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news The Facebook-led Libra project is to face questions from 26 central banks over the perceived risks to financial stability posed by the cryptocurrency project. On Monday, the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructure – a forum for central banks under the Bank for International Settlements – will quiz the Libra Association in Basel, Switzerland,…

Credit: Izdhaan Nizar/UnsplashSwedish startup ChromaWay is expanding a project aimed to make land ownership more transparent by putting records on a blockchain.With the launch of its LAC PropertyChain initiative, announced on Tuesday, the company hopes to strengthen blockchain standards, governance and protocols for land transactions in Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay.The initiative complements the LACChain initiative,…

Aug 25, 2020 at 07:20 UTCU.S. Marine Corps, modified by CoinDeskAave Becomes Second DeFi Project to Overtake MakerDAO for Most Crypto DepositedDecentralized finance (DeFi) credit market Aave has pulled ahead of stablecoin mint MakerDAO for the title of most collateral staked on Ethereum, according to DeFi Pulse. Aave now has $1.47 billion-worth of different crypto…

news Telegram Open Network, or TON, the ambitious blockchain project announced last year by the Telegram messaging app, is expected to release the code needed to run a TON node on Sept. 1, according to two individuals familiar with the project. One of these individuals is affiliated with TON Labs, a tech startup founded by…

news Investment management company Invesco is launching a blockchain exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the London Stock Exchange today. For the effort, Invesco has partnered with London-based Elwood Asset Management, an investment firm specializing in digital assets, to launch the product called the “Invesco Elwood Global Blockchain UCITS ETF.” Elwood announced the news Monday, saying the ETF…

Olympix, a startup that aims to bring scalable security to Web3, has announced the recent close of a $4.3 million seed funding round that was led by Boldstart Ventures. Other participants included Robot Ventures and Shrug Capital, among others. The investment marks the latest in a growing trend of venture capitalists backing artificial intelligence-backed crypto…

Featured SpeakerJenny JohnsonPresident and CEOFranklin TempletonJenny will discuss developing crypto-linked investment products in a bear market, the mood among her clients and her lon...Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe. She holds bitcoin, ether and small amounts of other crypto assets.Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team.Featured SpeakerJenny…

ARP Digital received a category-3 license from Bahrain Central Bank.This marks the only over-the-counter (OTC) service provider with the license in the country that specializes in digital asset structure products.Structured products have seen a "huge spike" in demand from institutional investors after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's approval earlier this year of spot bitcoin

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