In just three years, Australian self-managed super funds saw the value of their respective crypto asset holdings rise from just over $159 million to over $650 million. According to an executive with a local crypto exchange, many Australians are seeking to “allocate at least a percentage of their retirement funds to cryptocurrencies.” Crypto Assets Held…
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The Optimism Foundation recently sold approximately 19.5 million OP tokens, valued at nearly $90 million, to an unnamed buyer, with these tokens being sourced from the unallocated segment of their OP Token treasury initially set aside as working capital. This sale is part of the foundation’s management of the Optimism network, a blockchain designed to…
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Sony, the Japanese electronics behemoth, has filed a patent involving the use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as part of in-game mechanics. Sony’s patent describes the usage of a “Super-Fungible Token,” an amalgamation of a set of gaming assets, allowing the selection of only one of them per time in the gaming implementation. Sony Files Patent…
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The latest figures reveal that the nine new spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) now control 390,525.3 bitcoins, valued at just over $26 billion at current market rates. These nine ETFs are rapidly approaching the holdings of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), which presently has 405,713.31 bitcoins in its possession. Emerging Bitcoin ETFs Challenge Grayscale’s Reign Collectively,…
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Despite Montenegro’s High Court ruling for Do Kwon’s extradition to South Korea, the U.S. is not backing down. “The United States continues to seek Kwon’s extradition in accordance with relevant international and bilateral agreements and Montenegrin law,” the Justice Department told Bloomberg, highlighting the ongoing legal tussle over the Terra founder amidst charges linked to…
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell stated before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs that the United States is far from adopting or even recommending the introduction of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), emphasizing a significant distance from such a possibility. He assured that any potential CBDC would not be designed for…
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Billionaire investor Mark Cuban, a minority owner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) team Dallas Mavericks, expects the price of bitcoin to go up due to the supply-demand dynamic. “I do feel that the demand is going to exceed the number of people selling,” he explained, adding that bitcoin is “a great store of value.”…
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Yury Ushakov, an aide of Russian president Vladimir Putin, revealed plans to create a digital blockchain payment system for the BRICS bloc. Ushakov remarked that the countries of the group would benefit from implementing such a system for the use of governments, common people, and businesses, stating that it would be convenient, cost-effective, and “free…
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Worldcoin, the biometric identity project, has been banned from operating in Spain for up to three months, according to a press release from the Spanish data agency, the AEPD. The agency will also require Worldcoin to stop using the already collected data from Spanish citizens, utilizing the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a…
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler has cautioned about crypto investing. “This is a highly speculative asset class. One could just look at the volatility of bitcoin in the last few days,” he stressed, warning that thousands of crypto tokens may be securities. Gary Gensler’s Crypto Investment Warning The chairman of the…
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