“I do think there are some issues that crypto raises that are not neatly solved by our existing securities laws,” said the SEC commissioner. Hester Peirce, commissioner for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and best known by the affectionate nickname “Crypto Mom,” says the regulator may not be able to get by if […]
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From the minds that brought you cheese with holes in it comes this year’s weirdest ad campaign. Crypto broker Bitcoin Suisse recently installed a blockchain-related Christmas advertisement in the Zurich Main train station in Zürich, Switzerland. The ad, which is largely indecipherable to non-native speakers, involves a piece of broccoli, a shoe, and one lone […]
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Climatetrade will launch its marketplace for carbon offsetting on the Algorand blockchain. Blockchain marketplace Climatetrade will be building its new CO2 carbon offsetting platform on Algorand, a top-50 cryptocurrency project that is gunning for scalability and transactional performance. Climatetrade announced Wednesday that it has selected the Algorand blockchain to power its carbon offsetting marketplace, which […]
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This could significantly lower the barrier to entry for stablecoin use. Visa has teamed up with blockchain services company Circle to make USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin transactions compatible with certain credit cards. “After Circle itself graduates from Visa’s Fast Track program, likely sometime next year, Visa will issue a credit card that lets businesses send […]
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The benefits of utility tokens could soon stretch beyond payment facilitation and governance capabilities. Cryptocurrencies are commonly known for being a store of value, but as the blockchain space continues to mature, utility tokens are being created that extend their benefits beyond mere financial gains. Scott Gralnick, director of global partnerships for ShapeShift — a Swiss […]
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Eth2 staking has its downsides — people may not have the means to contribute 32 ETH, or the technical knowhow to run a node. Can these issues be solved? How does this ecosystem work? There are three key roles within the Stkr ecosystem. Providers deliver the computing resources that drive the Eth2 nodes — and […]
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Distributed ledger technology will also enable rights holders to receive royalties from resales. MyAnimeList, an active online community for anime and manga with an estimated 10 million North American users, is incorporating cryptocurrency payments into its ecosyste. In a Dec. 2 press release, blockchain platform Digital Entertainment Asset announced a partnership with MyAnimeList parent company […]
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Funding will be used to expand 1inch’s presence in Asia and build new products. The team behind the 1inch protocol, which combines an automated market maker protocol and an aggregator for other DEXs, announced on Wednesday a successful Series A round for $12 million. Pantera Capital, a major venture fund active in the cryptocurrency space, […]
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Russia wants to follow China’s approach of banning private stablecoins pegged to its national fiat currency. Senior officials at the Bank of Russia have come out against the issuance of private stablecoins pegged to the Russian ruble. Sergei Shvetsov, a first deputy governor of the Russian central bank, said that the bank aims to ban […]
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Samson Mow, chief strategy officer at Blockstream, says Bitcoin was never about “transactions per second and coffee,” but about value and a “new financial paradigm.” Blockstream’s Samson Mow wants to move the conversation away from Bitcoin (BTC)’s transaction per second performance and toward its role in ushering in “a new financial paradigm” i.e. serving as […]
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