Global businesses are confronting significant headwinds as cross-border payment volumes have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels while grappling with the looming challenges of escalating interest rates. Amidst these complexities, Ripple Labs’ latest insights into the shifting economic landscape reveal their crypto-enabled payment solutions as a countermeasure. Major Pain Points In The Economic Landscape In their recent
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United States Representative Tom Emmer spoke out against Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler during a hearing at the House Financial Services Committee on Sept. 27. According to the lawmaker, Gensler has been loyal to Wall Street “at the clear expense of innovation, competition, and everyday Americans.” Over four minutes of questioning, Emmer hinted
On Sept. 20, the Federal Reserve delivered a message that reverberated through financial markets: interest rates are expected to remain at their highest level in over two decades, and possibly for longer than most market participants’ expectations. This attitude comes against the backdrop of stubbornly high inflation, with the core inflation rate hovering at 4.2%,
Blockchain security platform Immunefi has launched an on-chain system for bug bounties, according to a Sept. 26 announcement. The new system, called “Vaults,” allows Web3 developers to escrow funds in an on-chain address and use them to pay out bug bounties to white hat hackers. Immunefi believes the new system will help projects “demonstrate to
Bitcoin (BTC) managed to stay above the $26,000 level even as the S&P 500 tumbled to a three-month low and the US dollar index (DXY) rose to a new year-to-date high. This is a mildly positive sign as it shows a lack of aggressive selling at lower levels. Bitcoin remains stuck inside a range and
Steven Nerayoff, an active participant in Ethereum’s (ETH) Initial Coin Offering (ICO), who is believed to know where the “bodies are buried,” has made further revelations in the ongoing ETH Gate saga, which boils on whether or not the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) gave Ethereum a ‘regulatory free pass.’ Lubin’s Piece Of Paper
It’s been more than a decade since 850,000 BTC went missing from Mt. Gox, yet the collapse of the former exchange remains one of the most infamous black swan events of the cryptocurrency ecosystem. While creditors of the defunct exchange are edging closer to some form of restitution, Mt. Gox’s demise ended up playing an
The Secretary for Security of Hong Kong, Chris Tang Ping-keung, has vowed to bring justice to people who fell victim to the JPEX crypto exchange fraud, local media has reported. On Wednesday, Sept. 27, the security chief’s office said police are actively looking for the key operators behind the JPEX crypto exchange that orchestrated the
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced its full exit from Russia by selling its firm to a newly launched crypto exchange business known as CommEX. Binance has entered into an agreement to sell the entirety of its Russia business to CommEX, the firm said in an announcement to Cointelegraph on Sept. 27. The exchange didn’t disclose
The historic Merge upgrade from Sept. 2022 — which marked Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS) — resulted in the overall decline in compliance with standards laid down by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Ethereum blocks adhering to OFAC compliance censor certain transactions, which has a negative impact on the neutrality
In what could be described as a relentless pursuit for granular transparency regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) prior actions vis-à-vis cryptocurrencies and Ripple, Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research—a rigorous watchdog entity—has spearheaded another incisive Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) endeavor. This stratagem is centered on elucidating the inter-communications of Jay Clayton, erstwhile SEC
A Bitcoin proponent’s recent attempt to crypto trade his way from New York to Alaska has come to a sudden and bitter end — some 900 miles from his final destination. Thomas Kralow, a crypto trader and educator recently set himself the daring task of traveling from one side of the United States to the
Prosecutors from the United States Department of Justice will be allowed to surface the details of Sam Bankman-Fried’s political donations as the evidence is directly relevant to his fraud charges, ruled U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan. The decision was part of a series of rulings made by Kaplan in a 16-page pretrial order on Sept.
The co-founder of AirBit Club — a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that swindled investors of over $100 million — has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in a $100 million “pyramid scheme” that purported to be involved in crypto mining. The sentencing comes nearly seven months after Rodriguez — the co-founder of
The customers of bankrupt cryptocurrency lending platform BlockFi are one step closer to being paid out after a United States Bankruptcy Court in New Jersey approved its liquidation plan. Bankruptcy Judge Michael A. Kaplan approved BlockFi’s third amended Chapter 11 plan in a Sept. 26 court hearing, a filing on the same day shows. Sept.
The Ethereum open interest has been on an upward trajectory that has culminated in it crossing the $5.2 billion mark. This surge is important to Ethereum’s native token ETH in a number of ways as it could point to how investors are viewing the cryptocurrency at this point. Ethereum Open Interest Sees Rapid Rise Data
Bitwise Asset Management has filed an amended application for a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), beefing it up with 40 pages of new text responding to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) objections to the product. It still might not be enough to satisfy regulatory requirements, though, a company executive warned. Bitwise is
The relationship between Bitcoin’s price and U.S. Treasury yields has long been considered a strong indicator due to historical data and the underlying rationale. Bitcoin halvings vs. 10-year Treasury yields In essence, when investors turn to government-issued bonds for safety, assets like Bitcoin (BTC), which are considered risk-on, tend to perform poorly. A noteworthy chart
Stablecoin issuer Circle has launched a Stellar network version of its euro-backed stablecoin, EURC, according to a Sept. 26 announcement. EURC was previously only available on the Ethereum and Avalanche networks. Hello Europe meet our new friend EURC on #Stellar. Same speed, low cost, and reliability of the Stellar network we all know and love
Tim Draper is a prominent venture capitalist, the founder of Draper University and the creator of the Meet The Drapers television series. He invested early in Tesla, SpaceX and Coinbase and has 254,000 followers on X. “Let me get my second prediction to actually happen, and then we’ll move on to other predictions,” Tim Draper
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