TON Developers, Investors Back Telegram in SEC Fight
A new organization composed of TON developers and investors has filed an amicus brief supporting Telegram in its fight against the SEC.
A new organization composed of TON developers and investors has filed an amicus brief supporting Telegram in its fight against the SEC.
Now in its second year, the New York State Senate's Internet and Tech Committee has approved two blockchain bills, which now go to the full Senate for a vote.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to sponsor a post-doc researcher to study what would happen if the U.S. dollar lost its status as the world’s reserve currency.
Judy Shelton, President Trump’s nominee to the Federal Reserve Board, told lawmakers that digitizing the U.S. dollar could help maintain the currency’s ascendancy in global commerce.
Tensions with Iran may be behind U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s cryptocurrency compliance comments on Wednesday.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is defending a former Kraken employee embroiled in a lawsuit over an anonymous review of the crypto exchange on Glassdoor.
Fed Chairman Powell has given financial privacy advocates a glimmer of hope – and hinted at how the U.S. might competitively position a digitized dollar.
The IRS has refused to clarify that part of its 2019 guidance on tax treatment of cryptocurrencies is not binding, a government watchdog said.
Jeremy Allaire sees governments and industry finally taking blockchain seriously. That's a big deal.
Security token offerings were supposed to be the next big blockchain-based investment vehicle. But investors in Thailand and Taiwan aren't so interested.
In a new manifesto, Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation has indicated it won't be creating regulations for the crypto mining sector.
Zeux reportedly touted an investment scheme with 5 percent interest but didn't state it sent the funds back to China using crypto.
The Australian government has unveiled a new push for blockchain innovation in an updated national roadmap released Friday.
As long as the Coronavirus keeps everyone indoors, China's big, bold blockchain ambitions are on hold.
Mutale Nkonde, a Harvard researcher, argues the U.S. should pass a privacy law modeled on California's new CCPA.
A U.S. judge has asked lawyers from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to provide an opinion in the case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Telegram's $1.7 billion token sale.
The frequency of ICO-related enforcement actions has been increasing in the U.S.
Social networks with crypto aspirations must guard their systems against criminal exploitation, said FinCEN's deputy chief.
Some of Japan's lawmakers fears a digital yuan could create economic disruption if it replaces the U.S. dollar in international markets.
Catalonia is exploring digital identity and hopes to leapfrog its way into true digital sovereignty.
The chairman of the Global Blockchain Business Council is working with others on a way to add transparency and openness to taxes.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has unveiled her proposal to create a safe harbor for crypto startups, allowing them three years to build out their networks before having to address federal securities laws.
Lael Brainard said in a speech the Federal Reserve is looking at digital ledger use cases including for a possible central bank digital currency.
In its latest guidance released in January, the regulator said firms already custodying digital assets for Germans would not be penalized for not having a license. Instead, they’d be grandfathered into the same protection that crypto custody firms based in Germany already have under the new law.
The filing says Wright has abused attorney-client privilege to withhold documents from the court.
The Indian state of Telangana is to launch a dedicated blockchain incubator with assistance from top educational institutions.
Former CFTC Chair Chris Giancarlo sees the current set of financial systems – the older systems associated with the pre-digital age – as almost hopelessly obsolete.
The blockchain feasibility assessment will search out efficiencies in a process marred by regulations and often complex documentary requirements.
The current fragmented system of regulating cryptocurrencies in the U.S. is "bad for everybody," Andrew Yang said.
Japan needs to keep researching a central bank digital currency, even if it won't launch one just yet, accord to the Bank of Japan's deputy governor.