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Tokenized portfolios are gaining momentum as an effective way for everyday consumers to gain exposure to major cryptocurrencies without owning them directly. Instead, they own shares in a fund in the form of tokens.Here, Tokenbox.io co-founder and managing partner Vladimir Smerkis explains a little bit more about how they work.1. What makes tokenized portfolios so…

The money was aimed primarily at buying foreign crypto assets with the intention of selling them on the domestic market. 29 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTIn 2022, the citizens of South Korea transacted $4.3 billion (5.6 trillion Korean won) through 'illegal' crypto exchanges, according…

A new report suggests that 4% of the total Bitcoin supply — 816,379 BTC — is owned by 14 Bitcoin fund issuers and asset managers. 524 Total views 105 Total shares English billionaire and Moneysupermarket.com founder Simon Nixon has plans to increase his crypto investments through his London-based venture capital firm.According to a Bloomberg report…

Recently, there have been an increasing number of blockchain-based prediction markets (PMs) such as Augur, Bitcoin Hivemind, Amoveo, Gnosis, Cindicator, etc. PMs use the technology of smart contracts for bets on various issues. For example, one user could place $100 on President Donald Trump getting reelected for a second presidential term while another person is…

Arrano Capital, the blockchain arm of Venture Smart Asia, announced they had met the regulatory requirements in HK to launch a crypto fund. 763 Total views 23 Total shares Venture Smart Asia has launched Hong Kong’s first approved cryptocurrency fund with a target of $100 million under management for its first year.According to an April…

Blockchain software company ConsenSys, semiconductor producer AMD, and Abu-Dhabi-based investment management firm Halo Holdings are jointly working on a blockchain-based cloud computing infrastructure. ConsenSys announced the collaboration in a press release published on Jan. 4.Per the release, the companies have partnered to create the so called W3BCLOUD aimed at the development of AMD hardware-based datacenter…

The Monero (XMR) network has been successfully upgraded to RandomX, a new mining algorithm that aims to be ASIC-resistant.On Nov. 30, the Monero community workgroup did a live stream on YouTube in which the upgrade took place at around the 58 minute mark. The new upgrade also introduced proof-of-work (PoW) algorithm, RandomX, which uses random…

Blockchain security firm Asymmetric Research privately disclosed the vulnerability to Circle, which has since been addressed.