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Coinbase Says VASP Approval Makes It UK’s Biggest Registered Crypto Company
Cryptocurrency // February 03, 2025

Coinbase says it is now the largest registered digital assets company in the U.K. That milestone, announced by the cryptocurrency exchange Monday (Feb. 3), follows Coinbase’s receipt of virtual asset service provider (VASP) registration from the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). This will allow Coinbase to offer both...

Coinbase Gets Green Light for Debut in Argentina
Cryptocurrency // January 28, 2025

It’s all systems go for Coinbase to launch in Argentina after regulators in that South American nation gave their approval for the U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange to begin operating there, the company said Tuesday (Jan 28). The expansion will be led by Matías Alberti, who previously...

Presidential Working Group to Consider Digital Asset Regulations and Stockpile
Cryptocurrency // January 23, 2025

A newly established Presidential Working Group on Digital Asset Markets will work to develop a federal regulatory framework governing digital assets and consider the creation of a “strategic national digital assets stockpile.” The Working Group was formed by an executive order signed by President Donald...

Coinbase Asks Court to ‘Clear Away Cloud’ Over Cryptocurrency Market
Cryptocurrency // January 22, 2025

Coinbase reportedly asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to rule that the trading of crypto assets on its platform are not securities transactions, but asset sales. The company said this in a petition to the court that is part of an appeal tied to a Securities...

Interviews & Exclusives
Court Docs Show Regulator’s Crypto Freeze Was More Warning Than Ban

January 06, 2025
There has been a quiet uproar happening in the crypto space, and it’s not bitcoin’s surging price. Rather, it is the ongoing accusations by U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase, as well as other stakeholders in the crypto space, that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has been engaged in deliberating hindering the crypto sector’s access to banking activities. […]

What Are Consumers Buying With Crypto This Black Friday?

November 29, 2024
Video killed the radio star, but could cryptocurrency payments kill credit and debit cards? Even though bitcoin hit a record high this month, the chances are likely slim. However, with...

Crypto’s Three Priorities for 2024: Interoperability, Acceptance, Regulation

July 04, 2024
Halfway through 2024, and the cryptocurrency and blockchain space finds itself at a critical juncture.  It is the same critical juncture, or at least one strikingly similar, that the crypto...

Stablecoins, Unstable Crypto Market Propel Coinbase Profits

February 16, 2024
Renewed investor enthusiasm for crypto has been good news for U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. And while 2023 wasn’t the greatest year for crypto, it was no 2022, and Coinbase’s latest quarterly...

Quick Reads
Coinbase Pushes US to Pave Way for Bank-Crypto Partnerships

February 04, 2025
Coinbase is reportedly lobbying American regulators to make bank-cryptocurrency partnerships more feasible. The country’s largest crypto exchange called on banking regulators to clarify or amend their rules to allow banks to offer crypto custody and trading execution services, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Feb. 4). A letter to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the […]

Coinbase Says VASP Approval Makes It UK’s Biggest Registered Crypto Company

February 03, 2025
Coinbase says it is now the largest registered digital assets company in the U.K. That milestone, announced by the cryptocurrency exchange Monday (Feb. 3), follows Coinbase’s receipt of virtual asset service provider (VASP)...

Coinbase Gets Green Light for Debut in Argentina

January 28, 2025
It’s all systems go for Coinbase to launch in Argentina after regulators in that South American nation gave their approval for the U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange to begin operating there, the...

Presidential Working Group to Consider Digital Asset Regulations and Stockpile

January 23, 2025
A newly established Presidential Working Group on Digital Asset Markets will work to develop a federal regulatory framework governing digital assets and consider the creation of a “strategic national digital...