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Dallas Mavericks basketball team owner and billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban defined Facebook’s Libra stablecoin a big mistake in an interview with CNBC published on July 12.During his interview, Cuban commented on the social media giant’s cryptocurrency endeavors. He said:“I’m not a big fan of what they’re doing there. [...] I think it’s a big mistake.”Cuban…

Cryptocurrency giant Binance plans to roll out its over-the-counter (OTC) trading platform for Chinese yuan in October.Chinese market targetsYi He, Binance co-founder and chief marketing officer (CMO) announced the news at a media session on Sept. 17, as Binance confirmed to Cointelegraph on Sept. 19.According to the CMO, Binance’s new OTC onramp is scheduled to…

Gibraltar’s government is treating token sales as securities offerings by default unless the issuer can prove otherwise. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Gibraltar’s minister for digital and financial services, Albert Isola, has welcomed firms wishing to launch security tokens to the jurisdiction.The minister revealed that the British Overseas Territory assumes that all token offerings…

Global management consultancy firm Accenture announced it had partnered with a subsidiary of Thailand’s oldest bank on a new blockchain tool aimed at supply chains in a press release Wednesday, Oct. 17.In the latest implementation of the technology for Accenture, the company partnered with Siam Commercial Bank’s fintech subsidiary Digital Ventures Co. Ltd on the…

CME reported nearly half of its crypto volume year to date came from non-U.S. trading hours and around 11% from the Asia Pacific region. 127 Total views 1 Total shares Derivatives marketplace CME Group is launching Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) reference rates for the Asia Pacific region, in another sign of growing institutional interest…

Bitmain plans to identify green energy mining opportunities from power generation projects in Chinese provinces. 917 Total views 13 Total shares Bitmain, a Chinese manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining equipment, has been forced to stop its business in China from Oct. 11 following the crypto ban imposed by local authorities.In addition to China’s blanket ban on…

Samsung SDS has launched a new cloud-based blockchain service called Paperless to address forgery and falsification problems in documents. 213 Total views 1 Total shares Samsung SDS, the information and communication technologies (ICT) arm of Samsung, launched a new service named Paperless to provide reliability and transparency of documents in a cloud environment. Launched as a…

Lightning Labs, the developer of the high-speed transaction protocol Lightning Network (LN), has secured $10 million in Series A funding round.The news was announced by Lightning Labs CEO and co-founder, Elizabeth Stark, in a blog post on Feb. 5. The company plans to allocate the raised funds to further development of the Lightning payments technology…

Independent Reserve’s survey revealed a strong affinity for various financial opportunities brought forward by decentralized finance and other investment opportunities. 212 Total views 24 Total shares As Singapore continues to play an active role in boosting crypto adoption across the Asia-Pacific region, the country’s first licensed crypto exchange Independent Reserve conducted a retail-focused survey to…