A crypto founder has been arrested in New York for allegedly using his crypto firm, Evita Pay, to funnel around $530 million into the US from sanctioned Russian banks to help Russians access highly sensitive American technology. ....

Turnkey, a crypto infrastructure company founded by former Coinbase Custody builders in 2022, has raised $30 million in a Series B round to create an “open infrastructure layer” for crypto, which the company says will help the industry evolve in a similar way to the internet.

Bain Capital Crypto led the round with participation from Sequoia Capital, Galaxy Ventures, Lightspeed Faction, Variant, and Wintermute Ventures. ....

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins took aim at the previous administration’s crypto policies in the regulator’s latest roundtable event exploring digital asset regulation.

the prior administration, suggesting the agency’s stance on digital assets under former chair Gary Gensler, took a heavy-handed approach through the courts.

“I’m in favor of affording greater flexibility to market participants to self-custody crypto assets, especially where intermediation imposes unnecessary transaction costs or restricts the ability to engage in staking and other onchain activities,” Atkins said at the roundtable event.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov is still trying to figure out why he was detained in France last August, though the motives may have been political and tied to authorities’ efforts to crack down on alleged illicit activity on the messaging platform.

That was one of the key takeaways from Durov’s interview with Tucker Carlson, which premiered Tuesday on YouTube.

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