This week, a recorder wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into a TV in an OpenAI executive conference room put an engineer in federal court. Prosecutors allege Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, planted the device and …
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In brief The Federal Reserve proposed rules requiring Board-supervised payment stablecoin issuers to fully back their tokens with permissible assets like short-term Treasury bills, plus standardized capital requirements, risk-management standards and rules for safekeeping …
- Bitcoin & Ethereum
Coinbase Investor Class Action Can Move Forward, Federal Judge Rules
by adminby adminA federal judge has allowed parts of an investor class-action lawsuit against Coinbase and certain executives to proceed, keeping allegations over risk disclosures alive in court. US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla ruled on …
- NFT & Metaverse
SEC will Consider most Crypto Assets not Securities under Federal Law
by adminby adminIn one of its first actions since signing a memorandum of understanding with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it would interpret how “non-security crypto assets” …
- Web3 Technology
Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Dump ‘Woke’ Anthropic AI After Pentagon Dispute
by adminby adminIn brief Trump ordered federal agencies to “immediately cease” using Anthropic’s AI technology. The order follows a dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon over the use of Claude for unrestricted military use. Trump has …
- NFT & Metaverse
Crypto Bank Erebor Approved for Conditional Federal Bank Charter by OCC
by adminby adminThe U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted conditional national bank status to Erebor Bank, a new tech-oriented bank seeking to rise into the gap left by the collapse of several …
- NFT & Metaverse
Republican Bill Aims to Make Trump’s Bitcoin and Crypto 401K Order Federal Law
by adminby adminIn brief Rep. Troy Downing is introducing a bill to give President Trump’s crypto retirement executive order the force of federal law. The order, signed in August, encouraged 401(k) providers to offer exposure to …
Trump’s DOJ drops probe that stood in way of president’s pick to run Federal Reserve
President Donald Trump’s command of U.S. financial and economic policy may have taken a step closer now that his Department of Justice has backed down from an investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, …
Bitcoin is about to hit the Federal Reserve’s 2026 stress tests, creating a massive capital risk for regulated banks
Pierre Rochard’s call for the Federal Reserve to integrate Bitcoin into its stress tests came at an unusual moment: the Fed is soliciting public comment on its 2026 scenarios while simultaneously proposing new transparency …