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South Africa Working Group Releases New Position Paper Calling for Regulation of Crypto Asset Providers
13.6.2021
South Africa’s Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group (IFWG) has a released new position paper that calls for the regulation of the country’s cryptocurrency ecosystem. In the document, the IFWG, which is a creation of the South Africa Reserve Bank (SARB), recommends “a staged...
Irish MEP calls for stringent crypto regulations in Europe
2.6.2021
One Irish MEP wants even stricter stablecoin and crypto regulations in Europe
Uganda’s Financial Intelligence Authority Wants Government to Formulate a Crypto Regulatory Framework
25.5.2021
Uganda’s Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) says it wants the country’s Finance Ministry to help formulate a regulatory framework for crypto service providers. According to the FIA, this call for the government’s intervention has prompted by the Ugandan crypto industry’s...
Dutch Central Bank Revokes Strict Verification Rules for Crypto Exchanges
21.5.2021
The cryptocurrency industry in the Netherlands has won a small but significant battle. The country’s central bank has canceled some excessive verification procedures that it imposed on crypto service providers last fall. The move comes after a local exchange took the matter to court....
B2BinPay Launches Version 2.0: Major Product Upgrade Includes New Blockchains, Tokens and Pricing
20.5.2021
PRESS RELEASE. B2BinPay, one of the industry’s leading crypto processing providers, has announced the launch of version 2 of its award-winning payments solution. The new version is a highly-anticipated upgrade to the current offering and includes a series of feature enhancements and...
Global Payments and GoCrypto Shape the New Era of Payments
17.5.2021
PRESS RELEASE. 17 May 2021 – The adoption of crypto payments by one of the world’s biggest payment solution providers can mean only one thing. Cryptocurrency payments are now on the verge of going mainstream. GoCrypto, a payment solution that enables merchants to accept...
Goldman Sachs Formally Establishes Cryptocurrency Trading Team
9.5.2021
Investment bank Goldman Sachs has officially formed a cryptocurrency trading team, according to the firm’s internal memo. Goldman Sachs says it is working to broaden its market presence in the crypto space and is currently selectively onboarding new liquidity providers to help expand...
Venezuelan Crypto Regulator Sunacrip Strengthens AML/KYC Requirements for Virtual Asset Service Providers
3.5.2021
Sunacrip, the Venezuelan cryptocurrency watchdog, has recently published a new set of AML/KYC requirements for VASPs (Virtual Asset Service Providers) that establishes new and updated rules about the kind of information these providers must require and share with the Venezuelan government, raising...
Irish crypto firms must comply with money laundering laws for the first time
27.4.2021
It is now a criminal offense to operate a crypto firm in Ireland without registering with the Central Bank of Ireland
How BSC DeFi Liquidity Providers Can Grow Their APYs via LP-Collateralized Loans
26.3.2021
The decentralized finance market actively shortens banks worldwide by providing users with friction-free financial instruments usable for imaginable purposes. From crypto-collateralized loans that entail no credit checks or submission of personal data to earning huge APYs by depositing liquidity...
FIO Protocol Marks First Year Anniversary
25.3.2021
PRESS RELEASE. The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) celebrates the first year anniversary since the community launched the mainnet of the open-source FIO protocol. With over one-hundred and fifty thousand users and some of the industry’s leading service providers such...
New FATF Guidance Applies Regulatory Standards to Decentralized Exchanges, Defi and NFTs
24.3.2021
On March 19, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published draft guidance on the risk-based approach to virtual assets. The newly updated guidance now applies anti-money laundering and know-your-customer rules to stablecoins, decentralized finance (defi), and non-fungible token (NFT) assets....
FATF updates guidance on crypto service providers, calls for public comments
26.2.2021
The Financial Action Task Force is looking to adapt its guidance standards for stablecoins and crypto peer-to-peer transactions
Hashbon Launches Its HASH Token and Gets Listed on Coinsbit
26.2.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Established in 2016, Hashbon aims to provide payment services for both business and individual clients. One of the key differences between Hashbon and other crypto payment providers is that Hashbon charges 0% commission for crypto payments processing. Buyers pay and sellers receive...
Simplex and Skrill Broaden Cryptocurrency Convenience by Launching New Onramp Solutions
26.2.2021
As enthusiasm for cryptocurrency mounts amid strong demand from retail and institutional investors, financial service providers Simplex and Skrill are building more inroads into the ecosystem, focusing on improving transactability and convenience. The digital payment services continue to expand...
Oracle-focused tokens rally as DeFi searches for trusted data providers
14.2.2021
The DeFi sector is booming but the future of the sector depends on oracles, here are some of the top contenders
Earn Yield Farming Rewards with DeFi Yield Protocol (DYP)
13.2.2021
PRESS RELEASE. DeFi Yield Protocol (DYP) is a decentralized yield farming platform that allows liquidity providers to earn rewards in Ethereum and its native token DYP. It offers a solution to the risk involved in Yield Farming by offering different options for investors to earn while maintaining...
The Differences in Web Hosting (Go with the Happy Path)
10.2.2021
One of our readers checked out “Helping a Beginner Understand Getting a Website Live” and had some follow up questions specifically about hosting providers. Here’s what they asked:
What’s the difference between hosting providers? For example, what is the difference...
Curve liquidity providers see $3M windfall from $11M Yearn Finance exploit
5.2.2021
A hacker has made off with $2.8 million after draining $11 million from Yearn Finance’s V1 DAI vault
xSigma DeFi Offers Lucrative Rewards for Liquidity Providers, Whitepaper Released
13.1.2021
xSigma is an upcoming stablecoin DEX protocol developed by the first DeFi project backed by a NASDAQ-listed company. In order to attract liquidity providers to supply their stablecoins to the decentralized exchange, the protocol will feature a lucrative rewards system for liquidity mining....