Cryptocurrencies News

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia should increase the rouble’s share in international settlements and gradually move towards stopping using currencies of designated ‘unfriendly’ countries that imposed sanctions on Russia, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Tuesday.

(Reuters) – Hodlnaut said on Tuesday it has been placed under interim judicial management by the Singapore High Court, after the troubled cryptocurrency lender suspended withdrawals earlier this month.

By Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Medha Singh

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The chief of Singapore’s central bank said the city-state is considering new measures that will make it more difficult for retail investors to trade cryptocurrencies at a time when they seem to be “irrationally oblivious” about the risks.

(Reuters) – Bitcoin was off 1.63% at $19,920 by late afternoon in Europe on Saturday, down $330 from its previous close.

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s top crypto app CoinSwitch is cooperating with the national financial-crime agency, whose agents searched its offices this week to find out about its business model and user-onboarding processes, its CEO told Reuters on Saturday.

By John McCrank (Reuters) – Cboe Global Markets Inc on Thursday said it is in discussions with several market participants, including retail brokers and market makers, about taking strategic stakes in its recently acquired digital asset exchange, ErisX, which will be renamed Cboe Digital.

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar edged back from near a two-decade peak against a basket of major currencies on Thursday as investors looked to a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell the following day for fresh clues on the path for

By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – Thieves stole over $100 million worth of non-fungible tokens in the year to July, blockchain research firm Elliptic said on Wednesday, as the fast-emerging digital asset became a new front in crypto’s hacking problem.

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Celsius Network LLC on Tuesday sued a former investment manager, accusing him of losing or stealing tens of millions of dollars in assets before the crypto lender went bankrupt last month.

It was a busy Tuesday for the crypto market. Investor angst over Fed monetary policy eased, while uncertainty lingers ahead of Powell’s Friday speech.

US private sector PMIs and new home sales figures delivered a warning to the Fed, with a sharper contraction in the services sector to test the Fed’s metal.

By Lisa Pauline Mattackal (Reuters) – The DeFi dream is shaken. And stirred.

The ex-OpenSea executive has filed to dismiss the DOJ case that alleges NFT insider trading

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia said on Monday it would do a virtual stocktake of the country’s cryptocurrency holdings, the first signal from the new centre-left government that it plans to regulate the $1 trillion sector.

Australia’s Labor government will undertake a token mapping exercise in order to help shape its regulatory approach

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar climbed to a fresh one-month high against a basket of major peers on Friday as Federal Reserve policymakers continued to talk up the need for further interest rate hikes ahead of their key Jackson Hole symposium next

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. bank regulator ordered crypto exchange FTX on Friday to halt “false and misleading” claims it had made about whether funds at the company are insured by the government.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Cryptocurrencies fell sharply on Friday, with sudden selling dragging bitcoin to a three-week low.

LONDON (Reuters) – Stablecoin Tether’s reserves were worth $66 billion at the end of June 2022, down from $82.4 billion at the end of March, the company said in a statement on Friday.