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SEC’s Paul Atkins grilled on crypto enforcement pull-back, including with Justin Sun, Tron

The top Democrat on the U.S. House Financial Services Committee demanded the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission explain during a Wednesday hearing...

BlockFills Suspends Client Functions As Crypto Slumps

BlockFills, an institutional-focused digital asset trading and lending firm, has temporarily suspended client deposits and withdrawals, citing recent market and financial conditions, according to...

Gen Z ‘nihilism’ is fueling a $100 trillion crypto derivatives boom, in response to a broken system

The surge in speculation driving prediction markets and leveraged bets on various sectors isn’t reckless, it’s rational, according to CoinFund managing partner David Pakman.In...

SFC Expands Leverage Rules for Hong Kong Crypto Firms

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission said Wednesday it will allow licensed brokers to provide virtual asset margin financing and outlined a framework for...

SEC’s Cooled Enforcement Policy ‘Not Good’ for Crypto Industry: Congressman

US lawmakers questioned Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins at a hearing on Wednesday about the agency's enforcement actions against the crypto...

1% Asian Crypto Shift Could Drive $2 Trillion To Crypto

BlackRock executive Nicholas Peach said that even a small shift in Asian portfolio allocations toward crypto could generate enormous inflows for the digital asset...

Crypto Lender BlockFills Halts Withdrawals

Contagion fears rise as the Susquehanna-backed lender and trading provider cites liquidity issues.Institution-focused crypto lender and liquidity provider BlockFills is blocking its clients' deposits...

MoonPay Launches Cross-Chain Crypto Deposits For Telegram

MoonPay has launched a new product called MoonPay Deposits, in hopes of making wallet-to-wallet crypto transfers easier by automatically handling swaps, bridging, and cross-chain...

BlackRock exec says even a 1% crypto allocation in Asia could unlock $2 trillion in new flows

Even a modest model portfolio allocation to crypto in Asia could drive massive inflows into the market, according to Nicholas Peach, head of APAC...

EU Targets Russian Crypto And Banks In Sweeping Sanctions

The European Union is finalizing a new package of sanctions aimed at closing loopholes that officials say have allowed Russia to use cryptocurrency to...

Standard Chartered, B2C2 Partner On Institutional Crypto Access

Standard Chartered and B2C2, a global provider of institutional liquidity for digital assets, announced a strategic partnership in hopes of improving institutional access to...

Bitcoin Falls Below $67,000 as Losses Broaden Across Crypto

Major crypto assets traded lower on Wednesday morning as total market capitalization shed almost 4% Crypto markets weakened further on Wednesday morning, Feb. 11,...