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Startups or institutions won’t define web3’s adoption; it will be shaped at the intersection of culture and technology....

Mike Selig, chief counsel of the SEC’s cryptocurrency task force, is emerging as the frontrunner to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to Politico, Selig, a former partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and one-time law clerk to…...

Coinbase has now applied for a national trust charter with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). This move comes as the American crypto exchange seeks to expand its payment operations amid the rise of favorable crypto policy in the US. Coinbase Does Not Aim To Be...

Walmart-backed fintech OnePay plans to roll out cryptocurrency trading and custody features in its app by the end of the year. The service will let users buy, hold, and convert bitcoin and ether within the app, with crypto infrastructure provided by Chicago-based Zerohash, CNBC reports , citing sources familiar...

India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) has uncovered a transcontinental money laundering operation centered on the illegal trading platform OctaFX....

Over $500 million in short liquidation pools sit between $2.89 and $2.73, putting XRP at risk of a sharp sell-off if the $3 support is not reclaimed....

Ripple and the XRP Ledger (XRPL) have taken a significant step toward institutional adoption with the launch of its Multi-Purpose Token (MPT) standard. Designed to simplify the tokenization of Real-World Assets (RWAs) and offer built-in compliance, the new token standard aims to position the Ripple’s XRPL as a go-to...

Twelve years after launching as a cryptocurrency exchange, Mercado Bitcoin aims to be something entirely different. Less focused on price charts and trading pairs, the São Paulo-based company now talks more about Brazil’s central bank’s PIX payments, digital fixed income, and streamlined remittances. Mercado Bitcoin’s head of corporate development,...

Robinhood’s decision to list Strategy’s four preferred stocks marks a rare break from its own investment policies — and could strengthen Michael Saylor’s bitcoin playbook without diluting holders of the firm’s common stock, MSTR. Robinhood’s rare policy shift The brokerage began offering trading in four Strategy (MSTR) preferred stocks...

Floki (FLOKI), a cryptocurrency project that started as a memecoin and has since evolved with its own ecosystem, has seen its price jump nearly 23% in the last 24 hours after the launch of its first exchnage-traded product (ETP) in Europe. The new offering, called Valour Floki SEK ETP,...