Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 21, 2021

Crypto lending sector is making a comeback thanks to spot bitcoin ETFs and customers getting their assets back from bankrupt companies, Ledn's co-founder said.Bitcoin's rally validated crypto holders' investment thesis.The firm survived the crypto winter by being "boring, slow and safe."10:10Napster CEO on Decentralization in the Music Industry01:40U.S. Added 272K Jobs in May; Semler Scientific

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BlockFi’s creditors have approved its bankruptcy restructuring plan, clearing one of the final hurdles in a months-long process to wind down the firm’s business and reimburse its clients, a Friday email from BlockFi to its creditors shows.The beleaguered crypto lender was among a rash of digital asset companies that froze their customers’ accounts and eventually

Jul 20, 2020 at 09:41 UTCUpdated Jul 20, 2020 at 10:28 UTCBank of Japan, Tokyo (Leonid Andronov.Shutterstock)The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has set up a dedicated team to explore the implications of central bank digital currencies. As reported by Reuters on Monday, the central bank is warming up to the possibility of a digital yen,…

Crypto majors such as SOL, AVAX, APT, SUI saw 40% to 70% corrections over the past months, weighing on altcoin sentiment, while BTC and ETH are down only 15% from their yearly highs.Venture funds are under pressure to sell tokens to realize profits on their investments made in the past years, Markus Thielen noted.The lack

The dogecoin (DOGE) price surged to its highest level since December 2021 on Thursday, with trading volumes and futures open interest rising significantly.Several posts from prominent Dogecoin community members on X speculated about the token's implementation on the platform, especially in relation to a new payment branch being awarded more licenses in the U.S.Dogecoin (DOGE)

Ramp Network, a startup offering payment infrastructure to connect crypto and traditional finance, opened a local entity in Brazil in a bid to expand into Latin America.In the South American country, the company will offer its software development kit (SDK) for clients — including Web2 enterprises, crypto wallets and Web3 games — enabling their users…

Mar 23, 2020 at 18:39 UTCStorm image via ShutterstockBitcoin: A Global Port in a Market Storm?Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and CoinDesk’s director of research. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own.The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a weekly newsletter focused on institutional investment in crypto…

It will also bring in a “new and comprehensive regulatory framework for stablecoins” which seek to fix their value to other assets such as fiat currency, after the dramatic collapse of terraUSD last year, and extend to cover crypto services such as advice, derivatives, and crypto staking, and also include non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that are…