So Archetyp’s takedown, a major dark web marketplace reportedly bringing in a crisp €250 million, should feel like a win. Think again. Operation Deep Sentinel will use a data-driven approach to temporarily disrupt the flow of illegal drugs. This is a temporary trend, a small blip on the radar for...
Law enforcement agencies from six countries coordinated to shut down Archetyp. At the time, this dark web marketplace was the largest drug operation ever discovered. Europol and Eurojust supported an international operation that concluded several years of investigation into the platform. It was their platform that made possible the widespread...
The global financial landscape is changing and Southeast Asia stands to gain the most. We're not just talking about incremental growth. We're talking about an economic transformation, fueled by a technology that Washington, frankly, isn't paying enough attention to: stablecoins.Cross-Border Payments: Frictionless & FastConsider the plight of our hypothetical small...
You took the crypto plunge, enticed by the siren song of DeFi and freedom from the grasp of legacy banking. Maybe you even dabbled in stablecoins, thinking they were a safe haven – a digital dollar, pegged 1:1, offering stability in the volatile crypto seas. Let me tell you something:...
Senators Budd and Lee have been strong champions of their “Keep Your Coins Act.” They view it as an essential bulwark of fiscal liberty and a robust wall against federal intrusion. Self-custody, they say, is the core principal in this brave new world of digital assets. Industry leaders enthusiastically agree,...
From the viewpoint of many of its residents, Southeast Asia is indeed an extraordinary halcyon of opportunity. More importantly, it’s a region that is about to explode onto the global crypto stage. Yet the regulatory uncertainty has loomed larger, stifling adoption, innovation, and the potential. The “Keep Your Coins Act”...
We all got into crypto for something. The siren call of decentralized finance completely dominated the scene. It was an exhilarating prospect to escape the confines of legacy banking and soar into the pure technological renaissance. Truth be told, though, a huge motivator was financial privacy. Yet that promise is...
The drumbeat is getting louder. Regulations are tightening. KYC is quickly becoming the rule, not the exception. That crypto privacy is only for criminals narrative is being hammered home again and again. I'm here to tell you: that narrative is wrong. Even more importantly, Southeast Asia has the opportunity to...
As cryptocurrency platforms continue to require more information from their users, privacy concerns only continue to grow. Users are quickly learning how to protect their financial transactions in new and innovative ways. These tools include decentralized exchanges and non-custodial wallets, which provide more private options than traditional, data-hungry platforms.Bisq and...
Senators Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have reintroduced the Keep Your Coins Act in Washington, D.C., aiming to protect individuals' rights to control their digital assets. The bill would stop federal government overreach in its tracks, protecting Americans’ rights to engage in peer-to-peer transactions without the interference of...