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A newly introduced blockchain bill aims to provide a "welcoming" environment for fintech companies in a bid to stimulate growth and jobs.Feb 10, 2021 at 2:58 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 10, 2021 at 3:01 p.m. UTCRhode Island Lawmakers Hope to Boost State Economy With Blockchain-Friendly LegislationThe Rhode Island General Assembly is to consider draft legislation aiming…

Su Zhu, a co-founder of failed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), faced questions in a Singapore court for the first time as liquidators sought information to help retrieve assets, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.The two-day court hearing required Zhu to respond to lawyers for liquidator Teneo with details on how the fund failed and

FinCEN Deputy Director Michael Mosier encouraged commenters to provide practical, technical feedback on the rule. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin(Toni L. Sandys/Getty Image)Feb 1, 2021 at 8:04 p.m. UTCFinCEN’s Wallet Rule Aimed to Close Crypto-Cash Reporting Gap, Official SaysFinancial institutions report large cash and crypto transactions differently. This gap led to a controversial rule proposal…

Tokenization platform Libre, which is working with Nomura's Laser Digital, Brevan Howard's WebN Group and Hamilton Lane, goes live.Libre has added a tokenized version of a BlackRock money-market fund so investors can earn yield while parking their capital.CEO Avtar Sehra says collateralized lending with Nomura's Laser Digital as liquidity is planned for early in the

The global economy may not be ready to face the worst-case scenario of the U.S. interest rate rising as high as 7% with stagflation, CEO of investment banking giant JPMorgan (JPM), Jamie Dimon, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.Since March 2022, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) has raised the benchmark borrowing cost by 525 basis points to

Jul 16, 2020 at 13:03 UTCUpdated Jul 16, 2020 at 13:41 UTC(Morning Brew/Unsplash, modified using PhotoMosh)After the Twitter Hack, We Need a User-Owned Internet More Than EverCoinDesk columnist Nic Carter is a partner at Castle Island Ventures, a venture fund based in Cambridge, Mass., that focuses on public blockchains. He is also the co-founder of…

Looking to advance its cryptocurrency ambitions, payments processor Stripe has finalized a deal to buy stablecoin platform Bridge for $1.1 billion, according to a Sunday X post from TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. Bridge, which has raised $54 million in funding, was founded by Square and Coinbase alumni Zach Abrams and Sean Yu, and counts SpaceX

news ShapeShift’s new one-stop shop for non-custodial crypto management is launching out of private beta today. The new platform wants to rival custodians like Coinbase for ease-of-use, all while giving users full control of their private keys. “Largely this came from my dissatisfaction with the reality that most of the large companies are custodial,” ShapeShift…

Jan 23, 2020 at 10:20 UTCDelegate Hala Ayala, the new chair of the Virginia House of Delegates' Tech and Innovation subcommittee, is pushing her state government to study blockchain. Hala Ayala image via Delegate's officeA Virginia lawmaker is pushing her state’s government to study how blockchain could shape the future of local elections and commerce. On…