Cryptocurrencies News

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The dollar hovered near a five-week high against major peers on Monday on rising bets for prolonged Federal Reserve policy tightening ahead of a crucial consumer price report the following day.

By Nikunj Ohri (Reuters) – The Group of 20 (G20) big economies is exploring whether the group could collectively regulate cryptocurrencies, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday.

By Brendan O’Boyle (Reuters) – Risks over El Salvador’s embrace of bitcoin “have not materialized,” but use of the cryptocurrency still requires transparency and attention, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Friday in a statement after a visit to the Central American country.

(Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Robinhood Markets Inc of misleading investors when conducting its 2021 initial public offering about the brokerage’s financials and growth prospects.

By Hannah Lang and Elizabeth Howcroft (Reuters) – Crypto companies offering their customers eye-popping yields through so-called “staking” products are earning the ire of the U.S. securities regulator who says such services should be registered.

By Hannah Lang (Reuters) -Crypto exchange Kraken agreed to shut down its cryptocurrency staking service and pay $30 million in penalties to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it failed to register the program, the agency said on Thursday, in a move that could cause headaches for platforms

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday is set to hear arguments on whether FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried will be able to contact employees of companies he once controlled while out on bail ahead of his trial on fraud

LONDON (Reuters) – Bank of New York Mellon’s head of digital assets Michael Demissie said on Wednesday that digital assets are “here to stay”, citing a 2022 study of the custodian bank’s clients.

(Reuters) – Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the sale of unregistered securities, according to a Bloomberg report.

By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) – Failed crypto firm FTX received court approval on Wednesday to issue subpoenas to its founder Sam Bankman-Fried and members of his family as part of the company’s investigation into “misappropriated and stolen” funds.

(Reuters) – Digital Currency Group (DCG) is selling shares in several of its cryptocurrency funds at a high discount, and has started offloading its holdings in investment vehicles run by subsidiary Grayscale, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A former Coinbase Global Inc product manager pleaded guilty on Tuesday in what U.S. prosecutors have called the first insider trading case involving cryptocurrency, his defense lawyer said in a court hearing.

By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a proposal to modify Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail conditions, despite an agreement between the FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder and prosecutors to address potential witness tampering concerns.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to postpone civil cases brought against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried by federal regulators until a parallel criminal case against the former billionaire concludes.

(Reuters) – Canada’s Hut 8 Mining Corp. plans to merge with rival U.S. Bitcoin in an all-stock deal to create a mining giant in North America, the companies said on Tuesday.

By Medha Singh, Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Vidya Ranganathan

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – North Korea stole more cryptocurrency assets in 2022 than in any other year and targeted the networks of foreign aerospace and defense companies, according to a currently confidential United Nations report seen by Reuters on Monday.

By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) – A U.S. bankruptcy judge at a court hearing in Delaware will consider on Monday whether to greenlight a court-supervised investigation into the collapse of FTX, a course of action that the crypto exchange has opposed as redundant and wasteful.

By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Cryptomarkets have not been killed off by last year’s turmoil, while the new wave of central bank digital currencies will face geopolitical limits, the Bank for International Settlements’ new innovation head has predicted.

LONDON (Reuters) – Self-proclaimed bitcoin creator Craig Wright’s lawsuit against bitcoin network developers to try to recover billions of dollars can continue to trial, a London court said on Friday.