2023-4-14 13:44 |
Crypto company collapses create a void in the ecosystem that trusted and experienced traditional finance firms may look to fill, the report said. origin »
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The crypto world’s triumph in 2024 set the stage for broader possibilities in 2025. Stablecoins, for instance, have become an integral part of the financial landscape. By bridging traditional finance with crypto, they’ve facilitated seamless global transactions and hedged against currency volatility.
2024-12-24 15:30 | |
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SpacePay’s Android payment app lets merchants accept cryptocurrency while getting paid in their local currency. Customers pay with crypto, and merchants receive traditional money—all without risk.
2024-12-4 22:30 | |
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Crypto firms are attracting top talents from the traditional financial sector in droves thanks to higher salaries and the prestige of working in the emerging industry. A Bitget report shared with CryptoSlate showed that one-third of applicants for crypto positions have a background in banking and traditional finance.
2024-1-25 18:25 | |
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Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein has said that traditional finance companies creating Bitcoin ETFs validates the crypto asset class, adding that it offers additional protection for investors. The post Traditional Finance ETF Applications Validates Crypto: Grayscale CEO appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-7-12 09:50 | |
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As traditional financial firms expand into crypto, they will look for traditional hiring credentials, creating a sea change at universities and the crypto job market overall. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-30 02:09 | |
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The report is widely watched by traditional and crypto traders because of its implications for inflation and the Federal Reserve’s fight against it.
2022-4-2 15:50 | |
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One of the most persistent beliefs regarding crypto is the prevalence of fraud. However, fraud is just as, if not more prevalent in the traditional financial markets. Is crypto getting a bad rap?
2019-9-3 21:55 | |
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Today’s Video Briefing takes on another crypto project that’s trying to break free of the blockchain’s shackles: Nano. Much like IOTA, Nano’s block-lattice architecture allows it to process fast transactions for zero fees – and none of the embarrassing costs of traditional blockchain mining.
2018-12-13 18:02 | |
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German blockchain startup Bitwala has launched crypto banking in Germany. After securing €4 million (roughly $4. 5 million) from VC firms Earlybird and Coparion in September of 2018 to develop a crypto banking solution, the company has allegedly amassed a waiting list of 30,000 potential users.
2018-12-13 22:32 | |
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As the crypto markets have matured, they've seen increasing acceptance with traditional finance and regulators, but there's still a way to go.
2018-12-13 15:30 | |
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As the crypto markets have matured, they've seen increasing acceptance with traditional finance and regulators, but there's still a way to go.
2018-12-12 15:30 | |
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The birth of more stablecoins, which has coincided with significant market losses for traditional cryptocurrencies, has drawn attention to these fiat-pegged digital assets. Dedicated platforms are now aggregating statistical data about stablecoin markets for the benefit of traders.
2018-12-12 21:55 | |
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A common narrative in today’s financial world is that crypto holders are often unable to execute trades without paying large amounts of commissions and fees.
2018-12-12 21:00 | |
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Today’s Video Briefing covers stablecoins, cryptocurrencies whose value is tied to the dollar or another fiat currencies. Stablecoins have gained increased attention in the past year, as a way of transacting and storing value on a blockchain without risking the volatility of traditional cryptos.
2018-12-11 19:01 | |
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Tron Legacy Game is a revolutionary decentralized blockchain gaming platform that operates on Tron blockchain. The project’s presale ends in about 5 days from the time of writing. Tron Legacy Game Background The LEGACY GAME team comprises a group of crypto enthusiasts from all over the world who are also veterans in traditional and blockchain […]
2018-12-11 06:32 | |
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The D1 Coin is a virtual currency built on the Ethereum blockchain. A fractional value of investment grade diamonds backs D1 Coins. With the value of the D1 Coin being a function of not just market forces but also the importance of natural diamonds, owners of D1 Coins benefit from enhanced downside protection as they can exchange their D1 Coins for investment grade diamonds at any time.
2018-12-8 10:10 | |
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BitGo has a new CEO for its custody business. The cryptocurrency solution provider has recruited Richard Corcoran as its new chief executive officer. Having retired some years back after over 30 years in the traditional banking and finance industry, Corcoran has come out of retirement to lead the BitGo Trust Company, BitGo's crypto custody arm.
