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The Grayscale Investments Bitcoin Trust has seen its shares jump heavily in price over the last few weeks as its court case against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appears to move more heavily in its favor. Grayscale Heats Up Its Fight Against the SEC Grayscale is currently at war with the SEC. The latter agency has done all it can over the last six years to penalize crypto companies that don’t move in tandem with its narrative. The goal was initially to...

The crypto community has left no stone unturned in lambasting the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and, more importantly, its Chief Gary Gensler. The latter’s actions were dissented by members of his own agency. Gensler even received political pushback for his actions. But the SEC boss continued to defend the crackdown on digital assets markets, saying he had never seen an industry so routinely break securities laws. SEC Approach of Regulation by Enforcement As...

Abu Dhabi’s crypto and blockchain businesses are expected to grow exponentially and attract international investors, more so from the United States. The registration authority of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has issued a consultation paper seeking feedback on its proposed new framework for distributed ledger technology (DLT) market and token issuance. The regulatory authority has set Friday, May 12 as the deadline for providing feedback on the proposed legal framework. Afterward, the...

Binance.US is reportedly closer to acquiring Voyager assets after the UCC secured a deal with the US federal government.  Voyager Digital Holdings sees its $1 billion deal with Binance.US move closer to actualization following an agreement with the US government. Yesterday, the bankrupt crypto lender sealed a deal with the federal government that allows Voyager to sell its assets to Binance.US. On Twitter, the Voyager Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (UCC) elaborated on the...

Coinbase received its license to operate in Bermuda on April 19th. The action was taken to keep up with the company’s campaign for “global scale to go broad and deep”. Coinbase plans to launch a coastal derivatives exchange in the next week, after it acquired a license to function in Bermuda from the Bermuda Monetary Authority. Coinbase applauded Bermuda as an excessively reputed and professional financial regulator in its announcement. Coinbase had long been looking to inaugurate an...

Senators in the U.S. say if Congress is going to get serious about establishing crypto regulations, they need to be bipartisan. This means both democrats and republicans need to agree on how the rules should play out and what they should accomplish. Congress Needs to Find Common Ground Over the last six years, one can easily say that both sides of the political spectrum have been at war with each other. It’s an ugly sight, in many ways. Both democrats and republicans are...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman – Gary Gensler – affirmed during testimony before the House Financial Services Committee that the agency will keep insisting that local crypto platforms abide by strict laws. Committee Chairman Rep. Patrick McHenry argued that the regulator’s aggressive approach could drive such firms away from the USA and hamper innovation.  Gensler also said he has never owned any digital assets, classifying them as “highly...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made a lot of enemies in the crypto and investment worlds over the past several years, with several digital asset companies claiming that the company has a ruleset all its own and that it has too much power and pleasure in prosecuting firms it believes go against its narrative. The SEC Is Going After All These Firms Among the people who feel this way about the SEC is the head of policy at venture capitalist Andreessen...

The news comes as crypto companies are looking outside the United States and China for regulatory clarity. Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has received regulatory approval to operate in Ireland. The company successfully registered its Irish subsidiary Payward Europe Solutions Limited with the Central Bank of Ireland as a virtual asset service provider (VASP) on April 18. The VASP license allows the crypto exchange to legally operate in the country. 📣 We’re pleased to announce that Kraken...

Coinbase is on the brink of legal warfare with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to reach long-awaited clarity on how federal securities laws apply to the crypto industry, according to CEO Brian Armstrong.  Should the regulator situation not improve, the executive said the exchange would consider relocating away from the United States.  Will Coinbase Move Abroad? In an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Armstrong called out “certain regulators” for taking a...