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The CFTC chairman confirmed that Ethereum qualifies to be a commodity and all the forked assets like the Ethereum Classic shall be subjected to similar regulatory considerations.
After Bitcoin futures on the ICE Bakkt platform surged by almost 800% in a day, reports emerged that it is seeking to jump ahead of the CME group to release a Bitcoin options contract.
Samsung has officially announced that it will collaborate with the Finably fintech firm, a Ripple’s partner, to launch an international money transfer service on the Samsung Pay app targeting US users.
Digital payment arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Alipay, takes an anti-cryptocurrency stance and bans all Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions on its platform.
Coinbase Custody adds support for Telegram’s Gram (GRM) tokens along with Solana (SOL) and Orchid (OXT), as part of its growing client base and client demands.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has explained the issues of taxation in situations when a person gets crypto as a result of hard fork or airdrop.
Ripple Labs Inc enters into partnership with one of the leading global fintech firms Finastra in a win-win scenario for both parties.
China has increased speed on its CBDC project, which is now a source of worry to critics who wonder what the project will mean for the U.S. Dollar. Ripple CEO is sure: the US is falling behind China on crypto innovation.
Binance US platform plans to extend its crypto listing by including both Chainlink (LINK) and Ravencoin (RVN) tokens which are currently gaining a lot of popularity in the market.
Bitstamp and BitGo announced their partnership aiming to offer clients secure storage for cryptocurrency assets using safer tactics such as private account keys and on-chain asset segregation.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify before the Financial Services Committee of the United States Congress later this month.
In recent news, Binance has confirmed the support of WeChat and Alipay as their new fiat-to-crypto gateway. That way, with the help of Binance, the citizens of China now will be able to purchase Bitcoin.
The cryptocurrency world is still not a scam-free space. Karatbars founders promised to bring “safe gold” with their Karatgold Coins to the blockchain industry but it doesn’t seem that they were really going to do it.
Announced at Ethereum Foundation’s Devcon 5 conference, OpenLibra is described as an “open platform for financial inclusion,” with a telling tagline: “Not run by Facebook.”
The Japanese internal affairs and communications minister Sanae Takaichi has indicated that donations to politicians are legal and without limit.