2018-12-8 21:38 | |
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Cryptocurrency platforms seek out patents frequently, as do traditional financial institutions. While trademarks are often reserved for certain products and exchange-specific phrases, Coinbase wants to takeover a more common phrase – “BUIDL.
2018-12-7 01:41 | |
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Inspired by a bet made by one of the biggest names in traditional investing, Morgan Creek Digital has proposed a $1 million wager of its own. Whereas Warren Buffett’s bet was that the S&P 500 would outperform a group of hedge funds, in Morgan Creek’s wager, the cryptocurrency investment firm will take the side that.
2018-12-7 00:30 | |
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R3 has unveiled a new app on their international blockchain, a global payment platform that uses Ripple’s XRP as its initial base currency. The app, dubbed Corda Settler, continues R3’s track record for pursuing ambitious blockchain projects, and it is allegedly “purpose-built to allow for payment obligations raised on the Corda blockchain platform to be made through any of the world’s payment systems, both traditional and blockchain-based.
2018-12-6 01:54 | |
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How Are Traditional Investment Tools Working With The Growth Of The Crypto World With the growth and expansion of the virtual currency world, we have seen the surge and creation of many new startups and companies.
2018-12-5 22:59 | |
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Congressman takes on ICOs, Switzerland rejects crypto regulatory framework, and traditional financial firms back crypto exchange.
2018-12-6 03:30 | |
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With many Japanese crypto exchanges and miners owned by ‘traditional’ corporate businesses, 2018’s bear market has negatively impacted parent company bottom lines - triggering shakeouts and rethinks within Japan’s nascent crypto sector
2018-12-5 14:00 | |
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On the 22nd of November, and as the rest of crypto verse was worried about the declining value of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and other numerous cryptocurrencies, the team at TradingView released the Android version of the platform.
2018-12-4 10:30 | |
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In any traditional market, it’s unthinkable for an asset to grow 1635x in 28 days. But this is crypto – and anything is possible. Such is the case this week, as one analyst is predicting that XRP will rise to $589 before the end of the year.
2018-12-4 07:23 | |
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For nearly a decade, participants in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space have operated in a regulatory compliance gray zone. Recent developments — at both the federal and international levels — signal that the time for plausible deniability or unregulated freedom is coming to an end and more traditional regulations are moving to the forefront.
2018-12-3 19:20 | |
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How Using Solar Energy Can Help Make Mining Cryptos Ecofriendly Lately, there’s been a lot of concern about the environmental damages caused by crypto mining. These damages are caused by vast amounts of electricity consumed during the process of powering ASIC devices and mining cryptos.
2018-12-1 22:32 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges are catching up to their traditional counterparts, a new study suggests. According to a report released by global professional services company Accenture, revenue from cryptocurrency exchanges is now matching that of traditional exchanges.
2018-11-29 20:08 | |
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CoinSpeaker Your Favorite Exchanges are on TAP There are many gaps between the traditional financial markets and the Crypto market. One of the most prominent gaps is the lack of exchange aggregators. Your Favorite Exchanges are on TAP
2018-11-29 11:05 | |
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Speaking at the ongoing CoinDesk's Consensus Invest conference in New York, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton spoke on why his agency hasn’t yet approved a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).
2018-11-29 21:56 | |
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Crypto Will Unequivocally Survive… Market Isn’t Worrying Surprisingly, amid one of the worst Bitcoin corrections in its decade-long history, a number of commentators and investors, from the traditional, venture, and crypto realms alike, have come out in full support of this asset class and ground-breaking innovation.
2018-11-28 11:40 | |
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An unconfirmed report released today, November 27, 2018, claims that NASDAQ has plans to launch bitcoin-based futures contracts, and that these plans are continuing to go forward despite the recent crypto crash.
2018-11-28 20:45 | |
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The Crypto community can be forgiven for concluding that Bitcoin (BTC) is in trouble given the past few weeks of losses in the markets. But taking two steps back and checking the action next door at the traditional stock markets, we see that the top tech stocks are also not looking too good.
