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Crypto Companies Coming to America as Regulators Relax | PYMNTS.com
The world’s largest cryptocurrency options exchange is reportedly planning to enter the American market.
Dubai-based Deribit is “actively reassessing potential opportunities” in the U.S., CEO Luuk Strijers said in an interview with the Financial Times (FT) Sunday (May 4), after “the recent shift towards a more favorable regulatory stance on crypto in the U.S.”
As the FT noted, Deribit joins a wave of crypto companies from Europe and Asia aiming to capitalize on President Donald Trump’s pledge to make the U.S. the global digital assets hub.
The crypto exchanges OKX — based in the Seychelles — and Bulgaria’s Nexo are both planning to open U.S. offices, as are Switzerland’s Wintermute and Dubai’s DWF Labs, two of the sector’s biggest market makers.
Crypto companies had for the past few years been shifting their focus away from the U.S. due to a regulatory crackdown by agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) following the downfall of the FTX exchange.
Trump, however, has courted the crypto industry, promising to “make the U.S. the crypto capital of the world,” with the SEC having halted or ended several high-profile cases since the election, and the Department of Justice disbanding its cryptocurrency enforcement unit.
The Trump family has also launched several ventures in the crypto sector, from stablecoins to bitcoin mining to memecoins from both the president and first lady.
“I think the entire market feels good about regulatory clarity,” David Rutter, CEO of British blockchain firm R3, told the FT. “The Trump memecoin was a big signal that things had changed for the U.S. in a pretty sizable way.”
This shift is happening as crypto is entering a new phase of mainstream financial adoption, as PYMNTS wrote last week. For example, the Arizona State Legislature recently advanced a pair of bills that could pave the way to create the country’s first state-level bitcoin reserve, while Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) is doubling down on its own bitcoin stockpile by raising $84 billion to purchase more of the top crypto asset.
And Brown University recently disclosed a $4.9 million investment in BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF, spotlighting a wider acceptance of cryptocurrencies in diversified portfolios.
“Against this backdrop, observers believe it is becoming increasingly held, across Wall Street and beyond, that digital assets may no longer be confined to speculative circles,” PYMNTS wrote. “As bitcoin ETFs become a growing component of diversified portfolios and regulatory frameworks begin to crystallize, the decentralization dream that once defined crypto appears to be giving way to a new era of structured integration.”
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Westlake police say cryptocurrency scam cost woman over $5,000
WESTLAKE, Ohio – A convenience store clerk at 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 26 alerted a police dispatcher that a female customer was feeding large amounts of cash into a cryptocurrency ATM at the store on Center Ridge Road at Dover Center Road.
The clerk said the customer would not believe the clerk’s warning that she was being scammed.
Officers arrived to find the 71-year-old still “anxiously depositing” cash into the machine. Officers told her to stop, but she did not believe the uniformed men. The officers talked to her for several minutes before she finally believed that there was an issue. She was still on the phone with the scammer at the time.
The incident started that morning when the victim received a pop-up message on her home computer instructing her to call a provided support phone number due to a supposed issue with the computer’s operating system. She called the number and was connected to a man who claimed he was a representative from Apple, according to a police department press release.
The man talked her into allowing him remote access to her computer while he asked for her bank information. The scammer talked the victim into believing that there was a problem with her accounts, and she was at risk of losing $18,000 in connection with pornographic websites out of China or Mexico.
She was connected to a fake fraud department for her bank, and another scammer persuaded her to go to a bank and withdraw as much cash as they would allow. The scammer even told her to give the teller a story about needing cash to buy a car. The perpetrator kept the woman on the phone as she took out cash and traveled to the crypto ATM. The victim had deposited approximately $5,500 before officers persuaded her to stop. The Westlake Detective Bureau is attempting to recover the lost funds.
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