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From $250 Billion to $2.35 Trillion: A Look at the Top Ten Crypto Market Cap Shifts Over 2 Years

3.9.2021
While the crypto economy is worth more than $2.35 trillion, there’s a variety of new cryptocurrencies that have claimed top ten positions, in terms of market capitalization, in recent times. Two years ago, the top ten crypto assets by market cap looked a lot different than today, and things...

NBA’s Dallas Mavericks’ Shop to Give Rewards to Customers Paying With Dogecoin and Other Cryptos

3.9.2021
The professional basketball team owned by the billionaire Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks, announced “Mavs Cryptomania,” which gives Dallasmavs.shop customers a $25 e-gift card if they pay with cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash, and dogecoin. The Mav’s...

Stablecoins are assets — not currencies, says ECB president

2.9.2021
“Stablecoins are pretending to be a coin, but in fact it’s completely associated with an actual currency,” said Christine Lagarde

Offchain Labs Launches Arbitrum One Mainnet — Startup Raises $120 Million

2.9.2021
On August 31, 2021, Offchain Labs announced the official launch of Arbitrum One mainnet and further detailed that the company has raised $120 million in funding. The Series B financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners gives the firm a $1.2 billion valuation. Arbitrum One Mainnet Is Now Live...

SEC boss tells EU Parliament crypto and fintech could be as disruptive ‘as the internet’

2.9.2021
SEC chairman Gary Gensler promoted cooperation between Europe and The United States in seeking to regulate decentralized financial technologies

Centre Consortium Working to Create ‘Global Network’ of Stablecoins

1.9.2021
Centre, the consortium created by Circle and Coinbase around USD coin (USDC), has assembled a team of new executives to power its expansion overseas. The new team, comprising six new executives assembled by David Puth, CEO of Centre, will look to support new partners and add new alliances to keep...

Poly Network Hacker Says ‘In the Defi World Code Is Law’ While Returning Millions in Defi Tokens

12.8.2021
Two days after the notorious Poly Network hack, the hacker continues to send funds back to the project. On August 12, the Poly Network hacker so far has returned millions worth of ether, thousands of uni tokens, 1,032 wrapped bitcoins, and 96 million in stablecoins. The day prior, after returning...

EQIFI, the DeFi in Partnership With a Global Bank Now Available on the Bloomberg Terminal

10.8.2021
PRESS RELEASE. EQIFI, a regulated and licensed decentralized platform for pooled lending, borrowing and investing Ethereum-based cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and select fiat currencies, has announced that its native token, EQX, has been enlisted on the Bloomberg Terminal under the EQX ticker...

Stablecoins Reign Among Top Coins: Why and What It Might Mean

7.8.2021
Stablecoins, stablecoins, stablecoins. The cryptoverse can’t seem to get rid of them, with their importance to the market confirmed earlier this summer, when Binance USD (BUSD) cracked the top ten of cryptoassets by market capitalization. It has been in and out of the club since and today is ranked...

EQIFI Launches Suite of Decentralized Financial Products Powered by a Global, Licensed Bank

6.8.2021
PRESS RELEASE. British Virgin Islands — 6th August, 2021 — EQIFI, a decentralized protocol for pooled lending, borrowing and investing Ethereum-based cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and select fiat currencies, has today launched its DeFi platform, including newly introduced fixed-...

Huobi Stablecoin Issuer Publishes Attestation Reports Tied to HUSD Reserve Backing

6.8.2021
The crypto financial services company Huobi and the firm’s stablecoin issuer Stable Universal have published monthly HUSD attestation reports. The audits indicate the funds that back Huobi’s stablecoin are kept in cash in U.S. money market accounts in order to ensure the 1:1 ratio with...

Mastercard Outlines Plans for Cryptocurrencies, Stablecoins, Central Bank Digital Currencies

2.8.2021
Mastercard’s CEO has outlined the company’s plans to develop products and services around cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). “We want to be playing a role across all of them … It’s obviously a vibrant space around digital...

US Stablecoin Regulation Could Lead to Geopolitical Competition

30.7.2021
Recent regulatory developments could push stablecoins closer to the existing fiat system, unleashing competition for control over a lifeblood of the crypto industry, says our columnist

New bill proposes US Treasury to have full authority over fiat stablecoins

30.7.2021
The bill also calls for the Federal Reserve to be vested with the clear authority to issue a digital dollar

Congressman takes aim at peers who think crypto could cause a ‘financial 9/11’

30.7.2021
Characterizing his contemporaries as viewing the crypto sector as a “financial 9/11,” Congressman Ted Budd has warned lawmakers against driving blockchain innovation offshore

Algorithmic stablecoins show promise of reducing volatility — ShapeShift

29.7.2021
“Stablecoin experimentation is happening in real-time with billions of dollars at stake in this vast permissionless lab we call DeFi,” reads a new research report from ShapeShift. The author focuses on the rise of algorithmic stablecoins and their potential use cases