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US Regulator To Clarify Whether Banks Can Hold Monero & Other Privacy Coins
7.10.2020
The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is about to take another step in helping local banks to deal with the Cryptoworld. Brian Brooks, Acting Head of the OCC, confirmed that they hope to clarify whether cryptocurrencies, in particular privacy tokens, such as monero (XMR), zcash...
SBI Takes Over TaoTao Exchange That Just Ditched Binance
7.10.2020
SBI’s chief executive Yoshitaka Kitao. One of Japan’s biggest financial companies, the SBI Group, has made a major move in the domestic market, snapping up a controlling stake in the TaoTao crypto exchange from Yahoo Japan.
The size of the deal was not disclosed, but TaoTao (previously known...
Digital Yuan Testers Spent USD 52 On Average Per Transaction
7.10.2020
This year, during a series of digital yuan pilot programs in China, testers reportedly spent CNY 351 (USD 52) on average per transaction, bringing the total value of pilot transactions to CNY 1.1bn (USD 162m).
According to Fan Yifei, Deputy Governor at the People‘s Bank of China (PBoC), 3.13m...
SBI Teams up With Swiss Cryptobank for USD 66m Unlisted Stocks Fund
7.10.2020
Japanese financial giant and Ripple partner SBI is set to launch an unlisted securities fund with a Swiss crypto bank named Syngnum – and will look to target both European and Asian investors.
Per a report from Nikkei, as well as press releases from both SBI and Sygnum, the firms hope to raise...
New Crypto Ban, New Index, Litecoin's MimbleWimble Testnet + More News
6.10.2020
Source: Adobe/ I-Wei Huang
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Regulation news
In the UK, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) banned the sale of derivatives and exchange-traded...
This Is How John McAfee Made USD 23m For Shilling ICOs (According to SEC)
6.10.2020
Source: Twitter, @officialmcafee, @money_alotta
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said that the controversial cybersecurity entrepreneur and former Bitcoin (BTC) bull, John McAfee, was promoting initial coin offerings without disclosing that he was paid to do so.
Yesterday, the...
SKE48 Splash: Japan’s First J-pop NFTs Sell Out ‘Instantly’
6.10.2020
The first batch of non-fungible token (NFT) digital trading cards for the chart-topping Japanese pop group SKE48 has sold out “instantly,” reported the company that issued them.
The group is one of Japanese pop (J-pop)’s biggest commercial successes and has sold millions of records since it...
Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 40
6.10.2020
Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and this Monday.
Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know...
Regulators May ‘Disallow Trading on DEXs Entirely,’ Investor Warns
5.10.2020
Source: Adobe/ON-Photography
If regulators find DeFi to be “unconscionably unpoliceable” due to a prevalence of spoofing and other market manipulation techniques, their next step may be to ban trading on decentralized exchanges (DEXes) altogether, CEO of Singaporean crypto fund manager Three Arrows...
Binance Suffers Blow in Bid to Return to Japan as TaoTao Talks Fail
5.10.2020
Crypto exchange Binance has experienced a setback in its bid to return to the Japanese market – after the licensed, Yahoo Japan-backed crypto exchange Taotao said that it had “ended negotiations” with the major trading platform over a proposed return to the Japanese market.
The news comes almost...
Stocks ‘May Very Well’ Become Tokenized - SEC Chairman
5.10.2020
Jay Clayton. Source: Twitter, SEC
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) invited innovators in the crypto space, saying that “our door is wide open” and that publicly traded stocks “may very well” become tokenized in the future.
The positive stance from the SEC was ushered by Chairman...
Decentralized Exchanges Doubled Trading Volume In September + More News
2.10.2020
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Exchanges news
Aggregate trading volume on decentralized exchanges reached USD 22.8bn in September, up from USD 11.3bn in August, which is more...
Europe Has The Most Of Money Laundering-Friendly Crypto Exchanges
2.10.2020
Source: Adobe/anish_ap1
Europe has the highest count of virtual asset service providers (VASPs) with deficient KYC procedures, followed by the strongest Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, and North America, claims CipherTrace, a developer of anti-money laundering, cryptocurrency forensics, and blockchain...
ECB Sends Another Confirmation of A ‘Global Currency War’
2.10.2020
While China has already confirmed that its digital yuan aims to break “dollar dominance,” the Eurozone to start experimenting with a central bank digital currency (CBDC) this month in order to protect the Eurozone from other public or private digital currencies.
The European Central Bank (ECB)...
Award-winning DJ RAC Spins Crypto Tune with His Own Ethereum Token
2.10.2020
RAC. Source: Twitter/@RAC
Grammy Award-winning DJ and electronica artist RAC has announced that he has launched his own cryptoasset – a community Ethereum network token he has dubbed the $RAC.
In a blog post, the American DJ, real name André Anjos, wrote,
“I’ve been fascinated with crypto for years...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Turn Red After Rejection Near Range Highs
2.10.2020
Bitcoin price failed to clear the key USD 10,950 and USD 11,000 resistance levels. As a result, there was a sharp bearish wave below the USD 11,650 support. The price is currently (08:30 UTC) down 4% and it could continue to move down towards the USD 10,200 support zone.
Similarly, most major...
A Reality Check is Needed at This Stage of CBDC Development - Deutsche Bank
1.10.2020
What's needed before even discussing a wide implementation of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is a reality check, with several major, interconnected issues left to be solved first, stated a report by Deutsche Bank Wealth Management's Chief Investment Office (CIO).
“CBDC is likely to change...
Coin Race: Top Winners/Losers of September and 3rd Quarter 2020
1.10.2020
Today marks not only the end of September, but of the third quarter of 2020, as well as the beginning of the year's final quarter. Looking back at the market's performance in both the last month and the last three months we find both strong rallies and crashes.
July, as we noted in detail, was...
Kik Loses Against SEC As Judge 'Shreds' ICOs - Expect More Cases
1.10.2020
The "predictable" court ruling against Canadian social media startup Kik Interactive might provide a glimpse into what is waiting for some of the initial coin offerings (ICOs).
Yesterday, US District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled in favor of the US Securities and Exchange...
IOTA Works With Jaguar and Others on IOTA Access for Shared Devices
30.9.2020
The team behind the IOTA (MIOTA) network has launched its distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based, open-source framework for granting or revoking conditional access to physical devices.
IOTA is now working with Jaguar Land Rover, STMicroelectronics, NTT Data, EDAG, RIDDLE&CODE, ETO Gruppe...