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Former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins testified in a confirmation hearing beside Trump's OCC nominee, Jonathan Gould, though crypto wasn't a central topic.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange FTX, has been moved from the New York jail where he gave an interview to Tucker Carlson.

GameStop shares tumbled in intraday trading Thursday, a day after the video game retailer said it was planning to issue $1.3 billion in convertible bonds for general corporate purposes, including buying Bitcoin.

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Lebanon appointed asset manager Karim Souaid to the post of central bank governor Thursday as the government tries to reform the economy after months of war and decades of mismanagement and corruption. The country's economy has been in crisis for five years and desperately needs reforms to unlock international aid, and on top of that, Israel’s 14-month war with Hezbollah caused what the World Bank estimates was $11 billion in damages and economic losses. The appointment was announced by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, the International Court of Justice jurist who was named Lebanon’s premier in January following the election of President Joseph Aoun earlier that month.

Advanced Micro Devices shares lost ground Thursday as Jefferies analysts downgraded the stock, saying they expect the performance gap between AMD's latest products and Nvidia's to widen.

Trump's SEC nominee Paul Atkins promised to change and eliminate regulations that limited digital asset investment opportunities.