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Swiss crypto bank Sygnum secures in-principal approval in Singapore
Sygnum Singapore, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based cryptocurrency bank Sygnum, is expanding services after securing new regulatory approval from local authorities. The company announced Tuesday that Sygnum Singapore received in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to offer three additional regulated activities under capital markets services (CMS) license. The CMS license was initially granted in 2019, allowing Sygnum Singapore to conduct asset management activities. The latest in-principle regulatory approval upgrades Sygnum Singapore to enable new tools like providing corporate finance advisory services, dealing with tokenized capital market products and digital assets, as well as offering custodial services for asset and security tokens. With the additional ...
Mama Bitcoin: Fishing for female empowerment with crypto in West Africa
Mama Bitcoin is the pseudonym claimed by a young Senegalese Bitcoiner called Bineta. Her business, Bleu comme la mer, was the first retailer in Senegal (and possibly West Africa) to accept crypto as payment. She’s also the first generation of her family to read and write proficiently. The name Mama Bitcoin takes inspiration from the initials of her name, while the “mama” not only reflects her motherly instincts but serves to inspire other women in West Africa to get into blockchain technology and Bitcoin (BTC). She told Cointelegraph: “There are very few women that are active in the blockchain space around the world and the situation is no different in Senegal. I wanted to shine a light on being a woman in the crypto industry.” Bineta first stumbled across Bitcoin in early 2017 thank...
Crypto markets recover from Monday’s brief dip with BTC eyeing $39k
Market activity has been largely positive in the last few hours THETA price has shot up following the pullback while Ether has cut above $2,550 The cryptocurrency sector is still reeling from late Monday’s short-lived slump that saw tokens fall to their weekly lows. Bitcoin, which appeared to have cleared $39k earlier during the day, slid from $39,060 to a 7-day low of $37,387.92 in four hours, CoinGecko data shows. The king cryptocurrency has since bounced back and is changing hands at $38,860 – up 1.40% in the last 24 hours. Ether, whose ETH/USD hourly trading chart shows positive movement, has clawed its way back above $2,575. Yesterday, the token fell to an intraday low slightly below $2,460 – a price level last touched on February 24. The pair has moved up by 1.4% today and is t...
Report: President Biden set to sign a crypto executive order this week
The executive order will put focus on possible legal and economic impacts of digital assets The White House’s approach has come under keen scrutiny in recent days, with concerns that Russia could use crypto to evade economic sanctions US President Joe Biden will reportedly sign an executive order on crypto this week, potentially leading towards a framework for the regulation of digital assets. Talks of market-wide crypto regulation have been around since last October, as the government resolved to fight the then surging threat of cybercrime and ransomware. Now, according to a report published yesterday, Bloomberg says the order could be signed as soon as tomorrow. Citing an individual familiar with the matter who preferred to remain unidentified, the news outlet explained that t...
FinCEN includes crypto in alert on Russia potentially evading sanctions
The United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, a bureau of the Treasury Department, has warned financial institutions to consider crypto as a possible means Russia may attempt to use to evade sanctions related to the country’s military action in Ukraine. In a Monday alert, FinCEN reminded U.S.-based financial institutions “with visibility into cryptocurrency” and convertible virtual currency, or CVC, to report any activity that could be considered a potential way for Russia to evade sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies. While the U.S. watchdog said that the Russian government using CVCs to evade large scale sanctions was “not necessarily practicable,” financial institutions were obligated to report such activities from Russian and Belarusian individuals named in...
Bitcoin price rejection at $39K and mounting regulatory concerns tank the market again
Volatility and choppy price action continued to dominate the cryptocurrency market on March 7 and news that United States President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order later this week that will outline the government’s strategy for cryptocurrencies was added to the list of factors weighing down crypto prices. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that Bitcoin (BTC) bulls were thwarted in an attempt to regain support at $40,000 on Monday as revelations about the upcoming executive order and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine tanked the market and dropped BTC to a low of $37,155. BTC/USDT 1-day chart. Source: TradingView Here’s what several analysts in the market are saying about the outlook for BTC and whether or not crypto traders should prepare for an e...
