Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who has previously called crypto “purely speculative” and “slightly crazy,” was officially elected as Singapore’s president early Saturday morning.Source
Bragg said the Labor government had put regulating crypto in the slow lane.Source
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Sept 4, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.Source
The native token of decentralized liquidity platform Synthetix (SNX), rose by 12.5% during European hours on Monday following significant outflows on Binance.Source
The industry push for an ether spot ETF will follow immediately after a bitcoin ETF approval since ETH has a similar market structure of a traded CME futures market and a spot market, the report said.Source
Sam Bankman-Fried says the FTX exchange’s bankruptcy isn’t relevant to the October fraud trialSource
For the SEC to defend its denial of Grayscale’s proposal to convert GBTC into an ETF, it would have to withdraw its previous approval of futures-based bitcoin ETFs, which is unlikely, the report said.Source
Mayur Kamat’s departure follows those of Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillmann, Senior Director of Investigations Matthew Price, SVP for Compliance Steven Christie and Asia-Pacific Head Leon Foong.Source
Ripple made its case to a federal judge for why the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shouldn’t be able to appeal her ruling on its programmatic sales of XRP on Friday.Source