Tag: Digital

Crypto Stocks See Second Day of Significant Gains with Marathon Digital and Riot Platforms Leading Pack

Leading digital asset Bitcoin hit $30K for the first time in almost a year amid prevalent gains in crypto stocks. Crypto stocks are rising, with players Marathon Digital Holdings (NASDAQ: MARA) and Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) leading gains. The duo is trading up at 11% and 15%, respectively, with prominent coin Bitcoin (BTC) also changing hands at $30K. As it stands, BTC price is up by more than 80% so far this year. Besides MARA and RIOT, other smaller crypto stocks also experienced significant gains on the second day of…

Metalpha Launches Grayscale-Based Digital Asset Fund

“We are very excited to partner with NextGen Digital Venture on launching the Fund, as we continue to strive for product innovation for our traditional finance clients. Grayscale is one of the largest digital asset fund managers in the world, and we are optimistic about the future growth of Grayscale powered by crypto adoption, said Adrian Wang, President of Metalpha Technology Holding, in a release. Source

Bitfinex Securities El Salvador receives Digital Asset Service provider license in El Salvador

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Digital asset exchange “Bitfinex Securities El Salvador” has received a digital asset service provider license under El Salvador’s new Digital Assets Issuance Law, which was passed by El Salvador’s National Congress in January 2023, with the goal of fostering increased financial innovation and growth in the Central American country.  According to the announcement, the license, which was granted on April 11 by El Salvador’s National Digital Asset Commission, makes Bitfinex Securities El Salvador “the world’s first international digital asset platform to receive approval to be licenced as a Digital Asset…

El Salvador Grants First Digital Asset License to Bitfinex

“We are delighted to be the first company to be awarded this license,” Paolo Ardoino, chief technology officer at Bitfinex, said in the statement. “It will enable Bitfinex Securities to facilitate the issuance and secondary trading of assets with clearly defined rights and obligations as outlined in the new digital asset regulatory regime.” Source

Ripple, Montenegro sign deal on project for unspecified national digital currency

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The Central Bank of Montenegro announced on April 11 that it had signed an agreement with Ripple for the development of a strategy and pilot program for a Montenegrin digital currency in the form of a central bank digital currency, or a stablecoin. The country has used the euro as its currency since its introduction in 2002, despite not being part of the Eurozone. “More details will be revealed later in the year,” RippleX’s vice president for central bank engagements and CBDCs, James Wallis, told Cointelegraph in a written interview.…

Texas’ gold-backed digital currency project: Law Decoded, April 3–10

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The topic of central bank digital currencies is in the crossfire of United States politicians, with figures like Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz trying to prevent them from existing. But what about a statewide digital currency? The first of its kind, a gold-backed state-based digital currency project has appeared in Texas.  On the same day, two Texan lawmakers introduced identical bills for creating a state-based digital currency backed by gold. Each unit of the digital currency would represent a particular fraction of a troy ounce of gold held in trust,…

Dollar to Play Lesser Role Due to Its Weaponization, Digital Currencies, Economist Jeffrey Sachs Says – Finance Bitcoin News

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Within the next decade, the U.S. dollar will play a much less dominant role than it is today, according to Jeffrey Sachs. The renowned economist listed a few factors for the diminishing status of the greenback such as its use as a political weapon by Washington, the introduction of currencies like the digital yuan, and America’s shrinking share of the global economy. United States’ Smaller Share in World Economy to Affect the Dollar The role of the U.S. dollar will naturally decrease as the share of the United States in…

Bank of England assembles 30 experts to design the digital pound

The Bank of England (BoE) is assembling 30 experts to design a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Designing the digital pound According to reports on April 8, the CBDC, dubbed the “Britcoin” or the “digital sterling,” will be a digitized version of the British Pound, the region’s fiat currency. The central bank plans to hire a “digital pound solution architect” and a “digital pound security architect.”  The solution architect will, among other responsibilities, have to “understand and interpret strategic and policy drivers around CBDC” while also “providing technical guidance, direction, and collaborative leadership to…

‘Not Related to a Digital Currency’ — US Central Bank Addresses Concerns Over Fednow Payment Network – Bitcoin News

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The U.S. Central Bank has issued an update regarding the Federal Reserve’s Fednow project, which is scheduled to commence in July. The Fed has responded to recent criticism of the Fednow service and asserts that the Fednow payment network is “neither a form of currency nor a step toward eliminating any form of payment, including cash.” Fednow Won’t Replace Cash, the U.S. Central Bank Insists When the U.S. Federal Reserve announced the launch of the Fednow service in July, it sparked immediate opposition and led many to believe it is…