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DOJ Charges Moroccan Man With Stealing $450K in OpenSea Spoofing Scam

Officials allege the man set up a lookalike website based on the popular NFT marketplace to steal victims' digital art collectibles.

A "Bored Ape Yacht Club" NFT allegedly stolen by Soufiane Oulahyane (Dept. of Justice)

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Grayscale Argues Leveraged Bitcoin Futures ETF Approval Shows Spot ETF Should Be Approved

The crypto asset manager is suing the SEC for rejecting its bitcoin ETF application last year.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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U.S. Senator Tuberville Asks DOJ, SEC to Investigate Crypto Broker Prometheum

The lawmaker alleged that the company may have lied to Congress under oath or misled investors in securities filings.

Prometheum founder and co-CEO Aaron Kaplan went on CoinDesk TV to discuss is Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) broker-dealer license approval. (CoinDesk)

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15 Retail CBDCs Likely by 2030, BIS Study Says

A survey conducted by the Bank for International Settlements also found 93% of central banks worldwide were engaged in digital currency work in 2022.

The Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland (Fred Romero/Flickr)

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Coinbase Knew It May Have Been Violating the Law Prior to the SEC's Lawsuit, Regulator Claims

The SEC pushed back against a previous Coinbase filing which argued that the regulator did not have sufficient jurisdiction to bring a lawsuit.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk)

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Gemini Sues Digital Currency Group and Founder Barry Silbert Alleging 'Fraud'

The lawsuit is the latest escalation by Gemini, which is trying to recover funds for its Earn program held by DCG subsidiary Genesis.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 (TechCrunch/Wikimedia)

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Big Banks, NY Fed’s Innovation Group See Merit in Digital Ledgers for Global Payments

NY Fed’s innovation center worked with Citi, HSBC and other banks on the concept of a network for wholesale payments on a shared ledger, finding the idea has potential benefits.

(David Merrett/Flickr)

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Will 2023 Be the Year of the Bitcoin ETF?

The hype is back. Has the market changed enough?

(Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

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Binance Refers Dutch Users to Rival Coinmerce as It Exits Netherlands

The world’s biggest crypto exchange said it would quit the Netherlands in June after failing to secure regulatory approval.

Binance is fleeing the Netherlands (Patrick Rasenberg/Flickr)

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EU’s Leaked Metaverse Strategy Proposes Regulatory Sandbox, New Global Governance

Virtual worlds will need international engagement to stay open and secure, a leaked European Commission strategy paper said.

The EU's metaverse strategy may propose a new global governance (Pixabay)