Month: February 2023

Hong Kong Successfully Offered Inaugural $100M Tokenized Green Bond

“Green bond tokenization is one of the pilot projects announced in the Government’s Policy Statement on Development of Virtual Assets in Hong Kong,” said Christopher Hui, secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, in a statement to the press. “Through a clear policy stance and roadmap, the Government will work towards providing a facilitating environment to promote sustainable and responsible development of the virtual assets sector. We welcome market participants to conduct tokenized issuances in Hong Kong.” Source

BIS-funded regulator to probe DeFi entry points like stablecoins

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The Financial Stability Board (FSB), the financial regulator funded by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), is pushing international regulations for decentralized finance (DeFi). The FSB on Feb. 16 issued a report on the financial stability risks of DeFi, highlighting major vulnerabilities, transmission channels and the evolution of DeFi. Despite providing many “novel” services, DeFi “does not differ substantially” from traditional finance (TradFi) in its functions, the authority said in the report. By trying to replicate some functions of TradFi, DeFi increases potential vulnerabilities due to the use of novel…

GQ Magazine Enters Metaverse with Launch of Its First NFT Collection

GQ joins many other legacy publications that are recently showing an affinity for Web 3.0. Men’s fashion-based GQ magazine is foraying into the metaverse by launching its first-ever collection of 1,661 non-fungible tokens (NFT). Titled “GQ3 Issue 001: Change Is Good,” the collection features special art pieces created by popular artists Chuck Anderson, REO, Kelsey Niziolek and Serwah Attafuah. Each artist created more than 100 unique traits, which have now been algorithmically combined to create the artwork in the series. GQ Magazine to Begin NFT Minting in March The fashion…

Bitcoin Expert Makes a new and Showing BTC Prediction!! NOT What you think!!

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Court to Try 2 Russians for Stealing 86 Bitcoins From Crypto Miner – Mining Bitcoin News

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Two residents of the Russian city of Tomsk will be tried for “large-scale robbery” involving the theft of cryptocurrency worth millions of rubles from a local miner. The digital coins were stolen from the owner at gunpoint, authorities said, adding that both criminals are now in custody. Thieves Face Trial in Russia for Armed Robbery of Cryptocurrency Miner The Kirovsky Court of Tomsk will soon try two men for their attack on another resident of the Siberian city who made a living by mining cryptocurrencies. They were able to extort…

Tether market cap nears $70B as SEC crypto crackdown hurts stablecoin rivals

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants to sue Paxos for issuing and listing stablecoin Binance USD (BUSD) to the benefit of its top-rival stablecoin Tether (USDT), whose market capitalization has risen to multi-month highs.  BUSD market cap drops by $2 billion The SEC asserts that BUSD, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, is a security, noting that Paxos has violated investor protection laws by white-labeling it. Related: Paxos ‘categorically disagrees’ with the SEC that BUSD is a security Since Feb. 13 when the news broke, the BUSD market cap has lost…

Wyoming Lawmakers Pass Bill Prohibiting Forced Disclosure of Private Crypto Keys

“No person shall be compelled to produce a private key or make a private key known to any other person in any civil, criminal, administrative, legislative or other proceeding in this state that relates to a digital asset, digital identity or other interest or right to which the private key provides access unless a public key is unavailable or unable to disclose the requisite information with respect to the digital asset, digital identity or other interest or right,” the bill said. Source BillCryptoDisclosureForcedKeysLawmakersPassPrivateProhibitingWyoming CryptoX Portal