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Today in crypto, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has confirmed to Cointelegraph that the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) does not explicitly ban non-compliant stablecoin custody and transfers, the US Senate voted to kill the IRS’ DeFi broker rule, and more than $1 billion worth of derivatives were liquidated on March 4 due to fears of a trade war.

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“If we’re going to go for centralized assets, why not include blue-chip stocks?” O’Brien told Cointelegraph, adding, “It’s just a slippery slope that we’re down when we move towards centralized assets and away from protocols.”

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It also exposes the planned crypto reserve to centralization risks, according to Adam O’Brien, CEO of crypto educator Bitcoin Well.

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In an interview with Cointelegraph’s Turner Wright during the ETHDenver Conference, Liao pointed to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) lack of cohesive policy as the industry’s primary challenge. The CEO said:

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On Feb. 25, four days after the Bybit exploit, company co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou declared “war” on the Lazarus Group, the North Korea-linked hacking collective identified as the primary suspect. As part of the initiative to recover stolen assets, Bybit introduced a blacklist wallet application programming interface (API) and offered a bounty for tracing the funds.

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“If that’s the case, we’re happy to create a position within your project and connect you with our wallet,” Ren said.

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Ren took Web3 games as an example, noting that OKX’s wallet could assist a GameFi studio by facilitating the purchase of in-game assets or providing onchain liquidity for them.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has paused its fraud lawsuit against crypto mining firm Geosyn Mining and its executives after US federal prosecutors brought similar charges against the company’s CEO and two former executives.

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The Australian Securities and Investment Commission also released a consultation paper on proposed guidance for crypto in December, placing many digital assets under the category of financial products and requiring firms dealing in crypto to be licensed.

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In the same month, AUSTRAC proposed stricter Anti-Money Laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) rules to tighten the oversight of the crypto industry and combat financial crime.

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The partnership’s focus on Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa stems from a regulatory perspective, but from an institutional standpoint, Youssefi said that it instills “more confidence to invest in the ecosystem.”

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“Europe has taken the lead on this with MiCA providing clear guidelines for digital assets in the region — eliminating any regulatory uncertainty that can come with markets like the US,“ he said.

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DAOs are already changing the face of decentralized finance. Uniswap DAO has been working toward expanding its $6 billion treasury — a treasury that uses its DAO to vote on what it should do with the capital. Although this technology currently has a novel use case, its application also has the power to change how we view money and who can access it.

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Combining a DAO with a meme/community coin means that holders of the coin have built-in rights to collectively govern within the remit of the DAO. Only people with a stake in the memecoin have such privileges, meaning the holders’ interests are placed firmly in the center of voting and governance systems. The community’s development and growth coin mirrors the community’s development and growth.

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The key to overcoming crypto manipulation from a small group of bad actors is to develop memecoins underpinned by community-empowering infrastructures, including decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) — an organizational structure with no central governing body.

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While Bitwise continues to await that approval, VanEck’s head of digital asset research, Matthew Sigel, said the odds of a US-approved spot Solana ETF will be “overwhelmingly high” by the end of 2025.

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In November, Bitwise also registered a statutory trust in Delaware for its proposed spot Solana ETF, which requires further regulatory filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

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