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SEC Drops Three Key Crypto Cases as Regulatory Grip Loosens
The regulator quietly dismissed enforcement actions against Kraken, Consensys, and Cumberland on Thursday. SEC Softens Stance, Dismisses Three Prominent Crypto Cases Ohio Republican Senator Bernardo Moreno, on Thursday called former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler, “one of the stupidest people in government.” That same day, the SEC dropped three prominent enforcementSource link
FDIC Reverses U.S. Crypto Banking Policy That Demanded Prior Approvals
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will no longer instruct banks to get prior sign-off before they engage in crypto activities — a standard that was set in 2022 and that effectively severed institutions from the digital assets sector as they waited for approvals that never came.The FDIC, which is the chief federal supervisor of thousands of typically smaller banks and runs the banking industry's government backstop, had occupied a significant role in the crypto debanking saga. A courtroom fight with crypto exchange Coinbase had recently unveiled dozens of letters between the regulator and banks it supervised. In that 2022 correspondence, the FDIC had instructed them to steer clear of new crypto matters while it hashed out policies, though the agency...
Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP Fall to Weekly Lows as Liquidations Spike Above $450 Million
Major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP are falling Friday alongside stocks amid growing inflation fears.Source link
Venezuelan Bolivar Plunges After Secondary Crude Tariff Regime Announcement
The Venezuelan bolivar accelerated its loss against the U.S. dollar as the government faced dollar shortages amid an economic trade war. The Trump administration’s secondary trade tariff regime on Venezuelan crude is starving the country of foreign currency to inject into the national market, driving these imbalances. Secondary Tariff Announcement Prompts Steep Venezuelan Bolivar DropSource link
CoreWeave Stock Debuts at $39 After Selling Shares for $40 A Piece
Shares of CoreWeave (CRWV) opened at $39 apiece during the company’s debut on Nasdaq on Friday afternoon, just under its initial public offering which closed Thursday evening.The cloud computing firm had sold roughly 37.5 million shares at $40 each, raising about $1.5 billion for its initial public offering (IPO), making it the largest tech offering since 2021. It had, however, initially planned to file the offering at $47 to $55 a share at a much higher valuation than it ultimately saw.Nvidia, an early investor in the company, placed a $250 million order in the offering.Some experts speculated that the stock’s debut wouldn’t see the success it had hoped for. Bloomberg Opinion US technology columnist Dave Lee, for example, pointed out...