Former CFTC Chairman: ‘Strong Case’ For Securities Designation Of Ether, Ripple’s XRP

The European Parliament voted strongly in favor of regulations, which would deter cryptocurrency-based money laundering and terrorism financing.

As the Ethereum community debated a proposal to fork the network in order to unfreeze Ether tokens locked in some Parity wallets, developer Alex Van De Sande wrote a blog post arguing that any contentious hard fork would hurt the network. Along those lines, he advocates for finding a solution to the problem of the frozen tokens so that the parties which lost access to them are incentivized to continue supporting the current version of the Ethereum blockchain.

Specifications for the implementation of Ethereum’s Casper were published today. The newly-designed approach for hybrid PoW/PoS consensus represents a significant milestone in the eventual transition to full PoS.

This week, a distinguished panel of central bankers and academics gathered at the Brookings Institution to discuss the vast implications of digital currencies on the banks that make the world go ‘round.

Less than a week after acquiring a major Japanese crypto-exchange, the chief executive at Monex is appealing to regulators to employ incumbent banking standards at cryptocurrency exchanges.

In the latest setback to befall the Tezos project, co-founder Arthur Breitman has been sanctioned by FINRA. Breitman is barred from contact with broker-dealers for two years and has been fined $20,000.