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Grammy Nominated Hip-Hop Star Logic Dropped $6 Million Into Bitcoin Last Month

20.11.2020
During the last few months, a slew of celebrity luminaries, millionaires, and even a number of billionaires have announced taking the plunge into the crypto asset economy. On Thursday evening, the former rapper Robert Bryson Hall II, known professionally as “Logic,” revealed...

‘Control the Pandemic’ – Fed Chair Jerome Powell Predicts the Entry of a ‘Different Economy’

19.11.2020
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told participants at the Bay Area Council Business Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony on Tuesday that the economy will never be the same after Covid-19. According to Powell, the use of accelerated technology will change the way the global economy operates as...

Prime Broker Bequant Adds Risk-Monitoring Service in Push for Added Compliance

30.10.2020
Bequant is adding New York-based Solidus Labs’ surveillance tools to its digital asset services business

Bequant Adds New Services to Its Crypto Prime Brokerage Offering

22.10.2020
Bequant added separately managed accounts, derivatives trading and instant fund transfers in a bid to compete with rival prime brokers

Hit Record Producer Murda Beatz Tells Fans He Purchased Bitcoin

9.10.2020
Another hip hop artist has joined the cryptocurrency community, as the Canadian record producer, DJ, and songwriter ‘Murda Beatz’ (Shane Lee Lindstrom) said he bought some bitcoin on Tuesday. The music producer joins a slew of other recording artists that have joined the crypto...

Institutional Crypto Platform Talos Emerges From Stealth Mode

1.10.2020
Talos is emerging from stealth mode to serve crypto brokers, custodians, exchanges and over-the-counter (OTC) trading desks

Australian government’s digital business plan includes $5M for blockchain

1.10.2020
Australia’s Prime Minister has announced the Federal Government’s biggest investment in blockchain to-date, with two pilots set to receive almost $5 million

Inflation Hit Ethiopia Demonetizes Currency To Curb Cash Hoarding

17.9.2020
The Ethiopian government has unveiled a new set of banknotes that are expected to help authorities in curbing cash hoarding, illegal trade and illicit financial flows. The move is also aimed at boosting the liquidity of banks that are struggling to cope with Ethiopia’s cash-based economy....

Indian Prime Minister Modi’s Twitter Account Hacked, Bitcoin Donations Requested

3.9.2020
The verified Twitter account for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website and mobile app has been hacked, Twitter has reportedly confirmed. Tweets asking for bitcoin donations for the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund for Covid-19 were posted on the account. Twitter...

Bequant, Now in Crowded Prime Brokerage Race, Adds Signature Bank Integration

18.8.2020
In a newly crowded market, Bequant is still adding features to the suite of services it's been building for the past two years

Covid-19 Forces Indians to Embrace Digital Payments but Country Still Lacks Crypto Regulation

13.7.2020
The global pandemic Covid-19 is forcing Indians to resort to digital payment platforms when settling bills as well as paying for groceries. Before the Covid-19 outbreak, Indian citizens largely ignored a 2016 government decree that attempted to achieve the same, reports The Economic Times of India....

Crypto Lender Nexo Enters Prime Broker Race, Enlists Chainlink for Audits

8.7.2020
Nexo is preparing to enter the prime brokerage space with Chainlink-powered audits that will bring more transparency to its operations

Tether

7.7.2020
Tether was one of the first cryptocurrencies to peg its market value to a fiat currency. Launched in July 2014, Tether, originally called “Realcoin”, valued each token at $1.00 to reduce the friction of moving real currency throughout the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Due to its dollar peg, Tether...

Crypto Trading Firm B2C2 Eyes Prime Brokerage Space With $30M Stake Sale to SBI

1.7.2020
B2C2 is eyeing its new partnership with SBI Holdings as a route to becoming a crypto prime broker

Custody Battle Pits Institutional Boomers Against Crypto Upstarts

11.6.2020
Crypto custodians are in a race to build the next State Street or BNY Mellon

Mastercoin

7.6.2020
Mastercoin, rebranded as Omni in 2015, is an open source protocol layer built on top of bitcoin that enables the creation of new cryptocurrencies and assets. The project was intended to remedy what it called the two biggest barriers to bitcoin adoption: Insecurity and instability. It also claimed...

Ravencoin

7.6.2020
Launched in 2018, Ravencoin is an open source fork of bitcoin specifically designed to facilitate the transfer of assets from one party to another.  Users can create assets on the Ravencoin protocol that adhere to rules independent of those of the platform. This distinguishes ravencoin from...