Franklin Templeton launches US gov’t money fund on Solana

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has critical gaps in its supervision for anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT), and is recommending “urgent action.” The news was reported by local news outlet the Times of Malta on Feb. 28.A Financial System Stability Assessment…

Declining volume and resistance at $19,500 are pinning Bitcoin price into a tightening range. 511 Total views 8 Total shares As mentioned by Cointelegraph contributor Rakesh Upadhyay, Bitcoin price spent the weekend consolidating within a bull pennant and the breakout to $19,418 was quickly stamped out by overhead resistance. After retouching the pennant trendline, the…

EOS Network, the blockchain with the largest-ever initial coin offering, has rebranded to Vaulta as it pivots into offering Web3 banking services. The EOS Network, a blockchain that launched in 2018 amid the initial coin offering boom, has rebranded to Vaulta and will pivot to focusing on Web3 banking.  The switch to Vaulta is tentatively

United Kingdom regulators are increasingly concerned about the impact of stablecoins and the broader crypto industry on the country’s financial system and monetary stability. During Financial Policy Committee meetings held on April 4 and 8, regulators noted that while the current “interconnectedness of unbacked crypto asset markets with the real economy and financial sector is

At ETH Denver’s virtual conference, non-fungible tokens have been in the limelight with seven mainstage presentations devoted to utility, adoption, and novel use cases — a sign of growing acceptance for what was once considered a niche or lesser application of blockchain tech.While the seven presentations have been dwarfed by decentralized finance’s 14 (not to…

As the price of Bitcoin (BTC) continues to struggle around the $30,000 mark, the widely accepted stock-to-flow (S2F) model to price Bitcoin, coined by Twitter user and unnamed Dutch investor Plan B, is now the farthest from its estimates. The model was popularized by the Twitter pseudonym more than two years ago in March 2019 and…

Cointelegraph conducted an exclusive interview with Silvio Micali at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit. 411 Total views 16 Total shares Cointelegraph's Joseph Hall sat down with Silvio Micali, the founder of Algorand, as part of its on-the-ground coverage of the Paris Blockchain Week Summit, or PBWS. Algorand is a blockchain that uses a Pure proof-of-stake (PPoS)…

Libra is a “recipe for more corporate power over markets and over consumers,” according to U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee. Senator Brown’s recent comments came by way of an official video tweet by NowThis News on July 16, posted hours after the Senate Banking Committee hearing on Facebook’s Libra.Brown appeared…