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Former UK PM via his Tony Blair Institute has created a plan proposing selling land in Gaza via blockchain tokens, which has gone down badly, it seems: 'Evil' Proposal To Sell Gaza Land Via Crypto Tokens Met With Backlash (Decrypt). Sayonarra to the Blair Token Project before the plans are even advanced, it seems.
You pay your money, you buy your representation, some say: Stand With Crypto Letter To The Congress (Stand With Crypto) / Coinbase Crypto Lobby Urges Congress To Back Major Crypto Bill (Cointelegraph), as US House lawmakers are being urged by 65 crypto organizations (a remarkable distribution of opinion?) to pass the CLARITY Act, handing policing of crypto to the CFTC.
Also in Washington D.C. US SEC's Guidance Is First Step Toward Rules Governing Crypto ETFs (Reuters) as Politico notes It’s Crypto Crunch Time For The House (Politico).
Also, SEC Acknowledges Trump’s Truth Social Bitcoin And Ethereum ETF (Cointelegraph)
In the many hearings happening now, Ripple CEO To Testify Before Senate On Crypto Reform And Market Structure Legislation (Bitcoin News).
In funding news, DigitalX Secures Over $13M From Animoca, UTXO, And Others To Expand BTC Holdings (CoinDesk)
Frozen out of repayment as we mentioned last week, FTX’s Chinese Customers In Limbo Over Local Crypto Crackdown (WSJ).
In Brussels (well Paris and elsewhere too, depending on the agency) Robinhood’s OpenAI, SpaceX Private Equity Tokens Face EU Scrutiny (Cointelegraph)
In Lagos, SEC, Quidax Bring Together Top Banks, Asset Managers To Drive Digital Assets Adoption in Nigeria (GlobeNewswire), while Pakistan Launches Crypto Regulatory Body For Digital Asset Sector (Cointelegraph).
A story from Cointelegraph runs the headline How Vietnam Is Using Crypto to Fix Its FATF Reputation while Vitalik Buterin Advocates ‘Copyleft’ Licensing In Crypto (Cointelegraph) and in legal actions, a Court Ends Coin Center-US Treasury Appeal Over Tornado Cash (Cointelegraph).
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