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Latest from Jesse Hamilton
U.S. Treasury Poised to Release View on How DeFi Used in Illicit Finance
The department has reviewed decentralized finance’s role in such incidents as North Korean ransomware attacks, and will issue a risk assessment, a senior official said.

U.S. Fed’s Supervision Chief Investigating What Happened With Silicon Valley Bank
The Federal Reserve’s vice chairman for supervision, Michael Barr, is digging into the bank failure, the U.S. central bank announced.

Is This a Crypto Banking Bailout?
It depends on who you ask, but this round of government interventions doesn’t yet resemble the large-scale, taxpayer-involved rescue in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown.

Senior U.S. House Republican Says CBDCs Could Be ‘Weaponized’ as Political Tool
Majority Whip Tom Emmer is seeking to halt the Federal Reserve’s ability to issue a new digital dollar.

Federal Reserve Setting Up New Squad of Crypto Specialists
Michael Barr, the Fed’s vice chairman for supervision, said the central bank is trying not to stomp on crypto innovation and sees the need for stablecoin controls.

Crypto Sector’s Reserve Reports Can’t Be Trusted, Says U.S. Audit Watchdog
Proof-of-reserve reviews aren’t audits, says the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and investors shouldn’t count on them.

Federal Reserve’s Powell: We Don’t Want to Strangle Crypto Innovation, but Sector Is a Mess
The central bank's chairman said the Fed is sticking to its warnings that banks should be “quite cautious” about getting involved in digital assets.

U.S. Banking Watchdog: You Can’t Trust Crypto Firms Until They Get Federal Oversight
The chief of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency equated the FTX collapse with a well-known 1990s bank failure in arguing for consolidated industry regulators.

The Rise and Fall of Silvergate’s Crypto Business
The bank’s own data shows the rapid acceleration of its novel crypto-banking business and how leaning into digital assets made it vulnerable to the industry’s drama.

Was Silvergate on Borrowed Time as Regulators Backed Banks Away From Crypto?
As customers abandon the prominent California-based crypto bank, its future gets increasingly murky.
