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An unsurprising statement from a financial regulator is sending some welcome signals that point to a spurt of innovation ahead.
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a statement earlier this week saying that national banks can provide services to stablecoin...
When Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey spoke at the virtual Oslo Freedom Forum 2020 on Friday, he said blockchain technology is the future of Twitter.
âBlockchain and bitcoin point to a future, point to a world, where content exists forever,â Dorsey said. âWeâre not in the...
The first exchange-traded fund (ETF) to broadly track the digital asset market has been accepted to list on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX).
BSX announced last week the Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index ETF had been admitted to list on its trading platform.
The ETF is the...
Some say that meaningful change happens gradually. Others insist it erupts unexpectedly. This week, we saw that both are true.
Earlier this week, the Wyoming Banking Board voted to approve the application from San Francisco-based crypto exchange Kraken for a Special Purpose Depositary...
âI think that Uniswap is one of the premier DeFi [decentralized finance] protocols, and its token is as well,â Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO at Alameda Research, told CoinDesk via email. âIt has been the largest decentralized trading venue for a long time.â
The praise is noteworthy as...
Mchael Saylor, the founder of MicroStrategy, said Tuesday his company has acquired an additional $175 million in bitcoin (BTC) in a single purchase.
Saylor said on Twitter that his business intelligence company had completed the acquisition of 16,796 bitcoin on Monday.
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No loyalty among yield farmers.
Uniswap now has more value locked (TVL) than its upstart rival, SushiSwap, less than a day after SUSHI block rewards for liquidity providers (LPs) dropped from 1,000 tokens to just 100.
TVL on SushiSwap fell from $1.46 billion worth of crypto...
Is DeFI unravelling, or are these just growing pains?
The rapidly expanding DeFi space is becoming riddled with scams as another suspicious project has headed for the exits carrying speculators' money.
"A new liquidity mining pool DeFi project, Yfdexf.Finance has exited the...
The New York Attorney Generalâs office (NYAG) wants Tether and Bitfinex to immediately turn over documents detailing a $900 million line of credit the first entity extended to the second, according to a new filing with a public court system.
The NYAGâs office began a formal inquiry...
Cryptocurrency is the buzzword flying around the trading community for the last decade. Bitcoin was the first to show the real power of unregulated digital currency that allowed quite a number of people to acquire wealth through sheer patience. Some have bought it back in 2008 and kept their...
SushiSwap investors were handed a raw deal over the weekend after the pseudonymous founder of the $1.27 billion, 1.5-week-old decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol cashed out.
A fork of DeFi darling Uniswap, SushiSwap is the brainchild of a pseudonymous founder, Chef Nomi, who took the...
The governor of the Bank of England (BoE) has said stablecoins need global regulation, warning private issuers that an international regulatory framework could soon be in the cards.
Governor Andrew Bailey said regulators have to come together for a "global response" so they can...
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The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is forging ahead with a long-in-the-works plan to offer national banking charters to payment firms that donât take deposits, but not everybody is happy.
According to a Tuesday report by Politico, Acting Comptroller of...
Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi is taking aim at competitor OKEx in China, specifically the business of trading bitcoin futures and other derivatives contracts. The fight opens a new front in a longstanding rivalry.
OKEx, which is led by Chinese executives and based in Malta, is the...
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell explains the U.S. central bankâs economic approach, including how it will address its previous 2% inflation goal over the next decade
ND (10:00): Powellâs done for the day. The symposium will continue through tomorrow, with Bank of England...
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