11/19/2021
Crypto asset manager plans to raise hundreds of millions to actively invest in NFTs
The market for NFTs took off earlier this year, and the most popular NFT marketplace, OpenSea, has already reached unicorn status.
Bitcoin, Blockchain & AI
11/18/2021
Blockchain will be “hugely disruptive”, threat to risk-averse incumbents, says Franklin Templeton’s Jenny Johnson
“If you look in history, the incumbents rarely come out of these things very well."
11/18/2021
Fujitsu's Blockchain Solution Applied to New Water Trading Platform to Tackle Global Water Shortages
Enabling Botanical Water Technologies to offer a new sustainable and circular source of clean drinking water
11/17/2021
Binance: Crypto Belongs to All of Us
Binance has published a list of ten fundamental rights for crypto users as part of a broader push to promote wide adoption by strengthening user protection.
11/17/2021
Ethereum Foundation outlines $1 million in grants to crypto advocacy efforts
The Ethereum community can have a positive role in this process, by providing information and resources to policymakers and governments.
11/17/2021
State Street Announces Partnerships with MIT’s Antionette Schoar, Harvard’s Robin Greenwood to Advance Cryptocurrency and Macroeconomic Research Initiatives
Professors Join State Street Associates, State Street’s Hub for Academic Partnerships and Data Science
11/17/2021
A Tale of Two Cities: The Federal Reserve’s Growing Influence On Bitcoin
Equity markets are breaking all time highs on a daily basis, with over $600 billion flowing into global equity funds as of August 2021 (equating to $4B/ day). There were over 100 SPAC IPOs in March 2021 alone.
11/16/2021
Cryptio's Ionic Software Platform Aids in Digital Assets Management
“Blockchains are public ledgers,” Pandit wrote in the blog post.
11/16/2021
SBAI Publishes a Guide to Operational Due Diligence of Crypto Assets
Crypto assets were once the purview of retail investors
11/16/2021
Pension Funds Discover Cryptocurrencies
Pension funds around the world hunt for higher interest rates and they are increasingly dabbling in crypto, research shows.
11/15/2021
VanEck finally get Bitcoin futures ETF
The ETF will begin trading on Tuesday under the ticker XBTF
11/15/2021
Santander Prepares to Offer Bitcoin ETF in Spain
Santander’s Executive Chairman Ana Botín declared that the institution has had a team working on this offering for some time.
11/12/2021
BVI decrypts the legal status of cryptoassets
After a number of unauthorised trades causing significant losses including potential creditor claims from its 14,000 customers, trading was suspended.
11/12/2021
Britcoin risks 'higher mortgage rates, bank run' as HMRC actions crypto tax letters
Britcoin is best thought of as a digital version of a bank note, which is a token that carries a certain value in pounds sterling.
11/11/2021
South Africa Has a New AI-Powered Digital Transformation Advisor
The AI solution applies 100’s of algorithms developed using the collective intelligence of various subject matter experts to digitise business assessments.
11/10/2021
Bitcoin fund approved by Praemium
Its approval would complement the firm’s recent launch of Monochrome Research which was dedicated digital asset research and education division designed to meet the growing need for knowledge on this asset class.
11/09/2021
Banque de France reports back on wholesale CBDC programme
The bank says that the experiments showed how a CBDC can be used for wholesale payments, including cross-border and cross-currency payments and securities settlement.
11/09/2021
Another warning from Bank of England as Bitcoin, Ether hit highs
The bitcoin price has reached a new record high, breaking through $68,000 and falling a touch to $67,920 at 11.05am on 9 November, amid positive and negative commentaries on the crypto space.
11/09/2021
Investor strategy questioned as Bitcoin surges near record highs amid inflation fears
What is particularly worrying is that many investors get caught up the fear of missing out on rapid price gains and have borrowed money to invest in highly risky strategies.
11/08/2021
BitOasis launches zero-fee local funding option for UAE-based customers
“We are constantly looking for new ways to simplify buying and selling of crypto assets for our customers, by becoming the first crypto asset exchange in the UAE to set up local funding options," Ola Doudin, CEO and co-founder of BitOasis said.