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Report: EA Looking To Sell Or Merge
21.5.2022
The video game market is consolidating like never before, and Electronic Arts is scrambling like everyone else. The Battlefield and FIFA maker recently pursued a merger with NBCUniversal, and also held potential acquisition talks with Disney, Apple, and other companies, according to a new report...
3 red flags that signal a crypto project may be misleading investors
20.5.2022
The challenges faced by Terra, Wonderland and a handful of other DeFi projects exposed the need for investors to do more research and avoid cult personalities
Finance Redefined: Lifeline for Terra projects, proposed Terra hard fork and more
20.5.2022
Binance comes to the rescue of Terra projects, Chainalysis introduces new tools to track stolen crypto funds, Do Kwon's new proposal for a Terra hard fork and more in this week's DeFi newsletter
DeFi Protocol iZUMi Finance Raises $30M, Launches Exchange
20.5.2022
The funds were raised through the sale of bond vouchers and claims to back the new iZiSwap decentralized exchange
Crypto Should Meet Same Norms as Regular Finance, G7 Says
20.5.2022
Finance ministers want to see financial-stability and money-laundering standards in effect soon
GameStop Jumps Into NFTs Just As The Market Collapses
20.5.2022
The NFT market, and other blockchain-associated grifts like cryptocurrency, are having a very bad month, as their perceived “value” evaporates and whatever actual monetary value they had falls through the floor. To which GameStop says: lol.Read more
G7 Finance Ministers Call to Accelerate Global Crypto Regulations Following UST Collapse: Report
19.5.2022
G7 ministers meeting in Germany want the Financial Stability Board to act faster after the collapse of stablecoin terraUSD
Terra Collapse Continues to Plague Defi — Value Locked in Cross-Chain Bridges Down 20% This Month
19.5.2022
Following the aftermath of the Terra blockchain fiasco, decentralized finance (defi) continues to feel the impact of the project’s fallout. During the last four days the total value locked (TVL) in defi has dropped 2.61% in value, and cross-chain bridges have lost roughly 20.3% during...
Curve Finance Proposes to End CRV Token Emissions on All UST Pools
19.5.2022
On-chain participants are already voting “yes” to end CRV emissions from any liquidity pools involving UST
Billionaire Investor and Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz Addresses the Terra LUNA and UST Fallout
18.5.2022
On May 18, the billionaire investor and crypto proponent Mike Novogratz published a post about the recent Terra blockchain fallout. Novogratz and his firm Galaxy Digital were big believers in the Terra project, and the investor even got a LUNA-centric tattoo on his arm. Despite the recent events...
Russia’s First Digital Financial Assets Expected This Year, Lawmaker Says
18.5.2022
The first digital financial assets based on Russian blockchains may be issued as early as this year, a high-ranking parliamentarian announced. Three platforms are already registered as issuers, said Anatoly Aksakov, who chairs the Financial Market Committee at the State Duma, the lower house...
‘DeFi in Europe has no lobby,’ says co-founder of Unstoppable Finance
18.5.2022
Peter Grosskopf, co-founder of the DeFi project Unstoppable Finance, tells Cointelegraph auf Deutsch what he thinks about new regulations for DeFi
Saudi Arabia Now Owns 5% Of Nintendo
18.5.2022
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, a near-bottomless pit of cash tasked with diversifying the nation’s economy (and whitewashing their human rights record), has acquired a 5.01% stake in Nintendo.Read more
German BaFin official calls for 'innovative' EU-wide DeFi regulation
18.5.2022
Highlighting Germany’s crypto license as an example of attractive regulation, Birgit Rodolphe writes that similar frameworks should be the same throughout the EU to “prevent a fragmented market.”
Study: Amid Mining Bans, China Still Commands World’s Second-Largest Share of Bitcoin Hashrate
17.5.2022
New data stemming from the latest Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) report on bitcoin mining indicates that China still holds the second position in terms of global hashrate. While China commands close to 22% of Bitcoin’s global hashrate, the United States currently dominates...
Global financial regulators will discuss crypto at G7: Report
17.5.2022
Bank of France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau reportedly said that the recent crypto market volatility had been a “wake-up call” for global regulators
Dutch Finance Official Wants to Ban Retail Investors From Trading Crypto Derivatives
17.5.2022
Regulators think options and futures should only be for professional investors, but the Authority for Financial Markets doesn’t yet have powers for a UK-style ban
Portugal to Tax Cryptocurrency Income According to Minister of Finance
17.5.2022
Portugal, one of the countries considered a crypto tax haven due to its absence of crypto-related taxation, is preparing to change this policy. Fernando Medina, minister of finance of Portugal, stated that the country is working on a framework to allow the taxation of cryptocurrency income gains...
Grayscale Launches European ETF While Urging SEC to Approve GBTC Conversion Into Spot Bitcoin ETF
17.5.2022
Grayscale Investments has announced the launch of an exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Europe. The company’s Future of Finance UCITS ETF will list on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), Borsa Italiana, and Deutsche Börse Xetra. Grayscale Launches ETF in Europe Grayscale Investments,...
BIFI gains 100%+ after Beefy Finance adds new vaults and stablecoin liquidity pools
16.5.2022
12 new vaults, quad-stablecoin liquidity pools and an integration with Oasis Network could be the factors behind BIFI’s current triple digit gain