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Brevan Howard Opens a Crypto-Related Division

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European hedge fund manager Brevan Howard hired CMT Digital CEO Colleen Sullivan to manage private and venture investments in cryptocurrencies. In 2017, she co-founded Chicago-based CMT Digital, a division of investment manager firm CMT Group. The parent company, founded in 1997, started activities...

MasterCard Acquires CipherTrace

MasterCard Purchased Crypto Intelligence Firm CipherTrace

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Major financial services provider MasterCard acquired crypto risk intelligence firm CipherTrace. The startup creates tools via which companies and government officials can find out illegal crypto transactions. The amount for the purchase hasn’t been unveiled. New on the Blog! "Mastercard...

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Ukrainian Parliament Voted in Favor of Crypto Legalization

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Ukraine became the latest country to legalize and regulate cryptocurrencies by providing official clarity of the industry. 276 lawmakers voted in favor of the bill and 6 against it. The bill was presented in 2020. After getting the approval of the parliament, it needs to be signed by President...

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Decentralized Exchange dYdX Released Its Governance Token

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Ethereum-based Layer 2 protocol dYdX released its governance token on September 8. The airdrop surpassed $100.000. dYdX exchange was founded in 2017. It offers users decentralized derivatives, margin, and spot trading. According to data from DeFi Pulse, the total value locked in the platform stands...

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SOL and NEAR Reached New Highs While the BTC Price Fell

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Native coins of Solana blockchain and NEAR Protocol reached new all-time highs today. Increasing by around 29% in the last 24 hours, the price of SOL reached $214.96 on CoinMarketCap. The coin now ranks 6th with over $60.2 billion market cap. Solana is one of the fastest blockchain ecosystems...

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Cardano Announced the Alonzo Upgrade Date

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Tech company standing behind the development of Cardano blockchain, Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK) announced the date of the Hard Fork Combinator (HFC). The event is scheduled for Sunday, September 12 at 21:44 UTC. LAUNCH CONFIRMED: Today, around 17:26 UTC we successfully submitted an update...

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Coinbase Receives Notice From the SEC Over Its Lend Product

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Leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced that it received a Wells Notice from the Securities and Exchange Commission. The regulatory agency warned the company against launching a product that would allow consumers to earn interest for their crypto holdings. A Wells Notice represents a...

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Solana (SOL) and FTX (FTT) Hit New All-Time Highs

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Today, two altcoins, Solana blockchain's native token SOL and the crypto exchange FTX's FTT hit new highs, $194.82 and $83.41 respectively. On September 6, major crypto trading platform FTX revealed that it plans to release an NFT marketplace soon. First time the FTX CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried talked...

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El Salvador Legalized BTC with 400 Coins in Its Holdings

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Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador disclosed on September 7 that the country acquired another 200 Bitcoins ahead of the legalization of the cryptocurrency. Thus, the total number of Bitcoins owned by El Salvador reached 400. At current prices, it's worth over $21 M, as Bitcoin trades at...

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UK's FCA Says Crypto Regulation Can Backfire

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Today, September 9, UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published the speech of Charles Randell, Chair of the FCA and Payments Systems Regulator. The release titled "Risks of token regulation", discusses several issues that the regulatory finds are present in the crypto industry. The...

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XRP Price Surges While the SEC vs Ripple Case Continues

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In the last 24 hours, the price of XRP went up by around 5%, reaching $1.32. The surge happens, while the SEC vs Ripple case continues. The latest update of the lawsuit is that US magistrate judge Sarah Netburn ordered Ripple to handle 1 million missing Slack messages among employees that the...

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South Africa Warns About Binance. The Latter Replies

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On September 3, South African financial regulatory body, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) urged people against leading crypto exchange operator Binance. The press release, published by the authority, says Binance doesn’t have permission to offer advisory or intermediary services in...

Solana $150

Another New High From Solana: The Coin Surpassed $150

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Having increased by around 63% in a week, the price of Solana (SOL) reached a new all-time high of $150 on CoinMarketCap. A few days ago, SOL got ahead of Dogecoin in terms of market cap. Now it's the 7th largest cryptocurrency with over $42.3 billion total value of mined coins. Solana ecosystem...

DeFi Uniswap SEC

US SEC to Start an Investigation of Major DeX Uniswap

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The US regulatory agency began to investigate Uniswap. The news was published by The Wall Street Journal on September 3. Source of the information is "people familiar with the matter", the media platform says. As stated in the post, the SEC wants details on how Uniswap Labs arranges...

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ADA Surpassed $3 Following Smart Contracts Test Net Launch

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Tech company that built the Cardano blockchain, Input Output (IOHK) informed followers about the successful release of the Plutus platform’s smart contract capability on testnet. This is an essential part of the Alonzo mainnet upgrade, which will occur on September 12. On September 2, after the...

Presearch in Europe

Android in Europe Adds Decentralized Search Engine Presearch

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Blockchain-powered decentralized search engine and a token ecosystem Presearch is now available for Android devices across Europe as an alternative option. On September 1, Google listed the browser. The majority of smartphone owners in Europe, around 70% use Android. Thus, the blockchain-based...

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Vitalik Buterin Talked About His Regrets About Ethereum

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Today, September 2 Vitalik Buterin answers followers’ questions through a Twitter AMA (Ask Me Anything). The youngest crypto billionaire has already expressed his views towards different blockchain and DeFi projects, Ethereum's development, NFTs, and more. Doing a random twitter experiment just...

Ethereum Arbitrum One

Ether Surges After the Scaling Solution Arbitrum One Release

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On August 31, the mainnet of Ethereum scaling solution Arbitrum One went public. The EVM-compatible platform with optimistic rollups techniques aims to reduce the fee cost of transactions and scale Dapps. WE KNOW YOU'VE BEEN WAITING...WE'RE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE...📘ARBITRUM ONE📘BRIEF...

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