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FCA will 'absolutely' consider recent stablecoin depegging when drafting crypto rules: Report

The United Kingdom's Economic and Finance Ministry announced in April that it would work to incorporate stablecoins into a regulatory framework on digital assets. Sarah Pritchard, the executive director of markets at the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority, or FCA, reportedly said the regulator will look at the recent volatility in the crypto markets when creating rules for the space in 2022.According to a Friday Bloomberg report, Pritchard said the financial regulator will “absolutely” take into account stablecoins like TerraUSD (UST) and Tether (USDT) depegging from the US dollar in drafting regulatory guidelines with Her Majesty's Treasury for release later this year.

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Tether Cuts 17% Of Its Commercial Paper Holdings Over Q1 2022

As per the official report published on May 18, Tether, the issuer of the world’s most used stablecoin, USDT, has cut 17% of its commercial paper holdings and increased United States Treasury bills with this reserve amount to back its stablecoin, USDT.

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Terraform Labs, Luna Foundation Guard Bought 3.06m AVAX in total: Avalanche Foundation

The Avalanche indicates that Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) has no plans to sell the AVAX tokens in its treasury.

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VeChain Foundation reports $1.2B crypto treasury but spent just $4M in Q1

The supply chain tracking project has a comfortable cushion in its Foundation treasury, but expenditures were very low through the first quarter of 2022. The VeChain Foundation has released its financial report for Q1 2022, showing that the project amassed an impressive $1.2 billion war chest but only spent about $4.1 million in the quarter.VeChain is a blockchain project designed to enhance supply chain management.The Foundation’s Tuesday financial report for Q1 2022 outlines its balance sheet as of March 31and how it spent funds through the quarter.

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Compound Treasury Rated by S&P in Historic First for DeFi

The “Big Three” credit rating agency awarded a junk grade of B-, a move that nonetheless marks a major milestone for decentralized finance.

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Compound Treasury receives B- credit rating from S&P Global Ratings

Though the protocol offers an arguably lucrative yield of 4% per year, it's only available to accredited investors as of now.

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US Treasury Imposes Sanctions on North Korean Crypto Mixer

Blender.io is the first digital asset mixer that has been banned by the Treasury.

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Lazarus-Linked Blender.io Added to US Treasury's Sanction List

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mixing service, Blender.io has been added to the sanctions list by the United States Treasury Department.

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US Treasury Sanctions First Crypto Mixer

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued its first-ever sanctions on a crypto mixer.

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Crypto mixer sanctioned by US Treasury for role in Axie Infinity hack

The crypto mixer is said to have processed $20.5 million out of the $620 million taken by North Korean Lazarus Group hackers. The United States Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Friday that it was sanctioning cryptocurrency mixer Blender.io for its role in laundering proceeds from the hacking of Axie Infinity's Ronin Bridge.

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US Treasury Issues First Sanctions Against a Cryptocurrency Mixer

OFAC claims that crypto mixing service Blender has links to North Korean hackers and was used to launder funds stolen from Axie Infinity.

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El Salvador’s Bitcoin Volcano Bonds Launch Still on Hold, According to Treasury Minister

The date of the launch of the Salvadoran bitcoin bonds, the instrument that would serve to build the announced Salvadoran Bitcoin City, is still unknown.

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Treasury Bills: An ApeSwap community success story

Although the launch of ApeSwap Treasury Bills was one of the most anticipated NFTs of Spring 2022, nobody could have predicted their immediate success. When the Treasury Bills launched on AprilThe post Treasury Bills: An ApeSwap community success story appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Compass Mining to Sold $30m Worth of Assets in Russia to Fend Off Sanctions

Compass Mining, an American cryptocurrency mining firm, is looking for buyers for its gears stranded in Russia in a bid to avoid being sanctioned by the United States Department of Treasury.

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US Treasury Sanctions Three Ethereum (ETH) Wallets With Ties to North Korean Hacker Group

The US Department of the Treasury is sanctioning three Ethereum (ETH) wallets connected to the North Korean hacking group reportedly behind last month’s Ronin Network attack.

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The new HM Treasury regulations: The good, the bad and the ugly

With the UK never having been particularly crypto-friendly, could new regulations and Her Majesty's Treasury’s recent announcements be a game changer? As the 2021-2022 United Kingdom tax year finished on April 5, 2022, Her Majesty's Treasury announced they were paving the way for the UK to become a global crypto asset technology hub.

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US Treasury Links More Ethereum Wallets to $622M Ronin Network Hack

Three additional wallets have been tied to North Korea’s Lazarus hacking group following March’s Axie Infinity sidechain attack.

