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In his second crypto-focused endeavor in the private sector, Former SEC chairman Jay Clayton will be joining a $2 billion crypto-custodian based in Israel, known as “Fireblocks.” Why Clayton Joined Fireblocks Fireblocks was launched in 2019 and has seen impressive growth since, having already acted as custodian for over $1 trillion in assets and scaled from 100 to 500 institutional clients in the crypto and traditional finance industries within only months. Clayton’s job at...

The number of cryptocurrency-related companies aiming to go public continues to increase, with the latest example being Iris Energy Pty. The firm, focused on green Bitcoin mining, has filed with US regulators for a direct listing on Nasdaq this year. Based in Sydney, Australia, Iris Energy is a Bitcoin mining firm that “owns and operates real assets, including data center infrastructure, powered by renewable energy.” According to a press release dated August 18th, the company...

The global investment management company VanEck has filed again for a Bitcoin Strategy exchange-traded fund (ETF). The US firm has tried several times in the past few years but the SEC is yet to approve a single BTC ETF. New York-based investment firm VanEck submitted an application to the SEC to roll out a BTC Strategy ETF. The ETF will contain bitcoin futures, bitcoin funds, and various other investment instruments related to the primary cryptocurrency. According to...

According to a recent press release, the popular cryptocurrency exchange, Poloniex, has agreed to pay a fine upwards of $10 million to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The release reads that the company has agreed to pay the fine for operating an unregistered digital asset exchange. According to the order of the SEC, from July 2017 to November 2019, when Poloniex sold out the platform, it was operating a web-based trading platform that wasn’t registered,...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has targeted the Cayman Island-based Blockchain Credit Partners (BCP), along with Gregory Keough and Derek Acree, for selling unregistered securities from February 2020 to February 2021. $30 Million Trough Token Sales According to a recent press release, the executives allegedly used smart contracts to sell two types of tokens that the SEC considered securities. More precisely, those were mTokens, which could be bought with “specific...

Gary Gensler of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has expressed a certain and sudden openness regarding bitcoin and crypto-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs), though many BTC and crypto analysts aren’t too happy about the situation. Will Bitcoin ETFs Soon Garner Approval? As it turns out, Gensler wants these ETFs to operate under a strict mutual fund rule that dates all the way back to the 1940s. In addition, he has stated that while the agency would be...

Just a few days after filing a motion to receive access to “obtain international discovery” of records belonging to Binance, US Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn has approved Ripple’s request. The documents should shed some light on the company’s XRP sales made on the exchange. Through its legal team, Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, filed a motion in the Southern District of New York on Monday (August 2nd) to request documents relevant to the ongoing legal case against the...

During an interview with Bloomberg, Gensler admitted that he is intrigued by the cryptocurrency space, but that wouldn’t deter him from protecting US investors via enhanced regulations on the market. Being deeply familiar with the blockchain space, as he taught DLT classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Gensler was expected to have a straightforward approach when it comes down to regulating the industry when he took charge at the SEC earlier this year. So...

Hester Pierce – playfully known as the “Crypto Mom” thanks to her loose attitude towards digital currencies – has had it with the government agency she works with – the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – and all the people in it working to prevent a bitcoin or crypto-based exchange-traded fund (ETF). Hester Pierce: The SEC Is Too Slow Bitcoin ETFs have been all the rage for several years amongst crypto heads. They all think an ETF will be the next revolutionary...

The New Jersey Attorney General’s office has issued a cease-and-desist letter to blockchain company Block Fi to get the firm to end all marketing for its interest-bearing accounts. Block Fi Is at the Center of Some Unwanted Attention According to the letter, Block Fi has been busy selling unregistered securities and violating present securities laws. The company provides interest rates of anywhere between .25 percent and 8.5 percent depending on the amount of money...