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THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] THAI CENTRAL BANK TO TEST DIGITAL BAHT NEXT YEAR www. reuters. com The Bank of Thailand announced plans to begin testing a retail central bank digital currency in the second quarter of next year before fully implementing it over the next 3-5 years. [Members Area Crypto] JAPAN BEGINS PHASE ONE OF CBDC EXPERIMENTS www. reuters. com The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has begun a year-long...
CRYPTO SPECIAL REPORT: Avalanche: Building a Novel dApp Protocol for the Internet of Finance
Ava Labs is building the Avalanche protocol which expects to deliver the highest performance, most secure, and most energy efficient general-purpose cryptonetwork for highly decentralized applications, novel financial primitives, and new interoperable blockchains. Using its innovative Avalanche consensus mechanism, the protocol hopes to create a new digital crypto-native economy for frictionless real-world and digital asset exchange, composable financial application primitives and derivatives, Web 3.0 privacy-focused data and social applications, and...
The Indian e-commerce company subsequently tweeted that it was not bitcoin, but “supercoin,” adding the hashtag AprilFools Day. THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] LAGARDE SAYS DIGITAL EURO LAUNCH WILL TAKE 4 YEARS www. bloomberg. com European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said that the ECB “owe[s] it to the Europeans” to issue a central bank digital currency in a proper way as “it’s a technical endeavor as well as a fundamental change…to...
THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] BRITAIN TO FOCUS CRYPTO REGULATIONS ON STABLECOINS www. reuters. com Britain’s Economic Secretary to the Treasury John Glen says his country will focus its efforts on regulating stablecoins as a first priority saying “[Britain needs] to manage risks to competition… There is the potential for some firms to swiftly achieve [stablecoin] dominance and crowd out other players, due to their ability to scale and plug...
THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] US AND EUROPEAN UNION DISCUSSED DIGITAL ASSETS AT VIRTUAL www. home. treasury. gov The Department of Treasury announced that the US and European Union participated in a virtual, financial regulatory forum where they exchanged views on recent developments and regulatory proposals involving new forms of digital payments, including crypto-assets, stablecoins, and central bank digital currencies. [Members Area Crypto] IOWA HOUSE APPROVES SMART CONTRACTS BILL www....
THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] UK EXPECTING NEW CRYPTO TAX GUIDANCE www. theblockcrypto. com The UK’s tax authority is expected to release new guidance on crypto taxation this week consolidating two exiting pieces of guidance on crypto tax into a single “crypto manual.” [Members Area Crypto] DFSA RELEASES PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR SECURITY TOKENS www. dfsa. ae The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) issued a draft of a regulatory framework for...
THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] CHINA PROPOSES GLOBAL RULES FOR CBDCS www. reuters. com The director-general of the PBOC’s digital currency institute announced that “interoperability should be enabled between CBDC (central bank digital currency) systems of different jurisdictions and exchange” with “information flow and fund flows … synchronized so as to facilitate regulators to monitor the transactions for compliance.” [Members Area Crypto] DCEP TO CO-EXIST WITH PAPER MONEY AND CHINA'S...
Bitcoin has rebounded to new highs and pulled back again since our last market update on Bitcoin two weeks ago. We may sound like a broken record, but we remain bullish on Bitcoin and crypto and see further upside during the balance of the year. A FEW REASONS WE SEE FOR THE RECENT PULL BACK: -Traders repositioning ahead of $6B largest ever Bitcoin options expiration tomorrow -Traditional institutions new to...
THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] AN ANONYMOUS DIGITAL DOLLAR IS NOT FEASIBLE www. coindesk. com Fed Chairman Jerome Powell agreed with comments made by the People’s Bank of China stating that the idea of an anonymous digital currency would not be feasible in the US. [Members Area Crypto] DIGITAL EURO WILL NOT REPLACE CASH www. reuters. com European Central Bank Board Member Fabio Panetta says the digital euro will not...
Is Wall Street going Bankless? What do they know about crypto? We bring on David Grider of FSInsight to answer these important questions for us. If an asset is legitimate, it will inevitably end up on Wall Street, the heart-center of global finance. David embodies the growing bridge from traditional finance to crypto, and he sees the space as increasingly on the radar of high-level investors. Crypto should be understood...
THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR MUST COLLABORATE ON INTEROPERABILITY OF DIGITAL PAYMENTS www. reuters. com Bank of England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe called on the public sector and private firms to say that it is essential that “interoperability is present” to allow new developing digital currencies to switch between different platforms [Members Area Crypto] FCA WARNS YOUNGER INVESTORS ARE TAKING ON BIG FINANCIAL RISKS www. fca....