U.S. Senate Banking Committee to Convene on Stablecoins
The U.S. Senate’s Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on Dec. 14 to discuss stablecoins. The meeting titled “Stablecoins: How Do They Work, How Are They…
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Puerto Rico to Combat Corruption with Blockchain, Says Government Official
Rafael “Tatito” Hernández – Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives – said the growing blockchain industry could bring more accountability and transparency to the public sector. He also…
Biden Releases Anti-Corruption Strategy Targeting Cryptocurrency
The White House recently released a first-of-its-kind, 38-page report detailing new efforts to fight state and financial corruption. It breaks down the effort into five strategic pillars, one of which…
Former Lyft Executive Brian Roberts Becomes CFO of OpenSea
Brian Roberts – a tech veteran and former executive at Lyft – will join OpenSea as the project’s first Chief Financial Officer. He admitted that he sees a lot of…
Ubisoft Launches In-Game NFTs Using Digits System
Ubisoft – a gaming industry giant – recently announced plans to integrate NFTs into its games. These NFT’s will be known as “Digits”, containing their own unique serial numbers while…
SERUM’s Edward Zuo: The Future of DeFi on Solana – When Will Leveraged Trading Reach DEX? (Interview)
Project Serum aspires to become a fully-fledged financial ecosystem that brings unprecedented speed and very low transaction costs to the world of Decentralized Finance (DeFi). At its core sits a…
21Shares Listed Bitcoin and Ethereum ETNs on Nasdaq Stockholm
The Swiss-based investment product issuer – 21Shares – listed its first two physically-backed Exchange-Traded Notes (ETNs) on Nasdaq Stockholm. The underlying assets of the financial products are respectively Bitcoin and…
Nexo Partners With Fidelity to Expand Institutional Access to Cryptocurrencies
Leading cryptocurrency lending and savings platform Nexo has partnered with Fidelity Digital Assets (FDA), the digital arm of financial services giant Fidelity Investments, to expand institutional access to cryptocurrencies. Nexo…
Vitalik’s Buterin’s Endgame: Ethereum 2.0 and Centralization Predicament
Titled “Endgame,” the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, has put forward a hypothetical idea of a “big blockchain” that is trustless and censorship-resistant but indefinitely accompanies some of the common…
Bitcoin Whales Bought Almost $3.5 Billion (67K BTC) During the Crash to $42K
Large bitcoin holders seem to believe that this is far from being the end of the 2021 bull cycle. Data reveals that whales took the opportunity to buy a whopping…