Former SEC Chairman Highlights Conditions for Bitcoin ETF Approval

Former SEC Chairman Highlights Conditions for Bitcoin ETF Approval

Former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Jay Clayton has said that a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) is likely to get approved if it can be shown that the Bitcoin spot market offers the same “efficacy” as the futures market. “If they’re [applicants] right—that the spot market has similar efficacy to the futures market—it would…

Multichain Breach Forces Circle to Freeze $63 Million in USDC

Multichain Breach Forces Circle to Freeze $63 Million in USDC

USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle has frozen $63 million belonging to three wallet addresses associated with the hack of the cross-chain bridge platform Multichain. In a Friday tweet, security firm PeckShield revealed that Circle has frozen $27.65 million, $30.1 million, and $5.5 million in three wallet addresses that received a significant outflow of funds from Multichain after the security breach. The…

DCG Dismisses Gemini Lawsuit As “Publicity Stunt” By Winklevoss

DCG Dismisses Gemini Lawsuit As “Publicity Stunt” By Winklevoss

Digital Currency Group responded to the lawsuit filed by Gemini alleging it defrauded its creditors by calling it a “publicity stunt” by Cameron Winklevoss. Gemini revealed yesterday that it has filed a lawsuit against DCG and its CEO Barry Silbert for orchestrating and directly perpetrating a fraud against creditors. Gemini claimed that the DCG CEO pushed to…

Crypto firm Gemini sues DCG after conflict over unit’s restructuring deal

Crypto firm Gemini sues DCG after conflict over unit’s restructuring deal

 Cryptocurrency firm Gemini, the largest creditor of bankrupt crypto lending firm Genesis, sued Digital Currency Group (DCG) and its CEO on Friday after a dispute over a restructuring deal for the venture capital firm’s troubled unit. DCG and Gemini, the two most prominent players in the crypto industry, have clashed several times over the past…

CFTC Finds Celsius Network and Its Ex-CEO Guilty of Breaking Rules

CFTC Finds Celsius Network and Its Ex-CEO Guilty of Breaking Rules

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) investigators have ruled that crypto lender Celsius Network and its former CEO Alex Mashinsky violated US rules before the company collapsed. The findings suggest that Celsius misled investors and failed to register with the CFTC, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. If the majority of the CFTC’s commissioners agree with these conclusions, the…

BlackRock CEO Praises Bitcoin for ‘Digitizing Gold’, Says BTC Could ‘Revolutionize Finance’

BlackRock CEO Praises Bitcoin for ‘Digitizing Gold’, Says BTC Could ‘Revolutionize Finance’

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has expressed support for Bitcoin (BTC), referring to it as an “international asset” that could revolutionize finance. In a recent interview on Fox Business, Fink stated that his company is keen on reducing the cost and complexity associated with investing in Bitcoin. He said that he believes this move would democratize the cryptocurrency market and make…

US Federal Agencies Unite to Form ‘Mini-FBI’ for Dark Web Crypto Crime

US Federal Agencies Unite to Form ‘Mini-FBI’ for Dark Web Crypto Crime

The U.S. government has established a new task force for targeting crypto crime consisting of five investigators from different federal agencies. Established on June 15, the “Darknet Marketplace and Digital Currency Crimes Task Force,” aims to “disrupt and dismantle criminal organizations” that use the “appearance of anonymity” provided by digital currencies to enable drug trafficking, money…

Corona outbreak postpones Shaan-e-Pakistan in Sri Lanka

Corona outbreak postpones Shaan-e-Pakistan in Sri Lanka

With a dream to rethink neighborhood, Shaan-e-Pakistan is a three-day occasion planned for bringing nations closer through common energy about craftsmanship, music, nourishment, style and culture while simultaneously depicting Pakistan in a positive light. Facilitating Pakistani ability just as offering stage to rising ability, the current year’s occasion was booked to occur in Sri Lanka,…

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