Sam Waldon, the Principal Deputy Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, will leave the agency on July 31, 2026, marking a leadership change inside one of the most closely watched divisions in US financial regulation. The SEC said Waldon…
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance runs simulated phishing attacks against its own employees and can fire staff who repeatedly fail the tests, according to Binance chief security officer Jimmy Su. The fake attacks are conducted by Binance’s red team, an internal ethical…
The Financial Action Task Force says more jurisdictions are putting crypto rules into law, but enforcement remains the weak point. In its Seventh Targeted Update on the implementation of FATF standards for virtual assets and virtual asset service providers, the…
India’s Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has condemned a government order directing GitHub to remove repositories for Jack Dorsey’s decentralized messaging app BitChat, calling the move unconstitutional and warning it threatens free speech and open-source software. The statement came a day…
Bitcoin Magazine Democrats Push Back on GOP Ethics Text as Thune Doubts a Pre-Recess Clarity Vote Senate Democrats have rejected the ethics provision in the latest Clarity Act draft in blunt terms, and Majority Leader John Thune cast doubt on…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure EigenLayer’s forum is debating ELIP-018, a draft proposal that introduces a framework called RETIRE, short for Retirement Enabling Terminal, Irreversible Restaking Exit. The name is a mouthful,…
Elliptic has published a new report explaining how Bitcoin ATM scams work, and the most useful part is not the usual warning that scammers exist. It is the transaction path. The report describes how fraudsters manipulate victims, often elderly people,…
Update (July 25, 4:39 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a response from Wise. Payments company Wise will to change its strategy for applying for a charter license with the US Office of the Comptroller of the…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Frax governance is discussing a proposal to seed a Morpho lending market with bdUSD and frxUSD, giving the community another possible route for expanding stablecoin liquidity and…
Kraken is bringing perpetual futures to eligible US traders through a regulated derivatives structure, and that is a notable shift for a product category that has usually lived outside the US market. The exchange said the product is offered through…