Ripple, a prominent cryptocurrency firm, has announced its acquisition of Fortress Trust, a financial institution that offers Web3 financial, regulatory, and technology infrastructure for blockchain innovators. With a focus on providing back-end infrastructure for payments, asset tokenization, and other services, Fortress Trust serves a wide range of clients, from Fortune 500 businesses to fintech startups,
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The United States Federal Reserve Bank vice chairman spoke at the Philadelphia Fed’s fintech event on Sept. 8 about the central bank’s role in financial innovation. Research and supervision was the short answer and a nod to the FedNow Service. Along with the standard disclaimer about it making no decisions without Congressional authorization, Barr provided
On this week’s episode of “Macro Markets,” Cointelegraph analyst Marcel Pechman delves into a thought-provoking discussion on the United States Federal Reserve’s financial woes. Pechman opens by highlighting how the Fed is grappling with staggering losses and emphasizes a fundamental macroeconomic principle: that overall wealth cannot be universally enhanced as demand for goods and services grows.
Zero-knowledge (ZK) proof solutions have proved critical in helping scale the Ethereum ecosystem, but proto-danksharding is expected to drastically reduce the cost of rollups, according to Consensys’ zkEVM Linea head Nicolas Liochon. Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph Magazine editor Andrew Fenton during Korea Blockchain Week, Liochon estimated that proto-danksharding could further reduce rollup costs by 10 times.
The bulls tried to shake Bitcoin from its slumber on Sept. 7, but the rally was short-lived. This suggests a lack of clarity between the bulls and the bears about Bitcoin’s (BTC) next directional move. Analyst CryptoCon said on X (formerly Twitter) that Bitcoin could remain in a “mid cycle lull” until the start of the next
Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. $500B firm partners with Polygon South Korea’s Mirae Asset Security Token Working Group, with over $500 billion in assets under management (AUM), is collaborating with Ethereum layer-two scaling solution Polygon (MATIC) for security tokenization initiatives. According to a Sept. 7 press
The Stellar token experienced a notable 11.5% increase in value between Sept. 2 and Sept. 8, a novelty given that Bitcoin and most altcoins are down for the week. The surge came after Stellar (XLM) tested the $0.113 support level, which marked its lowest point in the past eight weeks. The price upswing followed a preliminary announcement
Last month, Bulgarian plumbers were called to clear a blocked drain at an apartment block in the capital of Sofia. The blockage turned out to be the decomposing remains of 41-year-old United States crypto mogul Christian Peev — suspected to have been battered to death with a dumbbell by a friend out of jealousy. Weeks
Financial technology firm Ripple is expanding its portfolio of regulatory licenses in the United States with the acquisition of Fortress Trust, according to an announcement on Sep. 8. Fortress Trust provides regulatory and technology infrastructure for blockchain organizations. The company holds a Nevada Trust license that allows it to custody financial assets. The acquisition is
The United States regulators have finally taken steps to resolve an enforcement case against the collapsed Mirror Trading International (MTI). The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas has ordered MTI to pay $1.7 billion in restitution to victims for operating a fraudulent scheme involving digital assets and forex, the Commodity Futures
Cointelegraph video journalist and YouTube host Giovanni Pigni challenged ChatGPT to a crypto investment game. Both contenders had $100 to build a strong crypto portfolio and make as much money as possible in two weeks. The goal of the experiment was to find out whether artificial intelligence can beat a human in crypto trading and
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is on the brink of a significant evolution, with the XLS-30 AMM amendment now open for voting on the mainnet. Ripple CTO Schwartz has expressed his enthusiasm for this feature, retweeting RippleX’s announcement and commenting, “One of my favorite XRPL features ever, explained in my keynote at Apex Development Summit, is
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has said that no businesses have qualified to participate in its FinTech Regulatory Sandbox framework as cryptocurrency payment providers. Responding to a letter criticizing the Singaporean government’s lack of public consultation and oversight on crypto adoption published in the Financial Times, the MAS clarified that the country does not
The race for the United States’ first spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund has officially begun after new 19b-4 filings by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), which will “ultimately start the clock” for an SEC decision. On Sept. 6, the CBOE filed two 19b-4 applications to the United States securities regulator, requesting for the ARK 21Shares Ethereum
A decentralized version of Infura will launch by the end of the year, with major Web2 cloud providers set to become part of the network, the chief strategist of ConsenSys says. “We’re looking to launch something later this year, but then there’s going to be what they call a federated phase that they’re expecting to
Binance co-founder and CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao has hosed down recent rumors against his firm, assuring its balance sheet and employee retention remain robust, despite the recent market uncertainty. The Binance boss blamed negative news, rumors, bank runs, lawsuits, the closing of fiat channels, product wind-downs and employee turnovers for creating an environment of FUD
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is taking regulatory action against three decentralized finance protocols for allegedly failing to register various derivatives trading offerings. The U.S. commodities regulator announced that it issued orders against protocol Opyn, ZeroEx and Deridex in a Sept. 8 statement. Today @CFTC issued orders against operators of three DeFi
It’s been a whipsaw 2023 for investor sentiment, and even though equities markets have defied expectations, a recent report from ARK Invest highlights reasons why the remainder of 2023 could present several economic challenges. ARK manages $13.9 billion in assets, and its CEO, Cathie Wood, is a strong advocate for cryptocurrencies. In partnership with the
The $41 million hack of crypto gambling site Stake was carried out by the North Korean Lazarus Group, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stated in an announcement on Sept. 7. This group has stolen more than $200 million of crypto in 2023, the announcement stated. [JUST IN] FBI Identifies Lazarus Group Cyber Actors as
Greg Oakford, co-founder of NFT Fest Australia, is your guide to the world of NFTs from a collector and fan’s perspective. Seventeen years ago, Pindar Van Arman built a robot that, like him, painted with a brush on canvas. He has built several robots since, with each iteration possessing a more sophisticated artificial intelligence that
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