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What the Federal Reserve's 'FedNow' Instant Payment System Could Mean for Crypto

The U.S. Federal Reserve launched a new instant payment service called FedNow. The central bank has also denied it is tied to any digital U.S. dollar initiative. Aaron Klein, Brookings Institution senior fellow in economic studies and former deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department, shares insights into the FedNow system and its significance to the crypto sector. 

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Policy

Leading House Democrat Solicits Feedback From Gensler and Yellen on Crypto Bill

The bill would provide guidelines for U.S.-based crypto exchanges to register with regulators.

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U.S. Treasury Examining How Using Digital Dollars Could Be Kept Private

The U.S. Treasury Department has been studying how it might keep retail transactions in a potential digital dollar as private and anonymous as possible, said Graham Steele, the assistant secretary for financial institutions. He also said the U.S. hasn’t yet decided whether to move forward on a central bank digital currency (CBDC). "The Hash" panel weighs in on the state of CBDCs in the United States.

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World Regulators Are Looking at DeFi

The U.S. Treasury Department and French central bank published reports looking at DeFi risks and providing recommendations for mitigating them.

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Top U.S. Treasury Official Says Crypto Had No ‘Direct Role’ In Bank Failures

Treasury Under Secretary Nellie Liang told House lawmakers the crypto industry wasn’t a central factor in the wipeouts of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.

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Opinion

U.S. Banking Collapse Doesn't Necessarily Make Crypto Trustworthy

The fall of Silicon Valley Bank had a convenient deus ex machina to fix collateral damage. Crypto cannot expect the same, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partners Jess Cheng and Amy Caiazza write.

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Policy

U.S. Treasury Poised to Release View on How DeFi Used in Illicit Finance

The department has reviewed decentralized finance’s role in such incidents as North Korean ransomware attacks, and will issue a risk assessment, a senior official said.

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Policy

Is This a Crypto Banking Bailout?

It depends on who you ask, but this round of government interventions doesn’t yet resemble the large-scale, taxpayer-involved rescue in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown.

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Finance

Yellen Says No to SVB Bailout, but Says Government Is Working to Help Depositors

The Treasury Secretary sought to ease concerns that the bank’s collapse could lead to a domino effect.

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US Blacklists Bitcoin, Ether Addresses Tied to Russian Sanctions-Evasion Efforts; Bitcoin Price Predictions

The U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions watchdog, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), has blacklisted a bitcoin and an ether address linked to sanctions evasion. Plus, bitcoin (BTC) price predictions from ARK Invest and Matrixport.

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