While Silvergate said this month it has "a resilient balance sheet and ample liquidity," and analysts call its financials sound, the bank is today contending with a question as difficult as the one that led it to crypto in the first place: whether the experiment was worth it.

China and other countries are already working on their own central bank digital currency. Creating an American CBDC would ensure the dollar's place as a global reserve currency, a Connecticut Democrat writes.

Publicly traded companies exposed to the "crypto winter" and the collapse of FTX or other digital-asset companies might have to disclose those details to investors under new guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

FTX's new chief executive and bankruptcy lawyers met with Manhattan federal prosecutors investigating the cryptocurrency exchange's collapse and allegations that it misused customer funds and lost billions of dollars, according to people familiar with the matter.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants an accounting from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and other top bank watchdogs on the links that major lenders have with the crypto industry following FTX's spectacular collapse.

U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown and Patrick Toomey have asked Sam Bankman-Fried to testify at a hearing on Dec. 14 about the cryptocurrency exchange FTX's collapse, according to a letter issued Wednesday.

The European Union proposed new rules Thursday to combat tax fraud and evasion in the crypto sector by requiring all digital-asset service providers to report transactions involving customers residing in the bloc.

The crypto broker Genesis told clients that it could take weeks, not days, for it to find a path forward for its troubled lending unit, which was hobbled by the implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX.

Galaxy Digital is paying $44.1 million to buy Celsius Network's GK8 business — more than 60% lower than what the bankrupt crypto lender paid to acquire the self-custody platform just last year.

A former Federal Reserve official argues that current rules allow banks to begin trading in crypto assets with virtually no oversight.

The crypto bank Silvergate Capital was asked by three U.S. senators to release all records about transfers of funds for the collapsed FTX empire of Sam Bankman-Fried.

The bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network won court approval to give out bonuses totaling as much as $2.8 million to workers in a bid to keep them from quitting.

A federal judge will soon decide whether depositors at Celsius Network gave up ownership of their cryptocurrencies in exchange for interest payments, a key legal issue that could echo through other crypto bankruptcies.

The crypto lender Nexo Inc. is phasing out its products and services in the U.S. market after facing cease-and-desist orders from multiple states over its interest-earning products.

Circle Internet Financial, the issuer of the world's second-largest crypto stablecoin, said its planned merger with the special-purpose acquisition company Concord Acquisition that was once valued at $9 billion has been called off.

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors said it only needs to disclose records about its decision making process, but Custodia says the central bank is playing by its own rules.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is investigating whether the cryptocurrency lender Nexo Financial is abiding by consumer protection laws, according to documents released this week. The CFPB rejected the company's argument that the agency has no authority to conduct the probe.

There's an opening for Congress to pass a narrow digital-asset regulation bill before the year's end after the collapse of the crypto exchange FTX, Sen. Pat Toomey said.

U.S. authorities are asking crypto investors and trading firms that worked closely with FTX to hand over information on the company and its key figures, including founder Sam Bankman-Fried and the former head of his Alameda Research investment arm, Caroline Ellison.

Protecting depositors' stablecoin holdings could be the difference between providing the economy with a new boost and creating unnecessary drag.