Leading crypto exchange Coinbase is facing legal action from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its plans to launch a lending programme on its platform.The SEC sent Coinbase a Wells notice, which serves as an official way for the regulator to let a company know that it intends to sue.In response, Coinbase agreed…
The regulatory battle with DeFi is heating up. The SEC now seemingly has it’s eyes set on arguably the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States. The news comes after five U.S. states sent individual notices to DeFi platform BlockFi in recent weeks. This week, reports have surfaced that Coinbase is facing regulatory scrutiny over…
The high jump in new registrations is on 45% increase, equivalent to 70 million compared to the previous year. The BSE stock exchange revealed this information was in their data. There had been an increasing number of users, mostly young investors in remote locations across India last year. According to the Economic Times report, these…
Coinbase’s global tax VP has condemned Congress’s controversial decision to introduce crypto tax provisions into the infrastructural bill. They warned that this bill might impact 20% of the U.S population, which is like 60 million Americans. The VP of tax leveraged the rushed crypto provisions added to Congress’s bipartisan infrastructure bill. Lawrence Zlatkin slammed lawmakers…
Tether (USDT) now has an advantage over USD Coin (USDC). As a result, Circle’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, USDC, lost one of its largest leveraging stances to its main competitor, USDT. Coinbase, one of the prominent players in crypto exchange, has made a crucial change on the USD Coin page. The crypto exchange placed the change on…
Crypto continues to see tremendous growth these past weeks. Prices of coins have soared across the board as sentiments continue to skew in the positive. Investors seem to be pouring back into the market, with the market showing patterns that indicate current buy pressure trends are higher than sell pressures. Accumulation patterns continue to show…
Brian Armstrong strongly argues that China’s Central Bank Digital Currency will pose a threat to the U.S. Armstrong sees the CBDC as a move that will disrupt the United States reserve currency in the long run. According to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, he has already discussed his concerns with heads of agencies and lawmakers. Brian…
The second biggest stablecoin by market capitalization is already a multi-blockchain project. Soon, though, USDC will live almost everywhere. According to Coindesk, it will soon be available in, “Avalanche, Celo, Flow, Hedera, Kava, Nervos, Polkadot, Stacks, Tezos, and Tron.” That will bring the total to 14; since USDC is already functional in Ethereum, Algorand, Stellar,…
The price of the shiba inu cryptocurrency rose on Tuesday after Coinbase revealed that the meme cryptocurrency would begin trading on Coinbase Pro this week. Coinbase To Trade Shiba Inu Coinbase announced Tuesday that shiba inu (SHIB) crypto would begin trading on Coinbase Pro this week, after the listing of the meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE)…
Does Coinbase’s mild direct listing performance have emerging crypto platforms thinking twice about going public? The latest comments from major cryptocurrency exchange Kraken might be suggesting so. In an interview with CNBC earlier this year, Kraken CEO Jesse Powell shared that the company was considering going public via a direct listing in 2022. Coinbase went…