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.
Ethereum proposal EIP-7781 aims to cut block times from 12 to 8 seconds. Japanese public company Metaplanet buys another ¥1 billion worth of Bitcoin. 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.
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
Valkyrie Funds LLC, a leading fund manager focused on digital assets, announced plans to liquidate one of its three exchange traded funds (ETFs) on 31st of October. The fund named "Balance Sheet Opportunities" included, among others, Tesla, Coinbase and Blackrock stock. The other two funds, focused on Bitcoin
Alex HarutunianBlackRock, the world's largest asset manager based in the US, launched an exchange traded fund iShares Blockchain Technology UCITS for EU customers. BlackRock was founded in 1988 and has grown to $82 billion market capitalization. The company was widely criticized for its close relations with the Fed during
ObserversIn Sub-Saharan African countries, as the Chainalysis team report showed, the volume of cryptocurrency transactions is growing. A rise in popularity of the Peer-to-peer (P2P) method is also seen. Bank of Namibia (BON), in turn, has approved virtual assets as a payment.
Alex HarutunianDespite Do Kwon's problems with the law, users believe in LUNC, increasing its cost. The belief in a bright future is also reinforced by Binance, which burns tokens.
Alex HarutunianAccording to Bloomberg sources, the House of Representatives is actively developing a law aimed at a two-year ban on algorithmic stablecoins like TerraUSD. In the text of the law, the term "endogenously collateralized stablecoins" was introduced for such coins.
Alex HarutunianMEV bot earned more than $1 million on successful arbitrage. But, almost an hour later, a hacker stole all the funds.
Alex HarutunianAt the end of 2021 the US retailer Walmart filed several trademark applications that indicated its intention to offer users a virtual currency and NFTs. Recently it has launched two online game worlds in Roblox, a popular Web2 gaming platform.
Alex HarutunianReality TV star Kim Kardashian agreed to pay a $1.26 million SEC fine for touting a crypto asset, EthereumMax, on Instagram.
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