The Nasdaq stock exchange filed an application with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday on behalf of BlackRock to add staking to the asset manager’s iShares Ether (ETH) exchange-traded fund (ETF). If the application is approved, the fund would give investors exposure to staking rewards accrued from using the underlying Ether as…
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As day four of “Crypto Week” kicks off, US Democratic and Republican lawmakers remain divided on the future of key legislation that will shape the country’s regulatory approach to digital assets. Votes were anticipated on the Clarity Act, the GENIUS stablecoin bill and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, but progress has been slowed by political…
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US Democratic lawmakers characterized crypto as an outright “scam” in a Wednesday press conference, pushing for the development and rollout of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Representative Maxine Waters called the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act, a bill that would prohibit the creation of a government-controlled digital dollar, the “anti-innovation act.” The anti-CBDC bill and the…
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Early Bitcoin investor and advocate Roger Ver, also known as “Bitcoin Jesus,” filed a lawsuit against Spain seeking to block his extradition to the United States, where he faces a tax evasion case. The lawsuit, filed at the European Court of Human Rights, argues that the extradition violates Ver’s human rights, according to Bloomberg Law.…
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Bank of England (BOE) governor Andrew Bailey recently warned against banks issuing stablecoins, saying that the Bank of England should focus on tokenizing deposits instead. Stablecoins introduce systemic risks to banking institutions that could destabilize the entire financial system, causing sovereign governments to lose control over their currencies, the BOE official told The Sunday Times…
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Real-world asset (RWA) tokens can democratize access to investments previously inaccessible to retail traders, similar to how exchange-traded funds (ETFs) expanded retail access to financial instruments when they debuted in 1993, according to Christopher Perkins, president and managing partner of investment firm CoinFund. “I believe tokens are the new ETFs,” Perkins told Cointelegraph in an…
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Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor signaled that Strategy would resume Bitcoin (BTC) buying on Monday after the company took a week-long hiatus from accumulating the digital asset. “Some weeks, you don’t just HODL,” the executive wrote on Sunday. The company skipped buying BTC last week but announced a $4.2 billion capital raise. Before the break, Strategy…
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The four-year Bitcoin (BTC) market cycle of forming new all-time highs followed by deep corrections is not dead, contrary to popular belief, according to Xapo Bank CEO Seamus Rocca. In an interview with Cointelegraph, the CEO said that the risk of a prolonged bear market is still very real and does not need a “cataclysmic”…
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Web3 company Animoca Brands signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with DayDayCook (DDC) Enterprise, a meal-prep and packaged food company that recently adopted a Bitcoin (BTC) treasury strategy, to manage Animoca’s BTC holdings and generate a yield on those reserves. Animoca will allocate up to $100 million in BTC as part of the deal,…
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Attorneys for digital asset manager Grayscale pushed back against the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) delay on approving its Digital Large Cap exchange-traded fund (ETF) in a letter sent on Tuesday. The SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets initially approved the ETF proposal, but the SEC’s Office of the Secretary decided to review the…
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