A legal twist allowed the South Korean Treasury to make a large profit on crypto seized by law enforcers in 2018 – and liquidated while Bitcoin (BTC) was trading for just under $40,000.

Barry Silbert’s crypto conglomerate Digital Currency Group (DCG) saw its revenue rise 63% in the first quarter compared to the prior quarter, but it was still down on a year-over-year basis.

The largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange launched the Coinbase International Exchange, which will be open to institutional investors outside the U.S., following tension with the Securities and Exchange Commission over the past few weeks. 

Major crypto price tracking site CoinMarketCap is venturing into the world of reality TV with the launch of “Killer Whales,” a new contest show focused on Web3. 

Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz, better known as a16z, has called for a “more nuanced” approach to crypto regulations in the UK, saying the current don’t distinguish between risky centralized crypto systems and less risky decentralized systems.

The crypto exchange giant Binance is set to launch “Binance Japan” next month by rebranding a Japanese exchange it bought late last year.

Artificial Intelligence has been very much in the news lately, and it seems that every day we hear about new amazing things that can be done with this technology. Yet with great power come great challenges. There are currently legal questions regarding A.I. content, that once sorted out, will open up brave new venues for using it, particularly in the crypto sector.

Major Wall Street investment bank JPMorgan is moving forward with its push to tokenize traditional financial assets despite last year’s market downturn.

The payments giant Visa has unveiled a new blockchain and central bank digital currency (CBDC) project in Brazil.

Ukraine is set to roll out new, EU-inspired crypto regulations, with Kyiv hoping to impose the rules before the year is out.

As Meta and other Western tech giants seek to create virtual worlds for consumers in the metaverse, China is taking a different approach. 

A court in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar has ordered several crypto exchanges to assist in the investigation of the collapsed crypto trading firm Globix.

The securities regulator in the Bahamas has unveiled a new piece of draft regulation developed as a response to the collapse of the Bahamas-based crypto exchange FTX.

French taxpayers declared some $442 million worth of crypto trading profits in the most recent tax year, per the nation’s tax body.

“Crypto is dead in America”.

A new central bank digital currency (CBDC) in Europe would be designed with privacy in mind, although it would never be as private as cash is, according to a European Central Bank (ECB) official.