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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is looking to reset its relationship with the crypto industry, even before a permanent chair is confirmed by Congress. The latest effort was Friday’s roundtable, hosted at the SEC’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. and featuring a dozen attorneys representing different views and positions within the crypto industry. You’re reading

South Korean financial authorities are gearing up to sanction crypto exchanges operating illegally in the country, as business newspaper Hankyung reported on Friday. The report reveals that the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has pinpointed several exchanges, not registered as Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs), as prime targets for these sanctions. Specifically, the exchanges in question—BitMEX,

Solana’s most profitable protocol Pump.fun is gunning for an even greater share of the chain’s DeFi economy. Pump.fun, the massively popular memecoin launchpad, just upped the ante. This Thursday, they revealed a new token swaps service, PumpSwap, powered directly by the protocol’s own liquidity pools. This move positions them as a direct competitor against Solana’s

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While you can’t invest in a Solana ETF just yet, a major supporter of the cryptocurrency is predicting that could change as soon as 2025. This backer even suggests that a Solana ETF could outshine existing Ethereum-based products. Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital, who’s heavily invested in Solana (SOL) and related projects, has been openly

Ethereum developers are gearing up for their upcoming ‘Pectra’ upgrade, and to make sure everything goes off without a hitch, they’ve just launched a new test network called Hoodi on Monday. The plan is to put Pectra through its paces on Hoodi starting March 26th. If all goes according to plan and testing is successful,

In a notable move reflecting current market conditions, crypto asset manager 21Shares is preparing to liquidate two of its actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs). These ETFs are linked to bitcoin and ether futures, and the liquidation comes amidst a wider downturn in the market. The ETFs affected by this decision are the ARK 21Shares Active

Meet SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, the newly named head of the regulator’s crypto task force. She’s known as a longtime supporter of the crypto industry and a prominent Republican voice overseeing federal securities regulation. Recently, she sat down with CoinDesk in late February to discuss her approach. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter

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Bitcoin (BTC), known for its role as a store of value, is now taking bigger steps into the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). According to a recent report from Binance Research released on Thursday, Bitcoin’s influence in DeFi is expanding, showing it’s becoming much more than just a place to store value. As Binance Research