Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., says she and Sen. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., plan to release draft legislation next week that would establish a supervisory entity for emerging financial technologies and new rules for stablecoin issuers.

The number of suspicious activity reports involving cryptocurrency topped 90,000 in 2021, according to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The reason for the uptick may be that crypto is becoming more mainstream.

The Federal Reserve has hired five executives from the stablecoin issuer Circle and at least one employee of Ripple since 2019 as part of its technology-focused recruiting efforts. It plans to do more hiring in the years ahead to aid its work on faster payments and central bank digital currencies.

XBTO intends to serve buyers in the surging Florida market with purchases of properties worth $1 million or more.

The company claims its digital registry system is a faster, safer alternative to MERS databases

The home occupant invests at least 10% into the property and Haus covers the rest, and the home’s equity can be traded through a cryptocurrency.

The new offering’s loan structure is designed to hedge against digital currency's price volatility.

Is Bitcoin at a "tipping point" and could it one day be the currency of choice for trade? The future for digital currencies can be bright, but there are still risks involved. In this session join Yan Zhao, President of NYDIG as she explores: (1) the overall discussion of how Bitcoin is experiencing wider adoption in the traditional finance world, and why that is; (2) Recent partnerships in the financial sector and how they've helped evolve the space; and (3) how and why organization are embedding Bitcoin in various financial services products like lending, payroll, banking, and investing.

As people more heavily use exchanges and other providers of digital-asset-related services, they're registering more beefs with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, too. Experts say it's only a matter of time before the agency invokes its broad authority to police the sector.

The regulation of cryptocurrencies gains momentum abroad while a number of hurdles must be cleared before lenders and banks can handle them at scale in the U.S.