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Europe has the potential to become a global leader in crypto-assets if it succeeds to create a common approach to regulating the sector. So goes the argument in a new report from financial markets advocacy group, The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), in a new report published on Nov. 14.Coordination remains the top priorityAFME’s…

Next Big Thing AG (NBT), a German Internet-of-Things (IoT) and blockchain company builder, has secured 12 million euros ($13.5 million) in a new funding round, according to a press release on April 8.NBT announced that the firm has successfully completed its Series A investment round led by global industrial insurance giant HDI Global SE through…

A Singapore court permitted the use of NFTs to attach legal court orders tokenized as an NFT to issue a freeze order. 127 Total views 2 Total shares ​​Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s Nifty Newsletter. Keep reading to stay up-to-date with the latest stories on nonfungible tokens. Every Wednesday, the Nifty Newsletter informs

United States regulator the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is open to the idea of ether (ETH) futures trading, cryptocurrency industry news outlet CoinDesk reported on May 6.The publication quoted an unnamed official, who appeared to say that ETH-based futures would be a reasonable product for consideration and approval should it meet the CFTC’s various…

Ethereum founders Joseph Lubin and Vitalik Buterin and their respective organizations ConsenSys and the Ethereum Foundation are each donating 1,000 ether (ETH) to the Moloch decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).This donation brings the organization's total funds up to $1 million,  a Cointelegraph correspondent learned at the Ethereal Summit on May 10.The stated objective of Moloch DAO,…

The United Nations’ UNESCO and the Dutch government launched a new project for supervising AI to help create a framework for the wider EU area. 55 Total views 1 Total shares The United Nations and the Dutch government announced plans for the creation of a framework for the ethical supervision of artificial intelligence (AI). On Oct.

Although it seemed crypto hacks were on the decline, just recently, the market bore witness to one of the largest-ever attacks in the young history of decentralized finance (DeFi), wherein an unknown hacker was able to exploit a loophole in cross-chain protocol Poly Network’s digital framework, thereby walking away with a cool $610 million from…