Month: September 2023

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has said that no businesses have qualified to participate in its FinTech Regulatory Sandbox framework as cryptocurrency payment providers.  Responding to a letter criticizing the Singaporean government’s lack of public consultation and oversight on crypto adoption published in the Financial Times, the MAS clarified that the country does not
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Zero-knowledge proof (ZK-proofs) solutions have proved critical in helping scale the Ethereum ecosystem, but proto-danksharding is expected to drastically reduce the cost of roll ups according to Consensys’ zkEVM Linea head Nicolas Liochon. Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph Magazine editor Andrew Fenton during Korea Blockchain Week, Liochon estimated that proto-danksharding could further reduce rollup costs by
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It’s been a whipsaw 2023 for investor sentiment, and even though equities markets have defied expectations, a recent report from ARK Invest highlights reasons why the remainder of 2023 could present several economic challenges.  ARK manages $13.9 billion in assets, and its CEO, Cathie Wood, is a strong advocate for cryptocurrencies. In partnership with the
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Coinbase has flagged several countries outside the United States where it intends to focus its operations in the near term, citing their comparatively clearer crypto laws. In a Sep. 6 blog post, Coinbase’s international business VP, Nana Murugesan and international policy VP, Tom Duff Gordon, marked the European Union, United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Singapore and
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The Polkadot network comprises three fundamental components that collectively form its intricate structure, including the Relay Chain, parachains and bridges. The Relay Chain lies at the core of the Polkadot ecosystem, functioning as the primary blockchain of the network. It helps to safeguard overall network integrity and facilitate communication among parachains. Parachains stand as parallel
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Bitcoin (BTC) hugged a key long-term trendline on Sep. 7 as U.S. dollar strength hit its highest in six months. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView Bitcoin vs. 200-week moving average forms “million dollar question” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC price moves focusing on the area around $25,700. Conditions were less volatile
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A court ruling that cleared Ripple’s XRP token of being considered a security offering might signal a turn in the tide against regulatory scrutiny of the cryptocurrency ecosystem in the United States and current lawsuits involving the likes of Coinbase and Binance.US and pending ETF applications. Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph during the company’s annual Apex developer
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The team behind nonfungible token collection OnChainMonkey is shifting its entire collection of 10,000 NFTs from Ethereum to Bitcoin, in a massive undertaking expected to take several months. “A historical transition is on the horizon as we prepare to migrate our flagship collection, OCM Genesis, from Ethereum to Bitcoin,” Metagood co-founder and CEO Danny Yang
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Japanese financial holding company SBI Group has announced that its international remittance services arm SBI Remit has partnered with Ripple and SBI Ripple Asia to offer an XRP (XRP) remittance service to bank accounts in several Southeast Asian countries.  In an announcement, the company highlighted that SBI Remit has been using Ripple payments services for
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The United States Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new rules for crypto accounting will eliminate the “poor optics” that plagued companies holding digital assets, according to analysts from Berenberg Capital. On Sept. 6, the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) approved new rules for cryptocurrencies with regard to how companies report the fair value of their
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The European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union, Mairead McGuinness, believes there’s no reason to rush the digital euro until after the next European Parliament elections in June 2024. In her opinion, the European Union’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) project should be approached “quietly and slowly” by the next
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Cryptocurrency self-custody platform Casa has rolled out new functionality for its recently launched Ethereum (ETH) vaults that will allow users to transact via a relay for added privacy. Casa added a multisignature Ethereum self-custody vault to its initial Bitcoin (BTC) custody offering in June 2023, allowing users to manage the self-custody of their ETH holdings with
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