crypto regulation

Crypto exchange Binance has tightened the customer verification requirements on its platforms. CoinDesk Global Policy and Regulation Managing Editor Nikhilesh De discusses the reactions and implications as Binance expands its response to the heightened regulatory scrutiny over recent months.

2021年8月20日

Brett Harrison, president of FTX.US, the U.S. affiliate of crypto exchange FTX, discusses future plans for the exchange as it readies offering cryptocurrency derivative trading in less than a year. This comes as FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried told CoinDesk in July FTX.US has "enormous" growth potential in the U.S. Plus, Harrison's insights into the latest partnership with Kevin O'Leary, the ​greatest regulatory concerns for U.S. exchanges and a crypto markets outlook.

2021年8月20日

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler warned decentralized finance (DeFi) projects that reward participants with incentives or digital tokens could be subject to SEC regulation. "The Hash" hosts discuss the outlook for the DeFi regulatory landscape and how this could enable a "robust push" towards more decentralization.

2021年8月19日

Fund manager VanEck filed for its fourth crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) application on Wednesday. This time, it’s for an ethereum-based ETF that would seek to sidestep U.S. regulators’ crypto ETF blockade by trading ether indirectly. “We’ve seen over a dozen bitcoin-related ETF applications but not as many ether-related ETF applications,” CoinDesk’s Nikhilesh De said.

2021年8月19日

CoinDesk’s Nikhilesh De discusses what to make of Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, criticizing bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. “It’s just a signal of how much the central bank is paying attention to the industry,” De said.

2021年8月18日

Michele Schneider, Managing Director at Marketgauge Group, discusses her analysis and outlook for bitcoin as buyers are taking a breather after a near 13% rally month to date. Plus, her take on whale buying, altcoins, and the potential impact of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill on the crypto markets.

2021年8月18日

India’s finance minister says long-delayed crypto bill awaiting cabinet approval. Microsoft unveils Argus' anti-piracy plans. Poly Network hack saga rumbles on. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

2021年8月17日

Just months after filing for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), Michael Novogratz's cryptocurrency-focused financial services firm Galaxy Digital has filed with U.S. regulators for a bitcoin futures ETF. This comes as SEC Chairman Gary Gensler signaled he preferred ETFs based on bitcoin futures earlier this month at the Aspen Security Forum. CoinDesk's Nikhilesh De discusses the state of bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. as the SEC has yet to approve any of the dozens of applications for crypto ETFs in recent years.

2021年8月17日

The U.S. Treasury Department is reportedly preparing to offer an olive branch to crypto developers, miners, and hardware firms spooked by the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill’s tax reporting requirements. “The Hash” hosts discuss whether the Treasury Department could combat the concerns of the bill that no other government agency has been able to achieve.

2021年8月16日

Does crypto have a strong enough lobbying presence in D.C.? This week, the Senate passed the historic $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill without any crypto amendment, raising concerns about its controversial definition of “broker.”

2021年8月13日