the digital asset market.
On April 24, the Southern District Court of New York held the first jury hearing in the case against former OpenSea product manager Nathaniel Chastain, who was accused of using non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for insider trading.
Chainlink, The low-latency oracles will be integrated with decentralized exchange (DEX) GMX, following a successful governance proposal that sought to provide GMX v2 with more “granular” real-time market data.
Google has released an update to its popular Authenticator app, which stores a "one-time code" in cloud storage, allowing users who lose a device with an Authenticator to retain access to two-factor authentication (2FA) access rights.
A California court has ruled that Apple violated state competition law by banning app developers from using other in-app payment methods other than its own, which include a 30% commission.
In a tweet, the company announced that Binance.US had withdrawn from its agreement to purchase the assets of $1 billion of bankrupt cryptocurrency brokerage Voyager Digital. It blamed the "hostile and uncertain regulatory environment in the United States" for the move.
FTX announced that it has entered into a purchase agreement with an affiliate of Miami International Holdings to sell its futures and options exchange and clearinghouse, LedgerX.
An anonymous Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) bot operator made more than $1 million this week by performing a “sandwich attack” on buyers and sellers of two new memecoins.
A second set of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) bearing the name and likeness of former US President Donald Trump sold out on April 19, a day after its initial launch.
Another round of digital non-fungible token (NFT) trading cards with the likeness of former US President Donald Trump dropped, with 38,001 minted on Polygon.
As Bitcoin, the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem Is Off to a Good Start for the Year. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols see a surge in market capitalization by Q1 2023.
Anja Manuel, a former State Department official, said that if the United States could not maintain its dominance in financial innovation and payments, it could affect its national security policy, especially with regard to sanctions.
