Cryptocurrencies News

By Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is nearing a settlement with a former Coinbase Global Inc product manager in a landmark case of insider trading involving cryptocurrency, according to a court filing this week.

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar started the week higher as fears over inflation resurfaced after a surprise announcement by major oil producers to cut production further, with traders wagering the Federal Reserve may need to increase interest rates at its next meeting.

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Elon Musk asked a U.S. judge on Friday to throw out a $258 billion racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.

PODGORICA (Reuters) – Police in Montenegro have detained a person thought to be Do Kwon, an international fugitive accused of defrauding investors in a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency scheme, the country’s interior minister said on Thursday.

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to plead not guilty on Thursday to new U.S. criminal charges, which include conspiring to violate campaign finance laws and bribe Chinese authorities.

By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) – Wall Street’s top regulator on Wednesday asked lawmakers to approve a 12% boost to his agency’s budget, citing burgeoning growth in financial markets and the rising risk of wrongdoing.

LONDON (Reuters) – The easy-cash era is over and markets are feeling the pinch from the sharpest jump in interest rate in decades.

By Angus Berwick and Chris Prentice (Reuters) – A former chief executive of Binance’s de-facto U.S. subsidiary has enlisted a former federal prosecutor and top cop at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to represent her in the U.S. government’s investigations into the giant cryptocurrency exchange, a

By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – Investors withdrew $1.6 billion of cryptocurrency from crypto exchange Binance since it was sued by the U.S. CFTC on Monday, blockchain data tracker Nansen said on Wednesday.

It has been another impressive morning for XRP and the broader crypto market that continues to show resilience in the face of intensifying scrutiny.

The Fed is about to get dragged over the hot coals. Yet, despite the collapse of two US regional banks, the White House remains focused on cryptos.

By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to hear a bid by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc to halt customer lawsuits, including by a user who sued after a scammer stole money from his account, as it

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By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) – Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX on Sunday sued the liquidators overseeing the wind-down of its Bahamian affiliate FTX Digital Markets, accusing them of wrongly claiming ownership of the exchange’s assets.

(Reuters) – Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc said on Monday it has stopped support for Signature Bank’s digital payments platform Signet, more than a week after U.S. regulators took control of the bank.

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – Currency markets showed some cautious optimism after global authorities moved to stem contagion from a simmering banking crisis, with the safe haven dollar on the back foot and the yen tumbling amid a rebound in Treasury yields.

By Georgina Lee HONG KONG (Reuters) – Bitcoin hovered near nine-month highs on Monday, and has closed out its best week in four years as turmoil in traditional banking drives some investors to turn to digital assets.

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried are nearing an agreement with U.S. prosecutors on revised bail conditions for the indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder, who is trying to convince a skeptical judge he should remain free.

(Reuters) – Bitcoin rose 5.19% to $28,380 at 20:01 GMT on Sunday, adding $1,400 to its previous close.

It was a bullish end to the week for the crypto market. US banking sector troubles drove demand as lawmakers prepare to grill banking regulators.