2018-11-25 20:34 | |
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In 2017, we witnessed massive growth in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), and this spilled into 2018 with over $13. 7 billion USD raised by ICOs in the first half of this year. Although these numbers still don’t compare to traditional venture capital investment, it proves that this crowdfunding model is expanding.
2018-11-24 21:08 | |
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Coinbase Loses Chief Policy Officer Mike Lempres Since its infancy, many have lauded the cryptocurrency industry for catalyzing a so-called “Wall Street (and Silicon Valley) brain drain,” whereas talents from the traditional world have run for the hills — finding solace in the lesser-known, yet growing blockchain space.
2018-11-23 01:35 | |
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The cryptocurrency market has taken a dive lately, but there are still many crypto enthusiasts that believe that this is far from the end. Spencer Bogart, for example, thinks there are still many opportunities in Bitcoin.
2018-11-22 13:29 | |
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CoinSpeaker Amid Crypto Market Sharp Downturn, Traditional Stock Markets Seem to Collapse as Well Tech stocks overall were hit hard Tuesday as the Nasdaq Composite Index slid another 1.
2018-11-21 15:05 | |
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A round of financing through traditional channels has boosted the perceived value of the project.
2018-11-21 12:13 | |
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CryptoNinjas Fusion, the blockchain infrastructure protocol designed to connect both traditional and crypto finance systems today announced the upcoming launch of its Payable Stage Network (PSN).
2018-11-21 02:49 | |
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Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are known as the Wild West of the cryptocurrency market. Though ICOs have bought billions of dollars into the pockets of aspiring startups, they lack one major element of the traditional IPOs – investor security.
2018-11-19 19:29 | |
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Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are known as the Wild West of the cryptocurrency market. Though ICOs have bought billions of dollars into the pockets of aspiring startups, they lack one major element of the traditional IPOs – investor security.
2018-11-20 19:29 | |
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Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.
2018-11-19 04:39 | |
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Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.
2018-11-20 04:39 | |
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Transparency is one of the most noteworthy features of blockchain-based crypto assets. This attention to transparency goes all the way back to Satoshi Nakamoto, who described his creation as having a permanent and public ownership history.
2018-11-18 11:07 | |
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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the largest exchange in the world, and its listed companies have a combined market capitalization of $24. 2 trillion. NYSE’s daily trading volume can reach $200 billion, which can be more than the market cap of all cryptocurrencies.
2018-11-18 20:46 | |
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Gabor Gurbacs is confident that the approval of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) is inevitable. And he’s optimistic that the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Strategy will be the first to deliver one to the world.
2018-11-17 01:42 | |
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Following a week of widespread carnage in the cryptocurrency markets, traditional retail stocks involved with the crypto sector are feeling the burn as well, with the California-based computer chip maker, Nvidia’s (NVDA) price tanking on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
2018-11-17 21:30 | |
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KPMG Accounting Firm Believes That Crypto Assets Are Unprepared To Be Considered Real Currencies KPMG is known as one of the “big four” accounting firms, so it is clear that they understand the world of traditional finance.
2018-11-16 02:08 | |
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Binance — one of the most popular digital currency exchanges across the globe — has announced that it will be adding the fiat-collateralized stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) to its trading platform on November 17, 2018.
2018-11-15 21:11 | |
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Pro-crypto legislation could allow DeFi to potentially connect with mainstream financial systems, says Toe Bautista.
Institutional investors located in Canada significantly increased their holdings of cryptocurrencies in 2023, a survey by KPMG found.
The company allows institutional investors to comply with regulations when interacting with DeFi, and recently facilitated a proof of concept trial with Nomura's crypto arm Laser Digital by building a compliance wrapper on top of USDC stablecoin.
Prime brokers are a new source of liquidity in this cycle, which could be good and bad in the long-run, says Phillip Moran, CEO of the Digital Opportunities Group.
The rise of Bitcoin may tempt investors to ask “Why Not 100% Bitcoin?” Here’s why.
The Ethereum blockchain has nearly one million validators today. The combination of protocol rewards and priority transaction fees against a stable monetary supply backdrop results in a compelling [real] yield for investors.
The immaturity of security controls in DeFi is a challenge for institutional adoption. Here’s how to address that.