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The crypto industry will pivot increasingly toward more decentralized business models in response to the sterner regulatory oversight of centralized firms following FTX's collapse, according to Hotbit. Decentralized businesses should in theory be able to avoid the risk of there being a single point of failure, as occurred with FTX. Source
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied A recent report by on-chain data analysis platform, Santiment, shows that the two most valuable cryptocurrencies by market cap, bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH), are actively being pulled from cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance. According to Santiment, crypto
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied A crypto trader expects ethereum (ETH) prices to fall or slow down in the days head. This comes after on-chain monitor, LookOnChain, revealed that more ETH holders are moving coins to centralized cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied In cryptocurrency trading, traders can either use decentralized or centralized exchanges. While decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are popular for allowing self-custody of funds, centralized exchanges (CEXs) are dominant and preferred by many. Despite their use, these platforms
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An obvious, but so far intractable, solution to this problem would be a decentralized stablecoin. Or ideally stablecoins. Unfortunately, most of the top DeFi-native stablecoins depegged along with USDC, a centralized and censorable asset that makes up a significant portion of supposedly decentralized asset’s backing. LUSD, for instance, tied to
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Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s chief adviser on foreign policy, Celso Amorim, says China and Brazil “are coming closer together” and they could play important roles in building a less centralized world with no hegemony. Commenting on de-dollarization, he stressed: “I think it’s very important that we are
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The failure of FTX triggered a notable growth of self-custody in 2022, with numerous cryptocurrency investors transitioning from centralized exchanges (CEX) to hardware or software wallets.The rising popularity of self-custody could even potentially erase the need for centralized exchanges one day, according to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao. But how would
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Binance’s native stablecoin — Binance USD (BUSD) — was the third-largest stablecoin pegged to the United States dollar, minted by blockchain infrastructure platform, the Paxos Trust Company, through a transfer of technology agreement between the two firms. However, on Feb. 13, the New York Department of Financial Services ordered Paxos to
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$11.4 billion of USDC reserves are held in the form of cash at Reserve Banks, which include the two members of the Federal Reserve System. Source
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American crypto users haven’t lost their trust in “intermediaries” to hold their crypto, with a January survey from Paxos suggesting a majority of United States crypto hodlers still trust banks, exchanges and mobile payment apps to custody their assets.An annual online survey published on Mar. 7 by the stablecoin issuer
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