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Analysis

These three Asian markets got the jump on tokenized finance over the US

$30 billion on Japanese exchanges edges toward BTC as custody rules harden.

4 months ago

Exchanges

Singapore’s MAS says FTX does not operate in the country

The financial regulator argued that it did not have have cause to list FTX on its Investor Alert List.

3 years ago

Adoption

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.

3 years ago

Banking

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.

3 years ago

Legal

Circle, Paxos secure regulatory approval from Singapore financial watchdog

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

3 years ago

Adoption

DBS launches programmable money live pilot for Singapore government vouchers

According to the report, this will enhance live transactions with numerous merchants by issuing vouchers using a blockchain and tokenized Singapore dollars.

3 years ago

NFTs

NFT marketplace Souffl3 closes $2 million in seed round

The funding round was co-led by Crypto.com Capital and Synergies Capital. Other participants in the round are Huobi Incubator, M77 Ventures, and J17 Capital.

3 years ago

Crypto

CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily: Phishing attack steals 700 Ethereum; Moldova bans crypto mining

Vitalik Buterin says ZKPs are necessary for Ethereum, Binance overshadows Huobi in derivatives trading, and more in this edition of CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily.

3 years ago

Regulation

Monetary Authority of Singapore proposes new measures to regulate crypto, stablecoins

Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published two consultation papers with a host of new regulatory measures to limit activities of digital payment token services, stablecoin issuers and their customers.

3 years ago