The winning bidder will need to provide the auction house with a crypto address hosted on a registered, compliant trading platform. The Romanian authorities are set to host their first-ever auction of cryptocurrency, seized from a fraud case. On Oct. 2, the National Agency for the Management of Seized Assets (ANABI) announced its forthcoming auction…
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Will this ultimately prove to be a significant step for mainstream adoption, or a publicity stunt? SBI esports, a subsidiary of Japanese financial services conglomerate SBI Group, announced that its esports players would receive salaries in Ripple (XRP) going forward as part of a sponsorship deal with venture capital firm, VC Trade. According to the…
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Holders of these coins have a new way to get passive income. Crypto exchange Bitfinex is now offering a way for holders of three different cryptocurrencies to earn up to 6.2% annual interest. According to a Sept. 30 announcement, Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) holders are now eligible to earn up to 6.2% annual percentage…
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Borrowers in the U.S. can now get funds with a DeFi-powered Visa card by Swipe. Swipe, a Binance-owned cryptocurrency debit card provider, is expanding its offering with a new crypto Visa card that allows users to borrow funds using blockchain technology. Dubbed the “LendFi Visa Card,” the new product deploys major decentralized finance protocols to…
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Crypto garnered another mention in one of Maduro’s bombastic speeches. The President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro says that the country’s government is now looking at diverse cryptocurrencies as a potential way of avoiding sanctions. On Sept. 29, Maduro presented a new bill that intends to help the country overcome the impact of United States’ sanctions. …
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Crypto traders can earn passive income through Neutrino stablecoin staking. U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Waves.Exchange, which supports the price-stable multi-asset Neutrino protocol, is introducing a way for crypto traders to earn passive income through stablecoin staking. According to a Sept. 29 announcement from Waves, the exchange has expanded its tokenized assets ecosystem to include seven different…
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The crypto industry exudes more confidence against industry risks than outsiders looking in. Collaborating with YouGov, the Royal United Services Institute, or RUSI, and the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, or ACAMS, conducted a survey on authorities’ perception of the crypto industry. “The RUSI-ACAMS Cryptocurrency Risk & Compliance Survey provides unprecedented insight into how…
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OpenBazaar received a temporary lifeline, but they aren’t out of the woods yet. On September 25, OpenBazaar announced that their platform would likely shut down due to financial difficulties, stating that user growth and adoption had stalled. According to a tweet published on Open Bazaar’s official Twitter account, a mysterious donor has since agreed to…
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For the U.K. to remain attractive to the crypto industry, it should strive to provide more clarity and certainty around compliance. Policymaking in the United Kingdom is typically reactionary, and this is no less true in the context of the crypto-asset industry. Reactionary policymaking means that the U.K.’s crypto regime is occasionally behind those of…
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But with Bitcoin demand on the rise, can we expect more scarcity? With only 21 million Bitcoin (BTC) to be issued, a little under 2.5 million BTC remains for mining. In a tweet, ChartBTC said the Bitcoin network already passed the 18.5 million BTC mark in circulation. This means there is less than 2.5 million…
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