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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Tuesday that it has charged and reached agreements with two companies and their owners that operate in the cryptocurrency space. The securities regulator alleged that Crypto Asset Management LP (CAM) and its principal, Timothy Enneking, had marketed itself under false pretenses, alleging that Enneking raised more than…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was out of bounds when it issued its controversial "Staff Accounting Bulletin 121," according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and Congress should have had a chance to review it.The 2022 guidance, which the industry says threatens crypto investors' ability to find safe harbors for their assets, should

Apr 6, 2020 at 13:40 UTCUpdated Apr 6, 2020 at 14:27 UTCTron CEO Justin Sun speaks at niTROn Summit 2019, photo by Brady Dale for CoinDeskPoloniex’s New Tron-Powered IEO Platform Moves Exchange Closer to Justin Sun’s OrbitPoloniex has launched an initial exchange offering (IEO) platform that aligns the exchange more closely with the interests of…

news Oxfam International, a U.K.-based non-profit with a global reach, just spent a month testing MakerDAO’s stablecoin DAI as a vehicle for helping disaster victims. The pilot project in the South Pacific Ocean nation of Vanuatu was conducted in partnership with Australian tech firm Sempo and ethereum startup ConsenSys, Australian news outlet Micky reports. Vanuatu routinely faces…

The free crypto train is continuing to roll for Saga phone owners, who on Tuesday began receiving tokens worth $250 from crypto publishing platform Access Protocol.Access Protocol tweeted that it was giving all owners of the Solana-centric phone 100,000 ACS tokens, continuing the trend of exclusive airdrops that have helped the once-struggling cellphone turn into

feature With the Turkish lira dropping to a six-month low against the dollar last week, bitcoin is continuing to pick up even more traction in Istanbul. Andy Cheung, head of operations at the global crypto exchange OKEx, told CoinDesk that over 30,000 Turkish users signed up for the platform since it expanded services to Turkey…

Sep 24, 2020 at 17:36 UTC(Leungchopan/Shutterstock)A new cryptocurrency trading platform is gearing up to offer zero-fee trades to users in six countries in the Gulf Region. Announced on Thursday, the platform Fasset Exchange (FEX)  has started sign-ups for its private beta and is planning a public rollout later this year. According to a press statement emailed…

opinion David Nage is the founder of Roadmap, LLC and the former Managing Director of Apeiron Ventures, a private investment office. His crypto writings can be found on Medium at @david_55389.  The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  “It is a False Start if the ball has been placed ready for play,…

OMFIF also found that 65% of its respondents believed that bonds were the most likely to be tokenized. Countries have been describing blockchain and tokenization as the future; experiments have been conducted by the U.K. and Bank for International Settlements. According to a survey done by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) most