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Grayscale to store its $2.8 billion funds with Coinbase
Coinbase will serve as custodian for digital asset-fund manager Grayscale’s vast portfolio of cryptoassets, according to a press release issued today. Grayscale, one of the world’s largest c...
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Walmart mulls centralized stablecoin
Retail giant Walmart is mulling a digital dollar-pegged currency similar to Facebook’s own would-be currency, Libra. According to a patent filing submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark O...
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US Department of Defense explores blockchain for secure messaging and ‘unhackable’ code
The research arm of the US Department of Defense, DARPA, is experimenting with blockchain to create a “more efficient, robust and secure” network for the US military, praising the technology a...
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German central bank comes out in favor of Facebook’s Libra
The president of Germany’s central bank, Bundesbank, has urged his G7 counterparts not to prematurely condemn Facebook’s Libra, the digital currency and alternate financial system the tech gia...
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Zcash “friendly fork” Ycash sees 60 percent drop in value
Ycash, the “friendly fork” of privacy coin Zcash suffered a 60 percent price drop almost immediately after launch. The coin, which was forked from Zcash July 19 at 19:36 PDT, fell in price fr...
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User-friendly gateway causes 100x spike in MakerDAO
DeFi applications MakerDAO and Compound have seen dollar-value held on their platforms increase one-hundred fold in just over a week, courtesy of an app that lets users easily access the world...
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Ripple expands into South Korea via Moneygram-Sentbe partnership
A South Korean payments company responsible for billions of dollars’ worth of transactions has announced a partnership with a key Ripple ally. Moneygram, a financial services company, has par...
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How traders flouted BitMEX’s US trading ban
Derivatives exchange BitMEX is under investigation for allowing US based traders to use its platform, according to Bloomberg, which cited anonymous sources. But this shouldn’t come as much of ...
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Coinbase announces tool to predict crypto prices
Coinbase today launched a tool for predicting market moves, using data aggregated from its own platform. It will show a number of key indicators based on the activity of large traders—known as...
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Number (almost) go up: Tether inadvertently prints five billion unbacked tethers
Tether unwittingly printed $5 billion worth of its supposedly dollar-backed cryptocurrency, USDT, on Sunday, citing human error. Tether had supposedly been assisting cryptocurrency exchange P...
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7 things we know about tomorrow’s Facebook crypto launch
The white paper that lays out the blueprint for Facebook’s cryptocurrency, Libra, is dropping tomorrow—and it’s expected to be one of the most high-profile cryptocurrency announcements from a...
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Cardano pens deal with Georgia to clean up country’s opaque education system
The company behind the cryptocurrency Cardano has struck a non-binding “memorandum of understanding” with the Georgian Ministry of Education and Science, which hopes to integrate blockchain te...
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