$8.1B in Bitcoin options expire this month — Do bulls or bears have the upper hand?

The ex-White House communications director sees a big move for BTC in the next 5 to 10 years. 923 Total views 5 Total shares Just two days after filing a Form D exemption with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Anthony Scaramucci’s hedge fund, Skybridge Capital, has launched its proposed Bitcoin (BTC) fund.In a Dec.…

The bridge financing fund becomes the first UK-based company to establish such partnership with a U.S. platform. 288 Total views 4 Total shares Whitehall Capital, a London-based loan provider, struck a deal with an American digital asset securities marketplace Securitize to enable its investors to hold their units as blockchain tokens.According to an April 11 announcement,…

The Bank of England is keeping central bank digital currency research high on its 2020 agenda. The Bank of England will take part in a key meeting tomorrow to discuss central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and their possible infrastructural designs. Hosted by global central banking think tank, the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), on…

Bitcoin has been stuck inside a tight range in August. Glassnode lead on-chain analyst Checkmate highlighted that the spread between the upper and lower Bollinger Bands for Bitcoin has shrunk to 2.9%, its third-tightest ever. Typically, periods of low volatility are followed by a range expansion. The longer the time spent inside a range, the stronger the…

A system in which health officials would be able to track blood donations from vein-to-vein in real-time, given the complexities of the blood supply chain, may sound impossible. However, using blockchain technology to track and trace blood supply chains may turn this idea closer to reality. The American Red Cross estimates that someone in the United…

Malware researcher Lukas Stefanko has found four fake cryptocurrency wallets on the Google Play Store that were trying to steal users’ personal data, according to a blog post published Nov. 13.The apps were posing as cryptocurrency wallets for NEO, Tether and an extension for accessing Ethereum (ETH), MetaMask. They were purportedly designed to phish users’…

Fireblocks builds on its multi-party computational technology to create a Secure Asset Transfer Network, allowing institutions to quickly and securely find, connect and transact. 740 Total views 26 Total shares Institutional digital asset security specialist Fireblocks launched its Asset Transfer Network on June 2.The open network enables institutions to securely find and connect with their…

Crypto exchange BitMEX and a fine French wine retailer are reportedly partnering to acquire a majority stake of licensed — but as yet inactive — Japanese crypto exchange BitOcean. Cointelegraph Japan reported on the potential partnership on Dec. 21.Madison Holdings Group, which is currently listed on the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) of the Hong Kong…

Top Chinese digital bank WeBank is partnering with OpenNodes to drive blockchain innovation among Singaporean universities. 2023 Total views 48 Total shares China’s top digital bank, WeBank, has partnered with OpenNodes, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform by Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority.Through the new partnership, WeBank will provide the FISCO BCOS blockchain platform to…