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Juridique

Panamanian Legislative Assembly’s Committee Approves Bill Regulating Crypto

The legislation must now go through two more rounds of debate before making it to the president’s desk.

Bandera de Panamá (Luis Gonzalez/Unsplash)

Juridique

Bahamas to Allow Citizens to Pay Taxes With Digital Assets

Residents will also be able to access digital assets with the sand dollar, the country's official digital currency.

Nassau, The Bahamas

Finance

Germany's Commerzbank Applies for Local Crypto License

If the license application is accepted, the bank would be authorized to offer exchange and crypto-asset services.

Commerzbank branch (Cineberg/Shutterstock)

Finance

Indian Crypto Exchange CoinDCX Raises Over $135M in New Funding Round

The raise brings CoinDCX's valuation to more than $2 billion, said co-founder and Chief Executive Sumit Gupta.

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Juridique

Will Biden’s Executive Order Smash Barriers to Crypto?

The digital assets industry is generally positive about the move, which could lead to a coordinated government approach to regulating crypto.

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Finance

Some Indian Payment Processors Cut Off Local Crypto Exchanges

The moves follow a new tax on crypto profits and come as regulators pressure the payments companies, sources say.

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Finance

Cynthia Lummis: Senator, Hodler

The Wyoming senator, a speaker at CoinDesk's Consensus festival, holds plenty of BTC and champions crypto whenever she can.

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Juridique

Chinese Banking Associations Target NFTs

As the market heats up, the tokens are increasingly under the microscope in China.

China's crypto crackdown put digital-asset traders on the defensive. (Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Trading Volumes in India Collapse 10 Days After New Tax: Crebaco

The volume on WazirX, the country's largest exchange, has plunged by 72%.

Bangalore, Karnataka, India (Abdullah Ahmad/Unsplash)