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Bitcoin is booming again as crypto-bull Brian Brooks pushes through his “open access” banking rules before stepping down as the top U.S. banking regulator.Top shelfGoing public?The Winklevoss twins are considering taking Gemini Trust, the cryptocurrency exchange and custodian founded in 2014, public, according to a Bloomberg interview. “We are definitely
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OCC acting Chief Brian Brooks asserts that blockchain is the future of banking and that financial institutions will eventually be blockchain-based. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced on Wednesday that it had bestowed a federal bank charter on crypto custodian Anchorage. The bank, which had previously been
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Crypto custodian Anchorage has secured conditional approval for a national trust charter from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), making it the first national “digital asset bank” in the U.S.The safekeeping, management and trading of digital assets have been regulatory stumbling blocks for large financial institutions
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Digital asset custodian Anchorage has nabbed a trade operations veteran from Celsius Network to manage the risks facing its $4 billion crypto vault.The new hire, Asaf Iram, said he will “connect the dots” between Anchorage’s financing, lending, custody and staking businesses as the leadership team’s first “Head of Risk.” He
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The cryptocurrency and banking worlds continue to draw closer together with digital asset custodian Anchorage seeking a national charter from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.The startup’s trust company unit, based in South Dakota, has applied to the OCC to convert to a national bank, according to
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Remember when crypto exchanges were strong-armed into delisting privacy coins like zcash (ZEC) in order to protect their brittle banking covenants?But crypto keeps moving, and today ZEC is making its debut within the bustling decentralized exchange (DEX) ecosystem in the form of wrapped zcash (WZEC). Announced Wednesday, WZEC is the
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Jewel, which is awaiting regulatory approval to open a bank in Bermuda, is partnering with digital asset custody platform Anchorage. The idea, according to a Monday statement emailed to CryptoX, is for Anchorage to provide digital asset custody services for Jewel, which is applying for a full bank license from the
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Cryptocurrency custodian Anchorage is continuing to expand its focus on decentralized finance (DeFi), announcing support for custody of Keep Network’s token.The KEEP token powers tBTC, a trustless and open-source protocol allowing the creation of Ethereum tokens that represent Bitcoin (BTC) which are used for accessing based DeFi protocols. The protocol also
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Visa, one of the largest payment processors in the world has recently made its second investment in cryptocurrency startup called Anchorage. As reported by Fortune, the company has reportedly invested millions of dollars during Anchorage’s new funding round.Both Visa and Anchorage have partnered with Facebook for its cryptocurrency project Libra.
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Cryptocurrency custody services firm Anchorage has added insurance coverage for storing digital assets, it announced in a blog post on May 29.In the post, Anchorage — which raised $17 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz — announced insurance coverage for institutions that covers digital assets
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