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Hong Kong regulators on Monday approved the launch of spot bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to local reports. It’s the latest signal of the increasing institutionalization of the world’s leading crypto assets, and perhaps a harbinger of things to come in mainland China, which banned virtually all crypto activity in 2021.This is an

news Bitcoin (BTC) is like any other asset class in that it captures value through organic price discovery conducted via trading activity on global exchanges. Yet leverage and margin trading, in general, can help “turbo-charge” demand for an asset. They can also free up capital, thus increasing liquidity within a given market as traders look…

news SprinkleXchange, a stock exchange built on ethereum, is reportedly listing its first company next month. Sprinkle Group CEO Alexander Wallin told Bloomberg in an interview published Friday, “We have the luxury of being first with this, but we’re aware that it will become a crowded market.” The Bahrain-based platform, operating within a regulatory sandbox created…

Ether’s 14-week RSI has topped 70, a threshold that marked previous parabolic bull runs.The bullish signal is consistent with excitement surrounding Ethereum’s impending Dencun upgrade and the potential debut of spot ETFs.Crypto traders may want to pull up ether’s (ETH) relative strength index (RSI) on their screens as the popular technical analysis tool is signaling

The Buenos Aires government has incorporated zero-knowledge proofs into its app for accessing city services. ZK proofs allow users to prove something is true about a set of data without revealing that data, e.g. that they are of a certain age without giving their birthdate. The technology is being tested in other jurisdictions, including Uruguay.

Kraken, the second-biggest U.S.-based crypto exchange, has developed its own wallet, catching up to its rival Coinbase in the product arena and joining a saturated field that also includes major players like MetaMask, Ledger and Trezor.The new self-custodial “Kraken Wallet" is being releasing Wednesday and will be available to both Kraken users and non-users, CoinDesk

Jan 23, 2020 at 20:00 UTCUpdated Jan 23, 2020 at 20:31 UTCThere is an ongoing debate in the crypto community about where mainstream adoption will come from. One point of view is it will be the slow, steady acceptance of digital assets. On that front, Bakkt President Adam White said in Davos yesterday the company…

news Switzerland’s SIX stock exchange has just lost a key executive in charge of its digital assets exchange, SDX. As reported by SwissInfo.ch on Thursday, SDX CEO Martin Halblaub has announced he will be departing the exchange just eight months after taking on the role. A disagreement over the future direction of the in-development exchange is…

Oct 9, 2020 at 08:34 UTCUpdated Oct 9, 2020 at 09:04 UTCBlueprints(Mega Pixel/Shutterstock)A group of seven central banks along with the “central bank for central banks” have released a report setting out initial principles for how national digital currencies can help implement monetary policies.Issued Thursday, the report – "Central bank digital currencies: foundational principles and…