The new mechanism on Starknet means that anyone holding more than 20,000 STRK will be able to stake on the network, from the fourth quarter of this year. Source
The SEC sued Kraken in the Northern District of California last November asking the court to permanently enjoin the exchange from further securities violations, seeking disgorgement of its “ill-gotten gains” and other civil penalties. The regulator listed ADA, ALGO, ATOM, FIL, FLOW, ICP, MANA, MATIC, NEAR, OMG, and the SOL tokens as the 11 unregistered securities. Source
World Liberty Finance is helmed by Trump’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr, and the 18-year-old Barron Trump is the project’s “DeFi visionary.” Source
“Appellee KalshiEx LLC (‘LLC’), knowing that this Court’s review was imminent, has raced to launch its election gambling contracts on the same day the District Court issued a memorandum opinion, before Appellant the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (‘Commission’ or ‘CFTC’) has had the opportunity to file this motion for stay pending appeal about the serious legal issues and public interests at stake,” the CFTC said in its filing. Source
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Etoro, which is based in Israel, is not a big player in the U.S. crypto market. It has only 240,000 customer accounts compared to Coinbase’s 100 million. But the SEC agreement is significant for the clues it offers about how the regulator views the key legal question of which digital assets are not securities, and therefore outside its supervision, lawyers contacted by CoinDesk said. Source
But in a 32-page memorandum to U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York (SDNY) last week, Salame argued that prosecutors had promised him that they would cease any investigations into Michelle Bond, Salame’s long-time partner and mother of his child, as part of his plea deal. Source
In 2022, Buterin proposed a set of stages for rollups, to classify them in their pursuit of decentralization. The criteria is meant to showcase that rollups tend to rely on “training wheels” and deploy their protocols to users before it’s ready to fully decentralize. Source
Based on a survey of more than 2,500 cryptocurrency users in Brazil, Nigeria, Turkey, Indonesia, and India, access to crypto markets was still the leading motivation for using stablecoins, but there’s a wide variety of popular non-digital asset use cases as well. Source
The USDC issuer will move into One World Trade Center, and New York Mayor Eric Adams – who has sought to make the city a crypto hub – will attend the Friday ribbon cutting. Source