Will Taylor Swift Ever Issue a Music NFT?

The reality is that Swift, and most artists, don’t need to share earnings with their fans, because why would you pay a TSA dog? They’re doing their job well. They’re happy. They’re very, very loyal. In fact there’s an overabundance of loyalty that, in an artist’s view, is unlikely to become scarce in the near future. Why fix it if ain’t broke, right? Source

Data shows Bitcoin and altcoins at risk of a 20% drop to new yearly lows

After the rising wedge formation was broken on Aug. 17, the total crypto market capitalization quickly dropped to $1 trillion and the bulls’ dream of recouping the $1.2 trillion support, last seen on June 10, became even more distant.  Total crypto market cap, USD billion. Source: TradingView The worsening conditions are not exclusive to crypto markets. The price of WTI oil ceded 3.6% on Aug. 22, down 28% from the $122 peak seen on June 8. The United StatesTreasuries 5-year yield, which bottomed on Aug. 1 at 2.61%, reverted the…

Bitcoin Price Falls as Markets Await Fed Chair Powell’s Comments

Bitcoin’s current reading, while slightly above 30, indicates that BTC is undervalued, although the recent price moves have come on lower-than-average, trading volume.. Lower-than-average trading volume can imply a lack of conviction in a trade both now and in the near future. As markets await Fed Chair Powell’s symposium comments on Friday, BTC will likely trade relatively flat on lower volume in the coming days. Original

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NFT lending protocol Bend DAO proposes emergency changes amid credit crisis

On Monday, developers of decentralized nonfungible tokens (NFTs) borrowing and lending protocol Bend DAO proposed new emergency measures in an attempt to stabilize the ecosystem. The same day, it was revealed that the project had just as little as 15 wrapped Ether (wETH) worth $23,715 to pay back lenders. Approximately 15,000 ETH was lent using the mechanism. To save the protocol from a credit crisis, the Bend Dao dev team suggested that the liquidation threshold for collateral would be constrained to 70% of the loan value, down from 85%.  Next,…

A Primer on the Digitization Sector in DACS

Digitization refers to the transformation of publicly verifiable ownership, identity, and immutability enabled by blockchain technology. With the growth of the digital economy and crypto native ecosystems, participants increasingly need a way to express their digital identity to facilitate fast, verifiable and censorship-resistant transactions on the blockchain. Although Digitization is currently the smallest sector in DACS, it has a wide range of use cases, including helping brands establish digital identity, accept crypto payments directly, and allow patients to digitize their medical records to enable faster exchange of information without loss…

How to Add Value to Real-World Documents With Authentication

Digitization refers to the transformation of publicly verifiable ownership, identity, and immutability enabled by blockchain technology. With the growth of the digital economy and crypto native ecosystems, participants increasingly need a way to express their digital identity to facilitate fast, verifiable and censorship-resistant transactions on the blockchain. Although Digitization is currently the smallest sector in DACS, it has a wide range of use cases, including helping brands establish digital identity, accept crypto payments directly, and allow patients to digitize their medical records to enable faster exchange of information without loss…

Fed teases master accounts for crypto banks: Law Decoded, Aug. 15-22

Last week, the United States Federal Reserve Board turned its eye to banks and crypto, making (or promising to make) several clarifications, one of them pretty long-awaited. It announced that the final version of guidelines for reserve banks to access Reserve Bank master accounts and services is ready.  For crypto, these guidelines hold a prospect of “the most stringent review,” to which non-federally insured institutions that do not have a holding company subject to Fed oversight would be exposed. It is still unclear whether the crypto banks will finally get…

Canaan exec says opportunity outweighs crisis as Bitcoin miners struggle with shrinking profits

2022 has been an exceptionally rough year for the crypto market, and the last few months of Bitcoin’s (BTC) price action could be a sign that bears aren’t even close to being ready to let up. Crumbling crypto prices also equate to diminishing profits for Bitcoin miners and this week’s regulatory action by the United States lawmakers requesting energy consumption data from four major BTC mining companies is bound to exert a bit more pressure on an already fragile situation. Despite the increasingly bearish climate, most of the Bitcoin miners…