Cryptocurrencies News

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – Celebrities who promoted FTX, including NFL quarterback Tom Brady and comedian Larry David, said an investor lawsuit seeking damages in the wake of the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse should be dismissed.

By Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday will weigh reopening a 2022 proposal that would expand the definition of an “exchange” following pushback from the cryptocurrency industry which fears being ensnared.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Following the Bank of Japan’s launch this month of a pilot programme to test the use of a digital yen, the Ministry of Finance plans to convene a meeting of experts on April 21 to discuss the way forward.

By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – Cryptocurrency investors are facing delays to withdraw funds deposited on the Ethereum blockchain after its major software upgrade, highlighting persistent headaches for Ethereum which aims to have the technology widely used for instant payments.

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar was on the back foot on Thursday after cooler-than-anticipated U.S. inflation data lifted risk sentiment and stoked expectations that the Federal Reserve will be done with its monetary tightening after hiking one last time next month.

(Reuters) – Trading and investing platform eToro said on Thursday it has partnered with Elon Musk-led Twitter to let users access real-time prices for cryptocurrencies, stocks and others assets.

By Tom Wilson (Reuters) – The software that underpins the second-biggest crypto coin ether is due for a software upgrade on Wednesday that will give investors access to more than $30 billion of the digital tokens.

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Deutsche Bank AG investment banker has been charged in an indictment unsealed on Tuesday with misappropriating funds from investors who he wooed with promises of big returns from cryptocurrency trading.

(Reuters) – Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has recovered over $7.3 billion in cash and crypto assets, an increase of more than $800 million since January, the company’s attorney said on Wednesday at a U.S. bankruptcy court hearing.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The U.S. arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it will remove digital asset tokens TRON and Spell from its trading platform, sending the prices of both down sharply on Wednesday.

By Leika Kihara (Reuters) – Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies will consider how best to help developing countries introduce central bank digital currencies (CBDC) consistent with appropriate international standards, Japan’s top currency diplomat Masato Kanda said on Tuesday.

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar paused for breath on Tuesday following its best rally this month against major peers as a resilient U.S. labour market bolstered the case for a Federal Reserve rate hike next month.

By Medha Singh and Lisa Pauline Mattackal

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Major cryptocurrency bitcoin breached the key $30,000 level for the first time in 10 months on Tuesday, adding to its steady gains as investors raised bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will soon end its aggressive monetary tightening campaign.

(Reuters) – The U.S. arm of cryptocurrency exchange firm Binance has struggled to find a bank for its customers’ cash after the failure of Signature Bank last month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday citing people familiar with the matter.

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) – The dollar gained slightly on Thursday but hasn’t strayed too far from a recent two-month low as traders weighed how pivotal U.S. jobs data coming out during a holiday weekend will impact Federal Reserve policy.

By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – The collapse of crypto exchange FTX and its grant-making body, the FTX Future Fund, has left some researchers at top universities without the funds they were promised and others trying to repay grants before they could be ordered to.

By Medha Singh and Lisa Pauline Mattackal

(Reuters) – Dogecoin’s Shiba Inu dog replaced Twitter’s blue bird as the social media company’s logo on Tuesday, helping the meme coin add as much as $4 billion to its market value.

By Anna-Catherine Brigida BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Crypto exchange Binance, which has been sued by U.S. regulators, said on Tuesday it is expanding services in inflation-hit Argentina, allowing users to buy and sell digital currencies directly with local pesos.