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ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, has set out to establish if EU authorities need to amend existing regulations in order to facilitate the trading and settlement of tokenized securities. The regulator is now seeking opinions on the matter ahead of launching a pilot regime for market infrastructures based
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Crypto exchange-traded product (ETP) issuer 21Shares is listing Europe’s first product linked to the performance of polygon on the Euronext exchanges in Paris and Amsterdam.The listing follows the polygon ETP’s unveiling on the SIX Swiss Exchange last month.The ETP will track the Ethereum-scaling network Polygon’s native token. Polygon was developed
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For instance, Martin Erhold, regulatory specialist at Bitpanda, said that even though legal certainty will likely attract institutional investment, overregulation could crowd out innovation and entrepreneurs. In addition to strict rules for crypto issuers, under MiCA, firms will have to register in the EU and bear the compliance costs or
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TRON, the cryptocurrency created by Chinese entrepreneur Justin Sun, has made its way onto Deutsche Börse, Europe’s largest stock exchange, in the form of a VanEck-issued exchange-traded note (ETN), the companies announced Monday.As well as a TRON ETN (VTRX), global fund manager VanEck also launched Solana and Polkadot ETNs. The products
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The European Central Bank has warned the global community about the risks of so-called “stablecoin runs.”Analogous to the term “bank runs” in the traditional financial system, stablecoin runs could occur if end users lose confidence in the issuer or its network, the ECB wrote in a Sept. 22 report. In traditional
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Blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis has found that darknet markets exert a disproportionate presence in Eastern Europe’s crypto sector.In an excerpt from Chainalysis’ 2020 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report, the firm asserts that Eastern Europe is responsible for “more global darknet market activity than any other region,” with the anonymous free market
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The Bank of Lithuania is Europe's first central bank to produce a digital currency issued in the Euro
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With national banks around the world driving at the speed of light to develop Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), and Facebook cryptocurrency
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Germany-based Deutsche Boerse –Europe’s third-largest stock exchange – has officially accepted 21Shares’ Bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) and is now set to list the product on Xetra electronic trading platform, according to reports on July 1, 2020. Bitcoin ETP Live on Deutsche Boerse While authorities in the United States are still pondering on
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