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Crypto protections fall in a gray area of the law. That has ramifications for customers at BlockFi, FTX and other distressed crypto firms filing for bankruptcy.

Crypto lender BlockFi filed for bankruptcy Monday, becoming the latest casualty of the financial contagion unleashed by the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's empire.

Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi filed for bankruptcy, making it the latest major digital assets company to fail since FTX, with which BlockFi is financially intertwined.

Crypto exchange FTX and its affiliated companies, which have filed for U.S. bankruptcy court protection, said on Monday most subsidiaries would resume ordinary course payment of salary and benefits to employees worldwide.

A man takes a photograph of the front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with a Snap Inc. logo hung on the front of it shortly before the company's IPO in New York, U.S., March 2, 2017.

For years now, economists have debated whether the Bank of Japan’s ultraloose policies were a loser, figuratively speaking. Now we have proof of the literal losses from Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s team ...

The company said that despite its efforts to overcome challenges in a rapidly evolving industry, shutting the business segment was necessary to "continue growing the Line blockchain ecosystem and Link ...

Japan's second, 29 trillion yen ($210 billion) supplementary stimulus budget for this fiscal year is set to clear the lower house on Tuesday, paving the way for the spending plan to win final ...

Why did a branch of Japan's Finance Ministry falsify official documents related to the cut-rate sale of government land to nationalist school operator ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has informed his Cabinet of the decision to increase defense spending to 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) by ...

An advisory panel on Japan's fiscal policy urged the government on Tuesday to find ways of securing stable funding sources to achieve a planned increase in defense spending while avoiding putting off ...

Asian shares were mostly higher Tuesday as jitters over protests in China set off by growing public anger over COVID-19 restrictions subsided.

"However, despite our efforts ... we have regretfully determined that we need to shut down BITFRONT in order to continue growing the LINE blockchain ecosystem and LINK token economy," the California-based company said in a statement on its website on Sunday.

The Delaware-based company failed to prevent more than 820 individuals in Iran from using Kraken for crypto transactions.

Bitfront, a crypto exchange that’s backed by Japan’s internet giant Line Corp., is shutting down amid “rapidly evolving” challenges in the industry.

Japan’s Web3 lawmaker Masaaki Taira said the government must further ease crypto regulations, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. A Japanese regulator recently decided to relax virtual coin listing ...