North Carolina lawmakers filed a bill that seeks to authorize the use of crypto for economic transactions, such as tax payments. The state has previously proposed bills to allow state investments in ...

President Donald Trump tapped Atkins in December to lead the SEC and is expected to take a friendly approach to crypto. Some Democrats criticized Trump’s pick over Atkins’ ties to collapsed crypto ...

Standard Crypto Investor Nick Matthew discusses memecoins, stablecoins and the crypto ecosystem’s potential shift to focus on building ‘Fintech 2.0’ Episode 513 of The Scoop was recorded with The ...

South Korean banking executives gathered with local lawmakers to request more flexibility in regulations over their collaboration with crypto firms. Woori Bank’s leader asked that exchanges be allowed ...

Trump’s tariffs caught markets off guard and digital asset volumes dropped to pre-election levels while volatility increased during the first quarter of 2025. Equities and gold outperformed bitcoin, ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved options trading on spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds. In an "accelerated approval" filed on Wednesday, the SEC said Nasdaq ISE, LLC's filing ...

Pakistan’s Crypto Council is planning to use the country’s excess electricity for bitcoin mining and AI data centers, Reuters reported. The council was formed last month in an aim to support ...

First Digital Trust is preparing to sue Justin Sun for defamation after the crypto mogul raised concerns about the Hong Kong-based firm. Last week, Sun claimed First Digital was “effectively insolvent ...

The following is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons. It's Wednesday. The crypto markets have rebounded somewhat thanks to mostly favorable tariff ...

OpenSea, the leading centralized NFT marketplace, is pushing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to clarify that NFT marketplaces do not qualify as exchanges or brokers under federal ...

In a new Congress, lawmakers are quickly working to pass both a stablecoin bill and a market structure bill. Some Democrats on Wednesday raised concerns over the Department of Justice’s move to ...

Magic Eden just made its biggest move beyond NFTs — buying Slingshot to take on centralized exchanges. The NFT marketplace will now support trading across millions of tokens. Magic Eden, the NFT ...