Category: Adoption

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire: Policy issues are more prevalent as crypto “gets real”

Regulators and policymakers around the world have never been particularly open to innovations or progressions of the crypto market. However, with the industry growing both technologically and in terms of institutional adoption, the onus on KYC and AML laws is back, and it’s all but what the crypto ethos stands for. The recently proposed STABLE…

December 7, 2020
CEO of $10 billion fund expects Ethereum to gain Wall Street traction this year

Crypto adoption on Wall Street is booming. Well, Bitcoin adoption anyway. These past few months have marked a resurgence in the number of Wall Street investors and prominent firms taking a close look at the leading cryptocurrency and related blockchain technologies. Paul Tudor Jones, a billionaire investor known for outperforming the markets in the 1970s…

December 6, 2020
IOHK to launch two new smart contracts devnets for Cardano

IOHK, the company behind the Cardano blockchain, announced the launch of two smart contract developer environments (devnets) for Cardano—KEVM and IELE. The devnets will allow developers to write, deploy, and test smart contracts for Cardano, with KEVM enabling the deployment of Ethereum-based apps on Cardano and IELE allowing developers to write applications for Cardano in…

December 5, 2020
Dutch family that sold everything for BTC in 2017 is still buying

Known as the Bitcoin family, the Taihuttus made news back in 2017 when they liquidated all of their assets for Bitcoin. Three years later, CNBC got back in touch with the nomad family to find out that they’re still accumulating BTC and buying every dip they can. A family that’s been selling everything for Bitcoin…

December 4, 2020
DeFi and Eth2 are whole new convos for regulators, says SEC’s Hester Peirce

United States SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce wants to focus on new guidance for DeFi and future Ethereum projects.

December 4, 2020
Cryptocurrencies Prove Central Bank Models Are Obsolete, Says Professor

A Spanish professor and economist stated that cryptocurrencies have brought out the “obsolescence” of central banks, although their capitalization is still “very insignificant.” Crypto Is Not Only About the ‘Speculative Noise’ Pablo Agnese, an economics professor and lecturer in the Department of Economic and Business Organization at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona (UIC…

December 4, 2020
China is in pole position to dethrone the US as the leading financial power

A cold war is brewing in the financial world. America is losing its dominant position to countries exploring alternative currencies. Both CBDCs and the Euro are poised to make their mark on the industry. From Innocent Beginnings… Everyone looks at the world’s leading economy for guidance, yet the United States may lose that situation in…

December 3, 2020
3 key ways 2021’s Bitcoin bull run may differ from 2017’s

Bitcoin price has overtaken its 2017 high, but should investors expect the top-ranked altcoins to do the same?

December 3, 2020
Crypto.com awarded license to issue debit cards in Australia

Crypto.com announced today that it was successfully granted a license by the Australian Financial Service License (AFSL), which now allows it to extend its card network down under. Crypto.com rolls out in Australia As per a release, the AFSL was secured via the acquisition of The Card Group Pty Ltd, which was approved by Australia’s…

December 3, 2020
Bitcoin is the ‘wrong price for the possibilities it has,’ says Paul Tudor Jones

He says, “The path forward from here is north.”

December 3, 2020