💎 US SECURITIES REGULATOR OPENS DOOR FOR WALL STREET BANKS TO HOLD CRYPTO Wall Street’s securities watchdog has made it easier for banks to expand their cryptocurrency businesses by overturning a Biden administration rule that made it prohibitively expensive to hold digital assets. In one of the first pro-crypto moves of Donald Trump’s second presidency, the Securities and Exchange Commission late on Thursday reversed guidance known as SAB 121, which had called for institutions to treat digital tokens held for customers as liabilities on balance sheets. https://t.co/rBzSDf1Bg1

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💎 ECB PITCHES DIGITAL EURO AS RESPONSE TO TRUMP’S CRYPTO PUSH Euro zone banks need a digital euro to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to promote stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency typically pegged to the U.S. dollar, European Central Bank board member Piero Cipollone said on Friday. Trump said he would “promote the development and growth of lawful and legitimate dollar-backed stablecoins worldwide” as part of a broader crypto strategy that he sketched out in an executive order issued on Thursday.

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💎 US REGULATOR PLANS TO TOUGHEN CUSTOMER PROTECTION ON CRYPTO ACCOUNTS US cryptocurrency companies should be responsible for refunding customers’ accounts when they are hacked, bringing standards for digital wallets into line with bank accounts, the consumer banking regulator has proposed. https://t.co/FWoCboFRsW

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💎 🔸 PAUL ATKINS NOW HAS A 60% CHANCE OF BEING THE NEXT SEC CHAIR, ACCORDING TO @KALSHI He has been involved in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors, notably co-chairing the Token Alliance. https://t.co/QyL9ASDEif

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💎 Trump to Tap Crypto Booster Lutnick for Commerce Secretary: WSJ Lutnick, who is co-chair of Trump’s transition team, had been seen as a leading contender to run the Treasury Department. As Commerce Secretary, he would play a major role in investigating trade practices and administering tariffs, which Trump has said will be the centerpiece of his economic agenda. Lutnick is also an outspoken supporter of the crypto industry, and his firm has been a custodian for the reserves of stablecoin giant Tether.

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💎 FBI CREATES CRYPTOCURRENCY IN QUEST TO CATCH CRIMINALS The Federal Bureau of Investigation created a fake cryptocurrency and company as part of a government investigation that resulted in fraud charges against 18 companies and individuals. The charges, which were unsealed in Boston Wednesday, alleged that three crypto trading firms, along with their employees, engaged in wash trading and conspired to manipulate the prices of NexFundAI, a crypto token created by the FBI as part of its investigation into market manipulation in the crypto industry. A fourth firm and its employees are also charged for perpetrating a similar scheme.

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💎 CRYPTO FANS WANT A BITCOIN RESERVE. POLITICIANS WANT THEIR VOTES Crypto fans have an idea to burnish the stature of digital tokens: Establish a U.S. bitcoin reserve, similar to the country’s gold reserve. It might sound out of the blue, but former President Donald Trump and… https://t.co/mHxYDdcwp3

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💎 ❖ FUTURES EXCHANGE CME PLANS TO LAUNCH #BITCOIN TRADING CME Group, the world’s largest futures exchange, is planning to launch bitcoin trading, aiming to capitalise on surging demand this year among Wall Street money managers to gain exposure to the cryptocurrency sector.… https://t.co/CIIVE7KJvx

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💎 ❖ BITCOIN’S POST-HALVING DEMAND TO BE 5X GREATER THAN SUPPLY, BITFINEX ESTIMATES Bitcoin’s recent mining reward halving has altered the market in such a way that it could potentially lead to cryptocurrency’s demand being five times greater than that of supply, according to the… https://t.co/pitgzoZEdd

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💎 ❖ Millennials and Gen Z are as likely to own cryptocurrency as they are real estate ❖ Gen Zers are more likely to own cryptocurrency (20%) than they are to own stocks (18%). ❖ •Gen Z and millennials are more than twice as likely to turn to social media first with a… https://t.co/76UV4O8UAY

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