NEXO releases proof of reserves showing no exposure to FTX

Despite posting a proof-of-reserves with neither asset breakdown nor wallet addresses, Nexo praised its risk engine as the sole reason for no bad debts. The post NEXO releases proof of reserves showing no exposure to FTX appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Harvard Research Paper Tells Governments And Central Banks To Hold Bitcoin

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Vermont's financial regulator alleges Celsius and its CEO made 'false and misleading claims'

According to the regulator, Celsius “lacked sufficient assets to repay its obligations” despite suggesting it had enough funds in its reserves to mitigate the risk of insolvency.

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Fed Sounds Alarm on “Recent Strains” in Stablecoin Market

Stablecoins pose a risk to the financial system due to their lack of transparency and often lack of safe reserves, according to a new Federal Reserve report. Federal Reserve Highlights...

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LFG Bitcoin Reserves At Risk As UST Dollar Peg Collapses

As the Terra stablecoin becomes depegged from the U.S. dollar, the biggest buyer of bitcoin in recent months could become its biggest forced seller.

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World Economic Forum States That Stablecoins Could Temper US Dollar Domination Risk

Stablecoins are cryptocurrency assets with their value tied to a specific asset, like gold or the US dollar. They serve many purposes in the industry, but an opinion piece in the World Economic Forum states that they may be able to curb the potential threat of global foreign currency reserves domination of the US dollar. […]

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In Light of Tether’s Fractional Reserve, a Shadow of Fiatcoins’ Future

Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.

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Oil Field Alchemy: How Bitcoin Can Turn Waste, Emissions into Proof-of-Work

In a handful of oil fields in the Great White North, natural gas, an otherwise wasted drilling by-product, is being put to work. But it’s not being used to well more oil; it’s being used to mine bitcoin.

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Bitfinex Releases White Paper for LEO Token Sale

Bitfinex is forging forward despite its ongoing row with the authorities, and it's looking for investors to support its efforts. Today, May 8, 2019, iFinex, the operator and parent company of the popular cryptocurrency exchange, released a private token sale white paper, putting to rest rumors of its Initial Exchange Offering (IEO).

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Bitfinex, Attorney General Legal Sparring Continues With New Court Filings

Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) legal sparring in relation to $850 million in missing funds escalated with another round of court filings this past weekend.

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Bitfinex-Tether episode hardly affects stablecoin; continues to be pegged with cryptos despite systematic risk

The Bitfinex/Tether episode made headlines in the crypto community over the past week. The repercussions were felt even in the market as Bitcoin [BTC] plummeted by almost $400 after news broke out that Bitfinex used Tether reserves to cover up its undisclosed losses, speculated to amount to $850 million.

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“Holders Are Not at Risk”: Bitfinex Lawyer Responds to NY Attorney General

Bitfinex and Tether’s legal counsel has written a response to the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) ex parte order, which claims that Bitifinex used Tether’s reserves to cover some $850 million in losses.

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Tether Not Fully Backed

In an affidavit containing the subheading "Tether Holders Are Not at Risk,” Stuart Hoegner, a lawyer representing Tether, admits that the company only has the fiat reserves to back about 74 percent of its coins.

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Sexy Stablecoins Are the ‘Bridge’ to Mainstream Crypto Adoption

By CCN: Stablecoins on the surface might seem boring. After all, most don’t come with the volatility that’s inherent with most cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, and therefore have an entirely different risk/return profile.

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Canadian Dollar-Pegged Stablecoin ‘eCAD’ Can Avoid Tether’s Fate

By CCN. com: Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsquare has announced plans to launch a CAD-pegged stablecoin. To be known as the eCAD, the stablecoin will be exchanged for the Canadian dollar on a 1:1 basis.

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What Is DeFi and Where Does It Leave Bitcoin?

The Bitcoin bull and bear market cycles are a pattern that produces significant developments — when the market is cold, people tend to focus on building the next wave of groundbreaking technology.

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Exclusive: Tether Claims ‘100% USD-Backed’ But Crypto Community Remains Skeptical

On Wednesday, investors in Tether, the most dominant stablecoin in the crypto market, pointed out a change in the stablecoin’s Terms of Service and Risk Disclosure which described that its USD reserves will be composed of loans issued by Tether, not solely by cash.

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Blockstream Open Sources Development of Its Proof of Reserves Tool

On February 4, 2019, blockchain tech company Blockstream announced the development of a “proof of reserves” tool to standardize the authenticity of exchanges’ crypto reserves.

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Could Ripple’s Multi-Billion Dollar XRP Reserves Pose a Risk to Token Holders?

Ripple, the custodial company to the open-source cryptocurrency XRP, owns 60 percent of all XRP ever created; these holdings are valued at $22 billion at current prices. Furthermore, company ‘insiders’ also hold a large percentage of circulating XRP.

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What Is Cryptocurrency? “Jeopardy!” Features Entire Category on Crypto

Is cryptocurrency becoming more mainstream? It could be if one of America’s most prominent game shows features an entire category devoted to it. The November 29, 2018, episode of “Jeopardy!” — which has been on the air since 1964 — offered five unique questions centered around cryptocurrencies and their technology to test out its contestants’ knowledge on the subject: The results reveal that they did indeed know their fair share.

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In Search of Stability: An Overview of the Budding Stablecoin Ecosystem

Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.

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Blockchain’s Report Examines Benefits (and Failures) of Today’s Stablecoins

Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.

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Kraken: An Overview of One of Europe's Top Bitcoin Exchanges

In this overview, we explore Kraken and its journey from a Mt. Gox alternative to soften the blow of bitcoin’s dependence on just one exchange to becoming one of the most respected cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.

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Yes, Stablecoins Can Secure Official Audits from Major Firms

“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.

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Malta-based STASIS Launches New Euro-Backed Stablecoin

Malta-based tokenization platform STASIS has launched EURS, a stablecoin backed by the Euro. EURS, aiming to be the biggest "fully verified and collateralized stablecoin" in the world, launched with a $100 million pre-launch order book which is expected to hit $500 million by year’s end.

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Pundits Predicting Panic In Emerging Markets

Key Points With EM stock prices plummeting and investors fleeing EM funds, the fear of emerging markets is palpable. Our examination of three key metrics—external debt, foreign exchange reserves, and current account balance—shows, however, that EM countries have low risk of a broad funding crisis.

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Unofficial Report Confirms Tether’s Tokens Are Fully Backed by US Dollars

Tether Ltd. , which issues a stable coin allegedly tied to U. S. dollar reserves, claims it has hired Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan LLP — a law firm co-founded by FBI Director Louis Freeh — to confirm its bank deposits and assure investors that its cryptocurrency is backed by USD.

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