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The Federal Government Is Trying To Shut Down Decentralized Finance

The Commodities Futures Trading Commission announces charges and settlements with three companies that may mean very bad news for all DeFi operations doing business with U.S. citizens.

Reason

Consequences of Spoofing: Precious Metals Traders Pay a Steep Price

Banks and financial institutions have dominated precious metals wholesale markets for decades. The 2008 global financial crisis changed the rules for the traders handling significant buy and sell orders that often speculate to create income.

Barchart

The new Coinbase blockchain is rife with scam tokens. Who should be responsible?

Fraud is part of any decentralized system, but should regulators step in?

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Regulating Crypto: SEC Chief Takes The Lead, Republicans Lag Behind

SEC's Gensler asserts authority over crypto as GOP struggles to propose restraints

Zenger

Coinbase CEO says SEC asked exchange to delist all crypto but Bitcoin

“Let’s go to court and find out what the court says.”

Fortune

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Cooperative subjects, an unwanted text message, and hunting in a national forest.

Reason

Tennessee couple allegedly defrauded over 100 investors of $6 million in ‘Blessings of God Thru Crypto’ scheme: ‘No one is here to scam you’

The couple called their trading pool “Blessings of God Thru Crypto” and attributed its supposed success to a “Coach Wendy.”

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Senators Lummis and Gillibrand finally unveil their revamped crypto bill

The legislative proposal inserts the Senate back in the conversation and empowers the CFTC.

Fortune

Why Did Short-Term Option Activity in Corn and Soybeans Spike During June?

Traders continue to use the CME's short-term options to position themselves in short-term options to play weather forecasts, USDA reports, and other events.

Barchart

Why Did Short-Term Option Activity Spike During June?

Traders continue to use the CME's short-term options to position themselves in short-term options to play weather forecasts, USDA reports, and other events.

Barchart

A path out of the crypto regulation quagmire, according to a CFTC veteran

Former CFTC chair Timothy Massad argues for a middle ground to oversee the volatile sector.

Fortune

How a silver dealer’s slow theft of investors' precious American Eagle coins ended in a $146m fine

Accountants who checked the inventory in the vaults said some customers didn't even have a deposit box.

Fortune

Did it Rain Enough to Reverse the Higher Trend in Corn, Soybean, and Wheat Prices?

This morning I joined Michelle Rook on AgWeb's Markets Now to discuss the grain markets, livestock market, this weekend's brief insurrection in Russia, and the interest rates.

Barchart

As regulators circle, Binance’s foundation—its BNB coin—is already crumbling

CZ’s dream that “tokenization” is the new capitalism is a fantasy that may soon cost him his company.

Fortune

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Wall Street's top cop is determined to bring crypto to heel. He just took a big shot

The SEC announced this week a barrage of lawsuits against crypto exchanges Coinbase and Binance. The outcome could help define the future of the cryptocurrency sector.

Reason

Gary Gensler's SEC Cracks Down on Coinbase and Binance

The SEC is suing Coinbase, alleging that it's an unregistered securities broker, after targeting Binance the day before.

Fortune

Cboe Digital receives approval to expand crypto futures products for Bitcoin and Ether, calls it 'a win for the US industry'

The approval marks another victory for traditional financial firms in the crypto space.

The Guardian - UK

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance hits back at SEC lawsuit, saying allegations ‘simply wrong’ – as it happened

US watchdog SEC says company mixed billions in customer funds and secretly sent them to separate company controlled by CEO Changpeng Zhao

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The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a massive ask’: is Binance capable of being regulated?

Crypto exchange says it will do everything possible to change UK watchdog’s mind but opacity remains an issue for US as well

Radio France Internationale

The CFDT and the French pension reform

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the CFDT trade union and Macron’s pension reform. You’ll meet Paul Myers – who is our new “Listeners Corner” host - and get happy with Ollia Horton’s “Happy Moment”. All that, and the new quiz question,…

Reuters

Exclusive-Israel seized Binance crypto accounts to 'thwart' Islamic State, document shows

Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian firms connected to the Islamist Hamas group, documents released by the country's counter-terror authorities show.

Roll Call

House GOP tries panel collaboration on crypto; Democrats leery - Roll Call

House Agriculture and Financial Services Republicans are collaborating in an effort to agree on a legislative framework for cryptocurrencies.

Tribune News Service

The startup that lets hedge funds bet millions on real-life events

With its bid to let Americans wager on elections put on ice by federal watchdogs, Kalshi Inc. is now shopping a plan to let hedge funds easily wager millions of dollars on more real-life events.

Fortune

Security? Commodity? What happens if crypto is both?

CFTC commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero on the age-old debate.

The Guardian - AU

Crypto exchange Binance has Australian financial services licence cancelled by Asic

Regulator says Binance must cease trading by 21 April after it incorrectly classified hundreds of retail customers as wholesale investors

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