CME’s Bitcoin Friday Futures launch with 31K contracts on day one
CME’s new derivatives product allows market participants to hedge or speculate on Bitcoin price movements in the short term.
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YouTuber baits MMA fighter into secretly shilling fake NFTs for $1K
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Hyperledger Announces New ‘Cryptography Library’ for DLT Development
The Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee has approved the Ursa project, a modular cryptography software library, according to an official announcement Dec. 4.According to the statement, as Hyperledger has matured, projects “have started to find a need for sophisticated cryptographic implementations.” The post describes Ursa as a shift from having each project implementing its own protocols…

Bitcoin bulls protect $17K as trader eyes key China BTC price catalyst
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Coincheck crypto exchange announces Japan’s first ever IEO
The Hashpalette token sale on Coincheck is set to become Japan’s maiden initial exchange offering event. 3941 Total views 7 Total shares Coincheck’s goal of conducting the first-ever initial exchange offering in Japan is moving closer to becoming a reality.According to a release issued on Monday, the Japanese crypto exchange announced that the Hashpalette (HPT)…

Researchers Explain How Blockchain Can Innovate Green Energy Markets
Researchers at Ireland’s Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) have proposed that using a blockchain-based “forward trading system” can provide a more effective incentive for the smart management of renewable energy consumption.In a working paper published on Dec. 20, Mel T. Devine, Marianna Russo and Paul Cuffe proposed a new mechanism for forward selling renewable…

Wall Street disaster expert Bill Noble: Crypto spring is inevitable
In another reality, Bill Noble would be just another guy in a suit behind a big desk at the Fed or the SEC, probably murmuring negative incantations like “crypto is bad.”He’s certainly got the track record for it: JP Morgan, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs. But that’s Noble in an evil mirror dimension. In our…

LedgerX exchange launches physically settled Bitcoin mini futures
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