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SEC Chair Gary Gensler on Crypto: ‘It’s Unlikely This Stuff Is Gonna Be a Currency’

Gensler also called out fraud in crypto: “With all respect, the leading lights of this field in 202[4] are either in jail or awaiting extradition right now.”

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Prosecutors Charge Four Crypto ‘Market Makers,’ Employees With Market Manipulation, Fraud

Gotbit, CLS Global, MyTrade, and ZM Quant were secretly offering market manipulation services to projects that wanted to artificially inflate their trading volume, prosecutors allege.

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India's Crypto Discussion Paper on Hold Due to Other Priorities

Financial authorities have had to prioritize matters such as the nation's budget during an election year, meetings with other nations and the impending World Bank annual meetings.

Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India (left) and Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian Finance Minister at the G20 Annual Meetings, in Washington DC in October 2022. (Indian Ministry of Finance)

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The DPRK's Deep Roots in Crypto

North Korean developers have worked for a surprisingly large number of crypto projects.

North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un (Contributor/Getty Images)

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Crypto.com Sues SEC, Chair Gary Gensler After Receiving Wells Notice

The case seeks to prevent the SEC from "unlawfully expanding its jurisdiction" to cover secondary-market sales of certain network tokens sold on the exchange.

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek during a 2022 interview (Crypto.com)

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Delaware Judge Approves FTX Estate’s Bankruptcy Plan

Most FTX creditors will get all their money back in cash, and then some.

John J. Ray III, CEO of FTX Group (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

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UAE Exempts Crypto Transactions From Value Added Tax

The update in the law applies retrospectively from Jan. 1, 2018.

16:9 UAE dirham (Pixelline studios/Pixabay)

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HBO Is Joining Search for Bitcoin's Satoshi. Past Attempts Haven’t Turned Out Great.

A new documentary claims to unmask the creator of Bitcoin.

Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper on Halloween Day in 2008. (Jonathan Borba/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Coinbase to Delist Unauthorized Stablecoins in EU by December

Tether, which is the largest issuer of stablecoins, doesn't have the necessary e-money license yet in the European Union.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk)

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CFTC Subcommittee Sends Up Recommendations for Letting Firms Use Tokenized Shares as Collateral: Bloomberg

BlackRock and Franklin Templeton could see tokenized shares of their money-market funds traded as collateral by the end of the year.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission would be granted far-reaching authority over crypto trading and regulation in a new Senate bill. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)