Regulatory body buys itself a further six months to process submitted applications. The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority has issued temporary registrations to crypto asset companies which have already submitted applications but not yet been processed. According to a Dec. 16 announcement, this will allow the companies to continue trading for an extended period until […]
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Japanese financial services firm SBI has acquired a 90% stake in trading firm B2C2, hopes to attract institutional investors into crypto. Japanese financial giant SBI has completed another cryptocurrency-related acquisition in a move to bring more adoption to the industry. SBI Financial Services, a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, has acquired a United Kingdom-based crypto trading […]
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A snapshot for the Spark airdrop may have caused a record spike in Ethereum address creation. Ethereum address creation hit a 35-month high on December 14 when 177,000 new addresses were added to the network according to analysts from Santiment. The analytics provider reported that its network growth metric showed Ethereum adding 177,500 addresses in […]
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A survey from Genesis Mining has found that most Bitcoin investors aren’t expecting a $50,000 BTC price in 2030 — although 3.5% of respondents tipped prices exceeding $500,000. British Virgin Islands-based institutional mining platform, Genesis Mining, has published the findings from a survey of 1,000 current and former U.S.-based Bitcoin investors — two-thirds of whom […]
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This is the first milestone of a longer-term strategic partnership between Binance and Chiliz. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced a strategic partnership with sports and entertainment fan-token issuer Chiliz. In a Dec. 14 post, the exchange announced that, as the first milestone of this partnership, Chiliz fan-tokens for Paris Saint Germain (PSG) and Juventus (JUV) […]
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Some crypto investors are willing to risk extensive financial obligations for a chance to get into Bitcoin. Taking on debt is a complex personal decision that should not be entered into without great care and financial consideration. With Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent return to all-time price highs, some moonstruck Bitcoiners have begun taking out bank loans […]
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Sygnum claims it is the first bank in the world to tokenize its shares. Sygnum, a major cryptocurrency bank in Switzerland, has successfully tokenized its shares on a blockchain in preparation for its upcoming public sale. According to an official Dec. 14 announcement, the bank tokenized its shares on the Ethereum blockchain using a proprietary […]
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As the cryptocurrency industry continues to grow, so does mining. But there’s a new trend developing now that has only recently emerged. Bitcoin mining started out as a small endeavor taken on by a few individuals repurposing home computers to mint virtual coins that were, at the time, almost worthless. Fast forward to 2020, and […]
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Glassnode’s Rafael Shultze-Kraft has shared several on-chain metrics that he believes suggest Bitcoin will comfortably charge into six-figure price-thresholds in future. The CTO of crypto market data aggregator Glassnode, Rafael Schultze-Kraft, has described a slew of Bitcoin market indicators as “insanely bullish” and predicted prices are set to increase by more than 10 times. On […]
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Bondly will transition its cryptocurrency, OTC platform BSwap, and e-commerce platform BONDProtect over to Cardano from Polkadot. Decentralized e-commerce platform Bondly will be the first decentralized finance project to run on the Cardano blockchain as part of the platform’s roll-out of the Goguen smart contract functionality. In the Twitter announcement, the firm that built the […]
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