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Stuck in a tight range roughly between $29,000 and $30,000 for several weeks, bitcoin (BTC) Thursday afternoon dropped to the low $28,000 area thanks to the economic news. That, in turn, triggered a chain of stops and liquidations that sent bitcoin quickly plunging below $25,000. A very modest recovery since
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The Federal Reserve Board of the United States and the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions have announced an enforcement action against Farmington State Bank, a financial institution whose parent company received more than $11 million from Alameda Research.In an Aug. 17 announcement, the Fed said the enforcement action was
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Stablecoins are at the heart of a dollar-based revolution and could be a pivotal factor in keeping the U.S. dollar the dominant global currency, according to an Aug. 9 opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal. The authors, Brian Brooks and Charles Calomiris, urged Congress to implement a “sound and stable
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Bitcoin prices have been stagnant, trading below the psychological $30,000 level. The coin is technically under pressure, declining from its peaks of around $31,800 recorded in early July 2023. Amid this development, on-chain data reveals that the Bitcoin miner reserve has been increasing, notwithstanding prevailing market conditions, bouncing back from May
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San Francisco's Federal Reserve Bank is seeking a crypto architect for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) project, reveals an Indeed job posting. According to the role description, the employee will work on CBDC research and development.The position is full-time and hybrid, with an annual salary starting at $134,900, requiring candidates
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The Fed says its new service will operate for 24 hours every single day. While continuing to use commercial banks as intermediaries, central bank officials have previously said it will allow payments to be processed in a matter of seconds, something that’s already the norm in many other jurisdictions across
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The United States Federal Reserve clarified that its new service for instant payments between organizations — the FedNow Service — has no relation with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).The Fed certified the FedNow Service as “ready” after it onboarded 41 financial institutions, 15 service providers and the U.S. Department of
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied The New York Federal Reserve and several large U.S. banks have successfully conducted an experiment using distributed ledger technology (DLT) to facilitate domestic and international transactions among various financial institutions. The “regulated liability network” experiment According to Bloomberg, the
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Archblock (previoustly TrustToken), the company behind the U.S. dollar-backed TrueUSD (TUSD) stablecoin, uses Chainlink to prove that each of its TUSD tokens is backed by a dollar in reserves. Instead of self-attesting to its reserves, it reports them to Chainlink’s oracles via The Network Firm, a third-party accountant. Source
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However, TUSD issuer previously said that it had “no exposure” to the imploded crypto custodian Prime Trust, which acted as the stablecoin’s banking partner in the U.S. The issuer tweeted it paused minting tokens via Prime Trust on June 10, adding that “minting and redemptions services remain unaffected” through other
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