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Nirmala Sitharaman's comments came amid the Reserve Bank of India launching its digital rupee pilot program for the wholesale segment.

Initiated by Grayscale, the survey suggested crypto regulation was a bipartisan issue, with the majority of Democratic and Republican respondents saying they wanted clarity.

China’s digital yuan is one of the earliest CBDCs whose pilot phase has expanded to include millions of users and billions in transaction volume.

The legislation, separate from the upcoming Digital Asset Basic Act, may came into force already in 2023.

As a development bank for El Salvador, BANDESAL created a $150 million trust fund to guarantee the convertibility to dollars for citizens and merchants.

Crypto exchange Coinbase has filed documentation asking permission to help Ripple Labs in its ongoing legal battle with the SEC.

From El Salvador and Lugano’s collaboration to yet another lawsuit against Do Kwon, this is what the last week in regulation looked like.

The Securities and Futures Commission hinted it would follow in the CME’s footsteps by only initially allowing listings of ETFs linked to Bitcoin and Ether futures.

The future president reportedly said that cryptocurrencies “deserved the attention of authorities,” calling for Brazil’s central bank to create a framework for digital assets.

Now debuting the wholesale CBDC, the RBI plans to launch the digital rupee for the retail segment within a month in select locations.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore says crypto exchanges in the country must comply with financial sanctions against Russia.

Cash and hawala remain the “predominant methods of terror financing,” according to a UN official, however, "advanced" terror organizations are turning to cryptocurrencies.

The Nordics remain a cold place for crypto, but Estonia still leads as the public blockchain adopter.

Sharing his opinion around crypto regulations, Buterin spoke against the regulations that have an impact on the inner workings of a crypto ecosystem.

The lawsuit alleged Kwon and others made fraudulent claims on UST "either well knowing that they were false and untrue, or recklessly not caring whether they were true or false."

As part of the agreement, El Salvador will establish a physical government presence in an effort to “foster cooperation with educational and research institutions.”

There is a challenge of not overdoing EU sanctions against Russia, according to Binance head of sanctions Chagri Poyraz.

The commissioner warnes that vulnerabilities seen within the crypto markets are similar to those seen during the global financial crisis and calls for the agency to be given additional authority.