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Aave Considers Freezing BUSD Following NYDFS Enforcement

Members of the Aave community – a widely used decentralized lending protocol – are mulling a freeze on BUSD after a wave of regulatory pressure against its issuer, Paxos, on Monday. A newly tabled governance proposal would freeze Aave’s BUSD reserve on its Ethereum market beginning in April, only allowing users to burn BUSD tokens for their underlying value.  Abandoning BUSD The proposal in question was tabled by Marc Zeller – an Aave community member and founder of the...

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DeFi Could Face Challenges Due to SEC’s Crackdown on Crypto Staking: Lido DAO Exec

Jacob Blish, the head of business development at Lido DAO, the decentralized autonomous organization behind the largest liquid staking protocol, believes the recent SEC crackdown on crypto staking services could cause new challenges for decentralized finance (DeFi). According to a Bloomberg report, Blish opined that the state of crypto staking in the U.S. depends on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) final resolution. SEC Crackdown on Staking Could Affect DeFi...

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New Hampshire Seeks to Implement Crypto Regulations

Two months ago, Live Bitcoin News published an article discussing a new set of crypto regulations that were being unveiled by the state of New Jersey. Now, it appears New Hampshire is looking to follow in the region’s footsteps. Citing the FTX debacle as a massive wakeup call, New Hampshire is now looking to implement laws that will oversee trading and activity surrounding bitcoin and all related digital assets. New Hampshire Is Next to Implement Crypto Laws A new...

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Regulators in India Are Still at War with Crypto

The Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar is going against the ideas set forth on crypto by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). In a recent interview, he claimed that should all crypto-based laws set forth by the country’s present regulators be obeyed by investors and traders alike, all digital currency trading activity should be fine. What Will India Decide? This completely contradicts a recent statement offered by the RBI, which claimed that all digital currencies...

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Here’s When Paxos Will Stop Minting Binance USD (BUSD)

The US-based blockchain infrastructure platform – Paxos Trust Company – will stop the issuance of new Binance stablecoins (BUSD) from February 21.  Despite this, the firm said it has a “strong corporate balance sheet” and vowed to continue servicing new and existing clients. Ending the Relationship With Binance As directed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), Paxos will halt minting new BUSD tokens next week (February 21). However, the entity will...

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