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Senate Confirms Crypto-Friendly Stephen Miran To Federal Reserve Board In 48–47 Vote

Stephen Miran was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Monday to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, winning approval in a 48...

Abu Dhabi ORQO Group Launches With $370M AUM To Build Yield Platform For Ripple’s RLUSD

ORQO Group launched on Tuesday as a new institutional asset manager with $370 million in assets under management. The firm is based in Abu...

United Nations Development Programme Announces Blockchain And AI Academy For Governments

The United Nations Development Programme and the Exponential Science Foundation announced a partnership to create the Government Blockchain Academy, the groups said on Monday.  The...

Israel Orders Seizure Of 187 Crypto Wallets, With $1.5B Assets Processed, Allegedly Linked To The IRGC

Israel’s Ministry of Defence ordered the seizure of 187 cryptocurrency wallets it says belong to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the ministry announced...

Stripe’s Head Of Crypto Quits, Joins Polygon As The New Chief Product Officer

John Egan, Stripe’s head of crypto, is joining Polygon Labs as chief product officer, he announced Monday. He will start on Tuesday and says...

PayPal Enables Seamless Peer-To-Peer Bitcoin, Ethereum, PYUSD Transfers Across Venmo And External Wallets

PayPal announced that its U.S. users can now send Bitcoin, Ethereum, PYUSD, and other crypto assets to PayPal, Venmo, and a growing number of...

Crypto Exchange MoonPay To Buy Payments Firm Meso As It Builds A Global Payments Network

MoonPay said it will acquire payments company Meso to widen its payment services and speed up a single global payment network, a Bloomberg report...

Former British Finance Minister Lord Hammond To Leave Digital Assets Firm Copper As Firm Shifts Focus From UK To US Markets

Lord Philip Hammond will soon step down as chairman of Copper, the digital assets firm he joined in 2023, after Sky News City editor...

Hyperscale Data Launches $100M Bitcoin Treasury As It Refocuses On AI And Digital Assets

Hyperscale Data, a NYSE American-listed holding company, said today it will start a $100 million Bitcoin treasury program as it shifts into an AI...

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Tests Hinkal’s ‘Invisible Wallet’ As Crypto Hacks Surge To $163M In August

Vitalik Buterin tested Hinkal’s new Invisible Wallet in late August by sending 0.01 ETH from his publicly known address to a Hinkal address on...

Bank of Thailand Freezes 3M Bank Accounts As Many Innocent Citizens Caught Up, Is Crypto An Alternative?

The Bank of Thailand triggered alarm bells across the country after it froze approximately three million bank accounts over the weekend as part of...

Pakistan Regulator Urges Global Crypto Firms To Seek Local License To Serve 40M Users

Pakistan’s new crypto regulator, the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA), has asked regulated global crypto firms to apply for local licenses so they...