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  Crypto Policy Forum Medici Hires Former Messari Exec as President

  Crypto research and policy forum Medici Network has named former Messari executive Maartje Bus as its new president, Decrypt has learned.  The appointment comes amid rising institutional interest in digital assets—a trend that Bus, whose 25-year career spans both Wall Street and crypto, is well positioned to help Medici capitalize on. In her new role, Bus, who most recently served as vice president and head of research at crypto research firm Messari, will oversee day-to-day operations and help...

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  Trump Pro-Crypto Policy Could Trigger Global Financial Crisis: ECB Official

  The Trump administration’s pro-crypto agenda risks "sowing the seeds" of a financial crisis, according to a top European Central Bank official. In an interview with French weekly La Tribune Dimanchei, François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France and member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council, argued that the U.S. "risks sinning through negligence." Villeroy de Galhau argued that, "by encouraging crypto assets and non-bank finance," the Trump administration "is sowing...

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  Santa’s Crypto Nice List 2024

  Santa made his list and he checked it twice, and Decrypt has all the tea on who's been naughty or nice in the crypto industry over the past year. From crypto CEOs who advocate for the industry to NFT project founders who use their good fortune to help others, several Web3 workhorses made their way onto Saint Nick's “nice list” this year. Here's who can expect presents under the tree when Santa comes to town.  Brian Armstrong Brian Armstrong is the face of the digital assets industry's fight for...

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  Seamm Introduces Fashion Digital Product Passport (DPP) on Solana Blockchain

  Lisbon, May 27th, 2024 - SEAMM.io, the first fully phygital (physical + digital) fashion marketplace, is revolutionizing the fashion industry with the announcement of the Fashion Digital Product Passport (DPP) on the Solana blockchain at the Fashion Stage of NFC Lisbon. SEAMM’s launch marks the entry of the digital fashion space in the Solana ecosystem. SEAMM represents the first-of-its-kind Phygital Fashion platform, offering a unique blend of physical and digital experiences for both consumers...

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  Lindsey Lohan’s Affair With Bitcoin Is Over. It’s Tron’s Turn Now

  Yesterday, actress and musical artist Lindsay Lohan publicly discovered Bitcoin. Well, sort of. She auctioned off an Ethereum-based NFT on digital collectible marketplace Rarible after predicting and/or demanding, “Bitcoin to the moon.” Over the following 24 hours, several of her 8.4 million Twitter followers and assorted onlookers painstakingly pointed out that Bitcoin is not Ethereum, which is where that non-fungible token resides—along with a whole slew of decentralized finance (DeFi) applica...

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  2020 Has Been Chainlink’s Year. Here’s Why

  LINK, the token of decentralized oracle provider Chainlink, was one of the best performing cryptocurrencies of 2020—a year that has seen its developer SmartContract carve out an enviable reputation for securely connecting blockchains to real-world data. “I think it's fair to say we're the most widely used oracle mechanism,” SmartContract CEO Sergey Nazarov told Decrypt. “We've successfully been able to secure DeFi in the billions of dollars. The value on our networks has stood up to extreme unfo...

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  Regulated Bitcoin Exchanges Good for DEA: Special Agent

  During today’s first day of streaming panels at the LA Blockchain Summit, United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent Patrick O’Kain, who helped establish the New York Cyber Unit, discussed how government agencies approach cryptocurrency and indicated that regulated exchanges are good for law enforcement. The moderator kicked off the conversation about exchanges by noting the high-profile $281 million KuCoin hack and the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission fi...

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  Binance's Approach to DeFi: Be Like Netflix, Not Kodak

  Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ, extended his DeFi coming-out party at LA Blockchain Summit, telling Reuters’ Anna Irrera, “In the long-term, I think DeFi will replace CeFi.” And Binance, the world's biggest centralized crypto exchange, is happy to be “cannibalized” by it. CZ started by discussing which aspects of decentralized finance—the suite of blockchain-based protocols that make it possible to lend, borrow, earn interest, and more without using a financial institution—would...

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  DeFi Hampered by Complexity, but Companies Are Curious

  DeFi still has some work to do before large-scale enterprises or everyday users can bring on the next wave of investment, according to panelists on the first day of the 2020 LA Blockchain Summit. Regulations never designed to accommodate the rapidly growing DeFi universe are partly to blame, said panelists, as they keep many potential users away based on concerns over staying compliant with existing laws and accurately reporting taxes. Moreover, DeFi is just plain complex. Blockchain and smart c...

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  Central Bank of Banks BIS to Trial Digital Currency by Year’s End

  An executive at the Bank for International Settlements, a consortium that comprises most of the world’s top central banks, said today that the BIS is working on a central bank digital currency pilot with Switzerland’s central bank.  “By the end of this year, we plan to publish our first wholesale CBDC proof-of-concept with the Swiss central bank,” said Benoît Cœuré, head of the BIS’s Innovation Hub, in a speech at the Shanghai Bund Summit (Cœuré dialed in). Wholesale CBDCs are central bank digit...

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