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U.S. index fund company Bitwise Asset Management added Ric Edelman, a financial advisor, and best-selling author, to its advisory team on Oct. 3, as per a press release. San Francisco-based Bitwise was among the first investment funds to offer exposure to cryptocurrency indices via a weighted portfolio. The asset manager chooses ten cryptocurrencies each month […]

Decentralized market intelligence platform Numerai announced the launch of Erasure, a crypto-based data gathering, and stock price prediction marketplace. With Erasure referred to as the “tinder for markets” by Bloomberg, it has begun attracting more attention within the crypto community. Today, NMR becomes the token for *the entire hedge fund industry*. Introducing Erasure, a protocol for […]

Forever the cause of feverous speculation, the institutional opinion of Bitcoin seems to stand as the yardstick for price projection. For all of Wall Street’s supposed secrecy, however, a survey finds the prospective market-makers to be more bullish than their retail counterparts. According to a newly published report by Fundstrat, a Wall Street research boutique, […]

The growth of freelancing and the gig economy is changing the workforce. According to Upwork, more workers are opting to work as contractors and freelancers as opposed to full-time employees. It is estimated that 36 percent of the US workforce is engaged as freelancers and within ten years, more than half of the workforce is expected to […]

Crypto investing app Circle Invest announced the addition of three additional collections of cryptocurrency assets to its investment platform on Oct. 4. Adding More ‘Collections’ Following the success of Circle’s ‘buy the market’ feature, where it grouped all the assets listed on the app together for people to one-tap purchase, they’ve added three additional categories—or […]

Argentina’s first Bitcoin ATM machine was installed last month and, according to a Reuters report, more could be coming. Athena Bitcoin, a company based in the United States, was the one to install the ATM. Rapid Expansion by 2019 Odyssey Group, another U.S. company, could be expanding its reach into the country soon in the […]

The makers of mobile-based cryptocurrency Electroneum (ETN) announced today that theirs will be the first fully Know Your Customer (KYC) compliant cryptocurrency in the world. Electronuem’s business strategy has served them well in the past, allowing them to tap into a market of millions in underdeveloped countries by going entirely mobile phone based. The company […]

Pointing out the government’s delay in regulating initial coin offerings (ICOs) since a year, South Korean lawmakers called for swift regulatory action in a parliamentary forum on Oct. 2, reported Business Korea. After China put forth a resistive stance with their infamous blanket ban on crypto-assets in September 2017, South Korea followed suit and banned […]

According to a press release on the Poloniex website, the Circle-owned cryptoasset exchange will be removing margin and lending products for US-based customers. These modifications are part of Poloniex’s commitment to comply with regulatory jurisdiction requirements. Poloniex will provide further communication in the coming weeks regarding the final date and stated that the changes will […]

When it comes to Wall Street, most would envisage the crypto securities market as a distant, but a multi-trillion-dollar blip on the horizon. And yet, for all the ruminations of regulators, the Big Apple’s real estate market has taken its another step onto the bandwagon of tokenization. A luxury condo development is set to find […]