S&P Global joins Singapore's Project Guardian tokenization trials

Amid KuCoin exchange preparing to adopt mandatory Know Your Customer (KYC) checks, the company’s CEO argued that privacy is not the most important feature of Bitcoin (BTC).“When it comes to the purpose of Bitcoin creation, I think privacy is just one of its features,” KuCoin CEO Johnny Lyu told Cointelegraph in an interview on July…

Opinion: Binance ignored its own guidelines by listing SushiSwap’s anonymous and unaudited token. Chef Nomi has cooked up what appears to be the biggest exit scam of 2020, but should others be held accountable as well? Binance, like many other major exchanges, listed SUSHI raw and unaudited on Sept. 1. The token price doubled upon…

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Professional Association also suggested that the region’s authorities could implement Islamic Banking. 284 Total views 4 Total shares The suggestion that Hong Kong could make an initial coin offering (ICO) appeared in a list of propositions formulated by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Professional Association to revitalize Hong

Grayscale Investments, a digital assets investment firm that offers Bitcoin (BTC) trust shares, has published a case study on how BTC could be used as a hedge against financial instability. The firm used the case of trade tensions between the United States and China to make their point.Grayscale Investments linked to its study in an…

Coming every Sunday, the Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions, and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This WeekTrump tweets opposition to crypto, specifically Libra and BitcoinShrinking violet Donald Trump doesn’t often…

KuCoin is partially restoring crypto withdrawals after a major hack. 916 Total views 19 Total shares The KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange is partly restoring deposits and withdrawals following a major hack.As KuCoin officially announced on Oct. 7, the platform has completed the wallet security upgrade for major cryptos like Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and Tether (USDT).Following…

The funding rate of Bitcoin (BTC) has dropped to levels not seen since September 2020 as the price of Bitcoin plummeted below $52,000 on April 18. Quant trader and analyst Lex Moskovski says it shows fear has returned to the market.According to the data from Glassnode, the average Bitcoin futures funding rate across all exchange dropped…

Binance Smart Chain, or BSC, was launched in September 2020 as a parallel blockchain to Binance Chain. It enabled the creation of smart contracts and a staking mechanism for the native token of both blockchains, Binance Coin (BNB). In its brief nine-month existence, there have been a lot of decentralized finance, or DeFi, projects built on…