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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has temporarily stopped payouts for its Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) staking service due to a minor technical issue, the company said on Tuesday.  What Happened: The exchange assured its users that the rewards are still being accrued and that the...

The cryptocurrency exchange owned by Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ:COIN) recently requested regulatory clarity from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the agency has now responded. What Happened: Coinbase petitioned a federal court in April to require the SEC to issue clear guidelines...

Bittrex, a popular cryptocurrency trading platform, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the District of Delaware, according to court filings made on May 8.  What Happened: The company estimated that it has more than 100,000 creditors, with assets between $500 million and $1...

A 2018 video of Gary Gensler, former professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and current chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is making rounds on Twitter where he says that cryptocurrencies are as valuable as commodities or cash and are not securities. What...

The decline in the market value of stablecoin USD Coin (CRYPTO: USDC) can be attributed to a growing trend of investors looking to "de-risk out of the U.S." amid concerns about the country’s banking sector and regulatory challenges, according to Circle CEO. What Happened: Jeremy Allaire, the...

Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), a Republican Congressman, launched a scathing attack on U.S. Securities and Exchange, or SEC, Chairman Gary Gensler, calling him an “incompetent cop on the beat.”  What Happened: Emmer, at a Tuesday hearing held by the House Committee on Financial Services,...

Hester Peirce, a Commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission, has criticized agency Chair Gary Gensler’s recent proposals to include decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols under the umbrella of “exchange” in a new speech.  What Happened: Peirce, popularly known as...

Justin Sun, the founder of cryptocurrency firms Tron Foundation and BitTorrent Foundation, has reportedly received a summons from a U.S. court in the Southern District of New York on Thursday. What Happened: The summons came after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought enforcement...

As regulatory scrutiny of digital asset firms continues to escalate in the U.S., there has been a decline in America’s leadership position in the crypto industry, according to a new report released by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, also known as ‘a16z.' What Happened:  The...

Bitcoin futures debuted on the Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) futures index last week followed by a similar product on CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME), the world's largest futures exchange, on Monday. With all the fanfare surrounding the debut of futures tied to the hot digital currency...

Anyone with an online trading account can buy and sell shares of most publicly-traded companies with the click of a button. However, shareholders of private companies, selling stock can be much more challenging. Private Stock Compensation Most of the time, the average retail investor doesn’...

Engaging in an initial public offering is an often thrown around prospect in the financial markets, but unlike the IPO, Initial Coin Offerings are relatively new phenomena, which came about with the evolution of cryptocurrencies. Just as IPO fever ran high in the 1990s, there is now a flurry of...

Unemon Research is back with another scoop. The contrarian and Seeking Alpha contributor who previously exposed fraud in the Chinese firm L&L Energy, Inc. has found a new target in Cogint, Inc. (NASDAQ: COGT). “Based on my analysis of the facts, I see Cogint ... as just another blatant...

As the halfway point of 2017 approaches, the year has already seen some high profile IPOs, including Canada Goose Holdings Inc. Subordinate Voting Shares (NYSE: GOOS), Yext Inc (NYSE: YEXT) and J. Jill Inc (NYSE: JILL). The biggest and most anticipated certainly was Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP), which...

On Wednesday, TheStreet biotech reporter Adam Feuerstein raised alarm that an unknown source paid to convert Seeking Alpha posts about Neurotrope Inc (NASDAQ: NTRP) into unofficial promotional pieces for bryostatin, the company's lead drug candidate. Neurotrope denied any involvement. "The...