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What to Watch for in Tether’s Upcoming Attestation Report

When a stablecoin issuer issues stablecoins into the market, it normally keeps a corresponding asset in reserve to secure, or back, the stablecoin’s peg. As redemptions requests arrive, these reserves get used up. Because a stablecoin’s reserves are key to guaranteeing stability, the big, centralized stablecoin issuers have adopted the practice of providing information about their assets. In regularly published attestation reports, an independent auditor is asked to offer assurance about the quantity and composition of reserves backing the stablecoin. Source

Ethereum’s popularity ‘a double-edged sword’ — a16z’s State of Crypto Report

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Crypto venture fund giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has highlighted that development and demand on Ethereum is “unmatched” despite the network’s high transaction fees. The firm does warn, however, that its “popularity is also a double-edged sword” given Ethereum prioritizes decentralization over scaling, resulting in competing blockchains stealing market share with “promises of better performance and lower fees.” The comments came via a blog post introducing a16z’s 2022 “State of Crypto” report, with the firm’s data scientist Daren Matsuoka, head of protocol design and engineering Eddy Lazzarin, General Partner Chris Dixon,…

Global financial regulators will discuss crypto at G7: Report

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Central bank governors and finance ministers from the Group of Seven, or G7, are reportedly planning to discuss the regulation of cryptocurrencies. According to a Tuesday report from Reuters, Bank of France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau said representatives from the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom will likely speak on issues related to a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies at a meeting in Germany’s cities of Bonn and Königswinter starting on Wednesday. Villeroy reportedly said that the recent crypto market volatility — likely referring to…

Square Enix to Reinforce Blockchain Bet, According to Latest Earnings Report – Bitcoin News

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Square Enix has announced its new mid-term business plan, reinforcing its blockchain pivot according to the documents presented. The company will continue to invest in key companies in the blockchain arena, including Animoca Brands and The Sandbox, and will also consider other investments in the area. Square Enix recently sold its Western studios for $300 million, but will reportedly not use the funds to pursue these new Web3 investments. Square Enix Structures Blockchain Strategy Square Enix, the Japanese gaming company, seems determined to include blockchain and play-to-earn (P2E)…

A16z Addresses Downturn in Inaugural State of Crypto Report

“We thought it might make sense now that there’s all of these new and interesting focus areas in crypto that there’s data for, that there’s totally public information that you can go out and scrounge for yourself,” Eddy Lazzarin, head of protocol design and engineering for the a16z crypto team, told CoinDesk in an interview. Source

Bitcoin․com Exchange Market Insights Report for May 2022 – Promoted Bitcoin News

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This is the May 2022 monthly market insights report by Bitcoin.com Exchange. In this and subsequent reports, expect to find a summary of crypto market performance, a macro recap, market structure analysis, and more. Crypto Market Performance May got off to a rough start as the Federal Reserve confirmed a hawkish bias on the back of lingering inflation. Markets reacted by going risk-off. The collapse of LUNA and UST added fuel to the fire, with the result that crypto markets saw historically large drawdowns. BTC reached a low of $25.4k…

Indian Central Bank Says Cryptos Could Lead to “Dollarization” of Economy: Report

CryptoX – Cryptocurrency Analysis and News Portal Cryptocurrencies can lead to “dollarization” of a part of the economy and this could be against the country’s sovereign interest, the top officials of India’s central bank told a parliamentary committee on finance, according to a Press Trust of India report. Source The post Indian Central Bank Says Cryptos Could Lead to “Dollarization” of Economy: Report appeared first on CryptoX. CryptoX Portal

Onchain Analysis Report Says Terra’s Bitcoin Reserves Were Sent to Binance and Gemini – Bitcoin News

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After the collapse of Terra’s once-stable coin terrausd (UST), a number of people wondered where the Luna Foundation Guard’s (LFG) bitcoin went, as the funds were supposed to be used to defend the UST’s $1 parity. On Friday, the blockchain intelligence and analytics firm, Elliptic, published a blog post that summarizes where the bitcoin was sent, according to the firm’s network surveillance tools. LFG Bitcoin Stash Deposited Into 2 Digital Currency Exchanges According to Elliptic’s Blockchain Analytics Software While reflecting on the recent crypto market chaos and the Terra stablecoin…