FCA crypto regulators will take the best from TradFi and DeFi, says exec

The reconsideration of the bill, ‘Regulating the industry and marketing of virtual assets — crypto assets’, received 38 votes out of a total of 80 lawmakers. Own this piece of crypto history Collect this article as NFTThe Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Paraguay's bicameral legislature, failed to move forward on a bill aimed…

Tornado Cash — a cryptocurrency mixer service that can hide the origin of crypto transactions — hit the headlines after being sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in August 2022. The mixer opened Pandora’s box, igniting an open debate about the role of mixers in ensuring personal

Sandbox (SAND) refused to go down despite broader negative market sentiment in the past 24 hours. Instead, the altcoin logged a breakaway recovery as traders assessed its recent high-profile partnerships as a sign that the project has strong fundamentals.SAND rose 10.23% to $3.38 at the UTC close on Jan.27, followed by another 5.42% spike to $3.57 on…

Llama 2 is trained on 40% more public data and can process twice as much context than that of Llama 1 according to Meta. 152 Total views 18 Total shares Big Tech firms Meta and Microsoft have teamed up to launch Llama 2, an open-source large language model from Meta that will feature on Microsoft’s…

HyperLedger’s Karen Ottoni explains that blockchains do more than just create cryptocurrencies: effective tools against climate change, they also improve the supply chain. 86 Total views 2 Total shares “Cryptocurrency is just one use case for blockchain,” Karen Ottoni, director of ecosystem at Hyperledger, tells Cointelegraph in an interview during Paris Blockchain Week.From “supply chain…

United States derivatives markets regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has joined the list of global authorities warning the public against cryptocurrency scammers trying to capitalize on the widespread coronavirus fears.In a statement issued on March 19, the CFTC highlighted that fraudsters commonly use major news events like the spread of COVID-19 in order…

The Financial Action Task Force, a membership body of 37 jurisdictions and two regional organizations, has flagged Malta’s initial push to attract cryptocurrency business as “problematic.” 466 Total views 2 Total shares Malta’s strategy to become a global enclave for digital assets appears to be working, though lax regulatory oversight has raised concerns over money…

As a part of the launch, Coinbase has partnered with Ledger to release a limited-edition Coinbase-branded Nano X hardware wallet. 518 Total views 7 Total shares Coinbase Wallet, an in-house wallet service offered by prominent crypto exchange Coinbase, has rolled out browser extension support for Ledger hardware wallets.The Coinbase Wallet extension, available in the Chrome…

Payments company Square has generated $125 million in Bitcoin (BTC) revenue in the second quarter of 2019 through its mobile payments service Cash App.Square released the information in the company’s Q2 2019 shareholder letter on August 1. According to the letter, the company’s Bitcoin revenue benefited in part from the number one  cryptocurrency’s price rally…