The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted an employee of non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Opensea in what the department called the “first-ever digital asset insider trading scheme.” DOJ Indicts Former Opensea Product Manager The DOJ announced Wednesday the unsealing of an indictment charging Nathaniel Chastain, a former product manager at Ozone Networks Inc. (aka Opensea), in its “first-ever digital asset insider trading scheme.” Chastain was arrested Wednesday morning in New York. The Justice Department explained that from June to September 2021, the defendant allegedly used Opensea’s confidential information about…
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Kanye West Files Trademarks Describing NFT Technology After Denouncing the Digital Collectible Concept – Bitcoin News
According to trademark filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the American rapper Ye (commonly known as Kanye West) is getting into the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the metaverse. The record producer’s company Mascotte Holdings Inc. filed 17 trademarks, and parts of the trademark summaries describe digital collectibles like NFTs. Kanye West: ‘Do Not Ask Me to Do a F***ing NFT … Ask Me Later’ On Wednesday, trademark attorney and founder of Gerben Intellectual Property, Josh Gerben, tweeted about rapper and musician Ye and his…
Singapore’s Central Bank, DBS, JPMorgan Collaborate to Explore Uses of Digital Assets, Defi – Regulation Bitcoin News
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has partnered with major banks and financial services companies to explore the uses of asset tokenization and decentralized finance (defi). DBS Bank and JPMorgan will pilot the first project. Project Guardian Launched The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s central bank, announced Tuesday that it has partnered with the financial services industry to launch Project Guardian. The central bank described Project Guardian as “a collaborative initiative with the financial industry that seeks to explore the economic potential and value-adding use cases of asset…
GameStop Reports $76.9M in Proceeds From Sales of Digital Assets in First Quarter
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NY Fed president urges colleagues to prepare for coming digital payment transformation
Get ready for a fundamental change in money and payments, John Williams, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, told central bank officials, academics and financial industry leaders from around the world on Wednesday. Williams delivered the opening remarks at an invitation-only workshop on monetary policy implementation co-hosted by the New York Fed and Columbia University. The central banker dismissed much of the digital asset space with a single-sentence observation that not all cryptocurrencies are backed by non-crypto assets. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and stablecoins…
Digital Asset Tokenization Trial Begins in Singapore
Singapore has begun to implement a digital asset tokenization trial project that will help to explore all the possible use cases of Blockchain technology in the local finance system of Singapore. As well, the project aims to explore the possibility of making the city-state a major center for decentralized finance. Several exchanges have stopped operations in Singapore as a result of the increase in regulatory pressure. While some are trying to comply, operation license approval has been very slow. Bloomberg, however, reported that Singapore has kickstarted digital asset tokenization projects,…
South Korean Government to Form Digital Assets Committee in Response to Terra Collapse: Report
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Singapore to explore digital asset tokenization on public chains
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched Project Guardian, a blockchain-based digital assets trial that will use tokenization. The project will include regulated financial institutions serving as “trust anchors,” with a pilot involving JP Morgan, DBS Bank and Marketnode, the SGX joint venture for bonds. The Project Guardian initiative, which was announced during the Asia Tech x Singapore Summit on Tuesday, was spearheaded by Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies Heng Swee Keat. It will see MAS explore decentralized finance (DeFi) applications in wholesale funding markets…
Fidelity Digital Assets Plans to Double Headcount This Year: Report
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Indian Government Finalizing Crypto Consultation Paper — ‘We Are Looking at a Global Paradigm on Digital Assets’ – Regulation Bitcoin News
India’s economic affairs secretary has reportedly revealed that the government’s consultation paper on cryptocurrency is “fairly ready.” He explained that the Indian government is looking at “a global paradigm on digital assets,” emphasizing that “There has to be a broad framework on which all economies have to be together.” Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth on Crypto Indian Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth provided an update Monday on the government’s progress to establish India’s crypto policy. Speaking about the government’s consultation paper on crypto, he was quoted by CNBC TV18 as…