The exchange said the move was in response to “new guidance from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.” U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase Pro announced today that customers would not be able to use margin trading on the platform beginning on Wednesday. According to the Coinbase blog, Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal said that no new margin […]
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SBI plans to add support for Ether and XRP lending in the near future. Japanese financial giant SBI Group is introducing a cryptocurrency lending service through its crypto-related subsidiary, SBI VC Trade. According to an official announcement on Nov. 24, the new crypto lending platform will allow users to lend their crypto to SBI and […]
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The Biden team looks to Janet Yellen to lead the next administration’s economic policy, which will have to navigate the wreckage left in the wake of the coronavirus. As President-Elect Biden continues to round out his roster of appointees, he has tapped an Obama-era chair of the Federal Reserve to lead his administration’s economic policy. […]
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“This proposal, if adopted, would prove to be an invasion of privacy.” Since the U.S. Federal Reserve and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network opened a proposed rule to acquire more information on smaller international transactions, many crypto users have labeled the measure as an invasion of privacy. On Oct. 23, the regulatory agencies published a notice […]
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WBTC, BTCB, and other wrapped Bitcoin implementations may contribute to a BTC supply shortage looming on the horizon In a blog post of Friday, Binance re-introduced BTCB to the world — a wrapped Bitcoin asset intended to bring liquidity from the world’s largest cryptocurrency, BTC, to Binance Smart Chain’s DeFi (decentralized finance) ecosystem. However, hodlers […]
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BoE policymaker Andy Haldane believes a widely-used digital currency could have a positive impact on financial stability. The Bank of England, or BoE, is broadening its assessment of digital currencies, including evaluating how these assets could form the basis of a “new monetary order.” Andy Haldane, the Bank’s chief economist and sitting member of the […]
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Four hacks in a week are too much, even for DeFi. If people actually used insurance against hacks, this week would definitely have bankrupted a great many insurers. A total of four flash loan-enabled exploits were registered in the span of one week (one of them actually happened the week before, but nobody noticed until […]
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The privacy-focused Oasis Network has completed its mainnet launch, promising to facilitate under-collateralized loans in DeFi. Oasis Labs has announced the successful launch of its Oasis Network mainnet, with more than 70 independent validators already live. Oasis is a privacy focused Layer 1 network that claims a throughput of 1000 transactions per second designed to […]
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The Australian could be 99-years old by the time he is released if he’s sentenced to the maximum penalty. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission, or ASIC, has charged the former Australian national representative of BitConnect for his involvement in the multi-billion-dollar crypto Ponzi scheme. According to a Nov. 17 statement from the ASIC, the […]
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“These are all my savings. I hope you can return it to me.” On Nov. 14, an unknown party exploited flash loans via the decentralized finance protocol Value DeFi to the tune of $5.4 million. A number of individuals have received a portion of their stolen funds back, however, after pleading with the hacker using […]
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