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Singapore BIS Monetary Authority and central banks of Switzerland, France explore AMMs and CBDCs

The Innovation Hub of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) launched its latest project to explore the use of automated market makers to facilitate foreign exchange markets and CBDC payments.

4 years ago

Banking ETH +0.32%

JPMorgan executes first DeFi transaction on Polygon

JPMorgan carried out the transaction on Ethereum layer2 network Polygon because of its cheap transaction fees, and leveraged Aave Protocol's permissioned pool concept.

4 years ago

Mining BTC -1.09%

Bitcoin mining firm Iris Energy on verge of $103M loan default

Iris Energy is underwater on its loans and currently unable to meet monthly payments due to tight mining margins.

4 years ago

People

Crypto community mourns death of Balancer Labs co-founder

Crypto community describes the deceased as a visionary for his works in the crypto space.

4 years ago

Legal USDP -0.03%

Circle, Paxos secure regulatory approval from Singapore financial watchdog

Paxos's license was approved by MAS, while Circle only got its in-principle approval.

4 years ago

NFTs

MetaMask onboards NFTBank to handle pricing solution for its new NFT portfolio platform

MetaMask intends to leverage the partnership to resolve NFT pricing complications issue using an advanced machine learning-based algorithm.

4 years ago

Crypto

CryptoSlate Daily wMarket Update – Nov. 1: Top 10 sell-off sees DOGE nursing biggest losses

The wMarket Update condenses the most important price movements in the crypto markets over the last 24 hours, published 07:45 ET on weekdays.

4 years ago

Regulation

Europe targets crypto influencers with new MiCA clause

The crypto community questioned why the clause does not apply to stocks and other financial markets.

4 years ago

Bear Market

Galaxy Digital, BitMex, DCG announce staff cuts

Galaxy Digital plans to cut 20% of its staff, while BitMex is eyeing layoff of around 30%. Meanwhile, DCG laid off 10% of its 100 staff.

4 years ago

Stablecoins XRP -0.31%

Ripple XRP Ledger integrates NFTs, Euro Stasis stablecoin

Euro Stasis chose XRPL because of its scalability, speed and cheap transaction costs.

4 years ago

Hacks

Hackers attack Deribit hot wallets, steal $28M in crypto

Crypto derivatives exchange Deribit was compromised leading to the loss of BTC, ETH, and USDC.

4 years ago

Analysis MATIC +2.76%

New Messari Q3 report on Polygon – bullish on growth of ecosystem

Active addresses increase 180% as Polygon improves scaling solutions

4 years ago

Mining

Bitcoin hashrate hits all-time high as Bitcoin holds above $20k

Hashrate increases causing pressure on Bitcoin miners while investment into the space continues

4 years ago

Crypto

CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily: Coinbase blames SEC’s XRP lawsuit for $15B loss to retail traders, Dogecoin investors sell $110M in DOGE

Top 50 Dogecoin holders sell off 761 million tokens worth approximately $110 million as DOGE jumps over 133% over the past week, Bitcoin surge by 6% as DXY and Gold records negative returns, and much more in this edition of CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily.

4 years ago

Adoption

MicroStrategy Q3 loss narrows, but revenue drops year-over-year; 301 BTC added to portfolio

MicroStrategy reported a slight year-over-year drop in revenue and saw its Bitcoin holdings increase by 301 BTC for the quarter.

4 years ago

Price Watch

Uptober: Bitcoin jumps 6% while DXY and gold post negative returns

Bitcoin has outperformed gold and the DXY in October, posting a 6% increase while the two closed the month in the red, continuing the downward trend that began earlier in the year.

4 years ago