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Crypto Analytics Firm Messari Raises $35M in Series B Led by Brevan Howard Digital

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Digital Dollar Likely Won’t Be Part of Retail Banking World, US Lawmaker Says

I sometimes joke, this is a really interesting and important space, but it was introduced to the Congress in just about the most catastrophic way possible. And, of course, I’m referring to the hearings that the Financial Services Committee held on Libra. Prior to that, I don’t know that many members of Congress had ever even considered the concept of a stablecoin or knew much about digital assets. I sometimes joke that if you had a bunch of evil lobbyists sitting around after a bottle of whiskey and saying, “what’s…

Iran to Start Testing a Digital Rial This Week

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China to Expand Digital Yuan Testing in Pilot Cities to Provincial Level – Finance Bitcoin News

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China’s central bank intends to enlarge the area covered by trials of its digital yuan currency in four regions of the country. A top representative of the monetary authority announced the move while highlighting that the People’s Bank has been stepping up digitalization efforts this year. Government to Increase Digital Yuan Coverage in 4 Provinces of China Chinese authorities are going to expand the digital yuan’s area of application in four of the first pilot cities in the project to the rest of their respective provinces. These are Shenzhen in…

Nasdaq Establishes Crypto Unit — Sees Increased Demand for Digital Assets Among Institutional Investors – Finance Bitcoin News

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Nasdaq has announced the launch of “Nasdaq Digital Assets” citing increased demand for digital assets among institutional investors in recent years. Initially, the new crypto unit will offer custody solutions for bitcoin and ether to institutional investors. Nasdaq Establishes Crypto Unit Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ), the world’s second-largest stock exchange, announced Tuesday the launch of a new business called “Nasdaq Digital Assets.” Initially, Nasdaq Digital Assets will develop an institutional-grade custody solution, the announcement details, adding: Nasdaq’s custody solution will bring together the best attributes of hot and cold crypto wallets.…

Neudata and CoinDesk Indices Discuss Crypto Data and Digital Assets

JG: In the beginning, bitcoin price data was most highly demanded. Then, as investors were looking to explore deeper, other data related to transactions (value, count, size, speed), blocks (size and fees), mining difficulty and hash rates became more interesting. As the technology evolved beyond bitcoin and its use case, investors demanded more information about the digital assets available including price but also more information about liquidity and size generally represented by volume and market capitalization. Source

Digital Bank Revolut’s Data Breach May Have Affected 50,000 Customers

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Alameda Research ‘happy to return’ $200M loan to Voyager Digital

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Quantitative trading company Alameda Research will return an estimate of $200 million to Voyager Digital, which is proceeding through bankruptcy. Alameda borrowed the funds in cryptocurrencies in September 2021. At that time, the sum was close to $380 million.  Per a recent filing in the Bankruptcy Court of Southern District of New York, the parties have reached an agreement, and Alameda will return around 6,553 Bitcoin (BTC) and 51,000 Ether (ETH) by Sept. 30. In its corporate Twitter account Alameda confirmed its readiness to return the funds: happy to return the Voyager…

GRNGrid secures 50 million USD investment Commitment from GEM Digital – Blockchain News, Opinion, TV and Jobs

The GRN Association, a Swiss-based NPO (non-profit organization), announced today that it has secured an investment totaling $50M for the GRNGrid project from GEM Digital Limited, a venture capital focused on digital currencies. On GRNGrid, an environmentally friendly, scalable, and stable Layer 1 blockchain, with novel DeFi features, users have the choice to only use nodes running exclusively on renewable energy for their transactions. GRNGrid’s renewable energy partners, who specialize in data center and hosting facilities, have shown keen interest in running Grid’s nodes as validators. With their help, the…