BMO, Pension Plan Pilot Blockchain for Fixed Income Issuance

Nov 27, 2019 at 22:02 UTCUpdated Nov 27, 2019 at 22:04 UTCUpbit Is the Seventh Major Crypto Exchange Hack of 2019The recent Upbit hack is a stark reminder of the danger of storing your crypto on an exchange. We explored seven major hacks that happened this year, each one bolder than the last. The lesson?…

Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Sandali Handagama is a CoinDesk reporter with a focus on crypto regulation and policy. She does not own any crypto.Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market…

Bithumb is considering listing on the U.S. Nasdaq. Previously, Bithumb had said it planned to go public in South Korea, aiming to list on Kosdaq. 07:58 Most Influential 2023: The People Who Defined the Year in Crypto 00:36 The 'Real Question' About Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial is What Happens Next: Kevin O'Leary 05:08 How Decentralization Cultivates

feature The Takeaway: Swiss Digital Exchange (SDX), a unit of stock exchange operator SIX Group, has organized a global consortium of financial institutions to back its “initial digital offering” (IDO). The token sale is scheduled to happen by the middle of next year. The targeted proceeds are not yet public. SDX has modified its business…

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Wired published an article alleging that DAOs are potentially the next major hub for coordinated extremism online. It says:"The year 2024 might be the one in which neo-Nazis, jihadists, and conspiracy theorists turn their utopian visions of creating their own self-governed states into reality—not offline, but in the form of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)."The author

The European Central Bank (ECB)'s digital euro project is moving to a preparation phase, which could pave the way for a "potential future decision" to issue one.Although a decision on whether to issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for retail use in the European Union was due at the end of the two-year investigation

Web3 music platform Tune.FM said Wednesday that it has secured a $50 million capital commitment from the Global Emerging Markets (GEM) Group. The news comes just eight months after Tune.FM shared it had raised $20 million in a funding round. Tune.FM, which describes itself as a decentralized music-streaming project atop the Hedera Hashgraph blockchain, aims

Aug 27, 2020 at 13:20 UTCUpdated Aug 27, 2020 at 13:32 UTCTraffic in Caracas (luisana zerpa/Unsplash)The Venezuelan government’s push to create a cryptocurrency-centric economy appears to be working, but perhaps not in the way officials had hoped. That’s the main takeaway of a new Latin America report by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. On Thursday, the…