Bitcoin News Roundup for April 20, 2020

Jan 13, 2020 at 16:17 UTCUpdated Jan 13, 2020 at 16:29 UTCCME Takes Its Bitcoin Options Live, Competing With ICE’s BakktChicago exchange CME Group has announced its highly-anticipated bitcoin options are now open for trading.Options on CME's bitcoin futures contracts launched on the CME Globex around 15:00 UTC Monday. Each contract, quoted in U.S. dollars,…

The acquirer will tell the FDIC “what assets and liabilities from the failed bank it is willing to take,” the spokesperson said, citing the agency’s resolution handbook. The spokesperson also referred CoinDesk to two joint statements published by the FDIC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve, one of which states…

Jun 22, 2020 at 11:51 UTCUpdated Jun 22, 2020 at 12:08 UTCIR Stone / Shutterstock.comThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has told crypto businesses it will need half a year to fully process applications before the hard deadline in January. The chief financial regulator announced Monday that any company carrying out “cryptoasset activity in the U.K.”…

Jul 8, 2020 at 06:58 UTCUpdated Jul 8, 2020 at 07:07 UTCDidi station image (Credit: Zhu Difeng/Shutterstock)China’s Uber, DiDi, to Trial PBoC’s Central Bank Digital CurrencyDiDi, the Chinese equivalent of Uber, is forming a task force to design and implement a trial of China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) on its transportation platform. A spokesperson…

Dinari, which aims to provide access to real-world asset backed tokens, has announced a $7.5 million seed investment ahead of the ex-U.S. launch of its dShare Platform.Investors included SPEILLLP, a member of the Susquehanna International Group of companies, 500 Global and Balaji Srinivasan, the former chief technology officer of Coinbase. Other backers in the round…

Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs brought forward its estimate for the Federal Reserve's first interest-rate cut to third-quarter 2024 from a previous forecast of the fourth quarter, Reuters reported Monday.The shift comes as bitcoin (BTC) and the broader crypto market has surged in recent weeks on a bullish cocktail of an expected spot ETF launch

news The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is again soliciting comments on a proposed exchange-traded fund (ETF) based around bitcoin and Treasury bonds. According to a public filing published Tuesday, investment management firm Wilshire Phoenix and NYSE Arca filed an amendment to their ETF proposal earlier this month to address issuance and redemption for…

The buzz around this week's token airdrop from Pyth Network, a blockchain oracle firm that competes with Chainlink, has shed light on a long-simmering battle between companies to bring the nascent digital-asset industry's infrastructure up to the demands of traditional finance.JPMorgan and Visa stand out as the latest "TradFi" firms to integrate "decentralized ledger" technology

Profit taking in bitcoin (BTC) contributed to a broader market drop as tokens of some of the largest blockchains, such as solana's SOL fell as much as 8% in the past 24 hours, data shows.Bitcoin dipped under $30,000 during European hours on Friday, even as broader traditional markets remained relatively unchanged. Ether (ETH) shed over…