Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report January 2021

Investors may seek out alternative assets like crypto due to the risk of U.S. fiscal dominance and the monetization of government debt, the report said.Standard Chartered said a Trump election win could be positive for digital assets.The bank reiterated its year-end bitcoin price target of $150,000 and $200,00 for the end of 2025.The risk of

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), an umbrella organization of Canada's provincial and territorial securities regulators, is warning investors about crypto companies that claim to be authorized by fictitious regulatory or dispute-resolution organizations.“In an effort to appear legitimate, the purported trading service providers claim they are certified by a fictitious authority or that they are members…

Ethereum scaling platform Polygon Labs has started a grant program to entice developers to build applications in its ecosystem.Polygon Labs is offering a total of 110 million of its native token, MATIC, worth around $85 million at the time of writing, to projects in decentralized finance (DeFi), gaming, social media and more.Direct grants of up

Jul 22, 2020 at 08:20 UTCUpdated Jul 22, 2020 at 08:23 UTCGateway to China's supreme court, Beijing (Rneches /Wikimedia Commons)China’s Supreme Court Calls for Better Protection of Digital Currency RightsThe Supreme People’s Court of China has said the country’s legal system should strengthen protections around digital currency ownership rights. Published Wednesday, a new guideline from…

“We’re seeing the XRP price jump by double digits and rally above its long-held resistance levels, as rumors filter through that Ripple and the SEC have possibly agreed to a settlement,” said Henry Liu, CEO of BTSE, in a Telegram message to CoinDesk.

LunarCrush, a platform that helps users make crypto investment decisions based on social media trends, has raised a $5 million Series A round co-led by Draper Round Table, an investment network founded by noted venture capitalist Tim Draper, and INCE Capital.Other investors in the round included Draper Associates, WWVentures, TRGC, Bitcoin Frontier Fund, Draper Goren…

sWith the explosion of generative artificial intelligence projects, computational power has become a hotly contested resource. As AI becomes more ubiquitous and the race for graphic processing unit (GPU) supplies intensifies, the need for wider and more democratized access to computing power has become an urgent priority for non-MAANG companies. Combine this red-hot demand with

news The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is losing another senior level staffer. Bloomberg Law reports Friday that a number of sources have said Amir Zaidi, director of the CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight (DMO), is to leave the regulator within weeks. Zaidi had been in the post since early in 2017 and was the official…

There are many words that could be used to describe Amir Taaki – but today, ambitious is best. The infamous bitcoin developer – known for co-creating Dark Wallet, Darkleaks and DarkMarket – took the stage during a hackathon he hosted in the wake of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) in Barcelona last week, the same city where…