In a world where Ethereum users don’t want to be censored, there may be a way to push back.

After the detention of Alexey Pertsev, campaigners worry holding developers accountable for malicious use of their code could have a dangerous, chilling effect.

High German inflation and ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty raised market anxieties on Friday. Investors will be eyeing comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell in a few days at a U.S. central bank symposium in Wyoming.

Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the aim is to keep up with developments and protect consumers.

The exploiters converted their ill-gotten gains initially to ether and then to bitcoin before using sanctioned mixers to mask their identities.

Powell will skew on the hawkish side at Jackson Hole, analysts said.

While the market cap of stablecoins, an indicator of crypto liquidity, has stopped falling, demand for leverage has yet to start recovering, the bank said.

The government said crypto airdrops count as gifts under tax legislation.

Authorities in the country have trending towards strict oversight since the terraUSD collapse.

The move comes shortly after the U.S. government placed sanctions on privacy mixer Tornado Cash, prompting other DeFi developers to take protective measures.

Project Ion is now processing an average of over 100,000 equity transactions a day using distributed ledger technology.