"Today's announcement will protect Florida consumers and businesses from the reckless adoption of a 'centralized digital dollar' which will stifle innovation and promote government-sanctioned surveillance," DeSantis said.
"MicroStrategy has survived a crypto ice age and now has an opportunity to take advantage of growing interest in DeFi and all the other crypto protocols with better growth potential," a senior market analyst said.
Last week, the NYDFS said that it intervened in the business of Signature bank because regulators lost faith in its management.
FTX has been at odds with Bahamian officials ever since filing for bankruptcy protection on Nov. 11.
Software giant Microsoft could be testing an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency wallet in its Edge browser, according to a software sleuth who goes by the Twitter handle @thebookisclosed.
Bitcoin investors are now bullish, especially as former Coinbase Chief Technology Officer Balaji Srinivasan predicted that the impending global banking crisis could take the world's largest crypto asset to $1 million in less than 90 days.
"Euler has always been a security-minded project. The Euler smart contracts, including the vulnerable lines of code, were audited," Eluer Finance CEO said in a tweet following the $197 million hack.
In one of the leaked emails, Wetjen informed the FDIC chair about FTX's risk model, which was about its pending application at the CFTC, seeking to amend regulations that would foster more federally authorized crypto products.
Financial regulators and law enforcement agencies in the United States have also started investigating the collapse of Terra's so-called algorithm stablecoin.
"I'm going to roast these Low IQ plebs and their lawyers," tweeted BitBoy Crypto, one of the named "defendants" in the lawsuit.
The crypto lender has already secured court approval to sell its assets to Binance US, which, over the past weeks, has been objected to by financial regulators like the U.S. SEC and the FTC.
Coinbase said that the decision was the result of its periodic monitoring of assets, which includes assessment and subsequent review to make sure they follow the platform's listing standards.
Regulators are increasingly keen for oversight of a sector which boomed during the Covid pandemic when many people were stuck at home.
Signature Bank's closure was due to a "crisis of confidence" in its leadership, the New York State Department of Financial Services said.
A U.S. bankruptcy judge declined to delay the $1.3 billion sale of crypto lender Voyager Digital to Binance.US, saying Voyager customers should not be forced to wait out a challenge by the Department of Justice that is unlikely to succeed.
Bankman-Fried's legal counsel requested the court through a motion to permit insurers to advance or reimburse defense costs and fees under directors and officers (D&O) insurance policies held with Beazley and Realm Insurance.
Gensler's stance on proof-of-stake crypto assets as securities received an unexpected assist when the New York Attorney General's Office filed a lawsuit against the centralized cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin.
FTX administrators noted that their efforts are "expected to result in the further identification of assets, liabilities and transfers."
A month after the first testnet was released to the community, Degen Zoo has become the game on every blockchain players' lips.
"It passes a simulated bar exam with a score around the top 10% of test takers," OpenAI said while describing the new G-4 ChatGPT AI model.
For the lead developer, "SHIB: The Metaverse," which is planned to launch on multi-platforms, including mobile devices, will be the medium available to people from all walks of life.
"In February, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers increased 0.4 percent, seasonally adjusted, and rose 6.0 percent over the last 12 months, not seasonally adjusted," the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will let customers in Singapore move funds to and from accounts via local banks, smoothing one path to investing in digital assets at a time when markets are on edge over financial stability and crypto banking.
This year, Three Arrows Capital founders announced OPENX, a new crypto trading platform that will serve as a public marketplace for crypto claims and derivatives.
"We would encourage you to consult with your tax or legal advisor with any questions you may have regarding tax matters and your Coinbase account activity," the company said.
"I think that if we'd been allowed to open tomorrow, that we could've continued — we have a solid loan book, we're the biggest lender in New York City under the low-income housing tax credit," former Congressman Barney Frank said.
"We will provide more information on the suspension of withdrawal services at a later date," Binance said, adding that the suspension will not affect users' Binance accounts.
The FBI and the officials at the Southern District of New York have reportedly started interrogating former members of Terraform Labs and intend to interview several others in the coming days.
The FDIC warned that these unrealized losses have significantly reduced the reported equity capital of the banking industry.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said that "banks are a risk to fiat-backed stablecoins," which are typically pegged 1:1 with a fiat currency like the U.S. dollar.