Wise's OCC Rejection Exposes a Telling Double Standard in US Fintech Licensing
The OCC denied Wise's US bank charter over AML/CFT concerns — even as it approved similar charters for crypto firms. A GENIUS Act resubmission may be the path forward.…
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The OCC denied Wise's US bank charter over AML/CFT concerns — even as it approved similar charters for crypto firms. A GENIUS Act resubmission may be the path forward.…
Wallets linked to stablecoin payments firm Triple-A were drained of $9.7M across TRON, Ethereum, Polygon, and Arbitrum, with funds consolidated into 5,227 ETH.…
Hack VC-backed perp DEX Dango will halt trading July 29 and shut its Layer 1 blockchain Aug. 13, returning funds as USDC after a mainnet run scarred by a $1.9M exploit.…
NEAR's governance body passes HSP-027, scrapping the developer gas rebate and redirecting all network gas fees to burning instead of rewarding contract owners.…
The US Treasury has frozen up to $500M in Iranian-linked crypto assets as Washington simultaneously plans special operations to physically seize Iranian uranium stockpiles.…
Pyongyang arrests former state cyber operatives who hacked two domestic banks and laundered the proceeds through crypto wallets — a rare crack in North Korea's tightly controlled hacking apparatus.…
Pyongyang arrested former state cyber operatives accused of hacking two domestic state banks and laundering the proceeds through cryptocurrency.…
Poolin Technology and two U.S. affiliates filed Chapter 11 on July 22, seeking a $52M sale of West Texas mining sites as the Singapore-based pool winds down U.S. operations.…
Donald Trump's $1 billion in crypto earnings from World Liberty Financial and the $TRUMP meme coin has stalled landmark digital-asset legislation as Democrats demand ethics reforms.…
Cooling AI momentum, rising Bitcoin ETF inflows, and the advancing CLARITY Act are fueling serious speculation that capital is shifting back into crypto.…
Fidelity Digital Assets says Bitcoin supply held by long-term investors has hit an all-time high, a metric the $7T firm treats as a key conviction signal.…
Fidelity has added its voice to a growing coalition of crypto firms and industry groups urging the US Senate to pass the CLARITY Act, a landmark market structure bill.…