Bitcoin News Roundup for April 29, 2020

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Thailand is transitioning toward more crypto-friendly regulations, with an updated framework published earlier this month.Thai SEC regulates cryptocurrencies under the Digital Asset Businesses Decree, focusing on areas like sales, trading and initial coin offerings (ICOs). Digital asset businesses operating in Thailand are required to obtain licenses and comply

Dec 8, 2020 at 3:01 p.m. UTCNEM in Final Stage Before Launch of Enterprise Blockchain ‘Symbol’NEM says it is now carrying out the last tests before sending its enterprise-focused Symbol blockchain platform live in early 2021.Announced Tuesday, the code for Symbol has now been "frozen" in its current iteration, marking the last step in preparing…

The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, and rival KuCoin have been registered with India's Financial Intelligence Unit, the most senior official of the unit, which falls under the nation's Finance Ministry, told CoinDesk.This is the first time offshore crypto related entities have been approved by the country's anti-money laundering unit.KuCoin paid a fine of $41,000

It was a year of retrenchment and transition for the crypto industry. After 2022’s scandals, including FTX, Three Arrows and Celsius, asset prices had gotten crushed and the industry was in hunker-down mode: building, retooling, sharpening up compliance. Regulators went on a warpath, launching major investigations against Coinbase, Binance, Kraken and others. Long-standing, and potentially

news A closely-watched proposal to list a bitcoin exchange-traded fund on the Cboe BZX Exchange was withdrawn Wednesday – and the ongoing partial shutdown of the U.S. government appears to be to blame. As CoinDesk reported, the filing was “temporarily withdrawn”, according to VanEck VanEck director of digital asset strategy Gabor Gurbacs. He also said that…

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AI tokens such as RNDR, AGIX, FET outshine bitcoin by a wide margin.NVDA rallies to a one-month high as excitement builds around the chipmaker's impending earnings report.Native cryptocurrencies of blockchain projects supposedly using artificial intelligence (AI) have led the crypto market recovery in recent days, while shares of Nasdaq-listed chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA), the poster child

Aug 27, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Aug 27, 2020 at 13:23 UTCBlockFi CEO Zac Prince (CoinDesk archives)Crypto lender BlockFi is partnering with an independent crypto pricing provider to value customer deposits and collateral. CF Benchmarks will price customers’ assets based on data it has sourced from five crypto exchanges that have passed the criteria in…

Kazuo Ueda reiterated the commitment to raise Japanese interest rates further. The yen rallied, while BTC and S&P 500 futures registered moderate losses. BOJ-Fed policy divergence points to continued yen strength and pain for risk assets, including BTC. Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda reiterated that the central bank will raise interest rates further if