PayPal scores UK crypto license after brief local Bitcoin buy halt
Licensed by the FCA on Oct. 31, 2023, PayPal has requirements or restrictions placed on the financial services activities that...
Year: 2023
Coinbase launches regulated crypto futures services for US retail traders
Coinbase Advanced customers in the U.S. can trade nano-sized futures contracts sized at 1/100th of a Bitcoin and 1/10th of...
Crypto’s ‘pro-rioter’ glitch artist stirs controversy — Patrick Amadon, NFT Creator
NFT artist Patrick Amadon is proudly “pro-rioter,” as Hong Kong Art Week discovered, and he’s at home in crypto, where...
AI and real-world assets gain prominence in investor discussions
Additionally, discussions concerning cryptocurrency prices have waned due to market volatility and stabilization. As nations make progress in promoting the...
HSBC and Ant Group test tokenized deposits under HKMA sandbox
During the test, HSBC was connected to the blockchain platform developed by Ant Group and supported by Ant Group’s banking...
Canadian MP urges community to study Bitcoin, cites Gensler’s pre-SEC stance
Lightbound disclosed that he owns Bitcoin himself but won’t advocate for people to buy it but rather study it. On...
US crypto custody firm BitGo wins BaFin license in Germany: Report
BitGo originally announced it was setting up two regulated custodial entities in Germany and Switzerland in February 2020. Major cryptocurrency...
Onyx Protocol exploiter begins siphoning $2.1M loot on Tornado Cash
The bug Onyx Protocol hacker exploited to steal $2.1 million was previously used by a hacker to extort $7 million...
Meet the 13-year-old student selling sneakers for Bitcoin: The Agenda podcast
13-year-old Blake Cockram founded CryptoKicks last year, and now he is teaching sneakerheads in the U.K. about all things crypto....
FTX and Alameda Research wallets send $13.1M in crypto to exchanges overnight
A court-ordered liquidation process allows FTX to sell nearly $3.4 billion worth of crypto assets in weekly batches starting from...
‘AI’ takes Collins dictionary word of the year, ‘debanking’ makes shortlist
The Collins dictionary named ‘AI’ word of the year, describing AI-powered language models as “bursting into the public consciousness” and...
Turkey aims to shed FATF ‘grey list’ status with new crypto regulations
The Turkish finance minister reportedly stated that crypto assets are the sole outstanding technical compliance matter. Turkey is reportedly drafting...
Survey: 65% of Spaniards aren’t interested in using digital euro
The country’s population doesn’t demonstrate as high a confidence level in the European Central Bank’s digital currency project as the...
NEAR taps Nym for metadata privacy, encryption services
Layer 1 blockchain NEAR will integrate Nym Technologies’ data privacy and encryption services for users and DApps operating across its...
BTC price gets $36K FOMC target as Bitcoin prints 29% ‘Uptober’ gains
Bitcoin heads into November to tackle Fed rate decision day after BTC price cements its second best month of 2023....
