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Hong Kong Mulls Letting Retail Investors Trade Crypto, Removing ‘Professional Investor-Only Requirement’
21.10.2022
The director of licensing and head of the fintech unit of Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has confirmed that the regulator is considering allowing retail investors to invest directly in crypto assets. “We’ve had four years of experience in regulating this...
Remittances drive ‘uneven, but swift’ crypto adoption in Latin America
21.10.2022
The Latin American region now makes up for a 9.1% share of the global crypto value received in 2022 with remittances and high inflation the highest drivers of adoption
JPMorgan Hires Former Executive of Bankrupt Crypto Firm as Head of Digital Assets Regulatory Policy
21.10.2022
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has hired bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network’s former head of policy and regulatory affairs as its new head of digital assets regulatory policy. The move followed JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon telling U.S. Congress that crypto tokens, like bitcoin,...
Robert Kiyosaki Says US Dollar Is Toast Citing Saudi Arabia’s Request to Join BRICS
21.10.2022
The famous author of the best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, says the U.S. dollar is toast, citing Saudi Arabia’s request to join the BRICS nations that comprise Russia, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa. Robert Kiyosaki’s Latest US Dollar Warning The author...
First Mover Asia: Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko Thinks His Phone Is the Tool for a Mobile Web3 Experience
21.10.2022
The Solana protocol faces a massive challenge in convincing people to use its phone to do things they can do with existing phones
Onecoin Cryptoqueen Associates Appear in German Court
21.10.2022
Three people are facing trial in Germany for their roles in one of the crypto world’s most infamous scams, Onecoin. The defendants are accused of fraud, among other crimes, allegedly committed as they assisted the pyramid scheme’s mastermind, ‘Cryptoqueen’ Ruja Ignatova, who is still on the run....
Jack Dorsey-Backed Decentralized Social Network Bluesky Gets 30,000 Signups in 48 Hours
20.10.2022
The Web3 social media protocol aims to solve the issues associated with data silos that exist across today’s applications
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Dull as Drama (Not the Kind You Want) Comes to Axie
20.10.2022
Bitcoin trades flat around $19K (with the lowest volatility in two years), while Axie tumbles amid news of token unlocking. PLUS: Analyst Glenn Williams Jr. urges caution when interpreting bitcoin’s MVRV Z-score. Market Wrap is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today's crypto...
Over a Fifth of Cases in CFTC’s 2022 Crackdown Were Crypto-Related
20.10.2022
The federal regulator’s annual enforcement results revealed that over 20% of the CFTC’s enforcement actions in 2022 involved crypto
Brazil-Based Neobank Nubank to Launch Own Cryptocurrency as Part of Loyalty Program
20.10.2022
Nubank, one of the largest digital banks in the world, has announced it will issue its own cryptocurrency during the first half of 2023. The currency, called Nucoin, will be issued on top of Ethereum with the help of Polygon, a second layer that allows users and developers to take advantage...
Crypto Custodian Prime Trust Agrees to Return $17M in Tokens to Bankrupt Lender Celsius
20.10.2022
The assets will be sent to a designated Celsius wallet, and will await court orders about how they should be distributed
Instant Articles, Proprietary Syndication, and a Web Built on User Fidelity Preferences
20.10.2022
I love it when there’s a sense of synergy in the blogosphere. First, I caught Nick Heer’s coverage of Meta ending support for Instant Articles, its proprietary format for stripped-down performant news articles. He also compares it to the similar …
Instant Articles, Proprietary...
Warner Bros. transformará la película original de “El Señor de los Anillos” en una experiencia Web3
20.10.2022
La compañía de entretenimiento tiene grandes planes para crear WB Movieverse y adaptar otras películas de sus archivos a NFT multimedia
Bitcoin Flat as Volatility Hits 2-Year Low and Stocks Rise
20.10.2022
Bitcoin’s 30-day price volatility dropped to the lowest in almost two years, data shows
Genesis Chief Risk Officer Said to Be Exiting After 3 Months
20.10.2022
Michael Patchen joined the company only this past summer
US Charges Russians, Venezuelans for Sanctions Evasion Using Cryptocurrency
20.10.2022
A group of Russian and Venezuelan nationals have been charged by U.S. authorities for their roles in a scheme to circumvent Western sanctions and launder money on a global scale. They have been accused of obtaining military technologies from American companies, smuggling oil, and disguising money...
DeFi Exchange Mango's $114M Exploit Was 'Market Manipulation,' Not a Hack, Ex-FBI Special Agent Says
20.10.2022
Chris Tarbell, co-founder boutique investigative firm NAXO, discusses why the $114 million exploit of Mango Markets was more about market manipulation, rather than hacking
In Defense of Aptos, Crypto's Punchline This Week
20.10.2022
El emisor de stablecoin Tether pondrá a disposición USDT en 24.000 cajeros automáticos de Brasil
20.10.2022
La conversión de tether en reales brasileros y viceversa estará a cargo del proveedor de servicios de criptomonedas local SmartPay junto con TacBan, propietario de los cajeros automáticos
Warner Brothers is Transforming The Original ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie Into a Web3 Experience
20.10.2022
The entertainment company has big plans to create a WB Movieverse and adapt other films in its archives into multimedia NFTs