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Ripple CEO Says America Falls Behind Other Countries in Crypto Adoption

Brad Garlinghouse – Chief Executive Officer of Ripple – thinks the US is already lagging behind other nations in crypto because of regulatory uncertainty. He compared the technology’s potential to the Internet, highlighting America’s decision to embrace it in the 1990s, although its merits were relatively unknown at the time. The US is Now Catching up In a recent interview for Bloomberg, Garlinghouse argued that countries like Australia, Japan, Singapore, the UK, and...

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What Have You Done? US Judge Critical of SEC Opposing the Binance-Voyager Deal

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Wiles made the comments at a court hearing in New York on March 2. The Voyager Digital restructuring plan would involve the sale of just over $1 billion worth of its assets to Binance.US. However, the SEC has opposed the deal claiming that it violates securities laws. When questioned about the reasoning behind the opposition, SEC attorney William Uptegrove failed to provide a definite answer, according to Reuters. In its typical vague approach,...

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SEC Issued Subpoena to Robinhood Over its Crypto Operations

Robinhood Markets said it received an investigative subpoena from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in December. The agency’s move is part of a major crackdown against the digital asset industry after the dramatic collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire last year. The disgraced crypto mogul was recently hit by fresh criminal charges relating to political donations he made while running FTX. According to its latest 10-K filing, the subpoena is in regard to...

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Circle CEO Believes Stablecoins Should Not Be Regulated by the SEC

Following the most recent crackdown by the US Securities and Exchange Commission against several crypto companies, Jeremy Allaire opined that the agency is not the best fit to oversee stablecoins in particular. He believes these assets are part of the banking sector, thus, they need to be regulated by another watchdog in the States. The past several weeks saw the US securities regulator going after several locally based crypto firms, starting with Kraken and its staking...

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