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5 Top Crypto Lawyers Join Law Firm Brown Rudnick’s Digital Commerce Practice
Well-known crypto lawyer Stephen Palley will co-chair Brown Rudnick’s Digital Commerce practice.
Can Crypto Save the Cannabis Industry?
The legal cannabis industry’s problems go much deeper than a lack of access to banking. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Sin Week.
Coinbase Wants You to Register to Vote (for Pro-Crypto Candidates)
The U.S.-based exchange’s newly launched crypto policy education initiative includes a voter registration tool.
DeFi Platform Acala’s Stablecoin Falls 99% After Hackers Issue 1.3B Tokens
A bug in the protocol’s newly deployed iBTC-aUSD liquidity pool left the door wide open for hackers to exploit.
NFT Collections Will Be Regulated Like Cryptocurrencies Under EU’s MiCA Law, Official Says
A carve-out for ownership tokens may prove narrow, meaning issuers have to publish white papers.
EU Official Says Europe’s MiCA Bill Would Prevent Collapses Like Terra's
Peter Kerstens said the rules would require stablecoins to be fully collateralized and redeemable upon request.
South Korean Web 2 Metaverse Platform Zepeto Gets a Web3 Makeover
The Naver-owned social network worked with Jump Crypto to build ZepetoX on the Solana blockchain.
In Crypto Winter, Jesse Powell’s Pirate-King Leadership Style Might Be the New Normal
Less than 1% of employees have taken the CEO’s buyout offer since he laid down the law on culture. Do employees see Kraken as a “based” place to work, or just somewhere to ride out the bear market?
![CEO Jesse Powell says he's trying to insulate Kraken from “people who basically [think] if you don’t agree with them you’re evil.” (Kraken)](https://cryptonewz.pages.dev/crypto-news-coindesk.com/_next/image?url=https%3a%2f%2fcdn.sanity.io%2fimages%2fs3y3vcno%2fproduction%2f4b5920a655bba68af7143048063997d5da82339b-1440x1080.jpg%3fauto%3dformat&w=1080&q=75)
2 California Men Sentenced to Prison for $1.9M Crypto Grift
The founders of Dropil, Jeremy McAlpine and Zachary Matar, pleaded guilty to one count each of securities fraud last August.
SEC Slaps Founders, Promoters of Alleged Ponzi Scheme Forsage With Fraud Charges
The regulator said the popular Ethereum dapp was used to swindle investors of over $300 million.
