Thailand launches regulatory sandbox to test crypto services

Speaking today at BlockShow Asia 2019, Genesis Block HK co-founder Clement Ip shared a negative personal experience during a panel on how Asian trading firms make profits. His company is a blockchain venture capital firm, crypto quant hedge fund, and mining company focused on investing in blockchain projects.Sharing the stage with two other speakers —…

Lawyer Oscar Franklin Tan believes that if the appeal is allowed, whoever wins will build momentum in the main case. 276 Total views 24 Total shares As the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeks an interlocutory appeal in its case against Ripple Labs, lawyers working in the crypto space expressed confidence in Ripple’s…

Alibaba Group’s movie-making arm Alibaba Pictures reportedly plans to tokenize distribution rights for its new film "Striding into the Wind,” Chinese English-language publication China.org.cn reports on Nov. 22.The company has purportedly signed an agreement with New York-based decentralized entertainment platform Breaker, formerly known as SingularDTV, to distribute the film overseas using its blockchain platform.Li Jie,…

Bitcoin (BTC) circled $25,800 on June 6 as the aftermath of fresh panic over largest exchange Binance lingered.BTC/USD 1-day candle chart on Bitstamp. Source: TradingViewBTC price risks losing multi-month rangeData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it steadied after dropping to near three-month lows.The weakness came as part of a knee-jerk market…

Big-money players accounted for the majority of transactions in the decentralized finance crypto market in Q2 2021. The DeFi market appears to no longer be the domain of retail actors alone as the institutional investment footprint in the crypto market segment continues to attain more significant levels.According to blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis, institutional investors played…

Former SEC commissioner Troy Paredes was not the first to criticize the U.S. financial regulator’s lack of clarity on digital assets.

Binance Research, the research arm of major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, claims that Facebook’s Libra stablecoin could spark additional cryptocurrency volume in a post published on its blog on June 18.In the announcement concerning the release of the full report, Binance Research claims:“Libra could spark additional cryptocurrency volume due to increased accessibility from both institutional players…

One of the linchpins of the internet is the ability to access and share data seamlessly. Whether it’s financial metrics for an institution or something as innocuous as a meme, the internet’s distinct pathways of protocols and standardization are the ideal medium for exchanging information.That transmissibility of information has not translated well to specific industries,…