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Bitcoin Price Falls. SEC Drops Binance Case in ‘Huge Win’ for Crypto.
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Bitcoin Price Falls. SEC Drops Binance Case in ‘Huge Win’ for Crypto.
By Elsa Ohlen
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and George Glover
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Updated May 30, 2025, 8:08 am EDT / Original May 30, 2025, 4:53 am EDT
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Bitcoin price hit a record high of $111,695 last week. ((Dreamstime))
Bitcoin was falling further back from its recent record high on Friday even with major regulatory developments for the crypto industry.
The Securities and Exchange Commission dismissed its lawsuit against crypto exchange Binance according to a court filing Thursday, the latest example of the watchdog walking back Biden-era cases against key digital-asset companies.
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“Huge win for crypto today,” Binance said in a statement posted on X. “Thank you to [SEC] Chairman [Paul] Atkins and the Trump team for pushing back against regulation by enforcement.”
A joint filing by the SEC, Binance, and former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao noted that the regulator had in January set up a task force “dedicated to helping the Commission develop a regulatory framework for crypto assets.”
However, Bitcoin
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-0.36%
was down 2.3% over the past 24 hours to $105,935, according to CoinDesk data. It follows a week where the world’s largest crypto has mostly hovered between $107,000 and $110,000 after hitting a record high of over $111,000 last week.
Bitcoin is still up over 50% in the last 12 months.
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ETHUSD
-1.68%
was down 3.4% and XRP
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-3.88%
fell 3.9% early Friday, while Solana
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-3.44%
dropped 5.3%. Futures tracking the S&P 500
-0.23%
were a touch lower.
In what could become the second big congressional effort to regulate the U.S. crypto industry, the House of Representatives introduced the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act
