The US lawmakers are getting serious about regulating the cryptocurrency industry in 2020. Thus, the US is bringing a special regulatory framework for digital assets (including digital coins). For the purpose, a new bill called Crypto-Currency Act of 2020 is introduced to find out which federal agencies exactly are to regulate digital assets. The bill…
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The US SEC has approved time and time again that ICOs are no joke and companies wishing to go for such "schemes" must obey by certain rules. The latest example of a company that filed an illegal ICO and got penalized by the SEC with a $250,000 fine is BCOT (Blockchain of Things Inc.) The…
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Ripple has recently raised $200 million in what is the company's Series C round, reports Tech Crunch. The leading investor in this funding round is Tetragon, followed by Route 66 Ventures and SBI Holdings. Ripple is now valued at around $10 billion. This is what Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple stated: We are in…
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Libra is going full force with new roadmap for its 2020 launch. While regulatory concerns may have delayed the plans of Facebook to launch its cryptocurrency project, the company has designed a new plan for the upcoming start of Libra. The information about the second roadmap comes from a blog post from Libra's developers. They…
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The Financial Markets Authority of France (AMF) just announced that it had approved its very first ICO in the country. The recipient who got the AMF "ICO visa" (a special crypto fundraising platform names French-ICO) was the one to meet the minimum guarantees that are demanded by local law. One of the "winning" elements were…
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The WFE (the World Federation of Exchanges), the global industry group for exchanges and central counterparties called CCPs, has recently given a response to MAS, the Monetary Authority of Singapore's Consultation Paper on Proposed Regulatory Approach for Derivatives Contracts on Payment Tokens or so crypto assets. The response given by WFE stresses the significance of the role…
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The global FX market is to be disrupted and improved by major blockchain leaders. Finteum and Fnality have announced that they are partnering to create interoperability between Fnalty's USC Ethereum-based solution (Utility Settlement Coin) and Finteum's application (the app is built on R3's platform Corda). The interoperability creation will focus on intraday FX swaps executed…
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The President of Iran has proposed that Muslim countries adopt a cryptocurrency. President Hassan Rouhani commented that the domination of the US dollar has allowed economic sanctions to basically weaken economies. Thus, an action must be taken to neutralize this negative effect of the USD. The President of Iran has expressed his wish for a cryptocurrency…
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The CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, has recently won a patent from the US Patents and Trademark Office for a unique technology that allows the owner of the patent to send bitcoin to email addresses. The patent was granted on December 17th, after being filed two four years ago - on March 17th, 2015. What…
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One of the largest financial service providers in the world, Fidelity Investments, has announced the extension of its new digital assets division to Europe based on “significant interest” expressed for the product by its institutional clients. Despite Brexit uncertainty, the $7 trillion assets under management behemoth also announced that it intends to set up shop…
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