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 “up to…
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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 SEC charged McAfee and his bodyguard Jimmy Watson, Jr. with violating antifraud provisions of the…
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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 was founded in 2008 by music mogul Yasushi Akimoto.…
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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 here. _________________________________________ Bibox Listings: Xfinance (XFI) CHXC (CHXC) Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin…
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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 Capital, Su Zhu, warned. In a recent blog post, he said that while…
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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 10 months after Binance claimed it was…
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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 Jay Clayton, who on Friday participated in…
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Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Exchanges news Aggregate trading volume on decentralized exchanges reached USD 22.8bn in September, up from USD 11.3bn in August, which is more than a 100% increase, according to Dune Analytics. The rise recorded…
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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) is set to start experimenting with a digital version…
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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 and its applications beyond currencies, and…
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