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NFT Industry Faces Uncertainty as Federal Judge May Categorize NBA Top Shot Tokens as Securities – Regulation Incoming?
23.2.2023
The popular NBA Top Shot NFT trading cards could be deemed securities for regulatory purposes in the US, after a judge allowed a lawsuit against Top Shot’s creator to move forward.
Top Shot creator Dapper Labs was sued by a buyer of the NFTs who alleged that the creator’s failure to register them...
CoinEx’s tokens and services are under NY Attorney General scrutiny
23.2.2023
In the crypto sphere, exchanges continue to come under scrutiny by regulators and relevant authorities. The reason is pretty simple: most exchanges offer tokens and services that qualify as securities and/or commodities, but they are being offered without any registration. The New York Attorney...
Tokenizing the Titanic: New Partnership Brings Real Artifacts from Wreckage to NFT Market
23.2.2023
Physical artifacts retrieved from the wreckage of the Titanic are set to be tokenized as NFTs and shared with the world through a new, three-way partnership.
The collaboration involves RMS Titanic (RMST), which holds exclusive salvage rights over the wreck and the wreck site of the Titanic, Hong...
TUSD Leverages Chainlink Proof of Reserve for Real-Time Verification of Stablecoin Minting
23.2.2023
On Wednesday, the stablecoin project Trueusd announced that it is leveraging Chainlink Proof of Reserve (POR) technology to provide real-time verification for the minting of trueusd tokens. The trueusd crypto asset has a circulating supply of over 968 million tokens and is the sixth-largest...
Federal Judge Rules NBA Top Shot NFTs May Be Considered Unregistered Securities
23.2.2023
A federal judge, Victor Marrero, ruled on Wednesday that the NBA Top Shot non-fungible tokens (NFTs) issued by Dapper Labs may meet the requirements to be considered an unregistered security. The case arose in 2021 when an NBA Top Shot collector sued Dapper Labs, claiming that the NBA Top Shot...
NY Attorney General Sues Crypto Exchange CoinEx, Alleges AMP, LBC, LUNA and RLY Tokens Are Securities
22.2.2023
The New York State Attorney General's office sued crypto exchange CoinEx, arguing it was an unregistered securities broker and commodity broker-dealer under state law
Luxor Technologies Acquires Ordinalhub to Provide Tools for Bitcoin-Based NFTs
22.2.2023
With Bitcoin-based digital collectibles becoming a popular trend, the full-stack bitcoin mining services company Luxor Technologies has acquired the platform Ordinalhub, a project that provides tools to buy, sell, and track Bitcoin-issued non-fungible token (NFT) assets. Luxor Plans to Address...
Binance Shifts to ‘Semi-Automated’ Process to Manage Reserves of Tokens It Issues: Bloomberg
22.2.2023
Reserves for these tokens had previously been mixed with customer funds
Bitcoin Soars Over $25K, MEXC (MX) Rockets To All-Time High in 2023
22.2.2023
PRESS RELEASE. With Bitcoin surging to reach a new 2023 high, MX has been the top performer in exchange tokens, with a 7-day growth of 32%. Bitcoin’s price rising over $25,000 has sparked a frenzy of activity in the cryptocurrency market. With investors flocking to take advantage of...
BIS General Manager Casts Doubt on Stablecoins, Claiming Tokens Do Not Benefit From Regulations or Central Planning
22.2.2023
According to Agustin Carstens, the head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), cryptocurrencies have lost the “battle” against fiat currencies issued by the world’s central banks. While speaking at the Monetary Authority of Singapore on Wednesday, Carstens stressed that...
TON blockchain freezes $2.6B worth of inactive tokens
22.2.2023
Miners' wallets were suspended for four years if they have been inactive with no outgoing transactions
Litecoin Network Adopts Ordinal Inscriptions, Following Bitcoin’s Lead
22.2.2023
Following a growing trend of Ordinal inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain, the technology has been ported to the Litecoin network, and the number of onchain Litecoin inscriptions has surpassed 13,000. Software developer Anthony Guerrera made Ordinal inscriptions on the Litecoin network possible...
Klaytn Foundation Proposes Burning 5.28B KLAY Tokens, Cutting Token Supply by Nearly 50%
22.2.2023
The proposal suggests an initial burning of 73% of the reserve supply, amounting to 5.28 billion KLAY tokens or approximately 48% of the total token supply
Filecoin, Storj Tokens Outperform Bitcoin Amid Increased Use of Decentralized Storage Protocols
22.2.2023
The utility FIL token jumped 62% over the past week. Decentralized storage protocols recently gained attention as their use has increased, an analyst said
Proof of Stake Alliance publishes white papers on legal aspects of liquidity staking
21.2.2023
Experts from 10 industry organizations contributed to this pioneering examination of legal questions surrounding proof of stake
Binance Increases USDC Holdings as BUSD’s Market Cap Slides Lower
21.2.2023
Eight days ago, Paxos announced that the company would no longer mint the stablecoin BUSD. Since then, the coin’s market capitalization has been sliding lower as redemptions have become more prominent. Meanwhile, a data researcher from Nansen has discovered that Binance, the largest...
Beware of Bing AI chat and ChatGPT pump-and-dump tokens — Watch The Market Report live
21.2.2023
On this week’s episode of The Market Report, Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss ChatGPT pump-and-dump tokens and why you should be cautious
Biggest Movers: BCH Hits Fresh Multi-Month High, Whilst MATIC Extends Declines
21.2.2023
Bitcoin cash jumped to a fresh seven-month high on Tuesday, as prices rallied, despite bearish sentiment increasing. Today’s move comes as the global cryptocurrency market cap is trading 1.50% lower at the time of writing. One of the most notable tokens to fall has been polygon, which...
Deutsche Bank Completes Asset Management Test With Memento Blockchain, Putting Domani's DEXT Tokens Into Focus
21.2.2023
Called Project DAMA, the collaboration between Deutsche Bank and Memento Blockchain aims to address the challenges associated with launching and accessing digital asset funds
Report: South African Startup Momint Seeks to Boost Electricity Generation Using Blockchain-Based Solution
21.2.2023
Using a solution that is based on blockchain technology, the South African startup Momint has said the recently launched Suncash initiative aims to ease the country’s power generation challenges. For about $9, investors can reportedly buy non-fungible tokens (NFTs) linked to solar cells which...