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Moscow Exchange Plans to Issue Real Estate Digital Assets by 2024
14.10.2023
The Moscow Exchange, the largest exchange in Russia, has announced plans to issue real estate digital assets in 2024. According to Sergei Kharinov, director of digital assets for the platform, this will lower the entry barrier for qualified and unqualified investors to put part of their portfolio...
Coinbase continues push to compel SEC to act on crypto rulemaking petition
14.10.2023
Coinbase’s Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal has once again called for a mandamus to compel the SEC to respond to the firm’s crypto rulemaking petition
CFTC Sues Former CEO of Crypto Lender Voyager for Fraud
14.10.2023
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charged the former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital with fraud. The regulator accused Stephen Ehrlich and the company of luring investors with promises of high-yield returns while breaking derivatives rules. Ehrlich was also...
India’s Central Bank RBI Launches CBDC Pilot in Call Money Market
14.10.2023
India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has initiated a pilot for a second use case of its wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC), focusing on the call money market. The Indian central bank reportedly plans to expand its e-rupee testing to cover the entire wholesale...
Saudi Arabian Funds, BlockFi's Founder, and a Star Witness: Recapping the Dramatic Second Week of Sam Bankman-Fried's Landmark Fraud Trial
14.10.2023
From FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's attempts to raise company funds from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia to using Thai prostitutes' identities in an attempt to unfreeze crypto accounts, the second week of Bankman-Fried's criminal trial proved damning for the disgraced "king of crypto."...
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Coinbase Raises Concerns Over Proposed IRS Tax Regulations on Crypto
13.10.2023
Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, argues that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) proposal regarding cryptocurrency tax regulations could potentially harm both the cryptocurrency industry and the privacy of American citizens....
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Thorswap Resumes Service With 12 Countries Blacklisted and New Partnership to Curb Illegal Transfers
13.10.2023
On October 6, 2023, Thorswap halted its services temporarily. However, the platform recently declared its return to full operation with some notable modifications. An array of approximately twelve countries are now barred from utilizing Thorswap, while the decentralized exchange (dex)...
Microsoft's Activision buy may see more metaverse in the office and crypto in gaming
13.10.2023
More signs say the acquisition will boost metaverse applications in business than in gaming as CEO Nadella talks about productivity and metaverse enthusiast Kotick leaves Activision
Crypto Whales are Quietly Accumulating This Crypto Coin – What Do They Know?
13.10.2023
Recently, crypto whales have been discreetly participating in the crypto presale of Launchpad XYZ, a startup that focuses on AI trading in the cryptocurrency sphere.
Slated for a comprehensive platform launch in 2023, the company has already amassed over $1.88 million in its ongoing presale. This...
BlockFi CEO Zac Prince Blames Bankruptcy on FTX and Alameda
13.10.2023
The federal criminal case against Bankman-Fried closed out its second week Friday with engaging testimony from BlockFi founder and CEO, Zac Prince.
Prince claimed that BlockFi began lending money to FTX towards the start of 2021, increasing the fallen crypto exchange's borrowing later on in...
Is Hamas Using Crypto to Attack Israel? We Don’t Know
13.10.2023
Reports this week about multi-million dollar Hamas crypto financing may have left a faulty impression
Stablecoin Market Navigates Shifting Sands as Tether Announces New CEO and USDR Depegs
13.10.2023
The stablecoin landscape has been stagnant for the last two months, barely exceeding $123 billion as we approach the third week of October. Even though fiat-pegged token trading saw a spike this week, on October 13, stablecoin transactions made up 22.96% of the global crypto economy’s trade...
Former CEO of Miami Investment Firm Pleads Guilty to Crypto Futures Fraud Conspiracy
13.10.2023
The former CEO of Systematic Alpha Management LLC (SAM) pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to commit commodities fraud involving crypto futures contracts, and he is potentially facing up to a five-year prison sentence.
On October 13, the United States Department of Justice said that Peter Kambolin...
Hamas' Crypto Ties May Lend Energy to Sen. Warren's Money Laundering Bill
13.10.2023
The revelations that the terrorist group behind last week’s attack on villages in southern Israel that left more than 1,200 Israelis dead was partially funded with cryptocurrency may lend additional weight to an effort from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and others to push for a law targeting...
SBF Trial: Crypto Lender BlockFi Believed Alameda Was Solvent Given Balance Sheet It Was Shown, CEO Testifies
13.10.2023
BlockFi lost “a little over a billion dollars” due to its involvement with FTX and Alameda Research, Zac Prince said
Best Crypto to Buy Now October 13 – Filecoin, IOTA, The Sandbox
13.10.2023
New revelations from former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison surfaced today regarding the crypto hedge fund's financial relationship with FTX prior to the exchange's collapse.
Speaking to Alameda staff in Hong Kong last November, Ellison acknowledged the firm borrowed large sums from...
Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust Discount to NAV Narrows Sharply to a 16.59% Gap
13.10.2023
Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust, known as GBTC, has witnessed a significant shift in its market dynamics. In January 2023, GBTC traded at a significant 48.31% discount to its net asset value (NAV). Today, that gap has narrowed to 16.59%, indicating changes in market sentiment and presenting...
U.S. House Speaker Drama Could Threaten to Unravel Crypto's 2023 Chances
13.10.2023
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are sprinting toward the worst case scenario in their scramble for a new speaker of the House, and their infighting could worsen the prospects for crypto legislation this year
Landmark Ruling: Chinese Court Rejects Crypto Lending Again
13.10.2023
Crypto lending activity still falls outside the purview of China’s legal system, ruled a Chinese court in the second ruling of the nation’s kind on Tuesday.
Per a press release from the Nanchang People’s Court, lending out virtual currency and requesting a return “is not within the scope of civil...
French Regulator Concludes DeFi Public Consultations, Views Ecosystem as “Disintermediated”
13.10.2023
The Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR), a body within the French Central Bank published a summary of the public consultation it held on decentralized finance (DeFi).
The document released on Oct 12, outlines a key path toward regulations in the sector to address the risky...