Latest cryptocurrency market news april 2025
In late July, Trump underscored his commitment to ushering in crypto-friendly policies if he returns to the White House when he delivered the keynote address at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville https://drying-machine.org/. In his speech, Trump pledged to support U.S. Bitcoin mining and ensure the U.S. government would not sell its Bitcoin holdings. He also pledged to create a pro-crypto Bitcoin and crypto presidential advisory council.
Now, as crypto traders brace for a perfect storm to hit the bitcoin price, JPMorgan analysts have flipped from gold to bitcoin, predicting the bitcoin price will outperform gold over the rest of 2025.
05/18 update: A U.S. bill that would regulate stablecoin issuers, formerly introducing crypto into the established financial system, will be debated by Congress this coming week, with some claiming it’s poised to pass the Senate.
Powerful electromagnetic fields around the atoms caused them to change into different elements upon smashing. The team that made this discovery, dubbed the ALICE Collaboration, has effectively threatened gold’s value, with the potential to reduce its scarcity.
Cryptocurrency market news april 2025
In regulatory news, the Federal Reserve said that it had withdrawn earlier guidance about commercial banks’ crypto- and stablecoin-related activities. Previously the Fed had required banks to give advance notice before undertaking any crypto activities; under the updated guidance the Fed will consider banks’ crypto activity as part of its normal supervisory process. Separately, at an event in mid-April, Fed Chair Powell said about the crypto industry: “I think that the climate is changing, and that you are moving into more mainstreaming of that whole sector.” Powell added that he was encouraged by progress on stablecoin legislation in Congress. Although House and Senate negotiators need to iron out some differences, passing stablecoin legislation over the next month still appears possible.
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Wyoming stable token enters testing phase. On March 26, Wyoming Stable Token Commission Executive Director Anthony Apollo announced that the Wyoming Stable Token (WYST) entered its testing phase across several blockchain networks. Executive Director Apollo notes that the testing is “a key step towards launching the first fiat-backed and fully reserved stable token issued by a public entity in the United States.” Testing is expected to occur throughout the second quarter of 2025, with a potential launch in July 2025. These announcements were made during a fireside chat with Governor and Commission Chairman Mark Gordon at the DC Blockchain Summit. Governor Gordon also highlighted the benefits of WYST for both the state and its users, including a statutory requirement to over-collateralize the stable token’s backing with cash and US Treasuries to mitigate the risk of de-pegging, and the deposit of interest derived from those treasuries into the state’s school foundation fund.
In regulatory news, the Federal Reserve said that it had withdrawn earlier guidance about commercial banks’ crypto- and stablecoin-related activities. Previously the Fed had required banks to give advance notice before undertaking any crypto activities; under the updated guidance the Fed will consider banks’ crypto activity as part of its normal supervisory process. Separately, at an event in mid-April, Fed Chair Powell said about the crypto industry: “I think that the climate is changing, and that you are moving into more mainstreaming of that whole sector.” Powell added that he was encouraged by progress on stablecoin legislation in Congress. Although House and Senate negotiators need to iron out some differences, passing stablecoin legislation over the next month still appears possible.
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Cryptocurrency news april 2025
Senators urge reversal of DOJ shift in digital asset enforcement priorities. On April 10, US Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) – Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, respectively – announced they led six Senators in writing to urge Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to reverse the DOJ’s recent decisions to effectively terminate its cryptocurrency investigations and prosecutions and disband its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team. In their letter, the Senators asserted the decisions are “grave mistakes that will support sanctions evasion, drug trafficking, scams, and child sexual exploitation” and demanded a staff-level briefing “on the rationale behind these decisions and their anticipated impacts on the Department’s ability to enforce the law and protect Americans from cryptocurrency-based crimes.”
FinCEN notes FATF identifies jurisdictions with AML/CFT deficiencies. On February 26, FinCEN announced that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) updated its lists of jurisdictions with strategic anti-money laundering (AML), countering the financing of terrorism (CFT), and countering the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (CPF) deficiencies at the conclusion of its plenary meeting this month. FinCEN informed US financial institutions to consider FATF’s stance toward these jurisdictions when reviewing their obligations and risk-based policies, procedures, and practices. FATF added Laos and Nepal to its list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring and removed the Philippines from that list. Additionally, FATF’s list of high-risk jurisdictions subject to a call for action remains the same (Iran, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Burma).
SEC closes investigation into Crypto.com. On March 27, Crypto.com announced that it had received a No-Action Letter closing the SEC’s investigation in the crypto exchange. Crypto.com had reportedly received a Wells Notice from the Commission in August 2024 asserting that several of the cryptocurrencies sold on Crypto.com were unregistered securities. In response, Crypto.com filed a declaratory relief action in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in October 2024, seeking to enjoin the SEC from bringing a civil action against the exchange.
California DFPI issues proposed regulations on DFAL. On April 4, the California DFPI issued proposed regulations to implement the state Digital Financial Assets Law (DFAL), which requires digital asset companies operating in the state to obtain a license, maintain records, and submit reports to the state. Among other things, the regulations exempt from the state money transmission act “any money transmission of legal tender occurring in, associated with, or related to the normal, typical, or customary performance of digital financial asset business activity.” Comments must be submitted by May 19.
