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Meanwhile, the SEC’s newly created Crypto Task Force has met with several industry representatives to discuss regulations and ways to create a clear framework for policing digital assets.

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Since President Donald Trump took office, the SEC has dismissed its lawsuits against Coinbase, OpenSea, Gemini and Robinhood, signaling a changing of the guard at the agency.

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After a vote to block North Korean hacker-linked transactions was reverted to the protocol, one of the leading THORChain developers announced his exit.

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Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero has reportedly said she’ll step down from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission when President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency takes the helm.

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“The recent market correction, with significant liquidations (especially in assets like Solana) and a drop in total crypto market cap to $3.13 trillion, points toward possible capitulation as overleveraged positions are flushed out,” Pellicer told Cointelegraph.

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“Of course, I concede that the effects of tariffs could be larger than I anticipate, depending on how large they are and how they are implemented,” he said.

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The latest data from CME Group’s FedWatch Tool puts the odds of even a minimal 0.25% cut at the next Fed meeting in March at just 2.5%.

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Inflation has proven more persistent than expected over the past month, and as a result, markets have pushed back expectations of further rate cuts coming this year.

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Waller says the current 12-month readings are lower than January 2024, indicating some progress on fighting inflation, but thinks the numbers are “still too high.”

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The Fed chose to lower rates by one percentage point in the final months of 2024 but left them unchanged at their January policy meeting.

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Crypto platform MoonPay was among the first CASPs to receive one from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) on Dec. 30, alongside other firms, including BitStaete, Zebedee Europe and Zebedee Europe.

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Since the EU’s MiCA entered into full effect, only a few crypto asset service providers (CASP) have obtained the MiCA license.

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Crypto.com, another major global crypto exchange, announced its intention to obtain a MiCA license on Jan. 17. Unlike Gemini and OKX, Crypto.com did not specify what jurisdiction it had selected for securing the license.

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Other exchanges, such as Gemini, also announced their intention to obtain a MiCA license in Malta, expressing commitment to offer their services in Europe through a local hub in the country.

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At the time, OKX also said it expected to offer crypto staking to EU residents under MiCA, while the OKX Europe director said that the uplift to new EU crypto standards would be “minimal.”

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In July 2024, OKX Europe’s Ghoos said the exchange had a team in Malta and was actively preparing for the implementation of MiCA, which took full force on Dec. 30, 2024.

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OKX’s MiCA pre-authorization comes months after the exchange selected Malta as its European hub to comply with the EU’s new crypto regulations.

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However, OKX did not clarify what cryptocurrencies are likely to be listed on the exchange following full MiCA approval.

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In addition to spot trading, OKX plans to provide over-the-counter and bot trading, supporting at least 260 trading pairs against the euro.

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Once it receives full MiCA approval, the exchange aims to offer localized crypto services to more than 400 million users in Europe and support more than 240 tokens.

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