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US Treasury Dept sanctions 3 Ethereum addresses allegedly linked to North Korea

The government department hinted that the addresses were added to the list in an effort to stop North Korea from evading sanctions imposed by the United States and United Nations. The United States Treasury Department has added three Ethereum wallet addresses to sanctions allegedly linked to the hacker group responsible for the theft of more than $600 million in crypto from nonfungible token game Axie Infinity’s Ronin sidechain.In a Friday update, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, listed three Ethereum addresses to its Specially Designated Nationals restrictions for North Korea’s Lazarus Group.

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US Sanctions Bitriver, Targets Russia’s Crypto Mining Potential

In an attempt to deny Russia opportunities to evade sanctions through cryptocurrencies, the US Department of the Treasury has sanctioned leading Russian mining firm Bitriver.

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US Treasury Department Imposes Sanctions on Russian Crypto Mining Firm Bitriver

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia last over 2 months, The US strengthens sanctions over Russia, adding Bitriver to the sanctions list in connection with its ties to the Russian economy.

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Simplify files with SEC for Bitcoin Strategy Risk-Managed Income ETF

The asset manager said it would purchase “exchange-traded protective put options" and write "exchange-traded call options on Bitcoin futures and/or a Bitcoin related ETF or ETFs.” Asset manager Simplify has filed a registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to list shares of an exchange-traded fund linked to Bitcoin futures, Treasury securities, and options.In a Wednesday filing, Simplify applied with the SEC for an investment vehicle based on a Bitcoin (BTC) futures strategy, an income strategy, and an option overlay strategy.

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US Treasury Dept lists crypto mining firm in latest sanctions against Russia

"The United States is committed to ensuring that no asset, no matter how complex, becomes a mechanism for the Putin regime to offset the impact of sanctions,” said Treasury. The United States Treasury Department has added Russia-based crypto mining services provider BitRiver and several subsidiaries as firms facilitating the evasion of sanctions. In a Wednesday announcement, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, said it was taking action against BitRiver AG as well as 10 of its Russia-based subsidiaries, naming the companies as ‘Specially Designated Nationals’.

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US Government Sanctions Russian Bitcoin Miner

The Treasury department added Moscow-based BitRiver to its Specially Designated Nationals list.

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FBI Issues Alert Concerning Malicious State-Sponsored North Korean Hackers Targeting Crypto Firms

On April 18, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US Treasury Department, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) report concerning malicious North Korean state-sponsored cryptocurrency activity.

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FBI, US Treasury Department Warn About North Korean-Backed Crypto Hackers

North Korean-sponsored hackers steal crypto assets from US exchanges and firms to support Kim Jong-un’s dictatorship regime.

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Ethereum Foundation treasury expands non-crypto assets to 19%

The foundation that oversees and funds developments on the Ethereum network has disclosed its total holdings, which include a sizable fifth in non-crypto assets. The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has released a report detailing how its $1.6 billion treasury consists mostly of Ether (ETH), but with a surprising 18.8% in non-crypto assets.In total, the EF non-profit organization which manages the funds for Ethereum developments holds about 0.3% of the current total ETH supply, amounting to roughly $1.3 billion which is verifiable on Etherscan.

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FBI and CSIA issue alert over North Korean cyberattacks on crypto targets

The cybersecurity agency believes that the threat from North Korean hackers will not go away unless crypto firms take necessary but simple steps to ensure their security. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and FBI have issued an alert on North Korean state-sponsored cyber threats that target blockchain companies in response to the Ronin Bridge hack last month.The alert was issued on April 18 in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Treasury Department which had warnings and mitigation suggestions for blockchain and crypto firms to ensure their own operations remain safe from hackers.With the @FBI, and @USTreasury, we released a new cybersecurity advisory on North Korean state-sponsored activity targeting blockchain technology and the cryptocurrency industry.

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Ethereum Foundation’s Financial Report Discloses It Holds $1.6 Billion in Assets, 80.5% Held in Ether

On Monday, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) published a financial report that shows the foundation currently holds $1.6 billion in its treasury.

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CoinEx Security Team: The Security Risks of THORChain (RUNE)

According to THORChain’s treasury report for Q1 2022 released on April 1, the chain registered a growth in revenue despite the twofold impact of persistent market sluggishness and highly unstable geopolitical factors.

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Cult DAO Breaks Down Recent Increase in CULT Treasury Volume

[PRESS RELEASE – London, UK, 12th April 2022] Cult DAO, a community-driven decentralized autonomous organization, published recent data on its hyper-deflationary CULT token, gaining the necessary traction and volume to overcome an initial stage of anonymity.

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