Poland to introduce crypto regulation bill in Q2: report
The new bill seeks to introduce a crypto regulatory framework that aligns with the EU’s MiCA. Poland’s Financial Supervision Authority...
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Turkey’s crypto regulation is at the final stage: report
Turkey’s crypto regulation seeks to align the country’s anti-money laundering laws with the scope of the Financial Action Task Force...
Honduras’ Próspera Zone recognizes Bitcoin as an official unit of account
Próspera Zone in Honduras officially recognizes Bitcoin as a unit of account, expanding financial freedom. Acting manager Jorge Colindres leads...
Bank of Spain selects partners for CBDC testing
Spain’s central bank, Banco de España, has chosen its collaborators a year after publishing an open call for partners to...
Argentina’s President Milei proposes incentives for declaring crypto holdings
Argentina’s President Milei proposes tax incentives in a draft bill for crypto regularization. Asset regularization scheme offers favourable rates, encouraging...
South Korea to disclose top officials’ crypto holdings in 2024 as new crypto exchange launches
South Korea transforms transparency: 5,800 officials disclose assets, incl. crypto, via PETI. Pullix disrupts crypto exchange norms: PLX token presale,...
SEC asks for final changes to spot Bitcoin ETF filings: Report
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has set December 29, 2023 as the date for final changes to spot...
Bulgaria closes investigation into Nexo citing no criminal activity
Bulgarian prosecutors have ended the criminal investigations into crypto lender Nexo. A report published on Friday said authorities had found...
Google eases Crypto Trust Ads Policy ahead of potential Bitcoin ETF approval
Starting January 29, 2024, Google will allow US-based crypto trusts to advertise on its platform. Advertisers looking to promote crypto...
Kazakhstan blocked 980 unlicensed crypto exchanges in 2023
In 2023, Kazakhstan’s Financial Monitoring Agency (FMA) blocked access to almost a thousand crypto exchanges serving the country’s citizens without...
Hong Kong bans two crypto sites for misleading investors
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) banned the two crypto websites for scamming users. HongKongDAO and BitCuped were blocked...
IBM, Meta and others form ‘AI Alliance’ to advance AI development
In the race for market supremacy among artificial intelligence (AI) firms, a coalition of technology leaders spearheaded by IBM and...
Kenyan crypto tax bill makes it through Parliamentary Committee
A bill defining crypto assets as securities and featuring the capital gains tax on them made it through the Parliamentary...
Platypus hacker walks free with $8.5M after claiming to be ‘ethical hacker’
Two brothers, responsible for the theft of $8.5 million from decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Platypus, were allowed to walk free...
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust aims for ETF shift to narrow discount
Grayscale, a significant player in digital asset management, has expressed enthusiasm about the potential transformation of its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust...
SEC faces sanctions threat as Judge questions DEBT Box case accuracy
United States District Judge Robert Shelby has cautioned the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawyers, hinting at possible sanctions due...
Coinbase tracks 6% rise in info requests from law, government agencies
Crypto exchange Coinbase says it recorded a 6% rise in requests from law enforcement and government agencies compared to 2022,...
Paxos receives two in-principle approvals in Abu Dhabi
Paxos has received two in-principle approvals from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). The...
FSB calls for global regulation of multifunction crypto firms
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) says multifunction crypto-asset intermediaries (MCIs) are critical to the cryptocurrency ecosystem. However, their business models...
Spanish citizens to declare foreign crypto holdings by end of March 2024
Spanish residents holding any crypto assets on non-Spanish platforms will have to declare them by March 31, 2024, under new...
Average value of undeclared crypto in Japan dropped 19% in 2022
According to Japan’s tax authorities, the average value of undeclared income in crypto fell by 19% in 2022.On Nov. 24,...
Crypto exchange Zipmex suspends trading activity in Thailand
Cryptocurrency exchange Zipmex has announced it is taking immediate action by suspending all digital asset trading in Thailand as part...
