Tagged: digital currencies

Crypto.com Obtains Authorization as E-Money Institution from UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Crypto.com, which claims to be “trusted” by more than 80 million customers worldwide, announced that it has been authorized as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). This approval follows Crypto.com’s registration “as a cryptoasset business with the FCA in… Read More

Digital Assets Market Surges, MicroStrategy Acquires Another $600M in Bitcoin, American Perspective on Crypto Shifts – Report

Digital asset firm Gemini has shared their latest crypto market update. Key takeaways from Gemini‘s extensive crypto market report are as follows: Bitcoin climbs as SEC speeds up spot bitcoin ETF review process: Bitcoin (BTC) continued to grind higher this week, reaching a new yearly… Read More

Coinbase Transparency Report: United States Remains Top Nation with Highest Number of Regulatory Information Requests

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has shared its fifth annual Transparency Report. Coinbase says that its goal with the Transparency Report is “to provide customers with data about requests for their information that we receive from government agencies and law enforcement.” Coinbase also intends to “provide some insight… Read More

Blockdaemon Institutional Wallet Supported with Cold Storage, Tokenization Features

Blockdaemon Institutional Wallet is now supported with cold storage, tokenization features as well as Azure support. Blockdaemon says it is unveiling three major enhancements to the Blockdaemon Institutional Wallet, which include: Cold Storage, Tokenization and Azure Cloud support. These features collectively aim to “enhance the… Read More

Loss of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Considered a “Wake-Up Call” for Crypto, According to Industry Professional

Stefan Rust, CEO of independent economic data aggregator Truflation, says that the resignation of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao or “CZ” as part of the exchange’s settlement with US authorities marks a “sad” day that should “serve as a clarion call for the build-out of decentralized… Read More

Unprecedented Binance Settlement Could Lead to Greater Crypto Industry Transparency via Workable Regulations, Fintech Professional Claims

Former CEO and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao‘s (CZ) departure from the firm will trigger some short-term volatility in the cryptocurrency market, but crypto will “continue to thrive as more institutional money pours in,” predicts the CEO of an independent financial advisory, asset management and fintech… Read More

Binance Settlement May Impact Small and Illiquid Altcoins But Major Digital Assets Like Bitcoin Could Be Unaffected – Analysis

There were several notable digital asset and blockchain-focused developments that were announced this past week, including Republic choosing Avalanche for its profit-sharing investment Note. This week also saw crypto exchange Kraken being sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for allegedly failing to… Read More

New Argentina President Javier Milei Is Pro-Bitcoin and Critical of Centralized Financial Institutions: Grayscale Report

On Sunday November 19, 2023, Argentina elected its next president, Javier Milei, which briefly caused “a noticeable surge in the price of Bitcoin and underscores the direct impact of political shifts on the crypto ecosystem.” Milei is a libertarian who aims to upend the economic… Read More

CertiK Hack Analysis: API Private Key Compromise Led to Kronos Research Losing $26M

On 18 November 2023, Kronos Research announced, via social media platform X, that unauthorized access to their API resulted in “a loss of approximately $26 million.” As noted in an update shared by CertiK, the incident “isn’t a typical private key compromise which often refers… Read More

CertiK’s Poloniex Hack Analysis: Second-Largest Hot Wallets Private Key Compromise Detected in 2023, $173M Lost in Security Incidents

Earlier this month, crypto exchange Poloniex was hacked. At the time of the hack, there was not enough information available to determine the real extent of the damage caused by the security breach. However, the team at Certik has now provided a detailed analysis of… Read More

Circle Alliance Program to Focus on Building Internet Financial System

Circle is focused on creating the world’s largest and most widely used regulated stablecoin network. To do that, Circle are partnering with and empowering “a global community of industry-leading businesses to bring the convenience of stablecoins and Web3 technology to billions of people around the… Read More

European Union Loophole Might Allow Banks to Circumvent ECB’s Crypto Supervision, Banking Professional Claims

European Union rules and guidelines for protecting the financial system from risks due to cryptocurrency transactions reportedly come with a loophole that enables banking institutions to circumvent certain safeguards, and these must be addressed immediately, according to the European Central Bank‘s chief supervisor Andrea Enria…. Read More

Crypto.com Obtains VASP License from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA)

Crypto.com announced that its Dubai entity, CRO DAX Middle East FZE, has been granted a Virtual Assets Service Provider (VASP) License “for specified virtual asset service activities by Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA).” Crypto.com’s VASP License is “subject to the Company fully satisfying select… Read More

Ripple CEO Claims SEC Is Not Focused on Mission of Ensuring Consumer Protection

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse recently shared his views regarding the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approach to regulating crypto and blockchain firms. Garlinghouse reportedly told CNBC during the Fintech firm’s Ripple Swell conference, held in Dubai, that he believes the SEC has actually lost… Read More

Stablecoin Adoption Report: Stablecoins Are Not “Stable,” But Digital Currencies Are Still in Early Stages of Development

Anneke Kosse, Marc Glowka, Ilaria Mattei, and Tara Rice have examined in a new paper whether stablecoins do actually live up to their name and whether they serve as a reliable means of payment and store of value. Senior Economist Anneke Kosse attempts to address… Read More

Digital Assets: Amber Group and Solidus Labs to Enable Crypto-Native Market Integrity

Solidus Labs, the crypto-native integrity solutions provider, announced that it has partnered with Amber Group, a provider of digital wealth management and crypto liquidity solutions. The collaboration aims to integrate HALO, Solidus’ comprehensive crypto-native trade surveillance and market integrity hub, “into Amber Group’s platform to… Read More

CBDCs: Ripple Selected by National Bank of Georgia as Partner for Digital Lari Pilot Project

The partnership will see the National Bank of Georgia and Ripple jointly plan the execution and delivery of the pilot program using the Ripple CBDC Platform. The National Bank of Georgia (NBG) has chosen Ripple, the enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions provider, as the official… Read More

Crypto Exchange Bitfinex Reports “Minor” Information Security Incident

Bitfinex announces that it has resolved a minor information security incident, discovered earlier this week. A “small” portion of Bitfinex‘s customer support boards, which “held partial, incomplete and stale information was accessed by an individual or group, through the phishing of a customer support agent… Read More

BTC Adoption: Marathon Digital Announces Energization of Bitcoin Mining Pilot Project Powered by Renewable, Off-Grid Energy

Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA), a firm focused on supporting and securing the Bitcoin ecosystem, has entered into an agreement with Nodal Power, a company that develops and operates renewable energy assets, “specifically in the biogas space, to launch a 280 kW Bitcoin mining pilot… Read More

Chainalysis Examines Bitcoin Addresses Included in OFAC’s Designation that Were Reportedly Used to Facilitate Illicit Activities

On November 3, 2023, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Russian national Ekaterina Zhdanova for using cryptocurrency “to launder money on behalf of Russian elites, ransomware groups, and other bad actors.” Chainalysis has examined the three Bitcoin… Read More

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