Total exchange BTC inflows have been net negative since July ’21
Bitcoin inflows across all exchanges have been net negative since last July, but four major exchanges have been running contrary to this trend with nearly an equal amount of net positive inflows. There have been total net outflows of 46,000 BTC (worth around $1.8 billion at current prices) from all crypto exchanges since last July. Only Binance, Bittrex, Bitfinex, and FTX have seen net positive inflows of 207,000 Bitcoin (BTC), according to data from blockchain analytics firm Glassnode’s March 7 newsletter. Over the same time period, net outflows have totaled 253,000 BTC from all other exchanges tracked. FTX, Binance, Bittrex, and Bitfinex have seen net positive inflows of BTC since July, 2021 – Glassnode FTX and Huobi have experienced the most dramatic shift in their BTC holdings si...
Yield Guild Games Hits 20K Axie Infinity P2E Scholarship Milestone
The popular gaming guild YGG has reached a milestone in terms of new scholars for the Axie Infinity platform and various other play-to-earn games. Yield Guild Games reported 20,700 unique Axie Infinity scholars in February, an increase of 8,500% since the same month last year when there were just 241. The milestone marks a “new record in the play-to-earn space” said YGG in an announcement shared with Cointelegraph. The play-to-earn scholarships allow new players to borrow a team of Axie NFTs from the Guild. Their in-game earnings are then split between the player, the community manager, and the YGG DAO. YGG reported that in February, scholars farmed more than 26.4 million SLP, the native token for Axie Infinity. This figure represents a 57% increase from January’s farming figures. It added...
DeFi ‘Godfather’ Andre Cronje calls it quits as associated projects tank
Andre Cronje has officially left DeFi and crypto, with plans to move back into traditional finance Following the news, projects associated with the iconic DeFi builder plunged Founder of Yearn Finance Andre Cronje and technical advisor at the Fantom Foundation alongside his partner Anton Nell, a senior solutions architect at the Foundation, are leaving the crypto and DeFi scene. It had become apparent last week that Cronje, who quickly became an icon in DeFi with his yield optimisation protocol, was planning to leave since he cleared all of his Twitter activity, deactivated his profile, and updated his LinkedIn status to indicate he had left both Yearn Finance and Fantom Foundation. The exit of the two developers leaves a huge dent In a series of tweets, Nell explained that following their...
Binance unveils Bifinity and reintroduces EUR & GBP bank transfers
Through Bifinity’s intuitive APIs, businesses will gain crypto-readiness. Binance has also fully brought back Euro and Pound bank transfers via SEPA and FTP. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is increasingly smoothing the path towards crypto adoption by new users. The crypto exchange today announced the launch of its native fiat-to-crypto payments provider. Dubbed Bifinity, Binance said in a press release published today that the new tech pay firm would enable “mainstream and crypto merchants to scale their businesses” to become crypto ready. Bifinity would provide them with intuitive Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to enable them to accept payments in crypto easily. Binance added that Bifinity would provide support for crypto buy-sell ...
Price analysis 3/7: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, LUNA, SOL, ADA, AVAX, DOT, DOGE
The geopolitical tension between Russia and Ukraine has resulted in investors seeking safe-haven assets. Contrary to expectations by crypto investors, Bitcoin (BTC) has failed to rise along with gold and it remains closely correlated with the U.S. stock markets. Lloyd Blankfein, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, said that the actions of governments freezing accounts, blocking payments and inflating the U.S. dollar should all be positive for crypto but the price action suggests a lack of large inflows. Daily cryptocurrency market performance. Source: Coin360 On-chain data suggests that investors may be accumulating Bitcoin for the long term. Data from Santiment shows that 21 out of the past 26 weeks have seen Bitcoin move off the exchanges. Could Bitcoin climb back above $40,000 and pull alt...
Cryptopedia: Learn the basics of DAOs and how they work
In the latest Cryptopedia episode, viewers can get a succinct and informative overview of decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs. Cointelegraph’s Jackson DuMont believes DAOs have the power to “completely transform how work and social collaboration are organized.” [embedded content] What makes this type of organization both decentralized and autonomous? The answer is smart contracts on the blockchain. Fundamentally, a DAO runs on the lines of computer code written on smart contracts that anyone can interacted with in the same way. DuMont described the three major steps necessary to launch a DAO. The first step is creating that smart contract. The second step is to determine how to receive funding and enact governance, usually done by creating a token. Lastly, the...
