Whitney Nyantune

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued Cash FX Group and three people over an alleged $950 million foreign-exchange investment scheme that used cryptocurrency. The agency filed the complaint Sept. 25...

XRP Ledger developers are urging node operators to upgrade to xrpld 3.4.1, which fixes a minor issue with the Batch feature. The September 25 release also adds stability improvements. However,...

Federal prosecutors charged Vietnamese national Trung Nguyen Van with laundering about $53 million in cryptocurrency allegedly stolen from U.S. victims through romance scams. Van appeared in court Friday as prosecutors...

Circle Foundation is funding new digital payment trials for the United Nations, with projects focused on development programs and humanitarian aid. The foundation announced two grants on September 25 for...

The Federal Reserve proposed new stablecoin rules on Thursday as U.S. regulators continue building a federal framework for digital payments. Under the plan, payment stablecoin issuers would need enough approved...

Aave founder Stani Kulechov has questioned Morpho’s proposed definition of non-custodial DeFi vaults, arguing that users may still face changes to how their funds are allocated. His concern centers on...

Payy Network halted transactions after an attacker drained about $1.83 million from its Ethereum bridge on September 24. The network suspended deposits, withdrawals, transfers and card transactions while investigating the...

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce called for regulators to rethink how know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering rules are applied, arguing that zero-knowledge technology could verify users without exposing their personal information. Peirce made...

Vitalik Buterin warned that advances in artificial intelligence could make traditional blockchain privacy protections less effective as tools become better at linking transactions to real people. Speaking Wednesday at the...

White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt defended President Donald Trump’s handling of ethics rules tied to the Clarity Act after the legislation failed to advance in the Senate. Witt said...

SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda said the agency dropped some crypto lawsuits partly to protect its credibility, arguing that regulators should not defend legal positions they expect to abandon. Speaking on...

Binance.US has added a self-custody wallet to its mobile app, giving users a way to hold crypto themselves and connect to decentralized apps. The Binance.US Wallet is available on iOS...

Some Pi Network users who were stuck in the KYC or Mainnet migration process can now move forward after the network introduced several fixes. The changes address problems with identity...

Kalshi is pushing back against claims that repeated $5,500 trades in its ether perpetual futures market indicate wash trading. The exchange said the activity is linked to its market-making programs,...

Andreessen Horowitz and the DeFi Education Fund are urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to create a safe harbor for qualifying decentralized exchanges, arguing that some peer-to-peer systems should...

RWA-linked perpetual contracts are gaining attention as traders seek ways to adjust their exposure to U.S. stocks outside regular market hours, according to Binance Research. U.S. stock exchanges operate about...

Agora has received preliminary conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national trust bank in the U.S., moving the stablecoin company closer to...

Ondo Finance has introduced a new in-kind conversion feature that lets institutions exchange eligible traditional shares for tokenized versions of those stocks on Ethereum and BNB Chain. According to a...

DeFi Development Corp. added 101,381 SOL to its treasury, bringing its holdings to about 2.49 million SOL and equivalents as the Nasdaq-listed company continued to expand its Solana reserves. The...

Crypto-focused political group Fairshake is committing $30 million to oppose former Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown’s bid to return to the Senate, renewing its campaign against a longtime critic of the...

Visa is moving to tighten how memecoin purchases are classified after some card transactions received a digital-media merchant code. The change follows scrutiny of purchases through Robinhood Wallet and Fomo...

Payward, the parent company of Kraken, filed to bring single-stock perpetual futures to US traders, expanding its derivatives offering beyond crypto. The filing covers 10 US stocks, including Tesla, Nvidia,...

Haruko was targeted in a cyberattack that exposed trading data and read-only exchange API details belonging to 15 crypto clients, according to reports. The breach also resulted in a small...

A North Korea-linked hacking group used fake job offers to target IT workers and steal cryptocurrency, Japan’s NPA said Friday. The group, known as WaterPlum, infected more than 30,000 devices...

The CFTC has sent proposed crypto market rules to the White House for review after the Senate stalled the CLARITY Act this week. The agency submitted the proposal to the...