Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota’s 6th district recently sent a letter to Gary Gensler – Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – with critical questions about the authority’s crypto industry reporting requirements. The letter is written on behalf of multiple blockchain firms that claim these requirements – framed as “requests” – aren’t exactly...Read More
A Bitcoin exchange-traded fund is something that the cryptocurrency community is looking forward to for quite some time. Unfortunately, the US Securities and Exchange Commission is not on the same page yet. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission rejected two proposals to list and trade shares of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, according to Reuters. The...Read More
The half a decade-old multinational financial service giant has followed the footsteps of Blackrock into filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission to release a Crypto Economy ETF. The document informed that the main goal of the fund will be to “track as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the total return of an...Read More
The SEC is now aiming at the creators of NFTs in an effort to determine whether or not they violate its rules and regulations. The financial regulator is growing concerned that NFTs are being used for unregulated securities token offerings, according to Bloomberg. The ongoing review is also examining fractional non-fungible tokens – when they...Read More
Grayscale – the world’s largest Bitcoin fund – has long had its attempts to become a spot-based Bitcoin ETF denied by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Investors are now speaking out against this, and have sent roughly 200 letters to the commission in support of the fund’s transition. Grayscale Investors Speak Out As reported...Read More
BlockFi recently agreed to pay $100 million in a settlement after the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the firm with “failing to register the offers and sales of its retail crypto lending product.” The news that kept the space abuzz was broken by an SEC document, followed by a dissent note from Commissioner Hester...Read More
The leading cryptocurrency trading venue appointed Scott Bauguess as the newest member of its policy team. The American spent 11 years as a top executive at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Another Veteran on Board Coinbase continues to expand its management unit by hiring the financer Scott Bauguess as Vice President for global...Read More
Valkyrie’s Bitcoin Miners exchange-traded fund (ETF) has been approved for listing on the U.S. stock exchange Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol “WGMI.” According to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on Monday (February 7, 2022), Nasdaq gave approval for the Bitcoin Miners ETF from crypto asset manager Valkyrie to be listed...Read More
The world’s biggest corporate bitcoin holder MicroStrategy has reported a $146 million impairment charge on its digital asset investment. MicroStrategy Loses $147 Million in an Impairment Charge The day after MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor announced that his company bought 660 BTC worth $25 million, the firm reported a loss of $146.6 million in an impairment...Read More
The large asset manager – Fidelity Investments – filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to establish a pair of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The financial products will track firms involved in the Metaverse industry. Aiming at The Metaverse The American financial services corporation – Fidelity Investments – has already sought the SEC’s approval to...Read More
The Bank of Thailand (BOT), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ministry of Finance (MOF) have jointly decided to regulate the use of cryptocurrencies as a medium of exchange. They cite threats of financial instability and crime as primary justifications. Strictness On Crypto BOT announced its regulatory decision in a press release earlier today. It...Read More
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has, once again, rejected a spot bitcoin ETF application. It was filed earlier by the investment management company First Trust Advisors and the hedge fund SkyBridge led by Anthony Scaramucci. In a statement published on Thursday (January 20, 2022), the SEC said the reason for the rejection was...Read More
While there have been calls by the cryptocurrency community for the SEC to provide clearer regulation for the industry, one of the agency’s commissioners thinks otherwise. SEC Does Not Need to Re-Invent the Wheel Allison Lee, a Commissioner for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), while appearing at a D.C. bar event on crypto...Read More
The cryptocurrency industry saw a tremendous surge in terms of institutional adoption in 2021. Experts suggest that this trend is likely to continue this year as well. But whether it’s a tidal wave or a trickle will depend on how the industry evolves in terms of technology that offers secure storage and protects user funds....Read More
