Prosecutors say there is overwhelming evidence that Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, charged in a billion-dollar crypto heist, are major flight risks...

It may seem like ancient history now, but back in January the great WallStreetBets short squeeze was all the rage, having sent heavily shorted meme stocks like GME and AMC to unprecedented heights as millions of retail daytraders used their Robinhood account to pile on and buy in wave after seemingly endless wave in the process crushing reputable hedge funds such as Melvin Capital which needed multi-billion capital infusions to avoid being margin called to death.

An Australian senate committee has published a report calling for a blockchain-based national land registry, better clarity over laws relating to smart contracts, and continued efforts to establish international standards for distributed ledger technology. The Select Committee on Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre's second interim report offers 23 recommendations spanning blockchain, consumer data and corporate taxation.

Coinbase said it will suspend trading of XRP, the cryptocurrency the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Ripple Labs in regards to last week claiming it is really a security. Coinbase first listed XRP on its retail-facing platforms in February 2019. Starting now, XRP trading "will move into limit only," Coinbase wrote.

In March, Yahoo was the first to report about the merging of the Federal Reserve and The US Treasury. "The Treasury, not the Fed, is buying all these securities and backstopping of loans; the Fed is acting as banker and providing financing. The Fed hired BlackRock Inc.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced it has filed "an emergency action and obtained temporary restraining order" against two offshore entities behind Telegram's TON digital token offering. According to the SEC's complaint, Telegram Group and TON Issuer Inc. sold "approximately 2.9 billion digital tokens called 'Grams' at discounted prices to 171 initial purchasers ...