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Turkey’s Misyon Bank Taps Taurus for Digital Asset Custody and Tokenization Services
26.3.2024
Turkey's Misyon Bank has announced its partnership with Swiss firm Taurus to leverage its digital asset custody and tokenization technology.
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British Man Who Lost 7,500 BTC Sues for Right to Search Council Landfill
26.3.2024
A British computer expert, who inadvertently misplaced a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins, has initiated a legal action to compel the Newport City Council to permit him to search through the landfill where the storage device is believed to be buried. Anticipating a further increase in the value...
Digital Asset Investment Products See Record Outflows of $942M After 7-Week Inflow Streak
25.3.2024
Digital asset investment products experienced a record outflow of $942 million from March 16 to 22, marking the end of a seven-week streak of substantial inflows totaling $12.3 billion.
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Layer 1 Blockchain Mantra Secures $11 Million from Latest Investment Funding Round
25.3.2024
Mantra, the Layer 1 blockchain for real-world assets (RWA), recently raised $11 million in an investment round that was led by Shorooq Partners. Mantra said the raised funds will also be used to provide developers with the tools they need to create RWA protocols and to expand the tokenization...
Singapore-Licensed DigiFT Introduces US Treasury Bill Depository Receipt Tokens
25.3.2024
DigiFT, a Singapore-based fintech company, has made a foray into the digital asset realm with the launch of the its US Treasury bill depository receipt (DR) tokens.
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EU Anti-Money Laundering Laws Ban Provision of Services for Anonymous Cryptocurrency Accounts
24.3.2024
A new set of anti-money laundering laws passed by the EU has banned crypto asset service providers from servicing and providing custody to anonymous cryptocurrency accounts. The approved proposal for the “prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering...
BlackRock Launches New Fund with Securitize, Hinting at Move Into Tokenization
20.3.2024
Investment management firm BlackRock is launching a new fund in collaboration with Securitize, as per a recent SEC filing. The fund, registered in the British Virgin Islands, operates as a pooled investment fund.
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Grayscale Investments Submits Revised Application for Spot Ethereum ETF
19.3.2024
Grayscale Investments’ Chief Legal Officer announced that the firm has submitted a revised Form 19b-4 for spot Ether exchange-traded funds. The officer, Craig Salm, stated that investors are seeking access to ethereum via a spot Ethereum ETF. Listing on the NYSE Grayscale Investments,...
Hong Kong Securities Regulator Issues Warning Against ‘Unlicensed’ Crypto Platform Bybit
16.3.2024
The Hong Kong securities regulator has labelled the crypto platform Bybit an unlicensed virtual asset trading platform (VATP). The regulator has also added Bybit’s products to its alert list of suspicious investment products. The Hong Kong regulator also advised the public to stop patronizing...
Goldman Sachs, CBOE, Standard Chartered, and Others Complete Blockchain Interoperability Pilot on Canton Network
14.3.2024
Goldman Sachs, the CBOE, Standard Chartered, and other financial institutions participated in the pilot of the Canton Network, a protocol aiming to achieve interoperability in apps using resources from various blockchains. Digital Asset, the company behind the pilot, stated that this test showed...
Hong Kong's Markets Regulator Issues Warning Against Crypto Exchange Bybit
14.3.2024
Hong Kong's markets regulator identified Bybit as a suspicious cryptocurrency exchange and placed several of its products on its suspicious investment products list
Bitcoin Asset Protocol BRC-20 Enhances Governance with New Maintainers
11.3.2024
The BRC-20 protocol, a well-known standard for creating tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain, underwent a major overhaul in its governance structure. This strategic move aims to foster a more decentralized and collaborative future for the protocol.
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JPMorgan Says ‘Unrealistic’ to Expect Bitcoin to Match Gold Within Investors’ Portfolios
10.3.2024
JPMorgan says the argument that bitcoin’s market cap would rise to $3.3 trillion if it matched gold in portfolios, implying more than doubling in price, overlooks risk. “It would be unrealistic to expect bitcoin to match gold within investors’ portfolios in notional...
Bitcoin Is Unlikely to Match Gold’s Allocation in Investors’ Portfolios in Nominal Terms: JPMorgan
8.3.2024
The bitcoin spot ETF market could grow to around $62 billion in the next two to three years, the report said
Study: Institutions More Bullish on Ethereum in H2 of 2023 — BTC and ETH Holdings Surge to 80%
1.3.2024
Between July 2023 and January 2024, the concentration of bitcoin and ethereum in institutional digital asset portfolios increased from 50% to 80%, the latest Bybit user asset allocation report has shown. During this period, institutions appeared to be more bullish on ethereum than bitcoin,...
FSB To Focus on Asset Tokenization and AI, Chair Says
26.2.2024
In a letter dated February 20 and released February 26, Knot told G20 finance ministers and central bankers that the global financial stability outlook “remains challenging.”
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Digital Asset Investment Funds Record $598 Million Inflows as Yearly Gains Tap $5.7 Billion
26.2.2024
Digital asset investment funds recorded $598 million in inflows in the last seven days as Assets Under Management (AUM) stands at $67.4 billion.
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Argentina to Regulate Cryptocurrency Exchanges With Executive Order
23.2.2024
The government of Argentina is reportedly preparing to regulate cryptocurrency service providers with an executive order. The measure would be directed to keep Argentina out of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gray list, putting crypto service lenders under the oversight of the local...
Jupiter’s Compliance Team Blocks Crypto ETP Investment: Report
16.2.2024
Jupiter Asset Management’s compliance team blocked its team from having any exposure to a cryptocurrency exchange-traded product (ETP) in one of its Irish UCITs funds, according to a Financial Times report. The reason for blocking investment was due to, “divergent regulatory approaches in the EU.”...
Deutsche Börse Group’s Crypto Subsidiary Granted Four Licenses by the German Regulator
15.2.2024
A subsidiary of the German multinational company Deutsche Börse Group has been granted four licenses by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority or Bafin. The licensing of the subsidiary helps to distinguish its product offering “as one of the few to meet these exceptionally high...