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BlackRock Revises Bitcoin ETF Model To Appease SEC Concerns
29.11.2023
BlackRock Office BlackRock executives held another meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday to discuss the firm’s application to launch a Bitcoin (BTC) spot ETF in the United States. Based on publicly released notes from the meeting, the asset manager has modified...
Wormhole Raises $225 Million at $2.5 Billion Valuation in 2023’s Largest Crypto Fundraise
29.11.2023
Source: Adobe Interoperable blockchain protocol Wormhole has achieved another significant milestone with a $225 million seed fund raised from a group of prominent investors in the crypto landscape. This fundraising is the largest in the Web3 ecosystem so far this year, propelling Wormhole’s...
Binance to End Support for BUSD Stablecoin, Remaining Balances Converted to FDUSD
29.11.2023
Binance ends BUSD support and transitions to FDUSD stablecoin after regulatory troubles. Image by maurice norbert, Adobe Stock. Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced today in a blog post that it will end support for its Binance USD (BUSD) stablecoin on December 15. The move comes after...
Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Puts “Bad Actors” in Crypto on Notice, Delivers Remarks at D.C. Policy Summit
29.11.2023
U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary, Wally Adeyemo, had choice words for “bad actors” in the crypto space while delivering remarks at the Blockchain Association’s Policy Summit in D.C. Wednesday. “We will find you and hold you accountable” “I want to directly address those within the digital...
Blockchain Data Shows Crypto Whales are Accumulating This Lesser Known AI Coin – Here’s Why
29.11.2023
Launchpad XYZ is using artificial intelligence to power its AI coin and empower crypto investors across the expanding Web3 space. Image by Kerem Goktug Kaya, DALL·E 3. Over the past few years, the crypto industry has grown beyond just digital currencies and expanded into new sectors like NFTs,...
U.S. Treasury Sanctions North Korean Government’s Crypto Mixer Sinbad
29.11.2023
According to a statement released Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Department has placed sanctions on the government of North Korea’s crypto mixer, Sinbad. “A key-money laundering tool” Sinbad serves as “a key money-laundering tool” for the state-sponsored North Korean cyber-hacking collective...
Aerodrome and Velodrome Suffer Front-End Security Breach
29.11.2023
Source: Pixabay Decentralized crypto exchanges Velodrome and Aerodrome have warned users about a front-end security breach on their websites. In X posts published on Wednesday, Velodrome and Aerodrome warned users against interacting with their websites until further notice. “Our frontend...
Poloniex to Resume Withdrawals Starting With TRX After $100M Hack
29.11.2023
Poloniex is resuming operations following a recent hack of exchange hot wallets. Image by Rafael Henrique, Adobe Stock. Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex announced today that it will begin gradually resuming withdrawal and deposit services starting November 30. This comes after the platform suffered...
In the Wake of Declining Values for Optimism (OP) and Toncoin (TON), an emerging Crypto Contender Captures Investor Interest
29.11.2023
TLDR Optimism experts expect OP to fall to $1.22 by December. Despite the listing of Toncoin on Blockchain.com, experts expect TON to fall to $1.50 by the end of 2023. Rebel Satoshi’s high-flying presale attracts investors with mouthwatering offers. In 2023, Optimism (OP), Toncoin (TON),...
Crypto Regulation News Weekly Digest: CZ’s Guilty Plea and Grayscale’s Bitcoin ETF Prospectus
29.11.2023
Crypto regulation evolves through CZ plea deal, Grayscale Bitcoin ETF application, Singapore bans, and Lagarde’s personal experience. Image by Titiwoot Weerawong, Vecteezy Last week brought several major developments on the crypto regulation front. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao pleaded...
Copper to Launch Abu Dhabi-based Digital Securities Brokerage
29.11.2023
London-based crypto trading and custody firm Copper announced plans to launch a new brokerage platform for digital assets in Abu Dhabi as soon as early next year, the company announced on Wednesday. Copper’s latest expansion News of the company’s expansion is part of their acquisition...
Digital Euro Debate Heats Up: Experts Divided on Central Bank Digital Currency
29.11.2023
Source: Pixabay / Hans After a two-hour hearing regarding the potential issuance of a digital euro, expert testimony has done little to settle the continent’s legislative debate on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Members of the European Parliament invited four expert witnesses to a hearing...
Project Tourbillon: CBDCs Can Meet Privacy Requirements, BIS Research Reveals
29.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / Proxima Studio The Bank for International Settlement (BIS) has released the final report on Project Tourbillion, its privacy-inclined Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) project. A Nov 29 release shows a pathway to achieving privacy standards in CBDC deployment and usage with...
Digital Finance Firm SoFi Hands Its Crypto Business to Blockchain.com
29.11.2023
Blockchain.com President Lane Kassleman said in an interview that his firm’s SoFi partnership equates to hundreds of thousands of users and hundreds of millions of dollars
Paxos Receives Approval To Issue Stablecoins In Abu Dhabi
29.11.2023
Source: Pixabay Crypto firm Paxos has secured two in-principle approvals from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority in the Abu Dhabi Global Market. The company said in a press release published on Wednesday that the approvals would allow Paxos to issue stablecoins and provide cryptocurrency...
Dogecoin-funded SpaceX Moon Mission To Launch in January
29.11.2023
Source: Pixabay DOGE-1, a Dogecoin-funded SpaceX moon mission, has received a key regulatory approval from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The approval is one of the precursors to the final Federal Communications Commission license, which the mission is still yet...
Blockchain Messaging Platform Wormhole Raises $225M at $2.5B Valuation
29.11.2023
Wormhole, which was recently separated from parent Jump Trading Group after it scaled back its crypto operations, is a developer platform which allows different blockchain networks to communicate with each other
Today in Crypto: Toniq Launches ‘First Ordinals-Specific NFT Marketplace Built on Bitcoin L2’, Neobank Brighty Reveals European B2B Platform Brighty Business
29.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / sipgus Get your daily, bite-sized digest of crypto and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. __________ NFT news Toniq, a company building professional tools and services on the decentralized web, today announced the launch...
CFTC’s Request for Coinbase User Data Linked to Bybit Investigation – What’s Going On?
29.11.2023
Source: Adobe / Rafael Henrique Coinbase users are reportedly receiving emails notifying them that their customer information might be shared with the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) following a subpoena served to Coinbase. While the exchange has not publicly commented on...
SEC in Philippines: Binance is Operating Without a License – Here’s the Latest
29.11.2023
Source: Iryna Budanova/Adobe The Securities and Exchange Commission in the Philippines has warned users that cryptocurrency exchange, Binance is operating without the required license. In a Nov 28 press release, the regulator stated that the exchange lacks authorization to sell securities to...