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Zipmex is one of many crypto companies that withered as the market slid earlier this year. Bitcoin fell from $69,000 to $17,000 in six months, bankrupting lenders like Celsius Network and Voyager Digital while Singapore-based hedge fund Three Arrows Capital imploded. Zipmex loaned $48 million to Babel Finance, also a
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No privacy. No property. No prosperity. If you follow the news, you’ve seen the trend — putting legal limits on cash transactions, the emergence of surveillance-oriented, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and more recently, crypto mixing platform Tornado Cash being sanctioned by the United States Treasury. There is a new
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Asian crypto exchange Zipmex has requested meetings with Thailand's Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and other regulators to discuss the firm’s “recovery plan.” In a statement on Aug. 25, Zipmex said it had submitted a letter requesting meetings with the securities regulator, which will also be attended by the firm’s potential
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Mirae Asset Securities and Samsung Securities are among the seven firms, the newspaper reported citing anonymous industry sources. Mirae has established a subsidiary under its affiliate Mirae Consulting, which is hiring technical staff for various cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens, while Samsung is studying how to enter the blockchain-based security tokens
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Jonathon Victor, product lead for Protocol Labs, the open-source research and development lab that developed Filecoin, outlined five revenue sources for storage providers: block rewards, storage fees, retrieval fees, transaction fees and additional services. Original Source
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The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for August 15, 2022. Source
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The $1.2 billion acquisition was announced May 2021 and was expected to close by the end of that year. Original Source
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The appeal is that it can make trading less capital intensive. In derivatives, it’s typical to make traders post collateral to back transactions, given the greater risk. With portfolio margining, holdings throughout their portfolio are taken into consideration when calculating how much margin they have to post, often significantly cutting
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At present, most crypto exchanges are regulated at the state level, with no clear federal guidelines for registration or oversight. The SEC, the CFTC’s counterpart, has indicated that crypto exchanges listing digital securities should be treated as national securities exchanges. Source
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The Waves (WAVES) community has supported a governance proposal to revive the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Vires.Finance after its liquidity crisis. The vote aims to stabilize the project and compensate the users who were affected. In April, Neutrino (USDN), a stablecoin running on the Waves platform, depegged from the dollar.
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