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It was a relatively slow and quiet uneventful week for the cryptocurrency markets but Friday turned the tables around with some big news. But before we dive into the major developments that took place earlier today, let’s focus on the price movements over the past week. Recall that the largest digital asset spiked to $99,000 last Friday where it was met by the bears and was not allowed to progress toward the coveted six-digit territory. The weekend was quite sluggish as BTC...

About The Book:Your Money and the World: How to Spend, Save, Donate and Invest Sustainably. Winner of the SKBI Prize for Sustainable Finance Literacy as part of the Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards (MAIA). Cecile Biccari, sustainable investment expert helps young readers understand how money works—and how spending, saving, donating and investing can change the world. Financial literacy is an important skill in life. At around the age of seven, children develop attitudes and beliefs about...

About The Book:Your Money and the World: How to Spend, Save, Donate and Invest Sustainably. Winner of the SKBI Prize for Sustainable Finance Literacy as part of the Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards (MAIA). Cecile Biccari, sustainable investment expert helps young readers understand how money works—and how spending, saving, donating and investing can change the world. Financial literacy is an important skill in life. At around the age of seven, children develop attitudes and beliefs about...

Interpol issued a Red Notice to Richard Schueler for violence and tax fraud. Schueler is facing an SEC lawsuit for $1B in unregistered token offers. Interpol has issued a Red Notice for Richard Schueler, the founder of the cryptocurrency project Hex, who is accused of tax fraud and assault. A Red Notice calls for law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest the wanted person, though it is not an international arrest warrant. Schueler, now in Finland, keeps running until he...

SEC penalizes Tai Mo Shan for falsely fixing TerraUSD’s $1 peg. The settlement includes a $123M punishment, emphasizing tougher crypto market oversight. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission imposed a $123 million fine on Tai Mo Shan Ltd., a subsidiary of Jump Crypto, for misleading investors about the stability of TerraUSD. This algorithmic stablecoin, issued by Terraform Labs, collapsed in May 2022. It brought about a catastrophic loss of $40 billion in investor assets. According to...

CyberKongz, a gaming-based NFT project, announced on December 16 that it has received a Wells Notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The notice raises concerns about the platform’s integration of its ERC-20 token with blockchain games and questions aspects of its activities, including its 2021 contract migration. The SEC’s Argument In a post on X, the CyberKongz team expressed their dismay with the agency’s handling of the situation, saying: “We are...

Federally approved digital asset securities platform Prometheum has filed a defamation lawsuit against crypto commentator Matthew Blumberg. The dispute stems from a November 6 post on X, where the critic accused the firm of operating “an illegal unregistered commodities exchange” and engaging in shady dealings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Free Speech or Defamation? Prometheum’s complaint, filed in the New York Supreme Court, argues that Blumberg’s...

Hester Peirce, a Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has outlined a vision for the agency’s crypto regulatory strategy under President-elect Donald Trump. In a recent interview on Fox Business, Peirce identified three priorities to address what she sees as critical obstacles hindering the growth and clarity of the crypto industry. Pierces’s Roadmap to Clearer Crypto Regulations In the interview, highlighted by Fox Business reporter Eleanor...

Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder of the Gemini crypto exchange, has declared that his company will adopt the same policy as Coinbase, cutting ties with any law firms or entities that hire former U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) officials associated with alleged overreach against the digital asset industry. His decision comes in the wake of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s recent remarks, where he criticized law firms and industry stakeholders for welcoming ex-SEC...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has pushed back against efforts to dismiss its lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Binance, its U.S. branch Binance.US, and former CEO Changpeng Zhao. The regulator accuses them of running an unregistered securities exchange through the trading of BNB, Binance’s native token, and ten other cryptocurrencies. Details From the Filing The case relies on the Howey Test, a legal standard used to determine if something qualifies...