NFTs show signs of life as weekly volumes turn positive

A British judge has ordered the confiscation of $1.1 million worth of cryptocurrency from a hacker who used phishing attacks to steal personal data and sell it on the dark web.As The Telegraph reported on Aug. 23, judge Joanna Korner of Southwark Crown Court ruled that the police could confiscate $1.1 million worth of digital…

For the Hong Kong-based spot Bitcoin ETFs to compete with their US counterparts, they will need to attract more retail and institutional investors.

The total crypto market capitalization has ranged from $1.19 trillion to $1.36 trillion for the past 23 days, which is a relatively tight 13% range. During the same time, Bitcoin’s (BTC) 3.5% and Ether’s (ETH) 1.6% gains for the week are far from encouraging.To date, the total crypto market is down 43% in just two…

Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief FinTech Officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, spoke at BlockShow Asia 2019 about the importance of blockchain for the economy, highlighting its indispensability for the development of green finance.Mohanty defined green finance as follows: “How to monitor, how to measure, and how to mobilize finance for green assets.” He said blockchain…

Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s cash-settled Bitcoin (BTC) futures trading products “contribute more to price discovery than its related spot markets,” according to findings in a new report by investment firm Wilshire Phoenix.The increasing volumes of crypto derivative products highlight greater participation from institutional investors and this will likely be positive for the entire crypto space.This is…

The exchange also plans to launch additional trading pairs in the near future. 879 Total views 16 Total shares OKEx has listed the native token of Polkadot (DOT) on its trading platform.According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph on July 17, DOT spot trading against Tether’s USDT stablecoin on OKEx started at 8:00 AM UTC…

Mário Centeno praised the European Union’s first comprehensive crypto framework, MiCA, but insisted on further international consolidation of regulatory efforts. 379 Total views 5 Total shares Mário Centeno, the governor of Banco de Portugal, joins a chorus of regulators claiming that national efforts to oversee crypto wouldn’t work correctly without a global framework. A section of

The development arm behind Polkadot plans to develop and propose a new parachain governance framework called “Statemint.” 849 Total views 9 Total shares Parity Technologies, the company behind Polkadot, is planning to roll out a new parachain governance framework that could enhance the use case of the network. “Statemint” is the first proposed common-good parachain for…