Asian Bitcoin investors now have a new custody option. Fidelity Investments — one of the largest asset managers in the world — continues to expand its global reach in the cryptocurrency industry through its dedicated crypto subsidiary. According to an Oct. 29 Bloomberg report, Fidelity Investments’s crypto branch Fidelity Digital Asset Services has partnered with […]
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Canada’s central bank recognizes that CBDCs are a necessarily international issue. Canada doesn’t want any “surprises” regarding central bank digital currencies. In a recent interview with Reuters, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem doubled down on the country’s contingency-plan approach to CBDCs, stressing that he sees no urgent need to issue one right now. For […]
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An Aussie company operating an aquaculture farm in Malaysia is conducting the first initial public offering to accept crypto assets in Australia. Australia’s crypto-friendly capital raising platform Stax has announced its client West Coast Aquaculture Group (WCA) will be conducting the country’s first initial public offering that accepts virtual currency as payment. Investors participating in […]
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Blockchain firm ConsenSys is becoming increasingly active in the central bank digital currency space. Ethereum software firm ConsenSys has just sealed its sixth central bank digital currency project. On Oct. 28, the blockchain organization announced that it will be collaborating with Société Générale Forge on experiments for a digital euro. Société Générale Forge is the digital […]
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The forthcoming digital asset exchange from Singapore’s largest bank DBS is expected to encourage other Asian financial institutions to reveal their crypto strategies. A now-deleted webpage announcing that Singapore’s largest bank is planning to launch a “digital exchange” supporting crypto asset trading is the latest sign of increasing institutional adoption of virtual currencies. The document, […]
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Reports of a fresh market entry from a Singapore bank buoys Bitcoin price as Raoul Pal sees hardly any resistance below $20,000 all-time highs. Bitcoin (BTC) hit new highs of $13,480 on Oct. 27 as fresh news that a bank was entering the cryptocurrency space fuelled already bullish markets. Cryptocurrency market daily overview from Coin360 […]
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JPMorgan Chase now recognizes blockchain’s profitability and has created a new business dedicated to digital currency and blockchain work. A year-and-a-half after it was first announced, JPM Coin — JPMorgan Chase’s in-house stablecoin — is now live and in use by a major transnational tech firm for round-the-clock cross-border payments. According to a report on Oct. 27, this […]
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Another global bank believes that digital assets are the future of the global economy. DBS, Singapore’s largest retail and commercial bank, seems to be entering the cryptocurrency space with three new offerings. According to information seen by Cointelegrpah, DBS is launching cryptocurrency trading and custody as well as a platform for conducting security token offerings. […]
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Member-led working groups are helping define security standards for tokenized use cases. Tokenization has given rise to the “Internet of Value,” an era in which financial assets — or any assets with underlying value — can be easily transferred peer-to-peer over the internet. While revolutionary, tokenization has largely remained a concept embedded strictly within the […]
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OKEx’s secrecy around locking customer withdrawals has led to misinformation and confusion around what’s happening with the exchange. For nearly a week, uncertainty as to why OKEx suddenly suspended its cryptocurrency withdrawals on Oct. 16 has lingered on. The ongoing suspension has been puzzling to many, but the exchange’s representatives maintain that the move was […]
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