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THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] BIDEN TEAM EYES POTENTIAL THREAT FROM DIGITAL YUAN www. bloomberg. com Bloomberg is reporting that the Biden Administration is stepping up scrutiny of China’s plans for a digital yuan, with officials concerned the move could kick off a long-term bid to topple the dollar as the world’s dominant reserve currency. [Members Area Crypto] PAKISTAN 'WAITING TO BURST' WITH DIGITIZATION EFFORTS www. twitter. com 🐦📺The Governor...
THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] BOJ WORKING WITH G7 ON COMMON RULES FOR CBDCS www. reuters. com The Bank of Japan announced that the G7 plans to establish a set of common rules and platforms for their own central bank digital currencies. [Members Area Crypto] DIGITAL RUBLE EXPECTED BY 2023 www. reuters. com The Russian central bank has expanded on its recent statements regarding the creation of a CBDC by...
Crypto Quarterly Portfolio Strategy Q1 2021: Bull market intact as stocks, high yield and capital flows signal further risk-on ahead of landmark Coinbase IPO
In this crypto weekly note, we’re giving a more comprehensive Q1 end update covering prior recommendations and current market views.Bitcoin and crypto had a strong March quarterStocks and high yield are signaling risk-on for cryptoLong GBTC NAV discount is the new BTC premium arb tradeBitcoin dominance falling as crypto capital flows push altcoins higherSmaller to mid-cap cyclicals offering high-risk high-reward crypto market betaCoinbase IPO is landmark moment for the crypto...
THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] SOUTH KOREA CRACKING DOWN ON ILLEGAL CRYPTO ACTIVITIES www. theblockcrypto. com South Korea’s government revealed joint-ministerial plans to “crack down on illegal activities related to transactions such as market price manipulation, money laundering, and tax evasion using virtual assets through cooperation with the police, prosecution and financial authorities.” [Members Area Crypto] HAINAN ISLAND TO BEGIN TESTING DIGITAL YUAN www. theblockcrypto. com The southern located Chinese...
THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] SWEDEN TO BRING BANKS INTO NEXT STAGE OF E-KRONA PROJECT www. reuters. com Sweden’s central bank has completed the first phase of its CBDC and plans to expand the e-krona digital currency initiative by bringing in banks over the next year to test how its proposed digital currency will handle commercial and retail payments in the real world [Members Area Crypto] ARGENTINEAN CENTRAL BANK ASKS...
THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] RUSSIA EYEING BLOCKCHAIN-BASED ALTERNATIVE TO SWIFT www. coindesk. com The deputy head of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes that the development of blockchain technology has demonstrated that global settlements can take place on a new technological platform instead of the US dominated SWIFT payments network. [Members Area Crypto] MAS ISSUES ANOTHER CRYPTO WARNING www. mas. gov. sg The chairman of the Monetary Authority of...
GBTC announces plans to convert to an ETF which should help close the -9% NAV premium gap
The largest U.S. exchange traded products, GBTC and ETHE, for the largest two crypto assets, Bitcoin and Ethereum, have been trading at a persistent discount to their NAV for a little over a month, with GBTC sitting around -9% and ETHE sitting around -5%. Source: Bloomberg (Date: 4/5/2021) Much of the discount has been the result of investors expecting a U.S. listed Bitcoin ETF in the near future after the...
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....