BlackRock just made another move into crypto, this time launching an ETF with exposure to blockchain and crypto companies for its European customers. The iShares Blockchain Technology UCITS ETF is designed to track the New York Stock Exchange FactSet Global Blockchain Technologies capped index, it said in a release. …

NFT platform X2Y2 hit back at the creators of QQL a day after the popular NFT project effectively blacklisted its holders from interacting with the marketplace, saying it’s acting like the music industry. X2Y2 said in a lengthy Twitter thread that QQL is following the ownership model employed by record…

Most bitcoin mining stocks tracked by The Block trended upwards on Monday. The cryptocurrency rose to around $19,500 by market close, according to data from TradingView. The bitcoin network difficulty rose by 2.14% on Tuesday evening following four consecutive jumps.

Rostin Behnam, chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is continuing the CFTC’s charm offensive with the crypto industry by floating a price boost for Bitcoin if the panel receives more direct authority over crypto markets. Speaking at a panel at New York University first covered by CoinDesk, Behnam reportedly…

Hydrogen and its market-maker, Moonwalkers, have been charged with alleged market manipulation and unregistered securities offerings. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced these charges against Hydrogen’s former CEO, Michael Ross Kane, and the CEO of Moonwalkers. CEOs of Hydrogen and Moonwalkers in Legal Mucky Waters The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued many programs for unregistered securities…

Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), have drafted a new bill that would create parameters for the voluntary sharing of cybersecurity information between cryptocurrency companies and the federal government. The pair’s bill would amend the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 to include cryptocurrency companies, and grant them…

The exodus of forced selling made cryptocurrencies partly resilient in the last month, according to Galaxy Digital Holdings founder Mike Novogratz.