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Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Will Plead Guilty to Charges: Bloomberg

Ryan Salame was co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets and handled political donations for the crypto exchange.

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Find Who’s Responsible for DeFi Projects and Regulate Them, Global Securities Body Says

IOSCO worries decentralized financial applications could harm investors and markets – and casts doubt on their main premise

International standard setters at Iosco have proposed DeFi rules (Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images)

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Blanket Crypto Bans Won’t Work, IMF and FSB Warn in Joint Paper

The global standard-setters also warned stablecoins adopted by multiple jurisdictions "may transmit volatility more abruptly" than other crypto.

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Cboe's BZX Exchange Files to Launch Ark 21Shares, VanEck Spot Ether ETFs

If approved, these would be the first spot ether ETFs in the U.S.

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Genesis Global Capital Files for Over $600M in Unpaid DCG Loans: Court Docs

Genesis claims DCG owes it $500 million from one set of loans, alongside another 4,550 BTC owed from DCG International.

Barry Silbert. CEO & Founder Digital Currency Group (DCG)

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FASB Says Crypto Assets Should Be Marked at Current Values

The U.S. standard-setting organization for accounting has moved to insist companies use “fair-value” accounting to report their crypto holdings.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is issuing the first crypto-specific accounting standard for companies with digital assets. (Krisanapong Detraphiphat/Getty Images)

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Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Pleads Not Guilty to Money Laundering, Other Charges

Prosecutors allege that Storm and fellow developers Roman Semenov and Alexey Pertsev helped bad actors launder over $1 billion in stolen crypto.

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Ex-Celsius CEO Mashinsky's Assets Ordered Frozen by Court as DOJ Case Continues

Corporate bank accounts and a Texas property are now untouchable after the former executive’s July arrest.

Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky outside a courthouse in New York on July 25, 2023. (Anna Baydakova/CoinDesk)

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Looking at Uniswap and Crypto’s New Favorite Ruling

A federal judge took the current state of federal securities laws to task in a ruling dismissing a lawsuit against Uniswap Labs.

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Zodia Markets Receives In-Principle Approval as Crypto Broker-Dealer in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi was among the first to establish a bespoke licensing regime for virtual asset service providers.

Abu Dhabi (Kamil Rogalinski/Unsplash)