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Binance.US Can Move Ahead With Plan to Acquire Voyager Digital's Assets, Judge Rules

The bankruptcy judge in the Voyager Digital case chose to allow the deal with Binance.US over objections from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators.

Voyager Digital's bankrupcy has left creditors in the lurch. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Federal Reserve’s Powell: We Don’t Want to Strangle Crypto Innovation, but Sector Is a Mess

The central bank's chairman said the Fed is sticking to its warnings that banks should be “quite cautious” about getting involved in digital assets.

Fed Chair Jay Powell Signaled Easier Monetary Policy on Wednesday (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Judges Express Skepticism of SEC Arguments in Grayscale Bitcoin ETF Hearing

The panel of appeals court judges questioned the SEC's logic in drawing a distinction between bitcoin spot market prices and futures market prices.

U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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U.S. Lawmakers to Reintroduce Crypto Tax Reform Bill: Report

The Keep Innovation in America Act was first introduced in March 2021.

(Cristina Glebova/Unsplash)

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SEC Accuses Utah-Based Green United of Running $18M Crypto Mining Scam

Green United allegedly sold investors crypto mining equipment that didn’t mine what the company claimed it mined.

Celsius and Core Scientific hope to raise millions via mining rig vouchers (alvarez/Getty Images)

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U.S. Banking Watchdog: You Can’t Trust Crypto Firms Until They Get Federal Oversight

The chief of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency equated the FTX collapse with a well-known 1990s bank failure in arguing for consolidated industry regulators.

Acting OCC Chief Michael Hsu (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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FTX Bankruptcy Examiner Denial Appealed by U.S. Government

An independent investigation could cost as much as $100 million, the federal court in Delaware has previously been warned.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Liz Napolitano/CoinDesk)

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The Rise and Fall of Silvergate’s Crypto Business

The bank’s own data shows the rapid acceleration of its novel crypto-banking business and how leaning into digital assets made it vulnerable to the industry’s drama.

(Charlotte Harrison/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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House Digital Assets Panel Chair Ready to Work With Ag Committee on Crypto Framework

U.S. Representative French Hill is the chairman of the newly formed Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets.

The United States Capitol (Getty Images)

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DeFi to Go Under Microscope at US CFTC Advisory Group’s Opening Session

The derivative regulators’ Technology Advisory Committee will examine DeFi among other tech priorities at a March 22 meeting.

(Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)