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French Lawmakers Approve New Boss for Finance Watchdog

Former bank lobbyist Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani’s hearings contained a warning for the likes of Binance and Crypto.com setting up in the budding crypto hub.

PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 18:  The French National Assembly in Paris, on October 18, 2022.France. (Photo by Antoine Gyori/Corbis via Getty Images)

Finance

New Bitcoin-Focused VC Firm Ego Death Capital Raising $30M

The fund had raised over $11 million of its target as of mid-September.

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Finance

OpenSea Ventures Among Backers for $7M Round for Crypto Security Startup

Web3 Builders also launched the free TrustCheck tool to verify the safety of smart contract and NFT transactions

Web3 Builders co-founder Nicholas Horelik, CEO Riccardo Pellegrini and Chief Technology Officer Henry Katz (Web3)

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CFTC’s Behnam Calls FTX Idea a Potential ‘Evolution’ in Market Structure

Chairman Rostin Behnam says the FTX proposal for directly clearing certain crypto derivatives without intermediaries is still being weighed and would mark a “significant shift.”

Rostin Behnam, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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CFTC Commissioner to Pitch Retail Investor Definition to Get Set for Crypto

Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero says the agency needs a new way of categorizing investors as it prepares for new digital-assets oversight.

Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Investing App Stash Raises $52.6M Weeks After Expanding Access to Cryptocurrencies

The convertible debt offering was revealed in a regulatory filing and confirmed by the company.

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Finance

NFT Infrastructure Company Gomu Closes $5M Seed Round

The fundraise included participation from Coinbase Ventures, DeFiance Capital and Saison Capital, among others.

Pixel Art NFT Collectibles Background.  Vector Illustration.  NFT Seamless Pattern. (Getty Images)

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US CFTC as Crypto’s Regulatory Savior? Crypto Firms Might Not Like What They Get

The Securities and Exchange Commission is treated as a villain in crypto, but the view of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a government ally may not survive the honeymoon, insiders suggest

CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam (Suzanne Cordeiro/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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Italy Hasn't Vetted the 73 Crypto Firms It Approved This Year

Companies entered into a new registry for crypto firms say they’ve secured regulatory approval in Italy, but they haven’t been checked for compliance yet.

Italy's Organismo Agenti e Mediatori, a supervisory body which oversees its crypto exchanges, told CoinDesk it didn't plan to start collecting information from registered exchanges until next year – at least. (Mathew Schwartz/Unsplash)

Finance

Indian Crypto Exchange WazirX Lays Off Roughly 40% of Its Employees: Sources

The eliminated workers were told they would be paid for 45 days.

WazirX CEO Nischal Shetty (WazirX)