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Trump and his son Eric have been teasing World Liberty Financial as the Republican presidential candidate’s latest foray into crypto. Earlier this week, Trump launched a fourth NFT collection in a bid to repeat his previous million-dollar successes selling crypto collectibles. He is also separately promising to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the

On Wednesday local time, Durov was indicted in a French court on charges related to enabling illicit transactions and child exploitation on the platform, failing to cooperate with police and providing encryption services without controls, following his recent arrest near Paris, among other charges.

According to a charge sheet published by French authorities earlier this week, Durov is being charged with being complicit in the administration of an online platform allowing illicit transactions, refusing to comply with police requests for documents or other communications in ongoing investigations, being complicit in the dissemination of child exploitation material and a host

Bitcoin had topped $62,700 earlier in the day, but recently was down 6.5% from 24 hours earlier. Amid the rout, it got as low as $58,240, the lowest price since Aug. 19. Ether traded as high as $2,700 earlier Wednesday, but recently fetched less than $2,500.

“Locally, a Telegram ban will have a lasting negative impact on the business development and marketing of the more than 300 solid web3 projects from India,” said Ayush Ranjan, CEO of Huddle01, a DePIN dedicated to making real-time communication performant. “Millions of Indians are active members…disrupting this communication would also impact the price formation of

BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA) just passed $1 billion of net inflows, making it the seventh-most-successful ETF launch this year, according to Nate Geraci, president of the ETF Store. Fidelity’s Advantage Ether ETF and the Bitwise Ethereum ETF have taken in $390 million and $312 million, respectively, according to data from Farside Investors.

“After news appeared in the media about the detention of P.V. Durov, we immediately requested clarification from the French authorities regarding the reasons and demanded the protection of his rights and the provision of consular access. As of today, the French side has so far avoided cooperation on this issue,” the Russian embassy in France

The warrant for his arrest stems from a criminal complaint by OFIM, an office of the French national police formed in November 2023, which considers Durov complicit because of Telegram’s lack of moderation, in drug trafficking, distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and fraud due to Telegram’s lack of moderation and cooperation with law

Already higher by about 3% on the Fed news, bitcoin (BTC) rose further following the Kennedy announcement, trading at $63,800 at press time, or up 5.6% over the past 24 hours. The broader CoinDesk 20 Index was up 4.7% over the same time frame, with ether (ETH), tezos {{XTX}} and solana (SOL) among the tokens

“I no longer believe that I have a realistic path to electoral victory in the face of this relentless, systematic censorship and media control,” RFK Jr. said Friday at a press event in Arizona. “Our polling consistently showed by staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election over to

I mean, first of all, politicians aren’t investment advisers and their words shouldn’t be treated as investment advice. But what does this “real economy” mean? Is a government bond part of the real economy, if that money is going to pay off debt from government spending during, say, Covid? Is that real? Is investing in

“Overall, we’re disappointed by today’s ruling, but we’re prepared and willing to comply with the court’s decision,” a Kraken spokesperson said in a statement sent via email. “We’re pleased the judge understood the nuances in this case, and recognised the challenges in applying existing regulatory frameworks to innovative technologies.”

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“The motivation and the incentives are there. Two pieces of the incentives that are really important, [House Financial Services Committee Patrick] McHenry [in] financial services, [Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie] Stabenow [are both retiring members,” he said. “Schumer wants to give Stabenow a swan song, which could be this legislation. So you have the forces

When asked why Prometheum selected UNI and ARB, Kaplan responded, “Prometheum Capital intends to provide investors access to the top digital assets over time, as well as tokenized assets, debt, equities, [exchange traded funds], mutual funds, options, money market funds and other investment contract products that are issued and transferred on a blockchain.”

Another crypto fan is likely to arrive in Congress next year, with Yassamin Ansari winning her Democratic primary race in Arizona by a scant 39 votes, a result confirmed Tuesday after an automatic recount. Ansari, a former vice mayor of Phoenix, will move on to the general election in a district that strongly favors Democrats,

“It is a potential multi-year agreement and a minimum one-year/season deal,” a Floki team member told CoinDesk in an interview. “Regarding the benefits to Floki holders, there are many such as increased brand awareness & recognition as well as the exposure to our ecosystem and community.”

2024 is the year when account abstraction (which hides from users some of the technical wiring of blockchain transactions) picked up across Web3. The realization that the current Web3 user experience may not be compelling enough to persuade mainstream users to transition from Web2 has recently generated a lot of attention. Today, there are a

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