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“Digital assets may be new, but many of the issues they present are not,” Yellen will say in her remarks, prepared for delivery Thursday at American University. “When new technologies enable new activities, products, and services, financial regulations need to adjust.” Original Source
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In his monthly crypto tech column, Israeli serial entrepreneur Ariel Shapira covers emerging technologies within the crypto, decentralized finance and blockchain space, as well as their roles in shaping the economy of the 21st century.Traditional finance experts are warming up to the idea of crypto, but outlandish headlines of record-breaking
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Blockchain-based play-to-earn (P2E) games had a breakout year in 2021. We saw the likes of Axie Infinity, a Philippines-based start-up and a play-to-earn game exploding in popularity, particularly in developing nations, followed by many others including Illuvium, Guild of Guardians, Star Atlas, Splinterlands, The Sandbox and Catheon Gaming’s SolChicks. The premise
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Kraken Hits Key Milestone in Quest to Gain Fed Account, Equal Treatment With Traditional Banks Source
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Despite the financial volatility that has engulfed the global economic landscape over the last month or so, there seems to be no stopping the growth of the cryptocurrency market, especially the nonfungible token (NFT) sector. This growth is highlighted by the fact that crypto’s total market capitalization has increased from
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If some observers are right, cryptocurrency mergers and acquisitions may soon become a “man bites dog” story.This much is clear: Deal activity in the crypto sector is heating up. As mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies grows, so has the number of mergers and acquisitions in the digital assets market. New deals
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These products require integration with activities reserved for traditional financial institutions, such as fiat on- and off-ramps, trust accounts, secured loans, retirement vehicles and access to certain payment systems, among others. To integrate, crypto companies must either engage with those institutions (e.g., banks, institutional investors, investment advisors, rating agencies, etc.)
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In a recent call with investors, executives from the crypto hedge fund Pantera Capital said they believe DeFi assets such as Ethereum could soon break out of their current correlation to traditional macro markets. The market has seen increasing similarities between these two spaces recently. But there’s no guarantee it
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The Boston Security Token Exchange (BSTX), a new facility of the Boston-based BOX exchange, received regulatory approval from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate as a blockchain-based securities exchange. BSTX was launched jointly by BOX and Overstock’s blockchain arm tZERO, originally seeking approval for launching publicly-traded registered
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The recent pullback in the cryptocurrency market shows that mainstream adoption can be a “double-edged sword,” Goldman Sachs said in a report Thursday.Since November, the bank notes, the total crypto market cap has fallen around 40%. The slide is unique in that it was driven mainly by macroeconomic factors, that
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