The UK has been blowing a lot of hot air about wanting to be the next global crypto hub. Remember the bold pronouncements back in 2022? Now, crickets. While the EU charges ahead with MiCA and the US seems to be waking up – potentially with a pro-crypto Trump 2.0...
The United Kingdom is in danger of losing out in the race to establish itself as a global cryptocurrency centre, leading industry execs have told. Since last year, the UK government has pursued an agenda to make their country the home base for the crypto industry. Ambitious progress has largely...
The GENIUS Act. Sounds impressive, right? Guiding an Establishing National Innovation for U.S. It’s got all the buzzwords: Innovation, national, stablecoin. But beneath that shiny new initiative facade and bipartisan glow, lies something much less… genius. Don’t let big banks further entrench their stranglehold on the future of finance. This...
The U.S. Senate is making a meaningful step toward addressing the regulation of stablecoins with the advancement of the GENIUS Act. This legislation represents a key opportunity to help set the right crypto regulatory framework to foster innovation and protect consumers. It establishes a strong global precedent on the oversight...
The world is watching. London, Dubai, Singapore – they’re all in competing laptop races to become the global crypto capital. As our competitors around the world prepare to welcome in new innovation and investment, the US is still settling for keeping the roadblocks up. We're at a critical juncture. The...
Picture Anya, a gifted fabric-maker hailing from a remote rural community in Cambodia. Her elaborate creations are stunning, but getting to customers outside her brick and mortar store? Almost impossible. It’s the fees, the intermediaries, the gaudy bureaucracy of traditional finance that continues to hold her back, and millions of...
The crypto world has changed dramatically since those bubble days and is maturing beyond speculative assets into the realm of real-world use. Two equally important forces propelling this change are proportional regulation and sustainable tokenomics. These pieces are more than just buzzword bingo. These are the underpinnings that will fuel...
America’s digital asset industry has arrived at an important crossroads. It has to have robust tokenomics and smart regulation in order to foster innovation and establish investor trust. Each of these experts stressed the importance of compliance and strategic token design as key components. These three influential factors represent one...
U.S. Senator Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), who was elected to the Senate this past January, recently disclosed his substantial early investments in bitcoin. This disclosure has the government ethics community up in arms. Yet McCormick’s investments aren’t just striking — they’re perfectly in line with his role on the Senate Banking...
Now it is the turn of the UK Treasury to announce its plans to regulate the cryptocurrency industry. Their goal is to fold this new sector into the traditional banking regulatory framework. These blueprints include regulations on stablecoin issuance, as well as policies to curb market manipulation.The UK intends to...
