EU Banking Authority to Hire Crypto Experts as it Prepares for New MiCA Law

Sep 16, 2020 at 15:00 UTCHOPR's founding team: Robert Kiel, Sebastian Bürgel, Rik Krieger. (HOPR)HOPR Launches Token Incentive Program for Running Its Mixnet TestnetHOPR, a data privacy startup, announced the release of a public incentivized testnet for its mixnet on xDai, an Ethereum sidechain. A mix network or “mixnet” (taking its name from the proxy…

Aug 25, 2020 at 14:19 UTCUpdated Aug 25, 2020 at 14:36 UTC(dario hayashi/Shutterstock)Binance Exchange to List Paxos’ Gold-Backed CryptocurrencyA gold-backed digital asset created by Paxos Standard will soon launch for trading on cryptocurrency exchange Binance.  From Aug. 26, Binance customers will be able to trade PAX Gold (PAXG) against the exchange's own stablecoin BUSD and…

House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has made an overture to regulators in an attempt to secure the passage of a crypto-focused bill that would offer U.S.-based digital asset exchanges a path toward registering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),The letter to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, dated June 23, asks him…

news Financial services giant Fidelity Investments has hired a former head of digital assets project at investment bank Barclays. The new hire, Chris Tyrer, joined Fidelity at the end of April, according to his LinkedIn profile update. The profile, however, does not mention any further details on the role, except the mention of “Digital Assets.” Tyrer…

Sahara's aim is to tackle concerns over copyright, privacy and resource access amid proliferation of AI tools. Projects that combine blockchain and AI in order to introduce decentralization to artificial intelligence engines have been an emerging trend in the crypto industry for the last couple of years. Blockchain platform Sahara AI has raised $43 million

news The company behind the privacy-minded cryptocurrency zcash has revealed that it fixed a catastrophic code bug last year that could have been used to print infinite coins. According to a report published Tuesday, zcash cryptographer Ariel Gabizon discovered a “subtle” bug a little less than a year ago in zk-SNARKS, the bleeding-edge cryptography the…

news San Juan Mercantile Bank & Trust International (SJMBT), a new Puerto Rico-based institution catering to traders of cryptocurrency, has opened for business. Announced Monday, SJMBT has accepted its first client deposit. Licensed last month as an international financial entity (IFE) by Puerto Rico’s Office of the Commission of Financial Institutions (OCIF), the bank is a unit…

Bitcoin miner image via CoinDesk archiveBitcoin mining machines are on sale.Last month’s crash in cryptocurrency prices has prompted manufacturers to sell inventories at a discount, in some cases as steep as 20 percent, over the past few weeks. Both the newest models and slightly older machines have been marked down.Complicating the matter is the imminent…

news Galaxy Capital-backed institutional trading and portfolio management platform Caspian is launching trading in cryptocurrency derivatives. Caspian announced Wednesday that it has integrated its platform with the Deribit exchange to offer futures and options (F&O) trading in crypto assets. Deribit offers futures and options trading for bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH), and also provides another perpetual…