The US Treasury Asks the Public to Help Guide the Future of Crypto Regulation

Neither the author, Tim Fries, nor this website, The Tokenist, provide financial advice. Please consult our website policy prior to making financial decisions. The United States Department of Treasury published a notice on Monday, September 19th, calling on the public to comment on various crypto-related questions. There is a special focus both on crypto-related crime, and ways […]

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Ethereum Under Threat From the SEC and Down Nearly 20% After the Merge

Neither the author, Tim Fries, nor this website, The Tokenist, provide financial advice. Please consult our website policy prior to making financial decisions. While Ethereum successfully completed its much-anticipated upgrade on Thursday, it found itself valued at $1,432 on Friday, September 16th—its second-lowest price since July. While the sentiment surrounding “the Merge” has been vocally bullish, this […]

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US’ DOJ Calls for Stronger Crypto Crime Laws, Launches DAC Network

<p class=”text-align-justify”>The United States Justice Department (DOJ) on Friday announced that its Criminal Division has launched a nationwide Digital Asset Coordinator (DAC) Network. </p><p>The DAC Network was created to boost the federal executive department’s efforts to “combat the growing threat posed by the illicit use of digital assets to the American public,” it explained.</p><p>The network […]

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Hoskinson Discusses Ethereum Switch To PoS Consensus, Latest US Crypto Proposal, and Views on Ethereum Classic Hype

Cardano creator Charles Hoskinson opined that new recommendations championed by the US government would impact not only Bitcoin but the broader cryptocurrency industry. The proposal outlined in a recent White House Office of Science and Technology Policy report seeks to engage the  Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency in developing environmental standards as […]

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The Standard DAO is Pioneering Stablecoins as the Calls for Regulation Grow Louder

<p class=”MsoNormal text-align-start”>Regulated Stablecoins are Coming</p><p class=”MsoNormal”>The stablecoin space is a critical part of the cryptocurrency market’s infrastructure. It underpins the overwhelming majority of fiat denominated trades in the space as well as a significant portion of the volume of the space’s largest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. Yet, given its critical nature, it has continued […]

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White House Unveils First-Ever Framework on Digital Assets Regulation

Neither the author, Tim Fries, nor this website, The Tokenist, provide financial advice. Please consult our website policy prior to making financial decisions. The White House published its first-ever framework on crypto regulation, which explores how should the U.S. financial services industry develop to facilitate borderless transactions while minimizing fraud in the crypto space. The framework comes […]

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DeFinity introduces crypto anomaly detection on ETH and MATIC

DeFinity Markets, an institutional digital asset ECN, announced it would release crypto market anomaly signals hourly via the new Clarity Absolute App to enhance the current daily offerings and as historical data on Ethereum and Polygon, available on Ocean Market, Coin Journal learned from a press release.  Anomaly detection for 12 major cryptos Generally, platforms […]

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Senator Criticizes SEC Over Crypto Regulation as Gensler Implies ETH is Now a Security

Neither the author, Tim Fries, nor this website, The Tokenist, provide financial advice. Please consult our website policy prior to making financial decisions. Gary Gensler, the SEC’s Chairman, commented on Thursday, September 15th that he considers that tokens working on a PoS model are likely all securities. His comments were particularly conspicuous as they came just hours […]

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