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Boston Security Token Exchange (BSTX), a platform jointly owned by BOX Digital Markets and Overstock’s blockchain arm tZERO, has filed an application with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to approve the launch of a market for publicly traded registered security tokens.In the rule change proposal released
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CME Group’s global head of equity products, Tim McCourt, believes that Asian traders and miners will welcome their Bitcoin options product with open arms come Q1 2020. As per an interview with South China Morning Post, CME anticipates greater demand for options contracts given the immense benefits of using it as
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Australia’s largest precious metal refinery, the Perth Mint, and InfiGold, a fintech startup focused on precious metals digitization, have jointly launched a gold-backed digital token.The new ERC-20 token is dubbed Perth Mint Gold Token (PMGT) and pegged 1:1 with GoldPass certificates issued by the Perth Mint, according to a
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Lucas Geiger, co-founder of blockchain infrastructure startup Wireline, has announced OpenLibra — a permissionless fork of Facebook’s planned stablecoin.Ethereum developer Lane Rettig tweeted on Oct. 8 that OpenLibra was announced by Geiger at the Ethereum developer conference Devcon 5, adding:“Seeing #openlibra publicly announced for the first time is sending
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Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of blockchain payments network Ripple, thinks that Facebook will fail to launch its Libra digital currency before 2023. Garlinghouse bets on a 3-year Libra delaySpeaking in an interview with Fortune on Oct. 7, Brad Garlinghouse argued that regulatory pushback would continue to plague the project that
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Non-profit research institution focusing on blockchain technology Wanxiang Blockchain, and PlatON, the pioneering global privacy-preserving computing network announced the launch of an open-source consortium blockchain infrastructure, PlatONE. advertisement Yu Cheng, General Manager for Digital Insurance Innovation at Minsheng Life Insurance said: “For years, Minsheng Life Insurance has invested in blockchain and big data
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The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Patrick Harker, said on Wednesday that the U.S. shouldn’t be the first nation to launch its digital currency payment system and lead the pack of other central banks issuing state-sponsored cryptocurrency.Harker further said that the trend of the central banks around
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The South Korean blockchain-focused firm Blocko has finally launched its newly-developed hybrid public-private blockchain, Aergo, in the UAE through a strategic partnership with the SEED Group, a member of the Private Office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum.Blocko has already raised $16M through two separate funding rounds in which
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Telegram has indicated that the Telegram Open Network (TON) could launch at the end of this month. On Wednesday, in an email to TON investors, the firm indicated that the launch is on track as planned earlier. TON Could Be Ready by October 16 The CTO of TON Labs, Mitja Goroshevsky, confirmed
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The Global Currency Organization (GCO) announced earlier this month that a US Dollar backed stablecoin, USD Digital (USDD), will be released soon. The US Dollars that back the digital currency are mainly stored in deposit-insurance accounts.The Global Currency Organization was started by former employees of TrustToken, Intel and JPMorgan. Since
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