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US Treasury Official Warns Crypto Industry to Proactively Sanction 'Problematic' Wallets

FinCEN Associate Director Alessio Evangelista said crypto service providers shouldn't wait for the government to designate a wallet if it's being used for illicit activity.

FinCEN Associate Director Alessio Evangelista (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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G-7 Finance Ministers Call to Accelerate Global Crypto Regulations Following UST Collapse: Report

G-7 officials meeting in Germany want the Financial Stability Board to act more quickly, says a Reuters report.

Klaas Knot (Horacio Villalobos/Corbis/Getty Images)

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Fed Vice Chair Pick and Ex-Ripple Adviser Tells Senators Crypto Needs Regulation

Former U.S. Treasury official Michael Barr fielded questions about crypto during his Senate nomination hearing.

Federal Reserve vice chairman nominee Michael Barr (Senate Banking Committee)

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How Do You Tax an NFT?

Plans to share bitcoin data with foreign tax authorities may be hard to adapt to transparent, decentralized blockchains – but once in place, new rules are hard to shift.

The OECD wants to make it harder to keep your bitcoin secret from the authorities by stashing it in tax havens. (Michal Ben Ari/EyeEm/Getty Images)

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US Appeals Court Orders SEC to Bring Enforcement Actions to Jury Trials

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the targets of SEC enforcement actions had their constitutional rights violated by the use of in-house judges.

SEC Chair Gensler, right, speaks to Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown (with mask) and Ranking Member Pat Toomey (Bill Clark-Pool/Getty Images)

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Biden Administration Wants Crypto Exchanges to Separate Customer and Corporate Funds

Federal officials saw Coinbase’s admission about customers’ vulnerability in a bankruptcy and will call for congressional action to segregate clients’ funds, source says.

The Biden administration is pushing for legislation that would fence off customer funds within crypto exchanges, keeping them safe in an exchange failure. (Andrey Denisyuk/Getty Images)

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SEC’s Gensler Uses Crypto Oversight Needs as Case for Higher Budget

SEC Chair Gary Gensler told U.S. House budget appropriators that he’d like to be doing more to protect crypto investors.

SEC Chair Gensler (Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images)

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Dutch Finance Official Wants to Ban Retail Investors From Trading Crypto Derivatives

The Dutch Authority for Financial Markets doesn’t yet have the authority to issue a UK-style ban, however.

Amsterdam (Karl Hendon/Getty Images)

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India's Ad Body Hasn't Discussed Measure to Bar Celebrity Endorsement of Crypto

The country's securities regulator has proposed that ban.

Indian flag (Getty Images)

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German Regulator Calls for New DeFi Laws

BaFin's Birgit Rodolphe cites the potential for fraud and investor losses.

Skyscrapers in Frankfurt, Germany (lupengyu/Getty Images)