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Hong Kong’s Cyberport, a government-backed business hub focused on Web3, blockchain and artificial intelligence, is ramping up its investment in emerging technologies to position the city as a global tech leader. On Feb. 27, Cyberport hosted the “AI Safety, Trust, and Responsibility” forum with international AI academic institutions to discuss AI governance, safety and responsible

Arizona’s Senate has advanced a Bitcoin reserve bill, bringing it to second place behind Utah in a race between US states to get a crypto investment bill approved.  The Arizona Senate passed the Strategic Digital Assets Reserve bill (SB 1373) on its third reading on Feb. 27 with a vote of 17 for and 12

The US Securities and Exchange Commission, under former chair Gary Gensler, used settlements to pressure founders of decentralized finance platforms from ever working in the industry again, according to venture capital firm Founders Fund partner Joey Krug. “The thing people don’t really know about is that the government, in many cases, went to founders of

The US Securities and Exchange Commission says it does not view memecoins as securities but warned any fraudulent tokens could still be subject to enforcement actions by other regulators. The agency’s Division of Corporation Finance said in a Feb. 27 statement that, in its view, memecoins “do not involve the offer and sale of securities

Rebecca Liao, co-founder and CEO of layer-1 blockchain Saga, believes that digital assets began as a bipartisan issue but gravitated toward the Republican Party in the last election cycle due to the previous administration’s anti-crypto policies. In an interview with Cointelegraph’s Turner Wright during the ETHDenver Conference, Liao pointed to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has dismissed its lawsuit with crypto exchange Coinbase on Feb. 27, filings show, ending the case permanently. The SEC agreed to voluntarily dismiss all litigation tied to Coinbase and Coinbase Global with prejudice, which included withdrawing from its initial June 2023 lawsuit and its request for an interlocutory appeal

Recent efforts to “debank” crypto firms in the US revealed a “staggering” level of corruption among government officials, and the problem is not yet resolved, one banking executive said in a Feb. 27 interview during Bitcoin Investor Week.  “The magnitude of skullduggery that is happening in Washington D.C. is really incredible… and it’s not over

The Finance Ministry of Pakistan is considering forming a “National Crypto Council” to explore the legalization of cryptocurrencies in the country, according to a report from local publication Dawn. The change in position came after Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb had a meeting on digital assets with a foreign delegation that included US President Donald Trump’s

The United States has a huge opportunity to embrace blockchain technology, Web3 and crypto through legislation under a changing political landscape, Representative Bryan Steil said during a Feb. 26 interview. “My broader philosophical goal here is [as a policymaker]: How do we make sure that the United States is in a position to out-compete the

Crypto crime has entered a professionalized era dominated by AI-driven scams, stablecoin laundering and efficient cyber syndicates, the 2025 “Crypto Crime Report” by Chainalysis reveals, with the past year witnessing a staggering $51 billion in illicit transaction volume — shattering previous records and assumptions. Initial estimates suggested a decline in crypto crime for 2024. Deeper

Opinion by: Stuart Gardner, CEO of Spacecoin The cat-and-mouse game between net neutrality and the Federal Communications Commission, the US communications regulator, continues after a federal appeals court in the country once again struck down rules to protect consumers’ unrestricted access to the internet.  This precarious position of net neutrality in one of the largest

Troubled cryptocurrency exchange Bybit is making preparations for a full operational license in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after recently suffering a $1.4 billion hack. Bybit received in-principle approval to set up a virtual asset platform operator in the UAE from the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA), the exchange announced on Thursday, Feb. 27. The

Ripple Labs has signed a strategic partnership with BDACS, a South Korean digital asset custody provider, to support institutional custody for XRP and Ripple USD. The partnership, announced on Feb. 26, will enable BDACS to integrate Ripple Custody, the company’s institutional crypto and digital asset custody solution, to safeguard XRP (XRP), Ripple USD (RLUSD) and

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has urged crypto node operators, exchanges and the private sector to block transactions from addresses used to launder funds from the $1.4 billion Bybit hack. The FBI confirmed earlier industry investigation that North Korea was responsible for the hack, which the US law enforcement agency dubbed as “TraderTraitor” in

The founder of a so-called crypto hedge fund and market marker called Gotbit has been extradited from Portugal to the US, where he is facing charges related to market manipulation and wire fraud conspiracy. Aleksei Andriunin was arrested by Portuguese authorities on Oct. 8, and was extradited to the US on Oct. 25. Sometime after,

US lawmakers in the House of Representatives have advanced a resolution to repeal the “DeFi broker rule,” requiring brokers to report digital asset transactions to the Internal Revenue Service. Set to take effect in 2027, the IRS regulation approved on Dec. 5 would expand existing reporting requirements to include decentralized exchanges and require brokers to

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its investigation into crypto exchange Gemini, adding to a growing list of firms that have escaped the regulator’s scrutiny for now.  In a Feb. 26 notice shared by Gemini co-founder and president Cameron Winklevoss, the SEC said it had concluded its investigation and “based on the

Update (Feb. 26, 6:05 am UTC): This article has been updated to add information on the SEC’s suit, the Trump administration’s crypto policies and responses from the SEC and Tron. The US Securities and Exchange Commission and Justin Sun have asked a federal court to pause the regulator’s case against the crypto entrepreneur to allow

An exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed to offer leveraged long exposure to shares of Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, is down approximately 81% since peaking on Nov. 20, according to The Kobeissi Letter.  The T-REX 2X Long MSTR Daily Target ETF (MSTU) lost some 40% of its value in the past three trading sessions alone, the investment researcher

Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America, recently told an audience at the Economic Club of Washington DC that the commercial bank will likely launch a stablecoin if comprehensive legislation is passed in the United States. According to Fortune, the CEO told an audience at the Economic Club of Washington DC, “If they make