Prime Trust Enters Crypto Custody Race, Will Hold ‘Any’ Ethereum Token Prime Trust, a Nevada trust company, says it can handle custody for bitcoin, ether and any token issued on ethereum under the ERC-20 standard.… Read More
Judge Denies Effort to Move XRP Investor Lawsuit to Lower Court A district judge has slapped down an investor’s effort to move a lawsuit against payments firm Ripple to a lower court.… Read More
SEC Slaps ‘Fraudulent’ ICO Founder With $30K Fine, Lifetime Ban The SEC has issued a cease-and-desist along with a $30,000 penalty to the founder of a token sale it called “fraudulent.” … Read More
EU Lawmaker Wants to Include ICOs in New Crowdfunding Rules A draft proposal by the EP’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs suggests creating new regulations for public initial coin offerings (ICOs).… Read More
Bitcoin Trading Is Illegal in Saudi Arabia, Warn Watchdogs A governmental committee comprised of Saudi Arabian regulators has issued a statement warning that cryptocurrency trading is illegal in the kingdom.… Read More
How Crypto Reacted to This Week’s SEC Bitcoin ETF Delay While the market didn’t like the SEC’s bitcoin ETF delay decision, observers on social media weren’t surprised at all. … Read More
Op Ed: Exploring the SEC’s New “Sufficiently Decentralized” Test The regulators have awoken. SEC Director William Hinman introduced novel concepts to the securities law analysis such that sellers of digital assets may have an escape valve. Yes, even if their initial sale trigg…… Read More
Coin Center Updates Its Securities Framework for Cryptocurrencies Blockchain advocacy group Coin Center still believes some cryptocurrencies are securities by law, and should be regulated as such.… Read More
Blockchain Research Institute Report Calls for Crypto Regulation Clarity Recently, BRI published a report authored by Tapscott recounting the takeaways from a roundtable discussion held in May on cryptocurrency regulation.… Read More
Thailand’s New ICO Rule Has Already Attracted 20 Crypto Exchanges A new licensing rule governing initial coin offerings appears to have gained interests from ICO and crypto exchange projects.… Read More