The United States regulatory watchdog – Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – has delayed the ruling on NYDIG’s proposal for a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund by 60 days. The original deadline was January 15th. If allowed, NYDIG’s Bitcoin ETF will be the first-ever spot Bitcoin ETF in the country. According to the official filing, the...Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission has hired Corey Frayer to advise Chairman Gary Gensler on regulations of cryptocurrencies. Frayer’s previous experience includes operating as a professional staff member of the Senate Banking Committee and policy adviser for the House Financial Services Committee. The US watchdog has a complicated history with the cryptocurrency space. The appointment...Read More
The first American company that launched a futures-backed Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund in the United States has turned its sight towards the Metaverse space. If approved by the SEC, the ETF will track the performance of the Solactive Metaverse Theme Index (SOMETAV). According to a recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the...Read More
Reflecting on the past year, 2021 has been great for Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market. It even saw the birth of two BTC futures ETFs in the States, but with just a week remaining until the end of it, American investors might not see spot one. SEC in no Mood for Spot Bitcoin ETFs According...Read More
Telegram may have abandoned its crypto project, but the token lives on. None other than the CEO of the cloud-based instant messaging service Telegram and the creator of the blockchain project, Pavel Durov, is happy that it’s alive and well. TON blockchain had a rough start, but that might be changing soon. The TON Community...Read More
It has been quite a year for the blockchain platform Ripple. While its saga with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is far from over, the CEO Brad Garlinghouse is positive about how 2021 turned out for Ripple. Ripple’s Garlinghouse Reflects on the Past Year Filed on 22 December 2020, the SEC v. Ripple case...Read More
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has postponed its decision regarding the Bitwise Bitcoin ETP Trust and Grayscale Bitcoin Trust applications. SEC Extends Approval Date to Feb 2021 The regulatory body has issued two new extension dates for both applications to determine whether to approve, reject, or “institute proceedings to determine whether to...Read More
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) obtained a judgment against Glenn Arcaro – the lead promoter of the alleged fraudulent scheme BitConnect. According to the regulator, he promoted it to retail investors in the States and used his company – Future Money Ltd. – to lure traders into the scam. The SEC Is on...Read More
The California state-chartered bank, Silvergate, is eyeing to secure $461.3 million as per the latest filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through the sale of 3.31 million of common stock. The proposed maximum offering price per share is $145. Silvergate’s Public Offering The official document revealed that the financial institution had granted...Read More
The New Jersey-based crypto lending platform BlockFi has caught the attention of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SEC because of its supposed high yield interest rates on crypto lending. According to a Bloomberg coverage on Wednesday (November 17, 2021), an anonymous source revealed that the SEC was scrutinizing BlockFi. The company’s lending products are...Read More
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected VanEck’s proposal for a spot Bitcoin ETF. This comes after several delays by the agency. The global investment manager VanEck has been among the most active companies when it comes down to filing with the SEC to launch a Bitcoin ETF. In the past several years,...Read More
SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw has published a “Statement on DeFi Risks, Regulations, and Opportunities” on November 9, advising decentralized finance platforms to contact them. In it, she acknowledged that crypto is now part of the vernacular, whether on news, social media, entertainment, and in investment portfolios. In an effort to clarify the regulatory status of...Read More
US ETF issuers are looking for new ways to capture the attention of institutions a week after the watershed launch of Bitcoin ETF. Direxion, for one, is offering an ETF that shorts crypto futures. October 19th was a monumental day for the entire cryptocurrency industry. Right after ProShares’ Bitcoin ETF welcomed impressive volume on the...Read More
Thanks to the growing influence of stablecoins on the financial system, regulators across the world are racing to regulate the sector. The stablecoins realm is a step closer to achieving regulatory clarity as the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has geared up to propose legislation and supervise the $131 billion industry. US Financial Watchdog...Read More
To say that last week was exciting would be a serious understatement. Bitcoin went on to chart a brand new all-time high at around $67K, we saw the approval of the first-ever futures BTC ETF in the US, a massive flash-crash on BinanceUS, and a correction towards $60K. Let’s dive in. Starting with Bitcoin. The...Read More
Gary Gensler – chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission – recently explained his approval of a Bitcoin Futures ETF. He believes the ProShares ETF falls under current investor protections more easily than a spot-traded fund. However, many bitcoiners and other crypto supporters remain opposed to it. Protections for Futures ETF Users Gensler aired his...Read More
