Justin Sun Might Be Good for Wrapped Bitcoin, Says New Custodian’s Director

We have the unique competitive advantage here on a couple fronts. Number one, we have a truly diversified jurisdictional and geographic control of the vault and private key, right? No one can compete with that, and that’s very important, until we have a harmonized global regulation. Without that, this is the foolproof setup. There’s…

The Fed Is the Wrong Regulator for Stablecoins

First, and perhaps foremost, the Fed would be conflicted. As an alternative payment service, stablecoins compete with the Fed’s own payment infrastructure, including FedNow, the central bank’s instant payment service. The Fed’s consideration of a central bank digital currency would leave it further conflicted when regulating privately issued stablecoins, as those two digital representations…

Tether (USDT) CEO Ardoino Says He Expects U.S. Will Catch Up in Crypto Regulation

“There is no place like the U.S.,” he said via video link at DC Fintech Week in Washington. “I think it’s very, very important that sensible crypto regulations and stablecoin regulations will come to fruition in a way that will protect the end users,” he said, predicting that would happen in the U.S. Source…