Facebook’s former mantra of “move fast and break things” won’t cut it for a senior official at Britain’s top financial watchdog who spoke at the University of Cambridge on Tuesday. Although Facebook…

U.S. lawmakers are formally calling on Facebook to cease all development of its Libra cryptocurrency in a new letter sent to executives at the social media giant. Democrats from the U.S. House…

A group of North American privacy and consumer watchdogs is asking the U.S. Congress to halt Facebook‘s Libra project. In a letter posted by Public Citizen, the group details a list of issues they have…

BitFlyer, a Tokyo-based crypto exchange, will resume opening new domestic accounts beginning July 3 after voluntarily suspending the activity one year ago, according to a statement. BitFlyer received an operational improvement order…

Prime Factor Capital was the first crypto hedge fund approved as a full-scope alternative investment fund manager by the Financial Conduct Authority, according to Bloomberg. Though approved by the UK watchdog, the…

A brief outage Tuesday morning at 10:00AM Eastern took down a number of crypto information and trading sites including Coinbase and CoinMarketCap. The issues cleared up around 10:18AM and most sites seem…

Crypto exchange Bitfinex said Tuesday that it had begun repaying a loan from its sister company Tether. Bitfinex borrowed as much as $700 million from the stablecoin issuer through a line of…

The Winklevoss-owned cryptocurrency exchange Gemini will apply for a broker-dealer license from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), CoinDesk has learned. This is the first step toward becoming an approved Alternative Trading…

The operator of Binance’s upcoming U.S. crypto exchange, BAM Trading Services, has hired a former Ripple executive as its CEO. BAM announced on Tuesday it had appointed Catherine Coley as CEO, who…

Huobi Group is building a public blockchain specifically designed for use cases within decentralized finance (DeFi). In a press release Tuesday, the blockchain services firm and cryptocurrency exchange operator, said the planned…