Wealth Manager Canaccord: Bitcoin ETF Approval More Likely in 2019

news Crypto data startup Nomics just secured $3 million in funding from investors including Coinbase Ventures. The company announced Tuesday that the Series A investment will be used to flesh out its engineering team, as well as continue working to index 95 percent of all data pertaining to how crypto assets are traded. Led by…

news Swiss stock exchange SIX has launched a pilot version of its exchange and central securities depository (CSD) for digital assets. The prototype platform, launched under its digital assets subsidiary SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), is expected to see more functionality added as it approaches a full launch slated for Q4 2020, according to an announcement emailed…

May 7, 2020 at 17:43 UTCUpdated May 7, 2020 at 17:44 UTCConsensus:DistributedThe Changemaker: Glen Weyl Puts His Radical Ideas Into ActionCOVID-19 is the great leveler. Glen Weyl, like all of us, is cooped up in his apartment. “Love? The bleach stuff is fine for downstairs, I think,” he says to his wife from the other end…

NEWS Oct 30, 2018 at 09:00 UTC A 21-year-old bitcoin trader from California has pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmission business and now faces a maximum of five years in prison. According to a news release issued Monday by the Attorney's Office of the Southern District of California, the trader, Jacob Burrell Campos, admitted as part…

Nov 12, 2020 at 8:29 p.m. UTCChristopher C. Krebs, director of the Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.(Tasos Katopodis/Getty)Trump’s Post-Election Purge Reaches US Cybersecurity AgencyKey cybersecurity officials are exiting (or expecting to be fired from) the U.S. government’s cyber threat protection agency as President Donald Trump’s post-election purge continues.Reuters reported Thursday that Cybersecurity…

Cross-chain transfer service deBridge is set to issue a governance token, DBR, on the Solana blockchain. The token will reward users based on their past activity and fees paid. DBR token holders will be able to vote on future strategies and implementations of the deBridge protocol. Cross-chain transfer service deBridge plans to issue a governance

Namibia’s new crypto law sets out licensing requirements for firms and mandates the appointment of a regulator to oversee the sector.Although the law lacks clarity on how crypto will be treated by regulators, the framework will help usher in more comprehensive laws, lawyers in the country say.Namibia has a new law for crypto and while…

Shaurya is the Deputy Managing Editor for the Data & Tokens team, focusing on decentralized finance, markets, on-chain data, and governance across all major and minor blockchains.Fees on the Bitcoin blockchain have surged to two-year highs as the ‘Bitcoin Request for Comment’ (BRC-20) tokens and the rising popularity of the Ordinals protocol drives demand for…

Sep 14, 2020 at 09:31 UTCUpdated Sep 14, 2020 at 09:35 UTCCar shipment (asikkk/Getty Images)With Iran’s national currency, the rial, suffering from hyperinflation, some in the nation are proposing locally mined cryptocurrency might be a way to fund car imports. ArzDigital reported that Gholam Hossein Mozaffari, CEO of the Kish Free Zone Organization, said he…