The Liquid Network sidechain, started by Blockstream’s Samson Mow, has gone live. The Liquid Network sidechain for the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain went live on Sept. 27, according to an Oct. 10 post from Blockstream. Blockstream is a blockchain development company founded in 2014, with Samson Mow as its CSO. The Liquid Network project, first announced […]
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The Wall Street Journal creates, then gets rid of, its own cryptocurrency and the Petro may be ready for public sale in November. Coming every Sunday, the Hodler’s Digest will help you to track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions, […]
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Crypto finance company Circle has acquired equity crowdfunding platform and broker-dealer SeedInvest. Cryptocurrency finance company Circle Internet Financial Ltd. has acquired equity crowdfunding platform and broker-dealer SeedInvest, according to an announcement published October 5. Exact terms of the transaction were not disclosed. New York-based SeedInvest was founded in 2012 as a startup investing platform. Since […]
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World’s sixth largest crypto exchange Bithumb is launching a global decentralized trading platform in partnership with blockchain firm One Root Network. South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb, currently the world’s sixth largest by daily traded volume, will open a global decentralized crypto exchange, Business Korea reports Oct. 4. Bithumb has partnered with blockchain firm One Root […]
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Even as consumers conduct commerce and pay with taps and swipes, the Federal Reserve’s infrastructure underpinning payments could use a bit of modernization in a bid to support fast payments “for all,” Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said in remarks made Wednesday (Oct. 3). To that end, the Federal Reserve is seeking public comment on […]
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Margin trading involves borrowing money to perform trades of a higher value – and taking a position on whether the value of a cryptocurrency will fall or rise. Is margin trading available on all crypto exchanges? Most of them – but not all. As we mentioned earlier, the likes of OKEx and Kraken have rolled […]
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The US-based crypto exchange Coinbase has announced a new process for listing digital assets, opening the door for the listing of digital coins that are compliant with local laws of countries outside the US, but not necessarily the US itself. Coinbase is one of the most popular and well-known cryptocurrency exchanges in the world for […]
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The chairman of the Kenyan DLT and AI task force has proposed that the government tokenize the economy in order to fight the “increasing” rate of corruption. Kenyan Distributed Ledgers and Artificial Intelligence task force chairman Bitange Ndemo has said that the government should tokenize the economy, local news outlet The Star reported September 25. […]
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In the drive to modernize treasury operations, mind the gap — or gaps. As it turns out, there may be a disconnect between what treasury professionals need in their day-to-day endeavor of cash management and what their service providers think they need. The vendors selling tech and services to the corporate treasurers would do well […]
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