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More Bitcoin ETF Rejections 'Quite Likely,' BitGo's Belshe Says
17.11.2023
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe said it's "quite likely" the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will reject a series of spot bitcoin ETF applications despite industrywide optimism
Sushi Makes DeFi History with Native Bitcoin on ZetaChain
17.11.2023
Source: Adobe / David Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Sushi has made history by adding support for the use of native Bitcoin (BTC) on its protocol through an expansion to ZetaChain. The move, announced by Sushi in a blog post on Thursday, will allow users to seamlessly swap BTC across...
APEC Meeting: Yellen Acknowledges Digital Assets’ Potential, Announces Regulation Advancements
17.11.2023
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has acknowledged the advantages that the adoption of digital assets might bring to several key economic activities. After the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) finance ministers’ meeting, Yellen stated that while digital assets do pose risks, they...
CBDC’s Not Yet Ready for Mainstream, Says Mastercard Expert
17.11.2023
Source: Pixabay / AKuptsova Mastercard’s expert Ashok Venkateswaran has expressed skepticism about the current viability of widespread central bank digital currencies (CBDC), claiming that the broad adoption of CBDC could be “difficult,” according to CNBC. Venkateswaran, Mastercard’s Blockchain...
Strike Rolls Out Bitcoin Purchases To Users Globally
16.11.2023
Bitcoin payments firm Strike has expanded its services on a global scale, now allowing users in 36 countries (soon to be 65+) beyond the U.S. to buy bitcoin through the app, founder Jack Mallers announced in a blog post Thursday
This Is What It Looks Like When A Massive Video Game Publisher Messes Up
16.11.2023
This is Lars Wingefors, the CEO of Embracer, a Swedish holding company that owns multiple video game publishers, dozens of studios, and employs over 16,500 people. Or at least it used to. Embracer has been laying off hundreds, canceling projects, and closing studios as it reckons with deals that...
DeFi Market Concentration: Gauntlet Data Reveals Few Major Projects Dominate the Industry
16.11.2023
Image Soure: Adobe A limited number of participants are currently dominating decentralized finance (DeFi), the sector aiming to recreate financial markets without intermediaries. According to data gathered by Gauntlet, a crypto-risk modeling company, most categories within DeFi, such...
Bitcoin-Focused Ordinals Project Taproot Wizards Raises $7.5M in Seed Round
16.11.2023
Taproot Wizards, which describes itself as "magic internet JPEGs", offers a collection of Microsoft Paint images of wizards harking back to a 2013 bitcoin meme: "magic internet money."
255M Pyth Tokens to Be Airdropped to 90K Wallets Next Week
16.11.2023
The Claim Process for the Pyth Network Retrospective Airdrop will open on Monday, Nov 20 at 2 PM UTC
Crypto for Advisors: Cryptocurrency Transparency Truths vs. Myths
16.11.2023
Darwood Khan from Alix Partners looks at on-chain analytics, tracing tools and just how much illicit activity leverages crypto and discusses why advisors should learn about blockchain technology
CoinShares Secures Option to Buy Valkyrie's ETF Unit
16.11.2023
The option, which expires at the end of March, gives the company a foothold in the U.S. ETF market as speculation whirls around the approval of a spot bitcoin product
Bitcoin Is Coming to Sushi as DeFi Platform Expands to ZetaChain
16.11.2023
The move allows users to access the liquidity of bitcoin on decentralized finance (DeFi) without going through intermediaries like wrappers
Pancakeswap Introduces ‘Pancake Mayor’ in New Gamefi Venture
16.11.2023
Pancakeswap, the crypto exchange and decentralized finance (defi) platform, is stepping into the world of game finance (gamefi) by introducing its own gaming marketplace. The marketplace is spearheaded by “Pancake Mayor,” a city-building simulation game developed by Binaryx....
Hashing It Out: How Web3 is causing an evolution of traditional finance
16.11.2023
Sarah Clark, the CEO of E-Gates, believes that traditional finance needs to adopt features of decentralized finance as part of an evolution instead of seeing it as a revolution
A Physical Dogecoin Could Reach the Moon in December
16.11.2023
Dogecoin community plans to send a physical token to the Moon in a December mission by space payload transporter Astrobotic
Head of Dubai Crypto Regulator to Quit to 'Pursue Other Interests'
16.11.2023
Henson Orser, the CEO of VARA, Dubai's crypto regulator, is set to leave the job and will be replaced by a partner at PwC
Lloyds Bank Issues ‘Urgent Warning’ on Rising Threat of Crypto Scams
16.11.2023
Lloyds Bank, a major retail and commercial bank in the U.K., has issued an “urgent warning” about the growing threat of cryptocurrency scams. “Crypto is a highly risky asset class and remains largely unregulated, which makes it an attractive area for fraudsters to exploit....
Philippines to Sell Tokenized Treasury Bond Next Week
16.11.2023
The Bureau of the Treasury has set a minimum target of 10 billion pesos
South Korea's Pension Fund Bought $20M Coinbase Shares in Q3, Made 40% Profit: Report
16.11.2023
The fund snapped up COIN at an average price of $70.5 in the third quarter, achieving a 40% profit from investment
New York finance regulator tightens crypto listing guidance
16.11.2023
Crypto firms’ policies on coin listing and delisting must align with a list of standards set by the NYDFS