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While Ripple pushes forward with its ambitious expansion plans in Dubai and Brazil, and prepares for the launch of its RLUSD stablecoin, the blockchain giant now must prepare to counter the U.S. agency's appeal.
Mathilde AdamThe latest October jobs report by the United States Labour Department exceeded expectations and confirmed the resilience of the world's largest economy.
Eva Senzaj PauramThe oldest U.S. bank received an exemption from the regulator's accounting rule, which was making crypto custody services unprofitable.
Sasha MarkevichBitcoin and Ether ETFs have seen months of trading on traditional exchanges. While the investment vehicles are the same, they influence the underlying assets in significantly different ways.
Eva Senzaj PauramHowever, the new venture raises many concerns, given the founders’ dubious reputations and the failures of their previous projects.
Alexander MardarWhile Ripple pushes forward with its ambitious expansion plans in Dubai and Brazil, and prepares for the launch of its RLUSD stablecoin, the blockchain giant now must prepare to counter the U.S. agency's appeal.
Mathilde AdamHappy Sunday, Observers! The escalation of conflicts in the Middle East is shaking up markets, and crypto is no exception. With panic settling amongst investors, the price of all cryptocurrencies has dipped this week. While it doesn’t curb the blow of the geopolitical tensions unfolding, the news that the
The acquisition serves as a gateway for Aptos, connecting it with key businesses and stakeholders in the Japanese market.
UAE eliminates taxes on all crypto transactions. Len Sassaman emerges as leading Satoshi candidate before HBO documentary. Telegram to enable NFT conversion with new Gifts feature. LEGO removes crypto scam from its homepage after being hacked. Vitalik Buterin donates 100 ETH to Tornado Cash defense fund. Binance rejectes 86% of
The project has launched its testnet and is nearing a solution to Ethereum’s long-term data availability problem.
The project will distribute approximately 12% of its supply to early users.
What do a famous vampire, TikTok, blockchain, high-end on-chain UX, $DEGEN, Base, and a guy who tokenized himself in 2020 have in common?
An ECB research paper on CBDC adoption strategies and cross border CBDC projects in Asia. Another digital note from HSBC as a new report on the state of tokenization reveals surging trading volumes and a spike in experimentation.
Happy Sunday Observers! Hamster Kombat’s “largest crypto airdrop ever” turned out to be one of the worst airdrops in crypto history. Users were disappointed, as everything that could fail failed, and the rewards of months of tapping turned out much smaller than users anticipated. Things started going south when
Chainalysis Reactor – the creation of Chainalysis – helps the governments to track cryptocurrency transactions and their owners. How can this affect the anonymity of cryptocurrencies?
Alex HarutunianThe cross-chain exploit of the BSC Token Hub bridge led to the creation of extra BNB. Binance asked the validators to shut down the BNB Smart Chain (BSC). After the BSC exploit, a hard-fork was performed.
Alex HarutunianIn the related article we wrote that despite the downturn and the bear market, StepN has a lot in the pipeline, and may see a bright future when the bear market is over. However, some disturbing news about the company has spread in the media.
Alex HarutunianThe wealthiest living artist in the UK, Damien Hirst, set fire to millions of dollars worth of his own artworks as part of his NFT project The Currency, which examines the value of digital art vs physical art.
Alex HarutunianMastercard, one of the biggest payment providers, introduced Crypto Source a software that enables financial institutions to offer cryptocurrency trading and services to their clients. To launch the new program, Mastercard has teamed up with Paxos, a leading regulated blockchain infrastructure platform. The partnership aims to provide Paxos crypto-asset trading
ObserversThis was a productive month for institutional crypto custody. We have seen a steady flow of news announcements about another financial giant launching crypto services for their clients. Three world-leading banks have started to provide their customers with crypto services.
ObserversBritish Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned after her questionable and already reversed economic plan sent the pound plunging and put her government into chaos.
Alex HarutunianSWIFT completes another phase of its CBDC trials. The focus is on cross-border settlements between different CBDCs. The conclusion so far is that their existing systems can handle it.
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