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View More NewsThe European Parliament’s economic affairs committee has urged the European Commission to assess whether crypto lending and borrowing, staking, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized finance (DeFi) should be regulated.The recommendations were part of a report tabled Friday for plenary vote. It also called for promoting tokenization across financial services, encouraging euro-denominated stablecoins and assessing whether additional crypto activities should be regulated under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).Drafted by Belgian Member of the European Parliament Johan Van Overtveldt, the report is an own-initiative resolution by the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) that outlines recommendations for the…
From J.V. v. C.H., decided June 18 by New Jersey appellate judges Lisa Rose and Patrick DeAlmeida; Carl and Jane are the court’s pseudonyms for the parties, which I’ll also use for convenience: Defendant C.H. (Carl) appeals from a … final protective order (FPO) issued against him and in favor of plaintiff J.V. (Jane) pursuant to the Victim’s Assistance and Survivor Protection Act (VASPA)…. The parties first encountered each other in February 2023, when Jane, an assistant prosecutor, was assigned to a criminal case charging F.E., Carl’s former girlfriend, with third-degree burglary and third-degree theft charges allegedly committed against Carl….…
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It’s fitting that the embattled Keir Starmer resigned as prime minister of the United Kingdom almost exactly a decade after the Brexit referendum. More than anything else, it was that vote, on June 23rd 2016, which created Britain’s current political reality—a reality of which Starmer is just the latest victim.Perhaps the most ironic impact of Brexit is the fact that the United Kingdom has finally become a European country. By this I don’t mean that we’ve suddenly learned how to cook good food, or we’ve all become bilingual, or have embraced the siesta. We’re no more culturally European than we…
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Latest developments: The Alliance to End Human Trafficking is urging lawmakers to revisit Section 604 of the Clarity Act, arguing the provision could make…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have opened a joint public consultation on whether to better align…
In brief Spain’s securities regulator said there will be no extension to the EU’s July 1 MiCA licensing deadline for crypto firms. Binance, still…
Among social media commenters, columnists, and even heads of state, it’s a typical refrain: If we just rid ourselves of that pesky internet anonymity and…
from the whoops-we-killed-grandma dept For a long time organizations like the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) have noted how Elon Musk’s xAI data center…
The new Global Justice Report by the World Inequality Lab in France—which calls for caps on economic growth in rich countries, top income-tax rates of…
HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE) shares jumped 10% in pre-market trading on Thursday after the company announced a $220 million, three-year GPU cloud contract with…
Deprecated Aztec infrastructure has suffered a second exploit within days, adding to concerns about the security of abandoned smart contract infrastructure.Aztec’s private rollup bridge…
In brief Ireland’s government launched a new National Risk Assessment and 30-point action plan Thursday, naming the misuse of crypto-assets among the country’s evolving…
From yesterday’s Complaint in Spatz v. Stewart & TheaterMania (S.D.N.Y.): This is an action for libel per se, and false statements causing special damages.…
The biggest winners from the rotation have been memory and semiconductor stocks. Memory-chip maker Sandisk (SNDK) has surged roughly 800% this year and the…
G7 leaders broadened their warning over North Korean crypto theft to include wider cybercrime as researchers link DPRK-affiliated actors to billions of dollars in…