Indian regulators are reportedly holding back from introducing comprehensive crypto rules over concerns that regulation could legitimize digital assets and create systemic risks. According to a Wednesday Reuters report citing documents the outlet’s reporters viewed, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) maintains the view that containing the risks posed by cryptocurrencies through regulation would be…
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Opinion by: Temujin Louie, CEO of Wanchain Institutional capital is not crossing the bridge — it’s waiting for the compliance gatekeeper. While crosschain transactions promised a seamless, borderless crypto economy, regulatory walls are rising on every chain. Emerging standards like Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) in Europe and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Travel…
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US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins said that “most crypto tokens are not securities,” while outlining a sweeping plan to integrate crypto activities like trading, lending and staking under a unified regulatory framework. “It is a new day at the SEC,” Atkins said during a keynote address at the Organization for Economic…
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Kyrgyzstan, a key emerging player in Central Asia’s crypto market, has advanced a bill to establish a state cryptocurrency reserve and support the growth of the wider digital asset industry. Kyrgyz lawmakers have passed amendments to a bill “On virtual assets” in three readings at once, officially cementing terms like “state crypto reserve” and “state…
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US crypto exchange Kraken is the latest platform to introduce tokenized securities in Europe, following an initial rollout in June. Kraken has officially launched Backed’s tokenized securities offering, xStocks, to eligible European investors, the exchange told Cointelegraph on Wednesday. The European expansion comes months after Kraken teased its tokenized stocks integration with Backed on the…
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Key points: Bitcoin is in the middle of a textbook correction phase after all-time highs, Glassnode finds. For correction to flip to seller exhaustion, BTC price must drop to almost $104,000. Short-term holders are seeing significant profit changes within the current BTC price range. Bitcoin (BTC) is showing classic “post euphoria consolidation” as new analysis…
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Crypto traders have swung into more negative sentiment and deeper fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD), according to the onchain analytics platform Santiment, but analysts say it’s likely only temporary. Santiment said in an X post on Tuesday that with the price of Bitcoin (BTC) falling, and altcoins going through a retrace period, traders have been…
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Crypto exchange Gemini has upped its initial public offering ahead of its debut on Friday and is now aiming for a valuation exceeding $3 billion, showing growing investor interest in crypto-related companies. The updated prospectus, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, said that the Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss-founded firm now intends to…
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The Attorney General’s office in Washington, DC, has sued crypto ATM operator Athena Bitcoin, claiming it charged undisclosed fees on deposits the company knew were tied to scams and failed to put sufficient anti-fraud protections in place. DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb alleged on Monday that 93% of deposits on Athena in its first five…
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Cboe Global Markets plans to launch “continuous futures” contracts for Bitcoin and Ether, bringing a popular trading product from decentralized finance onto US markets. Cboe Global Markets, a derivatives exchange under the Chicago Board Options Exchange, said on Tuesday that it will launch the product on Nov. 10, pending regulatory review. The continuous futures in…
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