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Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The attacker who stole $46 million from the KyberSwap protocol has used a complex strategy described by a DeFi expert as an “infinite
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Australia’s tax regulator has been unable to clarify confusing aspects of its new guidance that suggests capital gains tax (CGT) is payable on a slate of everyday decentralized finance transactions.The ATO failed to answer direct questions from Cryptox on whether staking Ether on Lido or transferring funds via bridges to
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Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) might provide a lasting solution to the challenge posed by blockchain fragmentation. In a recent development, the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), one of Australia’s major banks, is taking significant steps toward the launch of its bank-issued stablecoin A$DC. This move follows a successful
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied The Australian Central Bank, in collaboration with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre, has published a comprehensive report outlining the potential use cases for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Additionally, they have successfully concluded a pilot
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Australia’s Bendigo Bank has become the fourth major bank in the country to announce blocks for “high-risk crypto payments,” citing the need to protect customers from investment scams.The bank said on July 31 it implemented new rules on instant payments to crypto exchanges which adds “some friction to certain genuine
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The Australian financial services regulator has finally canceled the financial license of FTX Australia, the bankrupt crypto exchange's local subsidiary — effective July 14. On July 19, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced the cancellation, before noting that FTX Australia will still be allowed to provide limited financial
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied National Australia Bank (NAB) has blocked suspected fraudulent payments to some centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs) as Aussie lenders continue to make efforts to curb crypto-based scams in the country. NAB blocks payments to some crypto exchanges NAB
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The report, citing anonymous sources, comes after the company’s derivatives license was canceled in April, following an investigation into how it classified clients as professional wholesale investors, as they can get fewer regulatory protections than regular retail customers. Source
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Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) may not solve any problems faced today, but could be the answer to ones not even fathomed yet, says the executive spearheading Australia’s CBDC pilot. Dilip Rao, a former Ripple executive who’s now spearheading Australia’s CBDC research project, told Cryptox th a central bank-issued currency
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The Australian Treasury’s token mapping of digital assets will adopt a “tech agnostic” and “principles-based” approach in order to define crypto assets, according to a Treasury official.Speaking to Cointelegraph on June 26 at the Australian Blockchain Week, Trevor Power, an Australian Treasury Assistant Secretary said the framework will be structured
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