Memecoin scams are not new to the crypto industry. Viral internet memes and personalities have often leveraged their popularity and made a debut as memecoins in the crypto market. However, very few of them turn out to be genuine by offering value to their communities. Popular internet personality Haliey Welch
Crypto.com, a crypto exchange company from Singapore, recently received a license that allowed it to provide crypto financial derivatives in the European Economic Area. On May 21, the company announced that it had secured a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) license. On the matter, the co-founder and the chief
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed fraud charges against Unicoin and its executives. It claimed that the company has made several false claims regarding its native token and raised $100 million from investors. The top executives who are facing the heat of the SEC’s charges are the CEO of
The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States, Paul Atkins, has faced scrutiny on May 21 for the stance of the SEC on Trump-associated mememecoin and its management of the fraud case associated with Justin Sun. The questions arose at the time of a House Appropriations
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed its decision on rule changes that would allow for the trading of proposed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking XRP and Dogecoin, two of the world’s largest cryptocurrencies by market cap. The decision affects filings by 21Shares, which proposed an XRP ETF, and
Robinhood has filed a proposal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), seeking a unified federal framework for trading tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). The proposal marks a pivotal moment in bridging traditional finance with blockchain innovation. The core of Robinhood’s plan is legal clarity. Instead of pushing new technology
Bitcoin developer Ben Allen has been awarded a $100,000 grant by investment firm Maelstrom to support the continued development of Payjoin, a privacy-enhancing transaction tool designed to make Bitcoin (BTC) usage more secure and efficient. Announced on May 20, the grant will allow Allen and developer Dan Gould to accelerate
At the recent SEC Speaks event, US SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, also known as the Crypto Mom, made a bold and clarifying statement: most crypto assets should not be considered securities. Peirce, who leads the agency’s Crypto Task Force, stressed that regulatory clarity is essential as the crypto space continues
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s sole remaining Democratic Commissioner, Caroline Crenshaw, has issued a stark warning about the agency’s recent approach to crypto regulation. She compares it to a dangerous game of “regulatory Jenga” that risks destabilizing market safeguards carefully built over decades. Regulatory Rollbacks Raise Alarm Bells In her
