Nasdaq Aims to Launch Crypto Custody Services in Second Quarter

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Nasdaq intends to launch its custody services for digital assets like bitcoin by the end of this year’s second quarter. The exchange operator is among those traditional financial firms that want to play a role as intermediaries in the crypto sector…

Billionaire Bill Ackman on US Banking Crisis: ‘I Fear We Are Heading for a Train Wreck’

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Billionaire Bill Ackman has warned that the U.S. economy is “heading for a train wreck” if the government allows the current banking crisis to continue. “Trust and confidence are earned over many years, but can be wiped out in a few…

Arbitrum’s Governance Token ARB Ranks Within Top 40 Market Capitalizations Following Airdrop

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Following the Arbitrum token airdrop, ARB has become a top 40 cryptocurrency as it currently holds the 37th largest market valuation out of more than 23,000 listed digital currencies. Actuellement, there is a circulating supply of 1,275,000,000 BRA, and the Arbitrum…

In-Chat Tether Transfers Introduced in Telegram

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Users of the Telegram messenger will now be able to send each other the leading stablecoin, attache (usdt), directly in the chats. The new option expands the list of cryptocurrencies available for purchase, vendre, and trade in the messaging app. Attache…

80 Crypto Firms Interested in Establishing Presence in Hong Kong, Official Says

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Hong Kong’s Secretary for Financial Services and Treasury has revealed that more than 80 crypto companies have expressed interest in establishing a presence in Hong Kong. They include companies across mainland China, Canada, European Union countries, Singapour, the U.K., and the…

SEC in a Pickle: Crypto’s Tricky Trio Stirs Up Trouble in 2023

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2023 is shaping up to be a painful year for the U.S. Commission de Sécurité et d'Echanges (SECONDE) as it finds itself entangled in battles with the ever-evolving and innovative cryptocurrency industry. From Ripple to Coinbase and Tron, the SEC faces fierce…

Coinbase Tries AI Assistant Chatgpt for Pre-Listing Risk Assessment of Tokens

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Crypto exchange Coinbase has tested Openai’s Chatgpt as a token verification tool comparing it with its standard security procedure. In over half of the cases, the AI platform produced the same results as the manual review, but it also failed to…

Multichain Wallet Bitkeep Raises $30 Million From Bitget to Strengthen Links Between Defi and Cefi

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Mercredi, the multichain wallet Bitkeep announced it raised $30 million from the crypto derivatives platform Bitget. Bitkeep now has an overall valuation of $300 million, with goals aimed at strengthening the links between decentralized finance (défi) and centralized finance (cefi)….

Poutine, Xi Vow to Use Yuan as Russia and China Move to Settlements in National Currencies

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As part of the talks that Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping are currently conducting in Russia, Russia has vowed to move to use the Chinese yuan as a settlement currency with countries in Asia, Afrique, and Latam….

Vladimir Putin Says Russia Wrote Off African Countries’ Debts Totaling Over $20 milliards en 2022

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African countries’ debts totaling more than $20 billion were written off in the past year, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on March 20. Putin also revealed that trade between Russia and Africa had nearly reached $18 billion by the end of…