Staking may come soon for US Ether ETFs: Bernstein

American cryptocurrency exchange Kraken will add support for Basic Attention Token (BAT) and Waves (WAVES). According to an announcement on Aug. 21, the exchange’s users will be able to deposit and withdraw the aforementioned coins starting tomorrow, Aug. 22, as well as trade with both assets. Kraken will roll out trading pairs between BAT and WAVES…

Losses from scams and exploits increased in the second quarter as centralized exchanges lost millions, reversing a previous downtrend.

Bitcoin (BTC) has only just completed its “hardening” — but fiat currency is already getting even “easier” as money after a historic move by the United States central bank.As the Federal Reserve confirmed in a press release on May 11, the bank is about to finally launch its corporate debt exchange-traded fund (ETF) buying programs.ETF…

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The second quarter of 2023 saw over $208 million exploited and hacked from DeFi protocols, and with just $4.5 million of funds recovered, total losses to exploits were…

The new German coalition is aiming to make the “European financial market supervisory law” fit for crypto-assets and businesses. 16 Total views 2 Total shares The new German government has cited crypto in its coalition agreement, advocating for an equal playing field between traditional finance and “innovative business models.”Three German political parties agreed to a…

The collapse of FTX in 2022 and Binance’s recent $4.3-billion settlement with United States authorities provide a strong argument for the provisions of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) legislation, a European Commission official said in an interview.Ivan Keller, policy officer for the European Commission, spoke to Cointelegraph at the MoneyLIVE conference in Amsterdam.

Blockchain technologies can bring improvements to finance, given a regulatory framework, and links between DeFi and TradFi are being rapidly cemented already, Cunliffe said. 641 Total views 52 Total shares Bank of England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe shared thoughts on cryptocurrency regulation and decentralized finance (DeFi) in a talk on Nov. 21. He intended to…

U.S.-based crypto exchange and custodian Gemini has finished a SOC 2 Type 2 evaluation, proving the operation’s security.“The Type 2 is the highest level of security compliance that any organization can demonstrate,” Gemini’s head of risk, Gemini Yusuf Hussain, told Cointelegraph in an interview about the Jan. 23 announcement.Compliance focusIn preparation for its SOC 2…

Cardano (ADA) has dipped this July 21 as the market favors mounting selling pressure around its most reliable resistance levels in 2022 over a major upcoming hard fork.ADA price could plunge 20% by early AugustADA's price fell 5% intraday to $0.476. The downside move came as a part of a broader retreat that started a day…